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diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 51556b95f60f..f4fc867f467d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -221,6 +221,18 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void)
ts->tick_stopped = 1;
ts->idle_jiffies = last_jiffies;
}
+
+ /*
+ * If this cpu is the one which updates jiffies, then
+ * give up the assignment and let it be taken by the
+ * cpu which runs the tick timer next, which might be
+ * this cpu as well. If we don't drop this here the
+ * jiffies might be stale and do_timer() never
+ * invoked.
+ */
+ if (cpu == tick_do_timer_cpu)
+ tick_do_timer_cpu = -1;
+
/*
* calculate the expiry time for the next timer wheel
* timer
@@ -338,12 +350,24 @@ static void tick_nohz_handler(struct clock_event_device *dev)
{
struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched);
struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
+ int cpu = smp_processor_id();
ktime_t now = ktime_get();
dev->next_event.tv64 = KTIME_MAX;
+ /*
+ * Check if the do_timer duty was dropped. We don't care about
+ * concurrency: This happens only when the cpu in charge went
+ * into a long sleep. If two cpus happen to assign themself to
+ * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by
+ * xtime_lock.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == -1))
+ tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu;
+
/* Check, if the jiffies need an update */
- tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
+ if (tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu)
+ tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
/*
* When we are idle and the tick is stopped, we have to touch
@@ -431,9 +455,23 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base = timer->base->cpu_base;
struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
ktime_t now = ktime_get();
+ int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
+ /*
+ * Check if the do_timer duty was dropped. We don't care about
+ * concurrency: This happens only when the cpu in charge went
+ * into a long sleep. If two cpus happen to assign themself to
+ * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by
+ * xtime_lock.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == -1))
+ tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu;
+#endif
/* Check, if the jiffies need an update */
- tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
+ if (tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu)
+ tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
/*
* Do not call, when we are not in irq context and have