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Petr Mladek 0f90b88dbc watchdog: reliable handling of timestamps 
Commit 9bf3bc949f ("watchdog: cleanup handling of false positives")
tried to handle a virtual host stopped by the host a more
straightforward and cleaner way.

But it introduced a risk of false softlockup reports.  The virtual host
might be stopped at any time, for example between
kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() and is_softlockup().  As a result,
is_softlockup() might read the updated jiffies and detects a softlockup.

A solution might be to put back kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() after
is_softlockup() and detect it.  But it would put back the cycle that
complicates the logic.

In fact, the handling of all the timestamps is not reliable.  The code
does not guarantee when and how many times the timestamps are read.  For
example, "period_ts" might be touched anytime also from NMI and re-read in
is_softlockup().  It works just by chance.

Fix all the problems by making the code even more explicit.

1. Make sure that "now" and "period_ts" timestamps are read only once.
   They might be changed at anytime by NMI or when the virtual guest is
   stopped by the host.  Note that "now" timestamp does this implicitly
   because "jiffies" is marked volatile.

2. "now" time must be read first.  The state of "period_ts" will
   decide whether it will be used or the period will get restarted.

3. kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() must be called before reading
   "period_ts".  It touches the variable when the guest was stopped.

As a result, "now" timestamp is used only when the watchdog was not
touched and the guest not stopped in the meantime.  "period_ts" is
restarted in all other situations.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YKT55gw+RZfyoFf7@alley
Fixes: 9bf3bc949f ("watchdog: cleanup handling of false positives")
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
arch xen: branch for v5.13-rc3 2021-05-22 07:33:09 -10:00
block block-5.13-2021-05-22 2021-05-22 07:40:34 -10:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27 2021-04-28 14:39:37 -07:00
Documentation Devicetree fixes for 5.13, take 2: 2021-05-21 06:24:45 -10:00
drivers block-5.13-2021-05-22 2021-05-22 07:40:34 -10:00
fs block-5.13-2021-05-22 2021-05-22 07:40:34 -10:00
include block-5.13-2021-05-22 2021-05-22 07:40:34 -10:00
init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-05-07 00:34:51 -07:00
ipc ipc/mqueue, msg, sem: avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
kernel watchdog: reliable handling of timestamps 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
lib Char/misc driver fixes for 5.13-rc3 2021-05-20 06:31:52 -10:00
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samples Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
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security trusted-keys: match tpm_get_ops on all return paths 2021-05-12 22:36:37 +03:00
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tools tools/testing/selftests/exec: fix link error 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt kvm: Cap halt polling at kvm->max_halt_poll_ns 2021-05-07 06:06:22 -04:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for 5.13 2021-05-20 14:46:26 -10:00
Makefile Linux 5.13-rc2 2021-05-16 15:27:44 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.