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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-01-19 11:23:39 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-01-19 11:23:39 -0800
commita2c9c1c0352bb16564680dbd1af21bfe56b7f000 (patch)
tree615ac3664378401bf8dfb00612d2c4e087015d0e /kernel
parent6ec8765f55cc3e2d6543dfe64ebfd9b2ff327fa4 (diff)
parent62635ea8c18f0f62df4cc58379e4f1d33afd5801 (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-4.15-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull workqueue fixlet from Tejun Heo: "One patch to add touch_nmi_watchdog() while dumping workqueue debug messages to avoid triggering the lockup detector spuriously. The change is very low risk" * 'for-4.15-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: avoid hard lockups in show_workqueue_state()
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 43d18cb46308..f699122dab32 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
+#include <linux/nmi.h>
#include "workqueue_internal.h"
@@ -4463,6 +4464,12 @@ void show_workqueue_state(void)
if (pwq->nr_active || !list_empty(&pwq->delayed_works))
show_pwq(pwq);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pwq->pool->lock, flags);
+ /*
+ * We could be printing a lot from atomic context, e.g.
+ * sysrq-t -> show_workqueue_state(). Avoid triggering
+ * hard lockup.
+ */
+ touch_nmi_watchdog();
}
}
@@ -4490,6 +4497,12 @@ void show_workqueue_state(void)
pr_cont("\n");
next_pool:
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
+ /*
+ * We could be printing a lot from atomic context, e.g.
+ * sysrq-t -> show_workqueue_state(). Avoid triggering
+ * hard lockup.
+ */
+ touch_nmi_watchdog();
}
rcu_read_unlock_sched();