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kernel/watchdog: prevent false hardlockup on overloaded system

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On an overloaded system, it is possible that a change in the watchdog
threshold can be delayed long enough to trigger a false positive.

This can easily be achieved by having a cpu spinning indefinitely on a
task, while another cpu updates watchdog threshold.

What happens is while trying to park the watchdog threads, the hrtimers
on the other cpus trigger and reprogram themselves with the new slower
watchdog threshold.  Meanwhile, the nmi watchdog is still programmed
with the old faster threshold.

Because the one cpu is blocked, it prevents the thread parking on the
other cpus from completing, which is needed to shutdown the nmi watchdog
and reprogram it correctly.  As a result, a false positive from the nmi
watchdog is reported.

Fix this by setting a park_in_progress flag to block all lockups until
the parking is complete.

Fix provided by Ulrich Obergfell.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/park_in_progress/watchdog_park_in_progress/]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481041033-192236-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Don Zickus
2017-01-24 15:17:53 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6affb9d7b1
commit b94f51183b
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@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ extern int watchdog_user_enabled;
extern int watchdog_thresh;
extern unsigned long watchdog_enabled;
extern unsigned long *watchdog_cpumask_bits;
extern atomic_t watchdog_park_in_progress;
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
extern int sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
extern int sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;