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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2008-10-21 20:17:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2008-10-21 20:53:24 +0200 |
| commit | c4bd822e7b12a9008241d76db45b665f2fef180c (patch) | |
| tree | bd4b7b4e2e7db065c971eb264196f02e0b01ecff /kernel/time | |
| parent | binfmt_elf_fdpic: Update for cputime changes. (diff) | |
| download | linux-c4bd822e7b12a9008241d76db45b665f2fef180c.tar.xz linux-c4bd822e7b12a9008241d76db45b665f2fef180c.zip | |
NOHZ: fix thinko in the timer restart code path
commit fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208 (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter())
solves the problem of stale jiffies when long running softirqs happen
in a long idle sleep period, but it has a major thinko in it:
When the interrupt which came in _is_ the timer interrupt which should
expire ts->sched_timer then we cancel and rearm the timer _before_ it
gets expired in hrtimer_interrupt() to the next period. That means the
call back function is not called. This game can go on for ever :(
Prevent this by making sure to only rearm the timer when the expiry
time is more than one tick_period away. Otherwise keep it running as
it is either already expired or will expiry at the right point to
update jiffies.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Venkatesch Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 0581c11fe6c6..727c1ae0517a 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -567,11 +567,21 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void) static void tick_nohz_kick_tick(int cpu) { struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu); + ktime_t delta, now; if (!ts->tick_stopped) return; - tick_nohz_restart(ts, ktime_get()); + /* + * Do not touch the tick device, when the next expiry is either + * already reached or less/equal than the tick period. + */ + now = ktime_get(); + delta = ktime_sub(ts->sched_timer.expires, now); + if (delta.tv64 <= tick_period.tv64) + return; + + tick_nohz_restart(ts, now); } #else |