[PATCH v4 01/17] watchdog/perf: Define dummy watchdog_update_hrtimer_threshold() on correct config

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Fri May 5 12:43:49 AEST 2023


On Fri May 5, 2023 at 8:13 AM AEST, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> The real watchdog_update_hrtimer_threshold() is defined in
> watchdog_hardlockup_perf.c. That file is included if

In kernel/watchdog_hld.c.

> CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF and the function is defined in that
> file if CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP.
>
> The dummy version of the function in "nmi.h" didn't get that quite
> right. While this doesn't appear to be a huge deal, it's nice to make
> it consistent.

It doesn't break builds because CHECK_TIMESTAMP is only defined by
x86 so others don't get a double definition, and x86 uses perf lockup
detector, so it gets the out of line version.

So has no functional change but should be fixed.

Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

>
> Fixes: 7edaeb6841df ("kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> ---
>
> Changes in v4:
> - ("Define dummy watchdog_update_hrtimer_threshold() ...") new for v4.
>
>  include/linux/nmi.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/nmi.h b/include/linux/nmi.h
> index 048c0b9aa623..771d77b62bc1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/nmi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/nmi.h
> @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ u64 hw_nmi_get_sample_period(int watchdog_thresh);
>  #endif
>  
>  #if defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP) && \
> -    defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR)
> +    defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF)
>  void watchdog_update_hrtimer_threshold(u64 period);
>  #else
>  static inline void watchdog_update_hrtimer_threshold(u64 period) { }
> -- 
> 2.40.1.521.gf1e218fcd8-goog



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