Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:32:23 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | [PATCH] clocksource: Make watchdog reset lockless |
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KGDB needs to trylock watchdog_lock when trying to reset the clocksource watchdog after the system has been stopped to avoid a potential deadlock. When the trylock fails TSC usually becomes unstable.
We can be more clever by using an atomic counter and checking it in the clocksource_watchdog callback. We restart the watchdog whenever the counter is > 0 and only decrement the counter when we ran through a full update cycle.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> --- kernel/time/clocksource.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/clocksource.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/clocksource.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ static struct timer_list watchdog_timer; static DECLARE_WORK(watchdog_work, clocksource_watchdog_work); static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(watchdog_lock); static int watchdog_running; +static atomic_t watchdog_reset_pending; static int clocksource_watchdog_kthread(void *data); static void __clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating); @@ -247,12 +248,14 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigne struct clocksource *cs; cycle_t csnow, wdnow; int64_t wd_nsec, cs_nsec; - int next_cpu; + int next_cpu, reset_pending; spin_lock(&watchdog_lock); if (!watchdog_running) goto out; + reset_pending = atomic_read(&watchdog_reset_pending); + list_for_each_entry(cs, &watchdog_list, wd_list) { /* Clocksource already marked unstable? */ @@ -268,7 +271,8 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigne local_irq_enable(); /* Clocksource initialized ? */ - if (!(cs->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_WATCHDOG)) { + if (!(cs->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_WATCHDOG) || + atomic_read(&watchdog_reset_pending)) { cs->flags |= CLOCK_SOURCE_WATCHDOG; cs->wd_last = wdnow; cs->cs_last = csnow; @@ -283,8 +287,11 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigne cs->cs_last = csnow; cs->wd_last = wdnow; + if (atomic_read(&watchdog_reset_pending)) + continue; + /* Check the deviation from the watchdog clocksource. */ - if (abs(cs_nsec - wd_nsec) > WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD) { + if ((abs(cs_nsec - wd_nsec) > WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD)) { clocksource_unstable(cs, cs_nsec - wd_nsec); continue; } @@ -303,6 +310,13 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigne } /* + * We only clear the watchdog_reset_pending, when we did a + * full cycle through all clocksources. + */ + if (reset_pending) + atomic_dec(&watchdog_reset_pending); + + /* * Cycle through CPUs to check if the CPUs stay synchronized * to each other. */ @@ -344,23 +358,7 @@ static inline void clocksource_reset_wat static void clocksource_resume_watchdog(void) { - unsigned long flags; - - /* - * We use trylock here to avoid a potential dead lock when - * kgdb calls this code after the kernel has been stopped with - * watchdog_lock held. When watchdog_lock is held we just - * return and accept, that the watchdog might trigger and mark - * the monitored clock source (usually TSC) unstable. - * - * This does not affect the other caller clocksource_resume() - * because at this point the kernel is UP, interrupts are - * disabled and nothing can hold watchdog_lock. - */ - if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&watchdog_lock, flags)) - return; - clocksource_reset_watchdog(); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&watchdog_lock, flags); + atomic_inc(&watchdog_reset_pending); } static void clocksource_enqueue_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs)
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