When CPUs start and stop the watchdog, they manipulate shared data that is normally protected by the lock. Other CPUs can be running concurrently at this time, so it's a good idea to use locking here to be on the safe side.
Remove the barrier which is undocumented and didn't do anything. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c index b84351f359ea..2f6eadd9408d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ static void stop_watchdog_timer_on(unsigned int cpu) static int start_wd_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu) { + unsigned long flags; + if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &wd_cpus_enabled)) { WARN_ON(1); return 0; @@ -314,12 +316,14 @@ static int start_wd_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu) if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &watchdog_cpumask)) return 0; + wd_smp_lock(&flags); cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &wd_cpus_enabled); if (cpumask_weight(&wd_cpus_enabled) == 1) { cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &wd_smp_cpus_pending); wd_smp_last_reset_tb = get_tb(); } - smp_wmb(); + wd_smp_unlock(&flags); + start_watchdog_timer_on(cpu); return 0; @@ -327,12 +331,17 @@ static int start_wd_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu) static int stop_wd_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu) { + unsigned long flags; + if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &wd_cpus_enabled)) return 0; /* Can happen in CPU unplug case */ stop_watchdog_timer_on(cpu); + wd_smp_lock(&flags); cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &wd_cpus_enabled); + wd_smp_unlock(&flags); + wd_smp_clear_cpu_pending(cpu, get_tb()); return 0; -- 2.13.3