user/sven/linux.git/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c, branch v3.0.63

tick-broadcast: Stop active broadcast device when replacing it

2011-12-09T16:52:48Z

commit c1be84309c58b1e7c6d626e28fba41a22b364c3d upstream. When a better rated broadcast device is installed, then the current active device is not disabled, which results in two running broadcast devices. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'timers/urgent' into timers/core

2011-05-20T18:08:05Z

Reason: Get upstream fixes and kfree_rcu which is necessary for a follow up patch. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

tick: Clear broadcast active bit when switching to oneshot

2011-05-16T21:35:41Z

The first cpu which switches from periodic to oneshot mode switches also the broadcast device into oneshot mode. The broadcast device serves as a backup for per cpu timers which stop in deeper C-states. To avoid starvation of the cpus which might be in idle and depend on broadcast mode it marks the other cpus as broadcast active and sets the brodcast expiry value of those cpus to the next tick. The oneshot mode broadcast bit for the other cpus is sticky and gets only cleared when those cpus exit idle. If a cpu was not idle while the bit got set in consequence the bit prevents that the broadcast device is armed on behalf of that cpu when it enters idle for the first time after it switched to oneshot mode. In most cases that goes unnoticed as one of the other cpus has usually a timer pending which keeps the broadcast device armed with a short timeout. Now if the only cpu which has a short timer active has the bit set then the broadcast device will not be armed on behalf of that cpu and will fire way after the expected timer expiry. In the case of Christians bug report it took ~145 seconds which is about half of the wrap around time of HPET (the limit for that device) due to the fact that all other cpus had no timers armed which expired before the 145 seconds timeframe. The solution is simply to clear the broadcast active bit unconditionally when a cpu switches to oneshot mode after the first cpu switched the broadcast device over. It's not idle at that point otherwise it would not be executing that code. [ I fundamentally hate that broadcast crap. Why the heck thought some folks that when going into deep idle it's a brilliant concept to switch off the last device which brings the cpu back from that state? ] Thanks to Christian for providing all the valuable debug information! Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Hoffmann Cc: John Stultz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Calpine.LFD.2.02.1105161105170.3078%40ionos%3E Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

clockevents: Move C3 stop test outside lock

2011-05-05T15:32:13Z

Avoid taking broadcast_lock in the idle path for systems where the timer doesn't stop in C3. [ tglx: Removed the stale label and added comment ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tim Chen Cc: lenb@kernel.org Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110504234806.GF2925%40one.firstfloor.org%3E Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-03-16T01:53:35Z

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (62 commits) posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls hrtimer: Remove empty hrtimer_init_hres_timer() hrtimer: Update hrtimer->state documentation hrtimer: Update base[CLOCK_BOOTTIME].offset correctly timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more then 2 clockids ntp: Remove redundant and incorrect parameter check mn10300: Switch do_timer() to xtimer_update() posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks posix-timers: Cleanup namespace posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86 posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning. time: Splitout compat timex accessors ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset posix-timer: Update comment ... Fix up new system-call-related conflicts in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S (name_to_handle_at()/open_by_handle_at() vs clock_adjtime()), and some due to movement of get_jiffies_64() in: kernel/time.c

clockevents: Prevent oneshot mode when broadcast device is periodic

2011-02-26T08:45:28Z

When the per cpu timer is marked CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP, then we only can switch into oneshot mode, when the backup broadcast device supports oneshot mode as well. Otherwise we would try to switch the broadcast device into an unsupported mode unconditionally. This went unnoticed so far as the current available broadcast devices support oneshot mode. Seth unearthed this problem while debugging and working around an hpet related BIOS wreckage. Add the necessary check to tick_is_oneshot_available(). Reported-and-tested-by: Seth Forshee Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner LKML-Reference: Cc: stable@kernel.org # .21 ->

time: Make do_timer() and xtime_lock local to kernel/time/

2011-01-31T18:26:50Z

All callers of do_timer() are converted to xtime_update(). The only users of xtime_lock are in kernel/time/. Make both local to kernel/time/ and remove them from the global header files. [ tglx: Reuse tick-internal.h instead of creating another local header file. Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com Cc: hch@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

fix comment/printk typos concerning "already"

2010-07-11T19:45:40Z

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

clockevents: Convert to raw_spinlock

2009-12-14T22:55:34Z

Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Ingo Molnar

clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock

2009-08-19T16:15:10Z

Currently clockevents_notify() is called with interrupts enabled at some places and interrupts disabled at some other places. This results in a deadlock in this scenario. cpu A holds clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs enabled cpu B waits for clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs disabled cpu C doing set_mtrr() which will try to rendezvous of all the cpus. This will result in C and A come to the rendezvous point and waiting for B. B is stuck forever waiting for the spinlock and thus not reaching the rendezvous point. Fix the clockevents code so that clockevents_lock is taken with interrupts disabled and thus avoid the above deadlock. Also call lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast() on the destination cpu so that we avoid calling smp_call_function() in the clockevents notifier chain. This issue left us wondering if we need to change the MTRR rendezvous logic to use stop machine logic (instead of smp_call_function) or add a check in spinlock debug code to see if there are other spinlocks which gets taken under both interrupts enabled/disabled conditions. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" Cc: "Brown Len" LKML-Reference: <1250544899.2709.210.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner