Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next-fixes

Backmerging to bring drm-misc-next-fixes up to the latest state for
the current release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 6bffe5af8cb1..17a283ce2b20 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -1375,6 +1375,13 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_irq_enter(void)
 	now = ktime_get();
 	if (ts->idle_active)
 		tick_nohz_stop_idle(ts, now);
+	/*
+	 * If all CPUs are idle. We may need to update a stale jiffies value.
+	 * Note nohz_full is a special case: a timekeeper is guaranteed to stay
+	 * alive but it might be busy looping with interrupts disabled in some
+	 * rare case (typically stop machine). So we must make sure we have a
+	 * last resort.
+	 */
 	if (ts->tick_stopped)
 		tick_nohz_update_jiffies(now);
 }