While migrating timer to new base, there is a need to update base clk by calling forward_timer_base to avoid stale clock , but at the same time if run_timer is exectuing in new core it may set must_forward_clk to false and due to this forward base logic may fail as per below check: if (likely(!base->must_forward_clk)) return; So preventing the same by putting must_forward_clk inside base lock. Signed-off-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c index cc2d23e..675241d 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timer.c +++ b/kernel/time/timer.c @@ -1657,6 +1657,19 @@ static inline void __run_timers(struct timer_base *base) raw_spin_lock_irq(&base->lock); + /* + * must_forward_clk must be cleared before running timers so that any + * timer functions that call mod_timer will not try to forward the + * base. idle trcking / clock forwarding logic is only used with + * BASE_STD timers. + * + * The deferrable base does not do idle tracking at all, so we do + * not forward it. This can result in very large variations in + * granularity for deferrable timers, but they can be deferred for + * long periods due to idle. + */ + base->must_forward_clk = false; + while (time_after_eq(jiffies, base->clk)) { levels = collect_expired_timers(base, heads); @@ -1676,19 +1689,6 @@ static __latent_entropy void run_timer_softirq(struct softirq_action *h) { struct timer_base *base = this_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[BASE_STD]); - /* - * must_forward_clk must be cleared before running timers so that any - * timer functions that call mod_timer will not try to forward the - * base. idle trcking / clock forwarding logic is only used with - * BASE_STD timers. - * - * The deferrable base does not do idle tracking at all, so we do - * not forward it. This can result in very large variations in - * granularity for deferrable timers, but they can be deferred for - * long periods due to idle. - */ - base->must_forward_clk = false; - __run_timers(base); if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON)) __run_timers(this_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[BASE_DEF])); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html