From e2c631ba75a7e727e8db0a9d30a06bfd434adb3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 10:41:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] clocksource: Revert "Remove kthread" I turns out that the silly spawn kthread from worker was actually needed. clocksource_watchdog_kthread() cannot be called directly from clocksource_watchdog_work(), because clocksource_select() calls timekeeping_notify() which uses stop_machine(). One cannot use stop_machine() from a workqueue() due lock inversions wrt CPU hotplug. Revert the patch but add a comment that explain why we jump through such apparently silly hoops. Fixes: 7197e77abcb6 ("clocksource: Remove kthread") Reported-by: Siegfried Metz Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Niklas Cassel Tested-by: Kevin Shanahan Tested-by: viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de Tested-by: Siegfried Metz Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Cc: len.brown@intel.com Cc: diego.viola@gmail.com Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com Cc: bjorn.andersson@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180905084158.GR24124@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net --- kernel/time/clocksource.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c index f74fb00d8064..0e6e97a01942 100644 --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -133,19 +133,40 @@ static void inline clocksource_watchdog_unlock(unsigned long *flags) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&watchdog_lock, *flags); } +static int clocksource_watchdog_kthread(void *data); +static void __clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating); + /* * Interval: 0.5sec Threshold: 0.0625s */ #define WATCHDOG_INTERVAL (HZ >> 1) #define WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD (NSEC_PER_SEC >> 4) +static void clocksource_watchdog_work(struct work_struct *work) +{ + /* + * We cannot directly run clocksource_watchdog_kthread() here, because + * clocksource_select() calls timekeeping_notify() which uses + * stop_machine(). One cannot use stop_machine() from a workqueue() due + * lock inversions wrt CPU hotplug. + * + * Also, we only ever run this work once or twice during the lifetime + * of the kernel, so there is no point in creating a more permanent + * kthread for this. + * + * If kthread_run fails the next watchdog scan over the + * watchdog_list will find the unstable clock again. + */ + kthread_run(clocksource_watchdog_kthread, NULL, "kwatchdog"); +} + static void __clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs) { cs->flags &= ~(CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES | CLOCK_SOURCE_WATCHDOG); cs->flags |= CLOCK_SOURCE_UNSTABLE; /* - * If the clocksource is registered clocksource_watchdog_work() will + * If the clocksource is registered clocksource_watchdog_kthread() will * re-rate and re-select. */ if (list_empty(&cs->list)) { @@ -156,7 +177,7 @@ static void __clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs) if (cs->mark_unstable) cs->mark_unstable(cs); - /* kick clocksource_watchdog_work() */ + /* kick clocksource_watchdog_kthread() */ if (finished_booting) schedule_work(&watchdog_work); } @@ -166,7 +187,7 @@ static void __clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs) * @cs: clocksource to be marked unstable * * This function is called by the x86 TSC code to mark clocksources as unstable; - * it defers demotion and re-selection to a work. + * it defers demotion and re-selection to a kthread. */ void clocksource_mark_unstable(struct clocksource *cs) { @@ -391,9 +412,7 @@ static void clocksource_dequeue_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs) } } -static void __clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating); - -static int __clocksource_watchdog_work(void) +static int __clocksource_watchdog_kthread(void) { struct clocksource *cs, *tmp; unsigned long flags; @@ -418,12 +437,13 @@ static int __clocksource_watchdog_work(void) return select; } -static void clocksource_watchdog_work(struct work_struct *work) +static int clocksource_watchdog_kthread(void *data) { mutex_lock(&clocksource_mutex); - if (__clocksource_watchdog_work()) + if (__clocksource_watchdog_kthread()) clocksource_select(); mutex_unlock(&clocksource_mutex); + return 0; } static bool clocksource_is_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs) @@ -442,7 +462,7 @@ static void clocksource_enqueue_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs) static void clocksource_select_watchdog(bool fallback) { } static inline void clocksource_dequeue_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs) { } static inline void clocksource_resume_watchdog(void) { } -static inline int __clocksource_watchdog_work(void) { return 0; } +static inline int __clocksource_watchdog_kthread(void) { return 0; } static bool clocksource_is_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs) { return false; } void clocksource_mark_unstable(struct clocksource *cs) { } @@ -810,7 +830,7 @@ static int __init clocksource_done_booting(void) /* * Run the watchdog first to eliminate unstable clock sources */ - __clocksource_watchdog_work(); + __clocksource_watchdog_kthread(); clocksource_select(); mutex_unlock(&clocksource_mutex); return 0; -- 2.11.0