linux-kernel - [patch] softlockup: fix false positives on CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20071128125637.GA21084@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:56:37 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [patch] softlockup: fix false positives on CONFIG_NOHZ


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> these can be fixed, but:
> 
> > This will introduce an up-to-one-second delay in responding to 
> > kthread_should_stop().  Is that bad?
> 
> grumble, it's bad. I guess David is right that this should be fixed 
> the right way ;-) So the above patch cannot go in.

Thomas found the right fix. David, could you try the fix below, does it 
fix those false positives on your nohz Niagara cores?

	Ingo

---------------->
Subject: softlockup: fix false positives on CONFIG_NOHZ
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

David Miller reported soft lockup false-positives that trigger
on NOHZ due to CPUs idling for more than 10 seconds.

The solution is touch the softlockup watchdog when we return from
idle. (by definition we are not 'locked up' when we were idle)

 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9409

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: linux/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ linux/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ void tick_nohz_update_jiffies(void)
 	if (!ts->tick_stopped)
 		return;
 
+	touch_softlockup_watchdog();
+
 	cpu_clear(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask);
 	now = ktime_get();
 
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