Commit 40e97e42 authored by Paul Gortmaker's avatar Paul Gortmaker Committed by Thomas Gleixner

tick/nohz: Use WARN_ON_ONCE() to prevent console saturation

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: 08ae95f4 ("nohz_full: Allow the boot CPU to be nohz_full")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211206145950.10927-3-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
parent c54bc0fc
......@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static void tick_sched_do_timer(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
*/
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;
}
......
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