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Date:   Tue, 3 Oct 2017 08:50:59 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>,
        Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@...hat.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [patch V2 22/29] lockup_detector: Make watchdog_nmi_reconfigure()
 two stage

On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> Unfortunately this is hitting the WARN_ON in start_wd_cpu() on powerpc
> because we're calling it multiple times for the boot CPU.
> 
> The first call is via:
> 
>   start_wd_on_cpu+0x80/0x2f0
>   watchdog_nmi_reconfigure+0x124/0x170
>   softlockup_reconfigure_threads+0x110/0x130
>   lockup_detector_init+0xbc/0xe0
>   kernel_init_freeable+0x18c/0x37c
>   kernel_init+0x2c/0x160
>   ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0xbc
> 
> And then again via the CPU hotplug registration:
> 
>   start_wd_on_cpu+0x80/0x2f0
>   cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x194/0x620
>   cpuhp_thread_fun+0x7c/0x1b0
>   smpboot_thread_fn+0x290/0x2a0
>   kthread+0x168/0x1b0
>   ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0xbc
> 
> 
> The first call is new because previously watchdog_nmi_reconfigure()
> wasn't called from softlockup_reconfigure_threads().

Hmm, don't you have the same problem with CPU hotplug or do you just get
lucky because the hotplug callback in your code is ordered vs. the
softlockup thread hotplug callback in a way that this does not hit?

> I'm not sure what the easiest fix is. One option would be to just drop
> the WARN_ON, it's just there for paranoia AFAICS.

The straight forward way is to make use of the new probe function. Patch
below.

Thanks,

	tglx

8<------------------
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -375,20 +375,18 @@ void watchdog_nmi_start(void)
 /*
  * This runs after lockup_detector_init() which sets up watchdog_cpumask.
  */
-static int __init powerpc_watchdog_init(void)
+int __init watchdog_nmi_probe(void)
 {
 	int err;
 
-	watchdog_calc_timeouts();
-
-	err = cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "powerpc/watchdog:online",
-				start_wd_on_cpu, stop_wd_on_cpu);
+	err = cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN,
+					"powerpc/watchdog:online",
+					start_wd_on_cpu, stop_wd_on_cpu);
 	if (err < 0)
 		pr_warn("Watchdog could not be initialized");
 
 	return 0;
 }
-arch_initcall(powerpc_watchdog_init);
 
 static void handle_backtrace_ipi(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -608,7 +608,6 @@ static inline int watchdog_park_threads(
 static inline void watchdog_unpark_threads(void) { }
 static inline int watchdog_enable_all_cpus(void) { return 0; }
 static inline void watchdog_disable_all_cpus(void) { }
-static inline void softlockup_init_threads(void) { }
 static void softlockup_reconfigure_threads(void)
 {
 	cpus_read_lock();
@@ -617,6 +616,10 @@ static void softlockup_reconfigure_threa
 	watchdog_nmi_start();
 	cpus_read_unlock();
 }
+static inline void softlockup_init_threads(void)
+{
+	softlockup_reconfigure_threads();
+}
 #endif /* !CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR */
 
 static void __lockup_detector_cleanup(void)