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When at least one CPU runs in nohz_full mode, a dedicated timekeeper CPU is guaranteed to stay online and to never stop its tick. Meanwhile on some rare case, the dedicated timekeeper may be running with interrupts disabled for a while, such as in stop_machine. If jiffies stop being updated, a nohz_full CPU may end up endlessly programming the next tick in the past, taking the last jiffies update monotonic timestamp as a stale base, resulting in an tick storm. Here is a scenario where it matters: 0) CPU 0 is the timekeeper and CPU 1 a nohz_full CPU. 1) A stop machine callback is queued to execute somewhere. 2) CPU 0 reaches MULTI_STOP_DISABLE_IRQ while CPU 1 is still in MULTI_STOP_PREPARE. Hence CPU 0 can't do its timekeeping duty. CPU 1 can still take IRQs. 3) CPU 1 receives an IRQ which queues a timer callback one jiffy forward. 4) On IRQ exit, CPU 1 schedules the tick one jiffy forward, taking last_jiffies_update as a base. But last_jiffies_update hasn't been updated for 2 jiffies since the timekeeper has interrupts disabled. 5) clockevents_program_event(), which relies on ktime_get(), observes that the expiration is in the past and therefore programs the min delta event on the clock. 6) The tick fires immediately, goto 3) 7) Tick storm, the nohz_full CPU is drown and takes ages to reach MULTI_STOP_DISABLE_IRQ, which is the only way out of this situation. Solve this with unconditionally updating jiffies if the value is stale on nohz_full IRQ entry. IRQs and other disturbances are expected to be rare enough on nohz_full for the unconditional call to ktime_get() to actually matter. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026141055.57358-2-frederic@kernel.org |
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| alarmtimer.c | ||
| clockevents.c | ||
| clocksource-wdtest.c | ||
| clocksource.c | ||
| hrtimer.c | ||
| itimer.c | ||
| jiffies.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| namespace.c | ||
| ntp.c | ||
| ntp_internal.h | ||
| posix-clock.c | ||
| posix-cpu-timers.c | ||
| posix-stubs.c | ||
| posix-timers.c | ||
| posix-timers.h | ||
| sched_clock.c | ||
| test_udelay.c | ||
| tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c | ||
| tick-broadcast.c | ||
| tick-common.c | ||
| tick-internal.h | ||
| tick-legacy.c | ||
| tick-oneshot.c | ||
| tick-sched.c | ||
| tick-sched.h | ||
| time.c | ||
| time_test.c | ||
| timeconst.bc | ||
| timeconv.c | ||
| timecounter.c | ||
| timekeeping.c | ||
| timekeeping.h | ||
| timekeeping_debug.c | ||
| timekeeping_internal.h | ||
| timer.c | ||
| timer_list.c | ||
| vsyscall.c | ||