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| author | Joshua Hunt <johunt@akamai.com> | 2016-03-17 14:17:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -0700 |
| commit | a1ee1932aa6bea0bb074f5e3ced112664e4637ed (patch) | |
| tree | 8a46aa47c4861e0efac06787c5b9189cbbff6d9f /kernel/watchdog.c | |
| parent | 4c11e554fb894b381a3dc47069259d87a2e6ffc9 (diff) | |
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watchdog: don't run proc_watchdog_update if new value is same as old
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@akamai.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.1.x+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/watchdog.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/watchdog.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index b3ace6ebbba3..9acb29f280ec 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -923,6 +923,9 @@ static int proc_watchdog_common(int which, struct ctl_table *table, int write, * 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 *table, int write, 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_table *table, int write, /* * 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) { |