linux-toradex.git/kernel/watchdog.c, branch v3.10.2

watchdog: Add comments to explain the watchdog_disabled variable

2013-03-14T07:24:05+00:00

The watchdog_disabled flag is a bit cryptic. However it's
usefulness is multifold. Uses are:

 1. Check if smpboot_register_percpu_thread function passed.

 2. Makes sure that user enables and disables the watchdog in
    sequence i.e. enable watchdog->disable watchdog->enable watchdog
    Unlike enable watchdog->enable watchdog which is wrong.

Signed-off-by: anish kumar 
[small text cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus 
Cc: chuansheng.liu@intel.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363113848-18344-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-02-23T03:25:09+00:00

Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change is the rwsem lock-steal improvements, both to the
  assembly optimized and the spinlock based variants.

  The other notable change is the clean up of the seqlock implementation
  to be based on the seqcount infrastructure.

  The rest is assorted smaller debuggability, cleanup and continued -rt
  locking changes."

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rwsem-spinlock: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
  futex: Revert "futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated"
  generic: Use raw local irq variant for generic cmpxchg
  lockdep: Selftest: convert spinlock to raw spinlock
  seqlock: Use seqcount infrastructure
  seqlock: Remove unused functions
  ntp: Make ntp_lock raw
  intel_idle: Convert i7300_idle_lock to raw_spinlock
  locking: Various static lock initializer fixes
  lockdep: Print more info when MAX_LOCK_DEPTH is exceeded
  rwsem: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
  lockdep: Silence warning if CONFIG_LOCKDEP isn't set
  watchdog: Use local_clock for get_timestamp()
  lockdep: Rename print_unlock_inbalance_bug() to print_unlock_imbalance_bug()
  locking/stat: Fix a typo

watchdog: Use local_clock for get_timestamp()

2013-02-19T07:42:40+00:00

The get_timestamp() function is always called with current cpu,
thus using local_clock() would be more appropriate and it makes
the code shorter and cleaner IMHO.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Acked-by: Don Zickus 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356576585-28782-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file

2013-02-07T19:51:08+00:00

Move rt scheduler definitions out of include/linux/sched.h into
new file include/linux/sched/rt.h

Signed-off-by: Clark Williams 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094707.7b9f825f@riff.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

watchdog: Fix disable/enable regression

2012-12-19T20:10:33+00:00

Commit 8d4516904b39 ("watchdog: Fix CPU hotplug regression") causes an
oops or hard lockup when doing

 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
 echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog

and the kernel is booted with nmi_watchdog=1 (default)

Running laptop-mode-tools and disconnecting/connecting AC power will
cause this to trigger, making it a common failure scenario on laptops.

Instead of bailing out of watchdog_disable() when !watchdog_enabled we
can initialize the hrtimer regardless of watchdog_enabled status.  This
makes it safe to call watchdog_disable() in the nmi_watchdog=0 case,
without the negative effect on the enabled => disabled => enabled case.

All these tests pass with this patch:
- nmi_watchdog=1
  echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
  echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog

- nmi_watchdog=0
  echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online

- nmi_watchdog=0
  echo mem > /sys/power/state

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51661

Cc:  # v3.7
Cc: Norbert Warmuth 
Cc: Joseph Salisbury 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: store the watchdog sample period as a variable

2012-12-18T01:15:13+00:00

Currently getting the sample period is always thru a complex
calculation: get_softlockup_thresh() * ((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC / 5).

We can store the sample period as a variable, and set it as __read_mostly
type.

Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: Fix CPU hotplug regression

2012-12-04T18:56:59+00:00

Norbert reported:
"3.7-rc6 booted with nmi_watchdog=0 fails to suspend to RAM or
 offline CPUs. It's reproducable with a KVM guest and physical
 system."

The reason is that commit bcd951cf(watchdog: Use hotplug thread
infrastructure) missed to take this into account. So the cpu offline
code gets stuck in the teardown function because it accesses non
initialized data structures.

Add a check for watchdog_enabled into that path to cure the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Norbert Warmuth 
Tested-by: Joseph Salisbury 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1211231033230.2701@ionos
Link: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079534
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period()

2012-11-27T01:41:24+00:00

In get_sample_period(), unsigned long is not enough:

  watchdog_thresh * 2 * (NSEC_PER_SEC / 5)

case1:
  watchdog_thresh is 10 by default, the sample value will be: 0xEE6B2800

case2:
 set watchdog_thresh is 20, the sample value will be: 0x1 DCD6 5000

In case2, we need use u64 to express the sample period.  Otherwise,
changing the threshold thru proc often can not be successful.

Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng 
Acked-by: Don Zickus 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: Use hotplug thread infrastructure

2012-08-13T15:01:07+00:00

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120716103948.563736676@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Revert "NMI watchdog: fix for lockup detector breakage on resume"

2012-08-08T18:49:45+00:00

Revert commit 45226e9 (NMI watchdog: fix for lockup detector breakage
on resume) which breaks resume from system suspend on my SH7372
Mackerel board (by causing a NULL pointer dereference to happen) and
is generally wrong, because it abuses the CPU hotplug functionality
in a shamelessly blatant way.

The original issue should be addressed through appropriate syscore
resume callback instead.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki