[PATCH 1/3] locking/csd_lock: Print large numbers as negatives

From: neeraj . upadhyay
Date: Sat Jul 13 2024 - 13:02:24 EST


From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

The CSD-lock-hold diagnostics from CONFIG_CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG are
printed in nanoseconds as unsigned long longs, which is a bit obtuse for
human readers when timing bugs result in negative CSD-lock hold times.
Yes, there are some people to whom it is immediately obvious that
18446744073709551615 is really -1, but for the rest of us...

Therefore, print these numbers as signed long longs, making the negative
hold times immediately apparent.

Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Leonardo Bras <leobras@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/smp.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index f085ebcdf9e7..81f7083a53e2 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ static bool csd_lock_wait_toolong(call_single_data_t *csd, u64 ts0, u64 *ts1, in
cpu_cur_csd = smp_load_acquire(&per_cpu(cur_csd, cpux)); /* Before func and info. */
/* How long since this CSD lock was stuck. */
ts_delta = ts2 - ts0;
- pr_alert("csd: %s non-responsive CSD lock (#%d) on CPU#%d, waiting %llu ns for CPU#%02d %pS(%ps).\n",
- firsttime ? "Detected" : "Continued", *bug_id, raw_smp_processor_id(), ts_delta,
+ pr_alert("csd: %s non-responsive CSD lock (#%d) on CPU#%d, waiting %lld ns for CPU#%02d %pS(%ps).\n",
+ firsttime ? "Detected" : "Continued", *bug_id, raw_smp_processor_id(), (s64)ts_delta,
cpu, csd->func, csd->info);
/*
* If the CSD lock is still stuck after 5 minutes, it is unlikely
--
2.40.1