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Date:   Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:09:03 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Cc:     mingo@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dvyukov@google.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kernel/trace: fix watchdog soft lockup
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:13:34 +0100
Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> wrote:

> When building a allmodconfig kernel for arm64 and boot that in qemu,
> CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST gets enabled and that takes time so the
> watchdog expires and prints out a message like this:
> 'watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]'
> Each time the function ftrace_replace_code gets called it stays in that
> functions loop for 41424 times.
> Rework so that function cond_resched() gets called in the
> ftrace_replace_code loop.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> index 5b4f73e4fd56..3f456921dedf 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> @@ -2426,6 +2426,10 @@ void __weak ftrace_replace_code(int enable)
>  
>  	do_for_each_ftrace_rec(pg, rec) {
>  
> +		/* This loop can take minutes when sanitizers are enabled, so
> +		 * lets make sure we allow RCU processing.
> +		 */
> +		cond_resched();
>  		if (rec->flags & FTRACE_FL_DISABLED)
>  			continue;
>  

NACK.  On some architectures this code is run from stop machine. We
can't call cond_resched() because it may be called with interrupts
disabled.

This is a weak function. If arm64 has special needs, just copy it in
the arm64 code.

-- Steve