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watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Use atomics to track in-use cpu counter
Guenter reported:
There is still a problem. When running
echo 6 > /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh
echo 5 > /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh
repeatedly, the message
NMI watchdog: Enabled. Permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.
stops after a while (after ~10-30 iterations, with fluctuations).
Maybe watchdog_cpus needs to be atomic ?
That's correct as this again is affected by the asynchronous nature of the
smpboot thread unpark mechanism.
CPU 0 CPU1 CPU2
write(watchdog_thresh, 6)
stop()
park()
update()
start()
unpark()
thread->unpark()
cnt++;
write(watchdog_thresh, 5) thread->unpark()
stop()
park() thread->park()
cnt--; cnt++;
update()
start()
unpark()
That's not a functional problem, it just affects the informational message.
Convert watchdog_cpus to atomic_t to prevent the problem
Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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