From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 40e97e42961f8c6cc7bd5fe67cc18417e02d78f1 upstream. While running some testing on code that happened to allow the variable tick_nohz_full_running to get set but with no "possible" NOHZ cores to back up that setting, this warning triggered: if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE)) WARN_ON(tick_nohz_full_running); The console was overwhemled with an endless stream of one WARN per tick per core and there was no way to even see what was going on w/o using a serial console to capture it and then trace it back to this. Change it to WARN_ON_ONCE(). Fixes: 08ae95f4fd3b ("nohz_full: Allow the boot CPU to be nohz_full") Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211206145950.10927-3-paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static void tick_sched_do_timer(struct t */ if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE)) { #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL - WARN_ON(tick_nohz_full_running); + WARN_ON_ONCE(tick_nohz_full_running); #endif tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu; }