CVS commit: src

["Taylor R Campbell" <riastradh%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    src
Committed By:   riastradh
Date:           Fri Jul  7 12:34:50 UTC 2023

Modified Files:
        src/sys/kern: files.kern init_main.c kern_clock.c kern_cpu.c
        src/sys/sys: cpu_data.h
Added Files:
        src/share/man/man9: heartbeat.9
        src/sys/kern: kern_heartbeat.c
        src/sys/sys: heartbeat.h

Log Message:
heartbeat(9): New mechanism to check progress of kernel.

This uses hard interrupts to check progress of low-priority soft
interrupts, and one CPU to check progress of another CPU.

If no progress has been made after a configurable number of seconds
(kern.heartbeat.max_period, default 15), then the system panics --
preferably on the CPU that is stuck so we get a stack trace in dmesg
of where it was stuck, but if the stuckness was detected by another
CPU and the stuck CPU doesn't acknowledge the request to panic within
one second, the detecting CPU panics instead.

This doesn't supplant hardware watchdog timers.  It is possible for
hard interrupts to be stuck on all CPUs for some reason too; in that
case heartbeat(9) has no opportunity to complete.

Downside: heartbeat(9) relies on hardclock to run at a reasonably
consistent rate, which might cause trouble for the glorious tickless
future.  However, it could be adapted to take a parameter for an
approximate number of units that have elapsed since the last call on
the current CPU, rather than treating that as a constant 1.

XXX kernel revbump -- changes struct cpu_info layout


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r0 -r1.1 src/share/man/man9/heartbeat.9
cvs rdiff -u -r1.57 -r1.58 src/sys/kern/files.kern
cvs rdiff -u -r1.541 -r1.542 src/sys/kern/init_main.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.149 -r1.150 src/sys/kern/kern_clock.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.94 -r1.95 src/sys/kern/kern_cpu.c
cvs rdiff -u -r0 -r1.1 src/sys/kern/kern_heartbeat.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.52 -r1.53 src/sys/sys/cpu_data.h
cvs rdiff -u -r0 -r1.1 src/sys/sys/heartbeat.h

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