This patch is a continuation of efforts trying to optimize find_vma(),
avoiding potentially expensive rbtree walks to locate a vma upon faults.
The original approach (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/410), where the
largest vma was also cached, ended up being too specific and random,
thus further comparison with other approaches were needed.  There are
two things to consider when dealing with this, the cache hit rate and
the latency of find_vma().  Improving the hit-rate does not necessarily
translate in finding the vma any faster, as the overhead of any fancy
caching schemes can be too high to consider.

We currently cache the last used vma for the whole address space, which
provides a nice optimization, reducing the total cycles in find_vma() by
up to 250%, for workloads with good locality.  On the other hand, this
simple scheme is pretty much useless for workloads with poor locality.
Analyzing ebizzy runs shows that, no matter how many threads are
running, the mmap_cache hit rate is less than 2%, and in many situations
below 1%.

The proposed approach is to replace this scheme with a small per-thread
cache, maximizing hit rates at a very low maintenance cost.
Invalidations are performed by simply bumping up a 32-bit sequence
number.  The only expensive operation is in the rare case of a seq
number overflow, where all caches that share the same address space are
flushed.  Upon a miss, the proposed replacement policy is based on the
page number that contains the virtual address in question.  Concretely,
the following results are seen on an 80 core, 8 socket x86-64 box:

1) System bootup: Most programs are single threaded, so the per-thread
   scheme does improve ~50% hit rate by just adding a few more slots to
   the cache.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 50.61%   | 19.90            |
| patched        | 73.45%   | 13.58            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

2) Kernel build: This one is already pretty good with the current
   approach as we're dealing with good locality.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 75.28%   | 11.03            |
| patched        | 88.09%   | 9.31             |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

3) Oracle 11g Data Mining (4k pages): Similar to the kernel build workload.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 70.66%   | 17.14            |
| patched        | 91.15%   | 12.57            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

4) Ebizzy: There's a fair amount of variation from run to run, but this
   approach always shows nearly perfect hit rates, while baseline is just
   about non-existent.  The amounts of cycles can fluctuate between
   anywhere from ~60 to ~116 for the baseline scheme, but this approach
   reduces it considerably.  For instance, with 80 threads:

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 1.06%    | 91.54            |
| patched        | 99.97%   | 14.18            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build, per Davidlohr]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: document vmacache_valid() logic]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to untangle header files]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add vmacache_find() BUG_ON]
[hughd@google.com: add vmacache_valid_mm() (from Oleg)]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: adjust and enhance comments]
Signed-off-by: NDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: NMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The function kgdb_breakpoint() sets up break point at
compile time by calling arch_kgdb_breakpoint();
Though this call is surrounded by wmb() barrier,
the compile can still re-order the break point,
because this scheduling barrier is not a code motion
barrier in gcc.

Making kgdb_breakpoint() as noinline solves this problem
of code reording around break point instruction and also
avoids problem of being called as inline function from
other places

More details about discussion on this can be found here
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/269732Signed-off-by: NVijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Some code added to the debug_core module had KDB dependencies
that it shouldn't have.  Move the KDB dependent REASON back to
the caller to remove the dependency in the debug core code.

Update the call from the UV NMI handler to conform to the new
interface.
Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: NHedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140114162551.318251993@asylum.americas.sgi.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

This patch adds a kgdb_nmicallin() interface that can be used by
external NMI handlers to call the KGDB/KDB handler.  The primary
need for this is for those types of NMI interrupts where all the
CPUs have already received the NMI signal.  Therefore no
send_IPI(NMI) is required, and in fact it will cause a 2nd
unhandled NMI to occur. This generates the "Dazed and Confuzed"
messages.

Since all the CPUs are getting the NMI at roughly the same time,
it's not guaranteed that the first CPU that hits the NMI handler
will manage to enter KGDB and set the dbg_master_lock before the
slaves start entering. The new argument "send_ready" was added
for KGDB to signal the NMI handler to release the slave CPUs for
entry into KGDB.
Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: NDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: NHedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131002151417.928886849@asylum.americas.sgi.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Currently help message of /proc/sysrq-trigger highlight its upper-case
characters, like below:

      SysRq : HELP : loglevel(0-9) reBoot Crash terminate-all-tasks(E)
      memory-full-oom-kill(F) kill-all-tasks(I) ...

this would confuse user trigger sysrq by upper-case character, which is
inconsistent with the real lower-case character registed key.

This inconsistent help message will also lead more confused when
26 upper-case letters put into use in future.

