From: Petr Mladek Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 05:54:33 +0000 (-0700) Subject: watchdog: fix barriers when printing backtraces from all CPUs X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f113bf760ca90d709f8f89a733d10abb1f04a83;p=linux.git watchdog: fix barriers when printing backtraces from all CPUs Any parallel softlockup reports are skipped when one CPU is already printing backtraces from all CPUs. The exclusive rights are synchronized using one bit in soft_lockup_nmi_warn. There is also one memory barrier that does not make much sense. Use two barriers on the right location to prevent mixing two reports. [pmladek@suse.com: use bit lock operations to prevent multiple soft-lockup reports] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YFSVsLGVWMXTvlbk@alley Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311122130.6788-6-pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Laurence Oberman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vincent Whitchurch Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index b8d4182d14ccb..8cf0678378d29 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -410,11 +410,12 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer) if (kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused()) return HRTIMER_RESTART; + /* + * Prevent multiple soft-lockup reports if one cpu is already + * engaged in dumping all cpu back traces. + */ if (softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace) { - /* Prevent multiple soft-lockup reports if one cpu is already - * engaged in dumping cpu back traces - */ - if (test_and_set_bit(0, &soft_lockup_nmi_warn)) + if (test_and_set_bit_lock(0, &soft_lockup_nmi_warn)) return HRTIMER_RESTART; } @@ -432,14 +433,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer) dump_stack(); if (softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace) { - /* Avoid generating two back traces for current - * given that one is already made above - */ trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace(); - - clear_bit(0, &soft_lockup_nmi_warn); - /* Barrier to sync with other cpus */ - smp_mb__after_atomic(); + clear_bit_unlock(0, &soft_lockup_nmi_warn); } add_taint(TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);