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-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-common.c8
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-internal.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-sched.c42
3 files changed, 48 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
index bfda3f7f0716..a96ec9ab3454 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tick_device, tick_cpu_device);
*/
ktime_t tick_next_period;
ktime_t tick_period;
-static int tick_do_timer_cpu = -1;
+int tick_do_timer_cpu __read_mostly = -1;
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(tick_device_lock);
/*
@@ -295,6 +295,12 @@ static void tick_shutdown(unsigned int *cpup)
clockevents_exchange_device(dev, NULL);
td->evtdev = NULL;
}
+ /* Transfer the do_timer job away from this cpu */
+ if (*cpup == tick_do_timer_cpu) {
+ int cpu = first_cpu(cpu_online_map);
+
+ tick_do_timer_cpu = (cpu != NR_CPUS) ? cpu : -1;
+ }
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_device_lock, flags);
}
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
index c9d203bde518..bb13f2724905 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct tick_device, tick_cpu_device);
extern spinlock_t tick_device_lock;
extern ktime_t tick_next_period;
extern ktime_t tick_period;
+extern int tick_do_timer_cpu __read_mostly;
extern void tick_setup_periodic(struct clock_event_device *dev, int broadcast);
extern void tick_handle_periodic(struct clock_event_device *dev);
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