This patch fix kgdb sysrq key: "debug(g)"
Signed-off-by: Nzhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There's no reason kgdb.h itself needs to include the 8250 serial port
header file.  So push it down to the _very_ limited number of individual
drivers that need the values in that file, and fix up the places where
people really wanted serial_core.h and platform_device.h.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Allow gdb to auto load kernel modules when it is attached,
which makes it trivially easy to debug module init functions
or pre-set breakpoints in a kernel module that has not loaded yet.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

The new arch callback should manage NMIs that usually cause KGDB to
enter. That is, not all NMIs should be enabled/disabled, but only
those that issue kgdb_handle_exception().

We must mask it as serial-line interrupt can be used as an NMI, so
if the original KGDB-entry cause was say a breakpoint, then every
input to KDB console will cause KGDB to reenter, which we don't want.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

There is extra state information that needs to be exposed in the
kgdb_bpt structure for tracking how a breakpoint was installed.  The
debug_core only uses the the probe_kernel_write() to install
breakpoints, but this is not enough for all the archs.  Some arch such
as x86 need to use text_poke() in order to install a breakpoint into a
read only page.

Passing the kgdb_bpt structure to kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint() and
kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint() allows other archs to set the type
variable which indicates how the breakpoint was installed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 2.6.36
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Sometimes it is desirable to stop the kernel debugger before allowing
a system to reboot either with kdb or kgdb.  This patch adds the
ability to turn the reboot notifier on and off or enter the debugger
and stop kernel execution before rebooting.

It is possible to change the setting after booting the kernel with the
following:

echo 1 > /sys/module/debug_core/parameters/kgdbreboot

It is also possible to change this setting using kdb / kgdb to
manipulate the variable directly.

Using KDB:
   mm kgdbreboot 1

Using gdb:
   set kgdbreboot=1
Reported-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

The gdbstub and kdb should get detached if the system is rebooting.
Calling gdbstub_exit() will set the proper debug core state and send a
message to any debugger that is connected to correctly detach.

An attached debugger will receive the exit code from
include/linux/reboot.h based on SYS_HALT, SYS_REBOOT, etc...
Reported-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>
Signed-off-by: NArun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: NLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>

The kgdb_disable_hw_debug() was an architecture specific function for
disabling all hardware breakpoints on a per cpu basis when entering
the debug core.

This patch will remove the weak function kdbg_disable_hw_debug() and
change it into a call back which lives with the rest of hw breakpoint
call backs in struct kgdb_arch.
Signed-off-by: NDongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

The kdb shell needs to enforce switching back to the original CPU that
took the exception before restoring normal kernel execution.  Resuming
from a different CPU than what took the original exception will cause
problems with spin locks that are freed from the a different processor
than had taken the lock.

The special logic in dbg_cpu_switch() can go away entirely with
because the state of what cpus want to be masters or slaves will
remain unchanged between entry and exit of the debug_core exception
context.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

For quite some time there have been problems with memory barriers and
various races with NMI on multi processor systems using the kernel
debugger.  The algorithm for entering the kernel debug core and
resuming kernel execution was racy and had several known edge case
problems with attempting to debug something on a heavily loaded system
using breakpoints that are hit repeatedly and quickly.

The prior "locking" design entry worked as follows:

  * The atomic counter kgdb_active was used with atomic exchange in
    order to elect a master cpu out of all the cpus that may have
    taken a debug exception.
  * The master cpu increments all elements of passive_cpu_wait[].
  * The master cpu issues the round up cpus message.
  * Each "slave cpu" that enters the debug core increments its own
    element in cpu_in_kgdb[].
  * Each "slave cpu" spins on passive_cpu_wait[] until it becomes 0.
  * The master cpu debugs the system.

The new scheme removes the two arrays of atomic counters and replaces
them with 2 single counters.  One counter is used to count the number
of cpus waiting to become a master cpu (because one or more hit an
exception). The second counter is use to indicate how many cpus have
entered as slave cpus.

The new entry logic works as follows:

  * One or more cpus enters via kgdb_handle_exception() and increments
    the masters_in_kgdb. Each cpu attempts to get the spin lock called
    dbg_master_lock.
  * The master cpu sets kgdb_active to the current cpu.
  * The master cpu takes the spinlock dbg_slave_lock.
  * The master cpu asks to round up all the other cpus.
  * Each slave cpu that is not already in kgdb_handle_exception()
    will enter and increment slaves_in_kgdb.  Each slave will now spin
    try_locking on dbg_slave_lock.
  * The master cpu waits for the sum of masters_in_kgdb and slaves_in_kgdb
    to be equal to the sum of the online cpus.
  * The master cpu debugs the system.

