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Add a wakeup monitor to detect a lower-priority task waking up a
higher-priority task.
The rtapp/sleep monitor already detects this. However, that monitor
triggers an error in the context of the wakee task and user only gets
the stacktrace of that task. It is also extremely useful to get the
stacktrace of the waker task, which this monitor offers. In other
words, this monitor complements the rtapp/sleep monitor.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ba5658fa13e49ada466b84a2c211f233037180b5.1781852967.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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The rtapp/sleep monitor's primary purpose is detecting common mistakes
with user-space real-time design. Monitoring real-time issues with
kernel threads is a bonus.
However, accomodating kernel threads complicates the monitor due to
the edge cases which is seen by the monitor as lower-priority task
waking higher-priority task:
- kthread_stop() wakes up the task in order to stop it.
- The rcu thread and migration thread can be woken by any task.
- The ktimerd thread is woken near the end of irq_exit_rcu(), where
the preempt counter is "broken" and falsely says this is task
context. This requires the monitor to use the hardirq_context flag
instead of the preempt counter.
Beside complicating the monitor, the final case also requires enabling
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS (so that "hardirq_context" can be used). This
adds overhead to the kernel even when the monitor is not active. This
may be an obstacle to enabling this monitor in distros' kernels.
Furthermore, kernel threads usually are started before the monitor is
enabled. Consequently, the threads' states (i.o.w. the monitor's
atomic propositions for the threads) are not fully known to the
monitor. As a result, the kernel threads mostly cannot be monitored.
Overall, the downsides of accomodating kernel threads outweights the
benefits. Thus, exclude kernel threads to simplify the monitor.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eec2ca5224bcdacc45b8e1eb2f0e68109e1cae7a.1781852967.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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CLOCK_REALTIME is the only clock that often is misused in real-time
applications. The other clocks either are safe for real-time uses
(CLOCK_TAI, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_BOOTTIME) or are unlikely to be misused
(CLOCK_AUX, CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID).
Update the monitor to only warn about CLOCK_REALTIME.
While at it, update the out-of-sync documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c7ceb5c6263ee8f43a2676acae669cf486b0d903.1781852967.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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The rtapp/sleep monitor detects real-time tasks which go to sleep in an
real-time-unsafe manner. If this happen, the monitor triggers a trace event
in the sched_wakeup tracepoint's handler.
However, the invoking context of that trace event is not the most
informative, because of the stack trace of that event is the wakeup's code
path which is not very helpful:
74.669317: rv:error_sleep: condvar[254]: violation detected
ltl_validate+0x345 ([kernel.kallsyms])
handle_sched_wakeup+0x34 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ttwu_do_activate+0xff ([kernel.kallsyms])
sched_ttwu_pending+0x104 ([kernel.kallsyms])
__flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x15b ([kernel.kallsyms])
__sysvec_call_function_single+0x18 ([kernel.kallsyms])
sysvec_call_function_single+0x66 ([kernel.kallsyms])
asm_sysvec_call_function_single+0x1a ([kernel.kallsyms])
pv_native_safe_halt+0xf ([kernel.kallsyms])
default_idle+0x9 ([kernel.kallsyms])
default_idle_call+0x33 ([kernel.kallsyms])
do_idle+0x234 ([kernel.kallsyms])
cpu_startup_entry+0x24 ([kernel.kallsyms])
start_secondary+0xf8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
common_startup_64+0x13e ([kernel.kallsyms])
What would be much more valuable is the stack trace of the task itself.
Instead of using the sched_wakeup tracepoint, use the sched_exit
tracepoint. This makes the event happen in the task's context, making
the stack trace far more informative for user:
rv:error_sleep: condvar[254]: violation detected
ltl_validate+0x345 ([kernel.kallsyms])
handle_sched_exit+0x39 ([kernel.kallsyms])
__schedule+0x80f ([kernel.kallsyms])
schedule+0x22 ([kernel.kallsyms])
futex_do_wait+0x33 ([kernel.kallsyms])
__futex_wait+0x8c ([kernel.kallsyms])
futex_wait+0x73 ([kernel.kallsyms])
do_futex+0xc6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
__x64_sys_futex+0x121 ([kernel.kallsyms])
do_syscall_64+0xf3 ([kernel.kallsyms])
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77 ([kernel.kallsyms])
__futex_abstimed_wait_common64+0xc6 (inlined)
__futex_abstimed_wait_common+0xc6 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6)
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d97b4b5c476e5792b6875ec9bbf8dc214f999516.1781852967.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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Since commit 0c43094f8cc9 ("eventpoll: Replace rwlock with spinlock"),
epoll_wait is real-time-safe syscall for sleeping.
