[PATCH 2/5] powerpc/watchdog: do not backtrace locked CPUs twice if allcpus backtrace is enabled

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 18:27:03 AEST 2017


If sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace is enabled, there is no need to
IPI stuck CPUs for backtrace before trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace(),
which does the same thing again.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
index 532a1adbe89b..920e61c79f47 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -133,15 +133,18 @@ static void watchdog_smp_panic(int cpu, u64 tb)
 	pr_emerg("Watchdog CPU:%d detected Hard LOCKUP other CPUS:%*pbl\n",
 			cpu, cpumask_pr_args(&wd_smp_cpus_pending));
 
-	/*
-	 * Try to trigger the stuck CPUs.
-	 */
-	for_each_cpu(c, &wd_smp_cpus_pending) {
-		if (c == cpu)
-			continue;
-		smp_send_nmi_ipi(c, wd_lockup_ipi, 1000000);
+	if (!sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace) {
+		/*
+		 * Try to trigger the stuck CPUs, unless we are going to
+		 * get a backtrace on all of them anyway.
+		 */
+		for_each_cpu(c, &wd_smp_cpus_pending) {
+			if (c == cpu)
+				continue;
+			smp_send_nmi_ipi(c, wd_lockup_ipi, 1000000);
+		}
+		smp_flush_nmi_ipi(1000000);
 	}
-	smp_flush_nmi_ipi(1000000);
 
 	/* Take the stuck CPUs out of the watch group */
 	set_cpumask_stuck(&wd_smp_cpus_pending, tb);
-- 
2.13.3



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