linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/8] nohz: Fix notifier return val that enforce timekeeping

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Message-Id: <1369065716-22801-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 May 2013 18:01:53 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/8] nohz: Fix notifier return val that enforce timekeeping

From: Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

In tick_nohz_cpu_down_callback() if the cpu is the one handling
timekeeping , we must return something that stops the CPU_DOWN_PREPARE
notifiers and then start notify CPU_DOWN_FAILED on the already called
notifier call backs.

However traditional errno values are not handled by the notifier unless
these are encapsulated using errno_to_notifier().

Hence the current -EINVAL is misinterpreted and converted to junk after
notifier_to_errno(), leaving the notifier subsystem to random behaviour
such as eventually allowing the cpu to go down.

Fix this by using the standard NOTIFY_BAD instead.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index cfc798b..58d8d4d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static int __cpuinit tick_nohz_cpu_down_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
 		 * we can't safely shutdown that CPU.
 		 */
 		if (have_nohz_full_mask && tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu)
-			return -EINVAL;
+			return NOTIFY_BAD;
 		break;
 	}
 	return NOTIFY_OK;
-- 
1.7.5.4

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