linux-stable/arch
Suresh Siddha f833bab87f clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock
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 <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250544899.2709.210.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-19 18:15:10 +02:00
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alpha mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
arm USB: musb: fix the nop registration for OMAP3EVM 2009-08-07 16:05:13 -07:00
avr32 mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
blackfin blackfin: fix wrong CTS inversion 2009-07-20 16:38:44 -07:00
cris mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
frv mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
h8300 sched: INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT 2009-07-10 14:24:05 -07:00
ia64 arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic: missing test after ioremap() 2009-08-11 14:52:11 -07:00
m32r mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
m68k mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
m68knommu Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats 2009-07-08 10:30:03 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze 2009-07-27 12:18:27 -07:00
mips MIPS: Wire up accept4 syscall. 2009-08-03 17:52:50 +01:00
mn10300 MN10300: includecheck fix: mn10300, pci.h 2009-08-10 08:54:27 -07:00
parisc parisc: Set correct bit in protection flags 2009-08-02 12:36:05 +02:00
powerpc Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-08-10 11:48:51 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2009-08-09 14:58:21 -07:00
sh sh: fix i2c init order on ap325rxa V2 2009-08-13 11:43:43 +09:00
sparc mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
um mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
x86 clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock 2009-08-19 18:15:10 +02:00
xtensa mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure 2009-06-18 13:03:57 -07:00