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-rw-r--r--kernel/softirq.c13
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c8
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.h2
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index b5197dcb0dad..3d6833f125d3 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -195,8 +195,12 @@ void local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip);
/*
- * We restart softirq processing for at most 2 ms,
- * and if need_resched() is not set.
+ * We restart softirq processing for at most MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART times,
+ * but break the loop if need_resched() is set or after 2 ms.
+ * The MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME provides a nice upper bound in most cases, but in
+ * certain cases, such as stop_machine(), jiffies may cease to
+ * increment and so we need the MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART limit as
+ * well to make sure we eventually return from this method.
*
* These limits have been established via experimentation.
* The two things to balance is latency against fairness -
@@ -204,6 +208,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip);
* should not be able to lock up the box.
*/
#define MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME msecs_to_jiffies(2)
+#define MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART 10
asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
{
@@ -212,6 +217,7 @@ asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
unsigned long end = jiffies + MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME;
int cpu;
unsigned long old_flags = current->flags;
+ int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART;
/*
* Mask out PF_MEMALLOC s current task context is borrowed for the
@@ -265,7 +271,8 @@ restart:
pending = local_softirq_pending();
if (pending) {
- if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched())
+ if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched() &&
+ --max_restart)
goto restart;
wakeup_softirqd();
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 1a41023a1f88..e71a8be4a6ee 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -652,8 +652,6 @@ static struct {
ARCH_TRACE_CLOCKS
};
-int trace_clock_id;
-
/*
* trace_parser_get_init - gets the buffer for trace parser
*/
@@ -2826,7 +2824,7 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool snapshot)
iter->iter_flags |= TRACE_FILE_ANNOTATE;
/* Output in nanoseconds only if we are using a clock in nanoseconds. */
- if (trace_clocks[trace_clock_id].in_ns)
+ if (trace_clocks[tr->clock_id].in_ns)
iter->iter_flags |= TRACE_FILE_TIME_IN_NS;
/* stop the trace while dumping if we are not opening "snapshot" */
@@ -3825,7 +3823,7 @@ static int tracing_open_pipe(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
iter->iter_flags |= TRACE_FILE_LAT_FMT;
/* Output in nanoseconds only if we are using a clock in nanoseconds. */
- if (trace_clocks[trace_clock_id].in_ns)
+ if (trace_clocks[tr->clock_id].in_ns)
iter->iter_flags |= TRACE_FILE_TIME_IN_NS;
iter->cpu_file = tc->cpu;
@@ -5095,7 +5093,7 @@ tracing_stats_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
cnt = ring_buffer_bytes_cpu(trace_buf->buffer, cpu);
trace_seq_printf(s, "bytes: %ld\n", cnt);
- if (trace_clocks[trace_clock_id].in_ns) {
+ if (trace_clocks[tr->clock_id].in_ns) {
/* local or global for trace_clock */
t = ns2usecs(ring_buffer_oldest_event_ts(trace_buf->buffer, cpu));
usec_rem = do_div(t, USEC_PER_SEC);
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 711ca7d3e7f1..20572ed88c5c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -700,8 +700,6 @@ enum print_line_t print_trace_line(struct trace_iterator *iter);
extern unsigned long trace_flags;
-extern int trace_clock_id;
-
/* Standard output formatting function used for function return traces */
#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER