[PATCH 5.17 204/219] tick/nohz: Use WARN_ON_ONCE() to prevent console saturation

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-18T12:39:20Z

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

commit 40e97e42961f8c6cc7bd5fe67cc18417e02d78f1 upstream.

While running some testing on code that happened to allow the variable
tick_nohz_full_running to get set but with no "possible" NOHZ cores to
back up that setting, this warning triggered:

if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE))
WARN_ON(tick_nohz_full_running);

The console was overwhemled with an endless stream of one WARN per tick
per core and there was no way to even see what was going on w/o using a
serial console to capture it and then trace it back to this.

Change it to WARN_ON_ONCE().

Fixes: 08ae95f4fd3b ("nohz_full: Allow the boot CPU to be nohz_full")
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211206145950.10927-3-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static void tick_sched_do_timer(struct t
*/
if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE)) {
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
- WARN_ON(tick_nohz_full_running);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(tick_nohz_full_running);
#endif
tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu;
}