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Subject[PATCH 4.9 76/83] kernel/debug/debug_core.c: more properly delay for secondary CPUs
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4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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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");


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