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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Add the container "rtapp" which is the monitor collection for detecting
problems with real-time applications. The monitors will be added in the
follow-up commits.
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/fb18b87631d386271de00959d8d4826f23fcd1cd.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>
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>
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>
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>
Monitors describing complex systems, such as the scheduler, can easily
grow to the point where they are just hard to understand because of the
many possible state transitions.
Often it is possible to break such descriptions into smaller monitors,
sharing some or all events. Enabling those smaller monitors concurrently
is, in fact, testing the system as if we had one single larger monitor.
Splitting models into multiple specification is not only easier to
understand, but gives some more clues when we see errors.
Add the possibility to create container monitors, whose only purpose is
to host other nested monitors. Enabling a container monitor enables all
nested ones, but it's still possible to enable nested monitors
independently.
Add the sched monitor as first container, for now empty.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250305140406.350227-3-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
dot2k suggests a list of changes to the kernel tree while adding a
monitor: edit tracepoints header, Makefile, Kconfig and moving the
monitor folder. Those changes can be easily run automatically.
Add a flag to dot2k to alter the kernel source.
The kernel source directory can be either assumed from the PWD, or from
the running kernel, if installed.
This feature works best if the kernel tree is a git repository, so that
its easier to make sure there are no unintended changes.
The main RV files (e.g. Makefile) have now a comment placeholder that
can be useful for manual editing (e.g. to know where to add new
monitors) and it is used by the script to append the required lines.
We also slightly adapt the file handling functions in dot2k: __open_file
is now called __read_file and also closes the file before returning the
content; __create_file is now a more general __write_file, we no longer
return on FileExistsError (not thrown while opening), a new
__create_file simply calls __write_file specifying the monitor folder in
the path.
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241227144752.362911-8-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
While creating a new monitor in RV, besides generating code from dot2k,
there are a few manual steps which can be tedious and error prone, like
adding the tracepoints, makefile lines and kconfig.
This patch restructures the existing monitors to keep some files in the
monitor's folder itself, which can be automatically generated by future
versions of dot2k.
Monitors have now their own Kconfig and tracepoint snippets. For
simplicity, the main tracepoint definition, is moved to the RV
directory, it defines only the tracepoint classes and includes the
monitor-specific tracepoints, which reside in the monitor directory.
Tracepoints and Kconfig no longer need to be copied and adapted from
existing ones but only need to be included in the main files.
The Makefile remains untouched since there's little advantage in having
a separated Makefile for each monitor with a single line and including
it in the main RV Makefile.
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241227144752.362911-6-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Sample reactor that panics the system when an exception is found. This
is useful both to capture a vmcore, or to fail-safe a critical system.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/729aae3aba95f35738b8f8180e626d747d1d9da2.1659052063.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>
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>
The wakeup in preemptive (wip) monitor verifies if the
wakeup events always take place with preemption disabled:
|
|
v
#==================#
H preemptive H <+
#==================# |
| |
| 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>
A runtime monitor can cause a reaction to the detection of an
exception on the model's execution. By default, the monitors have
tracing reactions, printing the monitor output via tracepoints.
But other reactions can be added (on-demand) via this interface.
The user interface resembles the kernel tracing interface and
presents these files:
"available_reactors"
- Reading shows the available reactors, one per line.
For example:
# cat available_reactors
nop
panic
printk
"reacting_on"
- It is an on/off general switch for reactors, disabling
all reactions.
"monitors/MONITOR/reactors"
- List available reactors, with the select reaction for the given
MONITOR inside []. The default one is the nop (no operation)
reactor.
- Writing the name of a reactor enables it to the given
MONITOR.
For example:
# cat monitors/wip/reactors
[nop]
panic
printk
# echo panic > monitors/wip/reactors
# cat monitors/wip/reactors
nop
[panic]
printk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1794eb994637457bdeaa6bad0b8263d2f7eece0c.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>
RV is a lightweight (yet rigorous) method that complements classical
exhaustive verification techniques (such as model checking and
theorem proving) with a more practical approach to complex systems.
RV works by analyzing the trace of the system's actual execution,
comparing it against a formal specification of the system behavior.
RV can give precise information on the runtime behavior of the
monitored system while enabling the reaction for unexpected
events, avoiding, for example, the propagation of a failure on
safety-critical systems.
The development of this interface roots in the development of the
paper:
De Oliveira, Daniel Bristot; Cucinotta, Tommaso; De Oliveira, Romulo
Silva. Efficient formal verification for the Linux kernel. In:
International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods.
Springer, Cham, 2019. p. 315-332.
And:
De Oliveira, Daniel Bristot. Automata-based formal analysis
and verification of the real-time Linux kernel. PhD Thesis, 2020.
The RV interface resembles the tracing/ interface on purpose. The current
path for the RV interface is /sys/kernel/tracing/rv/.
It presents these files:
"available_monitors"
- List the available monitors, one per line.
For example:
# cat available_monitors
wip
wwnr
"enabled_monitors"
- Lists the enabled monitors, one per line;
- Writing to it enables a given monitor;
- Writing a monitor name with a '!' prefix disables it;
- Truncating the file disables all enabled monitors.
For example:
# cat enabled_monitors
# echo wip > enabled_monitors
# echo wwnr >> enabled_monitors
# cat enabled_monitors
wip
wwnr
# echo '!wip' >> enabled_monitors
# cat enabled_monitors
wwnr
# echo > enabled_monitors
# cat enabled_monitors
#
Note that more than one monitor can be enabled concurrently.
"monitoring_on"
- It is an on/off general switcher for monitoring. Note
that it does not disable enabled monitors or detach events,
but stop the per-entity monitors of monitoring the events
received from the system. It resembles the "tracing_on" switcher.
"monitors/"
Each monitor will have its one directory inside "monitors/". There
the monitor specific files will be presented.
The "monitors/" directory resembles the "events" directory on
tracefs.
For example:
# cd monitors/wip/
# ls
desc enable
# cat desc
wakeup in preemptive per-cpu testing monitor.
# cat enable
0
For further information, see the comments in the header of
kernel/trace/rv/rv.c from this patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a4bfe038f50cb047bfb343ad0e12b0e646ab308b.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>
