The patch titled Subject: watchdog: Fix a watchdog crash in some configurations has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was watchdog-add-watchdog_cpumask-sysctl-to-assist-nohz-fix-3.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into watchdog-add-watchdog_cpumask-sysctl-to-assist-nohz.patch ------------------------------------------------------ From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: watchdog: Fix a watchdog crash in some configurations Commit <8fcf2cc768acd845c> in linux-next introduced a regression in some configurations. Specifically, with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL set, and CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL *not* set, the kernel will crash in lockup_detector_init(), due to a NULL tick_nohz_full_mask pointer. This is because the above commit uses tick_nohz_full_mask (in lockup_detector_init), if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is set, but tick_nohz_full_mask only gets allocated if either: a) CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL is set, or b) Someone passes in nohz_full=<any_value> on the boot args line. To correct this, change lockup_detector_init so that it does a runtime check in addition to the ifdef check. This fix is simpler than my original proposed fix, thanks to Chris Metcalf for that. Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/watchdog.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/watchdog.c~watchdog-add-watchdog_cpumask-sysctl-to-assist-nohz-fix-3 kernel/watchdog.c --- a/kernel/watchdog.c~watchdog-add-watchdog_cpumask-sysctl-to-assist-nohz-fix-3 +++ a/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -931,10 +931,13 @@ void __init lockup_detector_init(void) set_sample_period(); #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL - if (!cpumask_empty(tick_nohz_full_mask)) - pr_info("Disabling watchdog on nohz_full cores by default\n"); - cpumask_andnot(&watchdog_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask, - tick_nohz_full_mask); + if (tick_nohz_full_enabled()) { + if (!cpumask_empty(tick_nohz_full_mask)) + pr_info("Disabling watchdog on nohz_full cores by default\n"); + cpumask_andnot(&watchdog_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask, + tick_nohz_full_mask); + } else + cpumask_copy(&watchdog_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask); #else cpumask_copy(&watchdog_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask); #endif _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx are watchdog-add-watchdog_cpumask-sysctl-to-assist-nohz.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html