In the new design the kgdb_active can only be changed while holding
dbg_master_lock.  Stress testing has not turned up any further
entry/exit races that existed in the prior locking design.  The prior
locking design suffered from atomic variables not being truly atomic
(in the capacity as used by kgdb) along with memory barrier races.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: NDongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>

The slave cpus do not have the hw breakpoints disabled upon entry to
the debug_core and as a result could cause unrecoverable recursive
faults on badly placed breakpoints, or get out of sync with the arch
specific hw breakpoint operations.

This patch addresses the problem by invoking kgdb_disable_hw_debug()
earlier in kgdb_enter_cpu for each cpu that enters the debug core.

The hw breakpoint dis/enable flow should be:

master_debug_cpu   slave_debug_cpu
         \              /
          kgdb_cpu_enter
                |
        kgdb_disable_hw_debug --> uninstall pre-enabled hw_breakpoint
                |
 do add/rm dis/enable operates to hw_breakpoints on master_debug_cpu..
                |
        correct_hw_break --> correct/install the enabled hw_breakpoint
                |
           leave_kgdb
Signed-off-by: NDongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

When returning from the kernel debugger reset the rcu jiffies_stall
value to prevent the rcu stall detector from sending NMI events which
invoke a stack dump for each cpu in the system.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Move the various clock and watch dog syncs to a single function in
advance of adding another sync for the rcu stall detector.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Noone is using tty argument so let's get rid of it.
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

When an arch such as mips and microblaze does not implement either HW
or software single stepping the debug core should re-enter kdb.  The
kdb code will properly ignore the single step operation.  Attempting
to single step the kernel without software or hardware support causes
unpredictable kernel crashes.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Immediately following an exit from the kdb shell the kgdb_connected
variable should be set to zero, unless there are breakpoints planted.
If the kgdb_connected variable is not zeroed out with kdb, it is
impossible to turn off kdb.

This patch is merely a work around for now, the real fix will check
for the breakpoints.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

pavel@suse.cz no longer works, replace it with working address.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

The kernel debugger can operate well before mm_init(), but the x86
hardware breakpoint code which uses the perf api requires that the
kernel allocators are initialized.

This means the kernel debug core needs to provide an optional arch
specific call back to allow the initialization functions to run after
the kernel has been further initialized.

The kdb shell already had a similar restriction with an early
initialization and late initialization.  The kdb_init() was moved into
the debug core's version of the late init which is called
dbg_late_init();

CC: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

It is highly desirable to trap into kdb on panic.  The debug core will
attempt to register as the first in line for the panic notifier.

CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

This allows kdb to debug a crash with in the kms code with a
single level recursive re-entry.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Some kgdb I/O modules require the ability to create a breakpoint
tasklet, such as kgdboc and external modules such as kgdboe.  The
breakpoint tasklet is used as an asynchronous entry point into the
debugger which will have a different function scope than the current
execution path where it might not be safe to have an inline
breakpoint.  This is true of some of the kgdb I/O drivers which share
code with kgdb and rest of the kernel users.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

The only way the debugger can handle a trap in inside rcu_lock,
notify_die, or atomic_notifier_call_chain without a triple fault is
to have a low level "first opportunity handler" in the int3 exception
handler.

Generally this will be something the vast majority of folks will not
need, but for those who need it, it is added as a kernel .config
option called KGDB_LOW_LEVEL_TRAP.

CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Remove all the references to the kgdb_post_primary_code.  This
function serves no useful purpose because you can obtain the same
information from the "struct kgdb_state *ks" from with in the
debugger, if for some reason you want the data.

Also remove the unintentional duplicate assignment for ks->ex_vector.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

One of the driving forces behind integrating another front end (kdb)
to the debug core is to allow front end commands to be accessible via
gdb's monitor command.  It is true that you could write gdb macros to
get certain data, but you may want to just use gdb to access the
commands that are available in the kdb front end.

This patch implements the Rcmd gdb stub packet.  In gdb you access
this with the "monitor" command.  For instance you could type "monitor
help", "monitor lsmod" or "monitor ps A" etc...

There is no error checking or command restrictions on what you can and
cannot access at this point.  Doing something like trying to set
breakpoints with the monitor command is going to cause nothing but
problems.  Perhaps in the future only the commands that are actually
known to work with the gdb monitor command will be available.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

The design of the kdb shell requires that every device that can
provide input to kdb have a polling routine that exits immediately if
there is no character available.  This is required in order to get the
page scrolling mechanism working.

Changing the kernel debugger I/O API to require all polling character
routines to exit immediately if there is no data allows the kernel
debugger to process multiple input channels.

NO_POLL_CHAR will be the return code to the polling routine when ever
there is no character available.

CC: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

These are the minimum changes to the kgdb core in order to enable an
API to connect a new front end (kdb) to the debug core.

