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authorDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>2014-06-23 13:22:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-23 16:47:43 -0700
commitbde92cf455a03a91badb7046855592d8c008e929 (patch)
tree9f24b5ed9ab98439ad0e9ab8a589d2b92f32df22 /kernel/watchdog.c
parent16e943bf8dbc852832ce7f971690c9f0787749d5 (diff)
kernel/watchdog.c: remove preemption restrictions when restarting lockup detector
Peter Wu noticed the following splat on his machine when updating /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:965 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1, name: init 3 locks held by init/1: #0: (sb_writers#3){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff8117b663>] vfs_write+0x143/0x180 #1: (watchdog_proc_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810e02d3>] proc_dowatchdog+0x33/0x110 #2: (cpu_hotplug.lock){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff810589c2>] get_online_cpus+0x32/0x80 Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff810e0384>] proc_dowatchdog+0xe4/0x110 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 3.16.0-rc1-testing #34 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a __might_sleep+0x11d/0x190 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x4e/0x1e0 perf_event_alloc+0x55/0x440 perf_event_create_kernel_counter+0x26/0xe0 watchdog_nmi_enable+0x75/0x140 update_timers_all_cpus+0x53/0xa0 proc_dowatchdog+0xe4/0x110 proc_sys_call_handler+0xb3/0xc0 proc_sys_write+0x14/0x20 vfs_write+0xad/0x180 SyS_write+0x49/0xb0 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b NMI watchdog: disabled (cpu0): hardware events not enabled What happened is after updating the watchdog_thresh, the lockup detector is restarted to utilize the new value. Part of this process involved disabling preemption. Once preemption was disabled, perf tried to allocate a new event (as part of the restart). This caused the above BUG_ON as you can't sleep with preemption disabled. The preemption restriction seemed agressive as we are not doing anything on that particular cpu, but with all the online cpus (which are protected by the get_online_cpus lock). Remove the restriction and the BUG_ON goes away. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> Tested-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.13+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/watchdog.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/watchdog.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 516203e665fc..30e482240dae 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -527,10 +527,8 @@ static void update_timers_all_cpus(void)
int cpu;
get_online_cpus();
- preempt_disable();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
update_timers(cpu);
- preempt_enable();
put_online_cpus();
}