Commit 1a7f829f authored by Li Zhong's avatar Li Zhong Committed by Ingo Molnar

nohz: Fix notifier return val that enforce timekeeping

In tick_nohz_cpu_down_callback() if the cpu is the one handling
timekeeping, we must return something that stops the CPU_DOWN_PREPARE
notifiers and then start notify CPU_DOWN_FAILED on the already called
notifier call backs.

However traditional errno values are not handled by the notifier unless
these are encapsulated using errno_to_notifier().

Hence the current -EINVAL is misinterpreted and converted to junk after
notifier_to_errno(), leaving the notifier subsystem to random behaviour
such as eventually allowing the cpu to go down.

Fix this by using the standard NOTIFY_BAD instead.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 521921ba
......@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static int __cpuinit tick_nohz_cpu_down_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
* we can't safely shutdown that CPU.
*/
if (have_nohz_full_mask && tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu)
return -EINVAL;
return NOTIFY_BAD;
break;
}
return NOTIFY_OK;
......
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