From 2d13bb6494c807bcf3f78af0e96c0b8615a94385 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Douglas Anderson Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:05:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kernel/debug/debug_core.c: more properly delay for secondary CPUs We've got a delay loop waiting for secondary CPUs. That loop uses loops_per_jiffy. However, loops_per_jiffy doesn't actually mean how many tight loops make up a jiffy on all architectures. It is quite common to see things like this in the boot log: Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 48.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=24000) In my case I was seeing lots of cases where other CPUs timed out entering the debugger only to print their stack crawls shortly after the kdb> prompt was written. Elsewhere in kgdb we already use udelay(), so that should be safe enough to use to implement our timeout. We'll delay 1 ms for 1000 times, which should give us a full second of delay (just like the old code wanted) but allow us to notice that we're done every 1 ms. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplifications, per Daniel] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477091361-2039-1-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson Cc: Jason Wessel Cc: Brian Norris Cc: [4.0+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c index 0874e2edd275..79517e5549f1 100644 --- a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c +++ b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c @@ -598,11 +598,11 @@ return_normal: /* * Wait for the other CPUs to be notified and be waiting for us: */ - time_left = loops_per_jiffy * HZ; + time_left = MSEC_PER_SEC; while (kgdb_do_roundup && --time_left && (atomic_read(&masters_in_kgdb) + atomic_read(&slaves_in_kgdb)) != online_cpus) - cpu_relax(); + udelay(1000); if (!time_left) pr_crit("Timed out waiting for secondary CPUs.\n"); -- 2.30.2