[PATCH 6/6] powerpc/watchdog: add locking around init/exit functions

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Wed Aug 9 22:41:26 AEST 2017


When CPUs start and stop the watchdog, they manipulate shared data
that is normally protected by the lock. Other CPUs can be running
concurrently at this time, so it's a good idea to use locking here
to be on the safe side.

Remove the barrier which is undocumented and didn't do anything.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
index b84351f359ea..2f6eadd9408d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ static void stop_watchdog_timer_on(unsigned int cpu)
 
 static int start_wd_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
+
 	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &wd_cpus_enabled)) {
 		WARN_ON(1);
 		return 0;
@@ -314,12 +316,14 @@ static int start_wd_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &watchdog_cpumask))
 		return 0;
 
+	wd_smp_lock(&flags);
 	cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &wd_cpus_enabled);
 	if (cpumask_weight(&wd_cpus_enabled) == 1) {
 		cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &wd_smp_cpus_pending);
 		wd_smp_last_reset_tb = get_tb();
 	}
-	smp_wmb();
+	wd_smp_unlock(&flags);
+
 	start_watchdog_timer_on(cpu);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -327,12 +331,17 @@ static int start_wd_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 
 static int stop_wd_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
+
 	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &wd_cpus_enabled))
 		return 0; /* Can happen in CPU unplug case */
 
 	stop_watchdog_timer_on(cpu);
 
+	wd_smp_lock(&flags);
 	cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &wd_cpus_enabled);
+	wd_smp_unlock(&flags);
+
 	wd_smp_clear_cpu_pending(cpu, get_tb());
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.13.3



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