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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2017-10-03 16:37:53 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2017-10-04 10:53:54 +0200
commite31d6883f21c1cdfe5bc64e28411f8a92b783fde (patch)
treeb027de413e024bea4f8e88d364b7413bc20ac9b3 /kernel
parent6b9dc4806b28214a4a260517e59439e0ac12a15e (diff)
downloadlinux-e31d6883f21c1cdfe5bc64e28411f8a92b783fde.tar.bz2
watchdog/core, powerpc: Lock cpus across reconfiguration
Instead of dropping the cpu hotplug lock after stopping NMI watchdog and threads and reaquiring for restart, the code and the protection rules become more obvious when holding cpu hotplug lock across the full reconfiguration. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1710022105570.2114@nanos
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/smpboot.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/watchdog.c10
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/smpboot.c b/kernel/smpboot.c
index ed7507b69b48..5043e7433f4b 100644
--- a/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ void smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread
static struct cpumask tmp;
unsigned int cpu;
- get_online_cpus();
+ lockdep_assert_cpus_held();
mutex_lock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
/* Park threads that were exclusively enabled on the old mask. */
@@ -367,7 +367,6 @@ void smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread
cpumask_copy(old, new);
mutex_unlock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
- put_online_cpus();
}
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, cpu_hotplug_state) = ATOMIC_INIT(CPU_POST_DEAD);
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 6ad6226535d0..fff90fe10007 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -535,7 +535,6 @@ static void softlockup_update_smpboot_threads(void)
smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread(&watchdog_threads,
&watchdog_allowed_mask);
- __lockup_detector_cleanup();
}
/* Temporarily park all watchdog threads */
@@ -554,6 +553,7 @@ static void softlockup_unpark_threads(void)
static void softlockup_reconfigure_threads(void)
{
+ cpus_read_lock();
watchdog_nmi_stop();
softlockup_park_all_threads();
set_sample_period();
@@ -561,6 +561,12 @@ static void softlockup_reconfigure_threads(void)
if (watchdog_enabled && watchdog_thresh)
softlockup_unpark_threads();
watchdog_nmi_start();
+ cpus_read_unlock();
+ /*
+ * Must be called outside the cpus locked section to prevent
+ * recursive locking in the perf code.
+ */
+ __lockup_detector_cleanup();
}
/*
@@ -605,9 +611,11 @@ static inline void watchdog_disable_all_cpus(void) { }
static inline void softlockup_init_threads(void) { }
static void softlockup_reconfigure_threads(void)
{
+ cpus_read_lock();
watchdog_nmi_stop();
lockup_detector_update_enable();
watchdog_nmi_start();
+ cpus_read_unlock();
}
#endif /* !CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR */