Re: suspend regression in 4.1-rc1

From: Don Zickus
Date: Mon May 18 2015 - 10:21:35 EST


On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:31:50AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:03:37AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > This doesn't hang anymore. I've just had to move the mutex definition
> > up to make it compile. So feel free to add my
>
> I've also fixed a lock leak, see goto unlock :-)
>
> > Reported-and-tested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
>
> *blink* that actually fixed it..
>
> That somewhat leaves me at a loss explaining how s2r was failing.
>
> ---
> Subject: watchdog: Fix merge 'conflict'
>
> Two watchdog changes that came through different trees had a non
> conflicting conflict, that is, one changed the semantics of a variable
> but no actual code conflict happened. So the merge appeared fine, but
> the resulting code did not behave as expected.
>
> Commit 195daf665a62 ("watchdog: enable the new user interface of the
> watchdog mechanism") changes the semantics of watchdog_user_enabled,
> which thereafter is only used by the functions introduced by
> b3738d293233 ("watchdog: Add watchdog enable/disable all functions").
>
> There further appears to be a distinct lack of serialization between
> setting and using watchdog_enabled, so perhaps we should wrap the
> {en,dis}able_all() things in watchdog_proc_mutex.
>
> This patch fixes a s2r failure reported by Michal; which I cannot
> readily explain. But this does make the code internally consistent
> again.

I agree with Peter's locking approach. We need to do better locking the
variables here. Poking around the code I see too many variables being
exposed sadly.

Thanks Peter!

Andrew, this patch can replace 'watchdog-fix-watchdog_nmi_enable_all.patch'
on your queue.

Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/watchdog.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
> index 2316f50..506edcc5 100644
> --- a/kernel/watchdog.c
> +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
> @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
> #define NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED (1 << NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED_BIT)
> #define SOFT_WATCHDOG_ENABLED (1 << SOFT_WATCHDOG_ENABLED_BIT)
>
> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(watchdog_proc_mutex);
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
> static unsigned long __read_mostly watchdog_enabled = SOFT_WATCHDOG_ENABLED|NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED;
> #else
> @@ -608,26 +610,36 @@ void watchdog_nmi_enable_all(void)
> {
> int cpu;
>
> - if (!watchdog_user_enabled)
> - return;
> + mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
> +
> + if (!(watchdog_enabled & NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED))
> + goto unlock;
>
> get_online_cpus();
> for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
> watchdog_nmi_enable(cpu);
> put_online_cpus();
> +
> +unlock:
> + mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
> }
>
> void watchdog_nmi_disable_all(void)
> {
> int cpu;
>
> + mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
> +
> if (!watchdog_running)
> - return;
> + goto unlock;
>
> get_online_cpus();
> for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
> watchdog_nmi_disable(cpu);
> put_online_cpus();
> +
> +unlock:
> + mutex_unlock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
> }
> #else
> static int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu) { return 0; }
> @@ -744,8 +756,6 @@ static int proc_watchdog_update(void)
>
> }
>
> -static DEFINE_MUTEX(watchdog_proc_mutex);
> -
> /*
> * common function for watchdog, nmi_watchdog and soft_watchdog parameter
> *
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