[PATCH] watchdog/hardlockup: reassign last_timestamp when enable nmi event

From: Li RongQing
Date: Sat Oct 12 2019 - 06:26:05 EST


last_timestamp is not initialized and is zero after boot, or stop
to forward when nmi watchdog is disabled; and false positives still
is possible when restart NMI timer after stopping 120 seconds

so reassign last_timestamp always when enable nmi event

Fixes: 7edaeb6841df ("kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes")
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/watchdog_hld.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog_hld.c b/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
index 247bf0b1582c..fc3a5c7ccd82 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
@@ -189,6 +189,8 @@ static int hardlockup_detector_event_create(void)
*/
void hardlockup_detector_perf_enable(void)
{
+ ktime_t now = ktime_get_mono_fast_ns();
+
if (hardlockup_detector_event_create())
return;

@@ -196,6 +198,7 @@ void hardlockup_detector_perf_enable(void)
if (!atomic_fetch_inc(&watchdog_cpus))
pr_info("Enabled. Permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.\n");

+ this_cpu_write(last_timestamp, now);
perf_event_enable(this_cpu_read(watchdog_ev));
}

@@ -274,8 +277,12 @@ void __init hardlockup_detector_perf_restart(void)
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
struct perf_event *event = per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu);

- if (event)
+ if (event) {
+ ktime_t now = ktime_get_mono_fast_ns();
+
+ per_cpu(last_timestamp, cpu) = now;
perf_event_enable(event);
+ }
}
}

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2.16.2