Add epoll_wait to the list of rt-safe sleeping APIs.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260401130828.3115428-1-namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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Add the deadline monitors collection to validate the deadline scheduler,
both for deadline tasks and servers.
The currently implemented monitors are:
* nomiss:
validate dl entities run to completion before their deadiline
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260330111010.153663-13-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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The opid monitor validates that wakeup and need_resched events only
occur with interrupts and preemption disabled by following the
preemptirq tracepoints.
As reported in [1], those tracepoints might be inaccurate in some
situations (e.g. NMIs).
Since the monitor doesn't validate other ordering properties, remove the
dependency on preemptirq tracepoints and convert the monitor to a hybrid
automaton to validate the constraint during event handling.
This makes the monitor more robust by also removing the workaround for
interrupts missing the preemption tracepoints, which was working on
PREEMPT_RT only and allows the monitor to be built on kernels without
the preemptirqs tracepoints.
[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250625120823.60600-1-gmonaco@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260330111010.153663-8-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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Add a sample monitor to showcase hybrid/timed automata.
The stall monitor identifies tasks stalled for longer than a threshold
and reacts when that happens.
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260330111010.153663-7-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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Add a per-cpu monitor as part of the sched model:
* opid: operations with preemption and irq disabled
Monitor to ensure wakeup and need_resched occur with irq and
preemption disabled or in irq handlers.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250728135022.255578-10-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add 2 per-task monitors as part of the sched model:
* nrp: need-resched preempts
Monitor to ensure preemption requires need resched.
* sssw: set state sleep and wakeup
Monitor to ensure sched_set_state to sleepable leads to sleeping and
sleeping tasks require wakeup.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250728135022.255578-9-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The tss monitor currently guarantees task switches can happen only while
scheduling, whereas the sncid monitor enforces scheduling occurs with
interrupt disabled.
Replace the monitors with a more comprehensive specification which
implies both but also ensures that:
* each scheduler call disable interrupts to switch
* each task switch happens with interrupts disabled
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250728135022.255578-8-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add a monitor for checking that real-time tasks do not go to sleep in a
manner that may cause undesirable latency.
Also change
RV depends on TRACING
to
RV select TRACING
to avoid the following recursive dependency:
error: recursive dependency detected!
symbol TRACING is selected by PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
symbol PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS
symbol TRACE_IRQFLAGS is selected by RV_MON_SLEEP
symbol RV_MON_SLEEP depends on RV
symbol RV depends on TRACING
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/75bc5bcc741d153aa279c95faf778dff35c5c8ad.1752088709.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Userspace real-time applications may have design flaws that they raise
page faults in real-time threads, and thus have unexpected latencies.
Add an linear temporal logic monitor to detect this scenario.
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/78fea8a2de6d058241d3c6502c1a92910772b0ed.1752088709.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add 3 per-cpu monitors as part of the sched model:
* scpd: schedule called with preemption disabled
Monitor to ensure schedule is called with preemption disabled
* snep: schedule does not enable preempt
Monitor to ensure schedule does not enable preempt
* sncid: schedule not called with interrupt disabled
Monitor to ensure schedule is not called with interrupt disabled
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250305140406.350227-6-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add a per-task monitor as part of the sched model:
* snroc: set non runnable on its own context
Monitor to ensure set_state happens only in the respective task's context
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250305140406.350227-5-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add 2 per-cpu monitors as part of the sched model:
* sco: scheduling context operations
Monitor to ensure sched_set_state happens only in thread context
* tss: task switch while scheduling
Monitor to ensure sched_switch happens only in scheduling context
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250305140406.350227-4-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Per task wakeup while not running (wwnr) monitor.
This model is broken, the reason is that a task can be running in the
processor without being set as RUNNABLE. Think about a task about to
sleep:
1: set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
2: schedule();
And then imagine an IRQ happening in between the lines one and two,
waking the task up. BOOM, the wakeup will happen while the task is
running.
Q: Why do we need this model, so?
A: To test the reactors.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/473c0fc39967250fdebcff8b620311c11dccad30.1659052063.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Gabriele Paoloni <gpaoloni@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The wakeup in preemptive (wip) monitor verifies if the
wakeup events always take place with preemption disabled:
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v
#==================#
H preemptive H <+
#==================# |
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| preempt_disable | preempt_enable
v |
sched_waking +------------------+ |
+--------------- | | |
| | non_preemptive | |
+--------------> | | -+
+------------------+
The wakeup event always takes place with preemption disabled because
of the scheduler synchronization. However, because the preempt_count
and its trace event are not atomic with regard to interrupts, some
inconsistencies might happen.
The documentation illustrates one of these cases.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c98ca678df81115fddc04921b3c79720c836b18f.1659052063.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Gabriele Paoloni <gpaoloni@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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