linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 133/159] powerpc/watchdog: Do not trigger SMP crash from touch_nmi

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Date:   Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:46:58 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 133/159] powerpc/watchdog: Do not trigger SMP crash from touch_nmi_watchdog

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>


[ Upstream commit 80e4d70b06863e0104e5a0dc78aa3710297fbd4b ]

In xmon, touch_nmi_watchdog() is not expected to be checking that
other CPUs have not touched the watchdog, so the code will just call
touch_nmi_watchdog() once before re-enabling hard interrupts.

Just update our CPU's state, and ignore apparently stuck SMP threads.

Arguably touch_nmi_watchdog should check for SMP lockups, and callers
should be fixed, but that's not trivial for the input code of xmon.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -276,9 +276,12 @@ void arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(void)
 {
 	unsigned long ticks = tb_ticks_per_usec * wd_timer_period_ms * 1000;
 	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+	u64 tb = get_tb();
 
-	if (get_tb() - per_cpu(wd_timer_tb, cpu) >= ticks)
-		watchdog_timer_interrupt(cpu);
+	if (tb - per_cpu(wd_timer_tb, cpu) >= ticks) {
+		per_cpu(wd_timer_tb, cpu) = tb;
+		wd_smp_clear_cpu_pending(cpu, tb);
+	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_touch_nmi_watchdog);