This patch introduces the dbg_kdb_mode variable controls where the
user level I/O is routed.  It will be routed to the gdbstub (kgdb) or
to the kdb front end which is a simple shell available over the kgdboc
connection.

You can switch back and forth between kdb or the gdb stub mode of
operation dynamically.  From gdb stub mode you can blindly type
"$3#33", or from the kdb mode you can enter "kgdb" to switch to the
gdb stub.

The logic in the debug core depends on kdb to look for the typical gdb
connection sequences and return immediately with KGDB_PASS_EVENT if a
gdb serial command sequence is detected.  That should allow a
reasonably seamless transition between kdb -> gdb without leaving the
kernel exception state.  The two gdb serial queries that kdb is
responsible for detecting are the "?" and "qSupported" packets.

CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: NMartin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>

Split the former kernel/kgdb.c into debug_core.c which contains the
kernel debugger exception logic and to the gdbstub.c which contains
the logic for allowing gdb to talk to the debug core.

This also created a private include file called debug_core.h which
contains all the definitions to glue the debug_core to any other
debugger connections.

CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Move kgdb.c in preparation to separate the gdbstub from the debug
core and exception handling.

CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

The kernel debugger should turn off kernel tracing any time the
debugger is active and restore it on resume.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Memory barriers should be used for the kgdb cpu synchronization.  The
atomic_set() does not imply a memory barrier.
Reported-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

This is a kgdb architectural change to have all the cpus (master or
slave) enter the same function.

A cpu that hits an exception (wants to be the master cpu) will call
kgdb_handle_exception() from the trap handler and then invoke a
kgdb_roundup_cpu() to synchronize the other cpus and bring them into
the kgdb_handle_exception() as well.

A slave cpu will enter kgdb_handle_exception() from the
kgdb_nmicallback() and set the exception state to note that the
processor is a slave.

Previously the salve cpu would have called kgdb_wait().  This change
allows the debug core to change cpus without resuming the system in
order to inspect arch specific cpu information.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Rather than call probe_kernel_write() one byte at a time, process the
whole buffer locally and pass the entire result in one go.  This way,
architectures that need to do special handling based on the length can
do so, or we only end up calling memcpy() once.

[sonic.zhang@analog.com: Reported original problem and preliminary patch]
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NSonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, sched_clock() gets
the time from hardware such as the TSC on x86. In this
configuration kgdb will report a softlock warning message on
resuming or detaching from a debug session.

Sequence of events in the problem case:

 1) "cpu sched clock" and "hardware time" are at 100 sec prior
    to a call to kgdb_handle_exception()

 2) Debugger waits in kgdb_handle_exception() for 80 sec and on
    exit the following is called ...  touch_softlockup_watchdog() -->
    __raw_get_cpu_var(touch_timestamp) = 0;

 3) "cpu sched clock" = 100s (it was not updated, because the
    interrupt was disabled in kgdb) but the "hardware time" = 180 sec

 4) The first timer interrupt after resuming from
    kgdb_handle_exception updates the watchdog from the "cpu sched clock"

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() -->
softlockup_tick() --> check (touch_timestamp == 0) (it is "YES"
here, we have set "touch_timestamp = 0" at kgdb) -->
__touch_softlockup_watchdog() ***(A)--> reset "touch_timestamp"
to "get_timestamp()" (Here, the "touch_timestamp" will still be
set to 100s.)  ...

    scheduler_tick() ***(B)--> sched_clock_tick() (update "cpu sched
    clock" to "hardware time" = 180s) ...  }

 5) The Second timer interrupt handler appears to have a large
    jump and trips the softlockup warning.

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() -->
softlockup_tick() --> "cpu sched clock" - "touch_timestamp" =
180s-100s > 60s --> printk "soft lockup error messages" ...  }

note: ***(A) reset "touch_timestamp" to
"get_timestamp(this_cpu)"

Why is "touch_timestamp" 100 sec, instead of 180 sec?

When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, the call trace of
get_timestamp() is:

get_timestamp(this_cpu)
 -->cpu_clock(this_cpu)
 -->sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu)
 -->__update_sched_clock(sched_clock_data, now)

The __update_sched_clock() function uses the GTOD tick value to
create a window to normalize the "now" values.  So if "now"
value is too big for sched_clock_data, it will be ignored.

The fix is to invoke sched_clock_tick() to update "cpu sched
clock" in order to recover from this state.  This is done by
introducing the function touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(). This
allows kgdb to request that the sched clock is updated when the
watchdog thread runs the first time after a resume from kgdb.

[yong.zhang0@gmail.com: Use per cpu instead of an array]
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NDongdong Deng <Dongdong.Deng@windriver.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1264631124-4837-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>