This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
watchdog: don't run proc_watchdog_update if new value is same as old
to the 4.5-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:
watchdog-don-t-run-proc_watchdog_update-if-new-value-is-same-as-old.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a1ee1932aa6bea0bb074f5e3ced112664e4637ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Hunt <johunt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:17:23 -0700
Subject: watchdog: don't run proc_watchdog_update if new value is same as old
From: Joshua Hunt <johunt@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit a1ee1932aa6bea0bb074f5e3ced112664e4637ed upstream.
While working on a script to restore all sysctl params before a series of
tests I found that writing any value into the
/proc/sys/kernel/{nmi_watchdog,soft_watchdog,watchdog,watchdog_thresh}
causes them to call proc_watchdog_update().
NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.
NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.
NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.
NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.
There doesn't appear to be a reason for doing this work every time a write
occurs, so only do it when the values change.
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/watchdog.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -923,6 +923,9 @@ static int proc_watchdog_common(int whic
* both lockup detectors are disabled if proc_watchdog_update()
* returns an error.
*/
+ if (old == new)
+ goto out;
+
err = proc_watchdog_update();
}
out:
@@ -967,7 +970,7 @@ int proc_soft_watchdog(struct ctl_table
int proc_watchdog_thresh(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
- int err, old;
+ int err, old, new;
get_online_cpus();
mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
@@ -987,6 +990,10 @@ int proc_watchdog_thresh(struct ctl_tabl
/*
* Update the sample period. Restore on failure.
*/
+ new = ACCESS_ONCE(watchdog_thresh);
+ if (old == new)
+ goto out;
+
set_sample_period();
err = proc_watchdog_update();
if (err) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johunt@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.5/watchdog-don-t-run-proc_watchdog_update-if-new-value-is-same-as-old.patch
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