From 8aeee85a29e27e043db582bf2ae8e5f42767934f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:42:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] panic: fix panic_timeout accuracy when running on a hypervisor I've had some complaints about panic_timeout being wildly innacurate on shared processor PowerPC partitions (a 3 minute panic_timeout taking 30 minutes). The problem is we loop on mdelay(1) and with a 1ms in 10ms hypervisor timeslice each of these will take 10ms (ie 10x) longer. I expect other platforms with shared processor hypervisors will see the same issue. This patch keeps the old behaviour if we have a panic_blink (only keyboard LEDs right now) and does 1 second mdelays if we don't. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/panic.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index c787333..13d966b 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -36,15 +36,36 @@ ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(panic_notifier_list); EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_notifier_list); -static long no_blink(long time) -{ - return 0; -} - /* Returns how long it waited in ms */ long (*panic_blink)(long time); EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_blink); +static void panic_blink_one_second(void) +{ + static long i = 0, end; + + if (panic_blink) { + end = i + MSEC_PER_SEC; + + while (i < end) { + i += panic_blink(i); + mdelay(1); + i++; + } + } else { + /* + * When running under a hypervisor a small mdelay may get + * rounded up to the hypervisor timeslice. For example, with + * a 1ms in 10ms hypervisor timeslice we might inflate a + * mdelay(1) loop by 10x. + * + * If we have nothing to blink, spin on 1 second calls to + * mdelay to avoid this. + */ + mdelay(MSEC_PER_SEC); + } +} + /** * panic - halt the system * @fmt: The text string to print @@ -95,9 +116,6 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...) bust_spinlocks(0); - if (!panic_blink) - panic_blink = no_blink; - if (panic_timeout > 0) { /* * Delay timeout seconds before rebooting the machine. @@ -105,11 +123,9 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...) */ printk(KERN_EMERG "Rebooting in %d seconds..", panic_timeout); - for (i = 0; i < panic_timeout*1000; ) { + for (i = 0; i < panic_timeout; i++) { touch_nmi_watchdog(); - i += panic_blink(i); - mdelay(1); - i++; + panic_blink_one_second(); } /* * This will not be a clean reboot, with everything @@ -135,11 +151,9 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...) } #endif local_irq_enable(); - for (i = 0; ; ) { + while (1) { touch_softlockup_watchdog(); - i += panic_blink(i); - mdelay(1); - i++; + panic_blink_one_second(); } } -- 1.8.2.3