[PATCHv2 2/4] kernel/watchdog_hld: clarify the condition in hardlockup_detector_event_create()

From: Pingfan Liu
Date: Thu Sep 23 2021 - 10:10:37 EST


As for the context, there are two arguments to change
debug_smp_processor_id() to is_percpu_thread().

-1. watchdog_ev is percpu, and migration will frustrate the attempt
which try to bind a watchdog_ev to a cpu by protecting this func inside
the pair of preempt_disable()/preempt_enable().

-2. hardlockup_detector_event_create() indirectly calls
kmem_cache_alloc_node(), which is blockable.

So here, spelling out the really planned context "is_percpu_thread()".

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Qing <wangqing@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/watchdog_hld.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog_hld.c b/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
index 247bf0b1582c..df010df76576 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
@@ -165,10 +165,13 @@ static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,

static int hardlockup_detector_event_create(void)
{
- unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ unsigned int cpu;
struct perf_event_attr *wd_attr;
struct perf_event *evt;

+ /* This function plans to execute in cpu bound kthread */
+ WARN_ON(!is_percpu_thread());
+ cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
wd_attr = &wd_hw_attr;
wd_attr->sample_period = hw_nmi_get_sample_period(watchdog_thresh);

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2.31.1