For now, soft lockup detector warns once for each case of process softlockup.
But the thread 'watchdog/n' may can not always get cpu at the time slot between
the task switch of two processes hogging that cpu.
This case is a false negative of "warn only once for a process", as there may be
a different process that is going to hog the cpu. Is is better for detector to
be aware of it. 

Signed-off-by: chai wen <chaiw.f...@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 kernel/watchdog.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 4c2e11c..908050c 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, softlockup_touch_sync);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, soft_watchdog_warn);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, soft_lockup_hrtimer_cnt);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(pid_t, softlockup_warn_pid_saved);
 #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, hard_watchdog_warn);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, watchdog_nmi_touch);
@@ -317,6 +318,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct 
hrtimer *hrtimer)
         */
        duration = is_softlockup(touch_ts);
        if (unlikely(duration)) {
+               pid_t pid = task_pid_nr(current);
+
                /*
                 * If a virtual machine is stopped by the host it can look to
                 * the watchdog like a soft lockup, check to see if the host
@@ -326,8 +329,18 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct 
hrtimer *hrtimer)
                        return HRTIMER_RESTART;
 
                /* only warn once */
-               if (__this_cpu_read(soft_watchdog_warn) == true)
+               if (__this_cpu_read(soft_watchdog_warn) == true) {
+                       /*
+                        * soft lockup detector should be aware of that there
+                        * may be a task-swicth of two different processes
+                        * hogging the cpu continously
+                        */
+                       if (__this_cpu_read(softlockup_warn_pid_saved) != pid) {
+                               __this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, false);
+                               __touch_watchdog();
+                       }
                        return HRTIMER_RESTART;
+               }
 
                if (softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace) {
                        /* Prevent multiple soft-lockup reports if one cpu is 
already
@@ -342,7 +355,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct 
hrtimer *hrtimer)
 
                printk(KERN_EMERG "BUG: soft lockup - CPU#%d stuck for %us! 
[%s:%d]\n",
                        smp_processor_id(), duration,
-                       current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
+                       current->comm, pid);
+               __this_cpu_write(softlockup_warn_pid_saved, pid);
                print_modules();
                print_irqtrace_events(current);
                if (regs)
-- 
1.7.1

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