commit 8d451690 ("watchdog: Fix CPU hotplug regression") cause an oops or hard lockup when doing
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog and the kernel is booted with nmi_watchdog=1 (default) Running laptop-mode-tools and disconnecting/connecting AC power will cause this to trigger, making it a common failure scenario on laptops. Instead of bailing out of watchdog_disable() when !watchdog_enabled we can initialize the hrtimer regardless of watchdog_enabled status. This makes it safe to call watchdog_disable() in the nmi_watchdog=0 case, without the negative effect on the enabled => disabled => enabled case. All these tests pass with this patch: - nmi_watchdog=1 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog - nmi_watchdog=0 echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online - nmi_watchdog=0 echo mem > /sys/power/state Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51661 Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # v3.7 Cc: Norbert Warmuth <nwarm...@t-online.de> Cc: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisb...@canonical.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> --- v3: added Bugzilla reference and additional recipients rebased on current mainline v2: implemented an alternate workaround for the original problem. Hello, Sorry for nagging, but this patch or some other fix should be applied to mainline ASAP so it can be included in the 3.7 stable series. 3.7.0 and 3.7.1 dies when plugging AC power on a large number of laptop systems. I will not claim to understand this code, but it seemed to me like the original problem was caused by the missing initialization of the hrtimer in the disabled case. Calling hrtimer_cancel() on an initialized timer not running should be perfectly OK. And watchdog_nmi_disable() will not do anything unless the event is initialized. So this patch looks like a fix. At least it survives both the original test cases and the post v3.7-rc8 regression test case. Bjørn kernel/watchdog.c | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index 997c6a1..75a2ab3 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -344,6 +344,10 @@ static void watchdog_enable(unsigned int cpu) { struct hrtimer *hrtimer = &__raw_get_cpu_var(watchdog_hrtimer); + /* kick off the timer for the hardlockup detector */ + hrtimer_init(hrtimer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL); + hrtimer->function = watchdog_timer_fn; + if (!watchdog_enabled) { kthread_park(current); return; @@ -352,10 +356,6 @@ static void watchdog_enable(unsigned int cpu) /* Enable the perf event */ watchdog_nmi_enable(cpu); - /* kick off the timer for the hardlockup detector */ - hrtimer_init(hrtimer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL); - hrtimer->function = watchdog_timer_fn; - /* done here because hrtimer_start can only pin to smp_processor_id() */ hrtimer_start(hrtimer, ns_to_ktime(sample_period), HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED); @@ -369,9 +369,6 @@ static void watchdog_disable(unsigned int cpu) { struct hrtimer *hrtimer = &__raw_get_cpu_var(watchdog_hrtimer); - if (!watchdog_enabled) - return; - watchdog_set_prio(SCHED_NORMAL, 0); hrtimer_cancel(hrtimer); /* disable the perf event */ -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/