Patch "kernel/debug/debug_core.c: more properly delay for secondary CPUs" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    kernel/debug/debug_core.c: more properly delay for secondary CPUs

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kernel-debug-debug_core.c-more-properly-delay-for-secondary-cpus.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 2d13bb6494c807bcf3f78af0e96c0b8615a94385 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:05:49 -0800
Subject: kernel/debug/debug_core.c: more properly delay for secondary CPUs

From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>

commit 2d13bb6494c807bcf3f78af0e96c0b8615a94385 upstream.

We've got a delay loop waiting for secondary CPUs.  That loop uses
loops_per_jiffy.  However, loops_per_jiffy doesn't actually mean how
many tight loops make up a jiffy on all architectures.  It is quite
common to see things like this in the boot log:

  Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer
  frequency.. 48.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=24000)

In my case I was seeing lots of cases where other CPUs timed out
entering the debugger only to print their stack crawls shortly after the
kdb> prompt was written.

Elsewhere in kgdb we already use udelay(), so that should be safe enough
to use to implement our timeout.  We'll delay 1 ms for 1000 times, which
should give us a full second of delay (just like the old code wanted)
but allow us to notice that we're done every 1 ms.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplifications, per Daniel]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477091361-2039-1-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/debug/debug_core.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
@@ -598,11 +598,11 @@ return_normal:
 	/*
 	 * Wait for the other CPUs to be notified and be waiting for us:
 	 */
-	time_left = loops_per_jiffy * HZ;
+	time_left = MSEC_PER_SEC;
 	while (kgdb_do_roundup && --time_left &&
 	       (atomic_read(&masters_in_kgdb) + atomic_read(&slaves_in_kgdb)) !=
 		   online_cpus)
-		cpu_relax();
+		udelay(1000);
 	if (!time_left)
 		pr_crit("Timed out waiting for secondary CPUs.\n");
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dianders@chromium.org are

queue-4.8/kernel-debug-debug_core.c-more-properly-delay-for-secondary-cpus.patch