This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/tau: Convert from timer to workqueue to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-tau-convert-from-timer-to-workqueue.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a8a2537533a479ab3f1bc79daf758054da0e0b9e Author: Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Sep 5 09:02:20 2020 +1000 powerpc/tau: Convert from timer to workqueue [ Upstream commit b1c6a0a10bfaf36ec82fde6f621da72407fa60a1 ] Since commit 19dbdcb8039cf ("smp: Warn on function calls from softirq context") the Thermal Assist Unit driver causes a warning like the following when CONFIG_SMP is enabled. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/smp.c:428 smp_call_function_many_cond+0xf4/0x38c Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.7.0-pmac #3 NIP: c00b37a8 LR: c00b3abc CTR: c001218c REGS: c0799c60 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.7.0-pmac) MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 42000224 XER: 00000000 GPR00: c00b3abc c0799d18 c076e300 c079ef5c c0011fec 00000000 00000000 00000000 GPR08: 00000100 00000100 00008000 ffffffff 42000224 00000000 c079d040 c079d044 GPR16: 00000001 00000000 00000004 c0799da0 c079f054 c07a0000 c07a0000 00000000 GPR24: c0011fec 00000000 c079ef5c c079ef5c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 NIP [c00b37a8] smp_call_function_many_cond+0xf4/0x38c LR [c00b3abc] on_each_cpu+0x38/0x68 Call Trace: [c0799d18] [ffffffff] 0xffffffff (unreliable) [c0799d68] [c00b3abc] on_each_cpu+0x38/0x68 [c0799d88] [c0096704] call_timer_fn.isra.26+0x20/0x7c [c0799d98] [c0096b40] run_timer_softirq+0x1d4/0x3fc [c0799df8] [c05b4368] __do_softirq+0x118/0x240 [c0799e58] [c0039c44] irq_exit+0xc4/0xcc [c0799e68] [c000ade8] timer_interrupt+0x1b0/0x230 [c0799ea8] [c0013520] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14 --- interrupt: 901 at arch_cpu_idle+0x24/0x6c LR = arch_cpu_idle+0x24/0x6c [c0799f70] [00000001] 0x1 (unreliable) [c0799f80] [c0060990] do_idle+0xd8/0x17c [c0799fa0] [c0060ba8] cpu_startup_entry+0x24/0x28 [c0799fb0] [c072d220] start_kernel+0x434/0x44c [c0799ff0] [00003860] 0x3860 Instruction dump: 8129f204 2f890000 40beff98 3d20c07a 8929eec4 2f890000 40beff88 0fe00000 81220000 552805de 550802ef 4182ff84 <0fe00000> 3860ffff 7f65db78 7f44d378 ---[ end trace 34a886e47819c2eb ]--- Don't call on_each_cpu() from a timer callback, call it from a worker thread instead. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f41 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Tested-by: Stan Johnson <userm57@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bb61650bea4f4c91fb8e24b9a6f130a1438651a7.1599260540.git.fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/tau_6xx.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/tau_6xx.c index 976d5bc1b5176..268205cc347da 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/tau_6xx.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/tau_6xx.c @@ -13,13 +13,14 @@ */ #include <linux/errno.h> -#include <linux/jiffies.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/param.h> #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/mm.h> #include <linux/interrupt.h> #include <linux/init.h> +#include <linux/delay.h> +#include <linux/workqueue.h> #include <asm/io.h> #include <asm/reg.h> @@ -39,8 +40,6 @@ static struct tau_temp unsigned char grew; } tau[NR_CPUS]; -struct timer_list tau_timer; - #undef DEBUG /* TODO: put these in a /proc interface, with some sanity checks, and maybe @@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ struct timer_list tau_timer; #define step_size 2 /* step size when temp goes out of range */ #define window_expand 1 /* expand the window by this much */ /* configurable values for shrinking the window */ -#define shrink_timer 2*HZ /* period between shrinking the window */ +#define shrink_timer 2000 /* period between shrinking the window */ #define min_window 2 /* minimum window size, degrees C */ static void set_thresholds(unsigned long cpu) @@ -187,14 +186,18 @@ static void tau_timeout(void * info) local_irq_restore(flags); } -static void tau_timeout_smp(struct timer_list *unused) -{ +static struct workqueue_struct *tau_workq; - /* schedule ourselves to be run again */ - mod_timer(&tau_timer, jiffies + shrink_timer) ; +static void tau_work_func(struct work_struct *work) +{ + msleep(shrink_timer); on_each_cpu(tau_timeout, NULL, 0); + /* schedule ourselves to be run again */ + queue_work(tau_workq, work); } +DECLARE_WORK(tau_work, tau_work_func); + /* * setup the TAU * @@ -227,21 +230,16 @@ static int __init TAU_init(void) return 1; } - - /* first, set up the window shrinking timer */ - timer_setup(&tau_timer, tau_timeout_smp, 0); - tau_timer.expires = jiffies + shrink_timer; - add_timer(&tau_timer); + tau_workq = alloc_workqueue("tau", WQ_UNBOUND, 1, 0); + if (!tau_workq) + return -ENOMEM; on_each_cpu(TAU_init_smp, NULL, 0); - printk("Thermal assist unit "); -#ifdef CONFIG_TAU_INT - printk("using interrupts, "); -#else - printk("using timers, "); -#endif - printk("shrink_timer: %d jiffies\n", shrink_timer); + queue_work(tau_workq, &tau_work); + + pr_info("Thermal assist unit using %s, shrink_timer: %d ms\n", + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TAU_INT) ? "interrupts" : "workqueue", shrink_timer); tau_initialized = 1; return 0;