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Frederic Weisbecker 7bdb59f1ad tick/nohz: Fix possible missing clock reprog after tick soft restart
ts->next_tick keeps track of the next tick deadline in order to optimize
clock programmation on irq exit and avoid redundant clock device writes.

Now if ts->next_tick missed an update, we may spuriously miss a clock
reprog later as the nohz code is fooled by an obsolete next_tick value.

This is what happens here on a specific path: when we observe an
expired timer from the nohz update code on irq exit, we perform a soft
tick restart which simply fires the closest possible tick without
actually exiting the nohz mode and restoring a periodic state. But we
forget to update ts->next_tick accordingly.

As a result, after the next tick resulting from such soft tick restart,
the nohz code sees a stale value on ts->next_tick which doesn't match
the clock deadline that just expired. If that obsolete ts->next_tick
value happens to collide with the actual next tick deadline to be
scheduled, we may spuriously bypass the clock reprogramming. In the
worst case, the tick may never fire again.

Fix this with a ts->next_tick reset on soft tick restart.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486485894-29173-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-02-10 09:43:48 +01:00
arch Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2017-02-09 11:30:56 -08:00
block block: don't try Write Same from __blkdev_issue_zeroout 2017-02-06 09:34:46 -07:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: algif_aead - Fix kernel panic on list_del 2017-02-03 17:45:48 +08:00
Documentation media fixes for v4.10-rc8 2017-02-06 14:37:55 -08:00
drivers i915, vc4 and vmwgfx fix. 2017-02-09 17:46:30 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs pstore: don't OOPS when there are no ftrace zones 2017-02-09 11:49:49 -08:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2017-02-09 13:22:54 -08:00
init kbuild: modversions: add infrastructure for emitting relative CRCs 2017-02-03 08:28:25 -08:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel tick/nohz: Fix possible missing clock reprog after tick soft restart 2017-02-10 09:43:48 +01:00
lib mm: do not export ioremap_page_range symbol for external module 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
mm mm/slub.c: fix random_seq offset destruction 2017-02-08 15:41:43 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-02-07 12:10:57 -08:00
samples bpf: fix samples xdp_tx_iptunnel and tc_l2_redirect with fake KBUILD_MODNAME 2017-01-20 12:04:07 -05:00
scripts kbuild: modversions: add infrastructure for emitting relative CRCs 2017-02-03 08:28:25 -08:00
security selinux: fix off-by-one in setprocattr 2017-02-08 19:09:53 +11:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.10 2017-01-11 19:49:27 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-02 12:54:45 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for 4.10-rc4 2017-01-17 15:04:59 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap mailmap: add codeaurora.org names for nameless email commits 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
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CREDITS CREDITS: Remove outdated address information 2016-12-21 15:21:29 -08:00
Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for v4.10 2017-02-08 10:01:39 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.10-rc7 2017-02-05 15:10:58 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.