linux-stable/kernel/time
Jon Hunter 98962465ed nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle
The dynamic tick allows the kernel to sleep for periods longer than a
single tick, but it does not limit the sleep time currently. In the
worst case the kernel could sleep longer than the wrap around time of
the time keeping clock source which would result in losing track of
time.

Prevent this by limiting it to the safe maximum sleep time of the
current time keeping clock source. The value is calculated when the
clock source is registered.

[ tglx: simplified the code a bit and massaged the commit msg ]

Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-2-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-11-13 20:46:24 +01:00
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clockevents.c clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock 2009-08-19 18:15:10 +02:00
clocksource.c nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle 2009-11-13 20:46:24 +01:00
jiffies.c clocksource: Cleanup clocksource selection 2009-08-15 10:55:46 +02:00
Kconfig Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructs 2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Makefile time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universal use 2009-09-24 07:20:56 -07:00
ntp.c timekeeping: Introduce timekeeping_leap_insert 2009-08-15 10:55:45 +02:00
tick-broadcast.c clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock 2009-08-19 18:15:10 +02:00
tick-common.c clockevents: prevent endless loop in tick_handle_periodic() 2009-05-02 10:22:27 +02:00
tick-internal.h NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter() 2008-10-17 18:13:38 +02:00
tick-oneshot.c clocksource: prevent selection of low resolution clocksourse also for nohz=on 2009-06-13 12:00:26 +02:00
tick-sched.c nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle 2009-11-13 20:46:24 +01:00
timecompare.c timecompare: generic infrastructure to map between two time bases 2009-02-15 22:43:32 -08:00
timeconv.c time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universal use 2009-09-24 07:20:56 -07:00
timekeeping.c nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle 2009-11-13 20:46:24 +01:00
timer_list.c clockevents: Use u32 for mult and shift factors 2009-11-13 20:46:23 +01:00
timer_stats.c const: constify remaining file_operations 2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00