On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 04:30:56PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Mon 2021-05-17 15:59:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 9bf3bc949f8aeefeacea4b1198db833b722a8e27 ]
> >
> > Commit d6ad3e286d2c ("softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel
> > warning on kgdb resume") introduced touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync().
>
> [...]
>
> > Make the code more straightforward:
> >
> > 1. Always call kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() at the very
> > beginning to handle PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED. It touches the watchdog
> > when the quest did sleep.
> >
> > 2. Handle the situation when the watchdog has been touched
> > (SOFTLOCKUP_DELAY_REPORT is set).
> >
> > Call sched_clock_tick() when touch_*sync() variant was used. It makes
> > sure that the timestamp will be up to date even when it has been
> > touched in atomic context or quest did sleep.
> >
> > As a result, kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() is called on a single
> > location. And the right timestamp is always set when returning from the
> > timer callback.
> >
> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311122130.6788-7-pmladek@xxxxxxxx
>
> Please, remove this patch from the stable backport. It might
> cause false softlockup reports, see
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210517140612.222750-1-senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Now dropped, thanks.
greg k-h
