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From: john.hubbard@gmail.com
To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] watchdog: Fix a watchdog crash in some configurations
Date: Tue,  5 May 2015 12:38:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1430854691-9628-1-git-send-email-jhubbard@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150505140623.GL98296@redhat.com>

From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>

Commit 8fcf2cc768acd845c1fed837bf9cfe2d7106336d in linux-next
introduced a regression in some configurations. Specifically,
with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL set, and CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL *not* set,
the kernel will crash in lockup_detector_init(), due to a
NULL tick_nohz_full_mask pointer.

This is because the above commit uses tick_nohz_full_mask
(in lockup_detector_init), if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is set, but
tick_nohz_full_mask only gets allocated if either:

    a) CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL is set, or

    b) Someone passes in nohz_full=<any_value> on the boot
      args line.

To correct this, change lockup_detector_init so that it does
a runtime check instead of the ifdef check. This fix is
simpler than my original proposed fix, thanks to Chris Metcalf
for that.

Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
---
 kernel/watchdog.c | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 40fda2f..c2eb97c 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -920,14 +920,14 @@ void __init lockup_detector_init(void)
 {
 	set_sample_period();
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
-	if (!cpumask_empty(tick_nohz_full_mask))
-		pr_info("Disabling watchdog on nohz_full cores by default\n");
-	cpumask_andnot(&watchdog_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask,
-		       tick_nohz_full_mask);
-#else
-	cpumask_copy(&watchdog_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask);
-#endif
+	if (tick_nohz_full_enabled()) {
+		if (!cpumask_empty(tick_nohz_full_mask))
+			pr_info("Disabling watchdog on nohz_full cores by default\n");
+		cpumask_andnot(&watchdog_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask,
+			       tick_nohz_full_mask);
+	}
+	else
+		cpumask_copy(&watchdog_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask);
 
 	if (watchdog_enabled)
 		watchdog_enable_all_cpus();
-- 
2.3.7

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-05 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-04 23:17 [PATCH] watchdog: Fix a watchdog crash in some configurations john.hubbard
2015-05-05 13:35 ` Don Zickus
2015-05-05 13:44   ` Chris Metcalf
2015-05-05 14:06     ` Don Zickus
2015-05-05 19:38       ` john.hubbard [this message]
2015-05-05 22:12         ` [PATCH v2] " Andrew Morton

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