From fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:01:23 +0200 Subject: NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter() We did not restart the tick device from irq_enter() to avoid double reprogramming and extra events in the return immediate to idle case. But long lasting softirqs can lead to a situation where jiffies become stale: idle() tick stopped (reprogrammed to next pending timer) halt() interrupt jiffies updated from irq_enter() interrupt handler softirq function 1 runs 20ms softirq function 2 arms a 10ms timer with a stale jiffies value jiffies updated from irq_exit() timer wheel has now an already expired timer (the one added in function 2) timer fires and timer softirq runs This was discovered when debugging a timer problem which happend only when the ath5k driver is active. The debugging proved that there is a softirq function running for more than 20ms, which is a bug by itself. To solve this we restart the tick timer right from irq_enter(), but do not go through the other functions which are necessary to return from idle when need_resched() is set. Reported-by: Elias Oltmanns Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Elias Oltmanns --- kernel/time/tick-internal.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-internal.h') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h index 469248782c2..b1c05bf75ee 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h +++ b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ extern void tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot(void); extern void tick_shutdown_broadcast_oneshot(unsigned int *cpup); extern int tick_resume_broadcast_oneshot(struct clock_event_device *bc); extern int tick_broadcast_oneshot_active(void); +extern void tick_check_oneshot_broadcast(int cpu); # else /* BROADCAST */ static inline void tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(struct clock_event_device *bc) { @@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ static inline void tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(unsigned long reason) { } static inline void tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot(void) { } static inline void tick_shutdown_broadcast_oneshot(unsigned int *cpup) { } static inline int tick_broadcast_oneshot_active(void) { return 0; } +static inline void tick_check_oneshot_broadcast(int cpu) { } # endif /* !BROADCAST */ #else /* !ONESHOT */ -- cgit v1.2.3