Re: [PATCH] timekeeping: Align tick_sched_timer() with the HZ tick. -- regression report

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:59:46AM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote:
> This patch causes VM boot hangs for us. It took a while to identify as 
> the boot hangs were only ~1 out of 30 but it's clearly it. Reverting 
> the commit got me 100 boots in a row without any issue.

FWIW I have quite a nice test program for catching these sorts of boot
hangs, see attached.  You need to change the VMLINUX define to point
to your vmlinux or vmlinuz file.

Rich.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <error.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <pthread.h>

#define NR_ITERATIONS 10000
#define MAX_THREADS 8
#define MAX_TIME 60 /* max time to wait for qemu to complete */

//#define VMLINUX "/home/rjones/d/linux/vmlinux"
#define VMLINUX "vmlinux"
//#define QEMU "/home/rjones/d/qemu/build/qemu-system-x86_64"
#define QEMU "qemu-system-x86_64"
#define QEMU_COMMAND \
  QEMU " -no-user-config -nodefaults -display none " \
  "-machine accel=kvm:tcg,graphics=off -cpu max,la57=off -m 1280 " \
  "-no-reboot " \
  "-rtc driftfix=slew -no-hpet -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard " \
  "-kernel " VMLINUX " " \
  "-serial stdio " \
  "-append \"panic=1 console=ttyS0 edd=off udevtimeout=6000 udev.event-timeout=6000 no_timer_check printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory usbcore.nousb cryptomgr.notests tsc=reliable 8250.nr_uarts=1 selinux=0 TERM=xterm-256color\""

static pthread_mutex_t lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
static unsigned iterations;

static void *start_thread (void *);

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
	long n, i;
	int r;
	pthread_t thread[MAX_THREADS];

	n = sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
	if (n == -1) error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "sysconf");

	if (n > MAX_THREADS)
		n = MAX_THREADS;

	for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
		r = pthread_create (&thread[i], NULL, start_thread, NULL);
		if (r != 0) error (EXIT_FAILURE, r, "pthread_create");
	}
	for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
		r = pthread_join (thread[i], NULL);
		if (r != 0) error (EXIT_FAILURE, r, "pthread_join");
	}
	printf ("\n");
	printf ("\n");
	printf ("test ok\n");
	exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

static void *
start_thread (void *vp)
{
	pid_t pid;
	char tmp[] = "/tmp/kernel.out.XXXXXX";
	char cmd[1024];
	int i, r, status;

	if (mkstemp (tmp) == -1)
		error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "mkstemp: %s", tmp);

	snprintf (cmd, sizeof cmd, QEMU_COMMAND " >& %s", tmp);

	/* This basically runs a loop starting qemu. */
	for (;;) {
		pthread_mutex_lock (&lock);
		if (iterations >= NR_ITERATIONS) {
			pthread_mutex_unlock (&lock);
			return NULL;
		}
		if (iterations <= MAX_THREADS) { // stagger the start times
			pthread_mutex_unlock (&lock);
			usleep (rand () % 3000000);
			pthread_mutex_lock (&lock);
		}
		iterations++;
		printf ("%d... ", iterations); fflush (stdout);
		pthread_mutex_unlock (&lock);

		pid = fork ();
		if (pid == -1) error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "fork");
		if (pid == 0) {
			/* Child process, run qemu and wait. */
			if (system (cmd) != 0)
				_exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
			else
				_exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
		}

		/* In the parent wait up to MAX_TIME seconds. */
		for (i = 0; i < MAX_TIME; ++i) {
			r = waitpid (pid, &status, WNOHANG);
			if (r == -1) error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "waitpid");
			if (r > 0) break;
			sleep (1);
		}

		if (i == MAX_TIME || status != 0) {
			/* Something failed in qemu (or it didn't
			 * exit), dump the whole log and exit with
			 * error.
			 */
			printf ("\n");
			printf ("\n");
			snprintf (cmd, sizeof cmd, "tail -20 %s", tmp);
			system (cmd);
			fprintf (stderr, "*** ERROR OR HANG ***\n");
			exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
		}
	}

	unlink (tmp);
}