linux-kernel - [tip: core/core] watchdog/softlockup: Remove obsolete check of last reported task

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Date:   Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:55:29 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Petr Mladek" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Ziljstra <peterz@...radead.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: core/core] watchdog/softlockup: Remove obsolete check of last
 reported task

The following commit has been merged into the core/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     3a51449b7959f68cc45abe67298e40c7eb57167b
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/3a51449b7959f68cc45abe67298e40c7eb57167b
Author:        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:49:26 +02:00
Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitterDate: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:52:48 +01:00

watchdog/softlockup: Remove obsolete check of last reported task

commit 9cf57731b63e ("watchdog/softlockup: Replace "watchdog/%u" threads
 with cpu_stop_work") ensures that the watchdog is reliably touched during
a task switch.

As a result the check for an unnoticed task switch is not longer needed.

Remove the relevant code, which effectively reverts commit b1a8de1f5343
("softlockup: make detector be aware of task switch of processes hogging
cpu")

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Ziljstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191024114928.15377-2-pmladek@suse.com
---
 kernel/watchdog.c | 18 +-----------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 0621301..e3774e9 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -173,7 +173,6 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer, watchdog_hrtimer);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, softlockup_touch_sync);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, soft_watchdog_warn);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, softlockup_task_ptr_saved);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts_saved);
 static unsigned long soft_lockup_nmi_warn;
 
@@ -413,22 +412,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
 			return HRTIMER_RESTART;
 
 		/* only warn once */
-		if (__this_cpu_read(soft_watchdog_warn) == true) {
-			/*
-			 * When multiple processes are causing softlockups the
-			 * softlockup detector only warns on the first one
-			 * because the code relies on a full quiet cycle to
-			 * re-arm.  The second process prevents the quiet cycle
-			 * and never gets reported.  Use task pointers to detect
-			 * this.
-			 */
-			if (__this_cpu_read(softlockup_task_ptr_saved) !=
-			    current) {
-				__this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, false);
-				__touch_watchdog();
-			}
+		if (__this_cpu_read(soft_watchdog_warn) == true)
 			return HRTIMER_RESTART;
-		}
 
 		if (softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace) {
 			/* Prevent multiple soft-lockup reports if one cpu is already
@@ -444,7 +429,6 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
 		pr_emerg("BUG: soft lockup - CPU#%d stuck for %us! [%s:%d]\n",
 			smp_processor_id(), duration,
 			current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
-		__this_cpu_write(softlockup_task_ptr_saved, current);
 		print_modules();
 		print_irqtrace_events(current);
 		if (regs)