On Wednesday 18 April 2012 09:01 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: >> On Wednesday 18 April 2012 06:49 PM, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:37 PM, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner >>> <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Commit-ID: b435092f70ec5ebbfb6d075d5bf3c631b49a51de >>>> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/b435092f70ec5ebbfb6d075d5bf3c631b49a51de >>>> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> AuthorDate: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:08:23 +0200 >>>> Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> CommitDate: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:00:56 +0200 >>>> >>>> tick: Fix oneshot broadcast setup really >>>> >>>> Sven Joachim reported, that suspend/resume on rc3 trips over a NULL >>>> pointer dereference. Linus spotted the clockevent handler being NULL. >>>> >>>> commit fa4da365b(clockevents: tTack broadcast device mode change in >>>> tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot()) tried to fix a problem with the >>>> broadcast device setup, which was introduced in commit 77b0d60c5( >>>> clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not >>>> needed). >>>> >>>> The initial commit avoided to set up the broadcast device when no >>>> broadcast request bits were set, but that left the broadcast device >>>> disfunctional. In consequence deep idle states which need the >>>> broadcast device were not woken up. >>>> >>>> commit fa4da365b tried to fix that by initializing the state of the >>>> broadcast facility, but that missed the fact, that nothing initializes >>>> the event handler and some other state of the underlying clock event >>>> device. >>>> >>>> The fix is to revert both commits and make only the mode setting of >>>> the clock event device conditional on the state of active broadcast >>>> users. >>>> >>>> That initializes everything except the low level device mode, but this >>>> happens when the broadcast functionality is invoked by deep idle. >>>> >>>> Reported-and-tested-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx> >>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> >>>> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> >>>> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1204181205540.2542@ionos >>>> >>>> --- >>>> kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 7 +------ >>>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c >>>> index bf57abd..119aca5 100644 >>>> --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c >>>> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c >>>> @@ -531,7 +531,6 @@ void tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(struct clock_event_device *bc) >>>> int was_periodic = bc->mode == CLOCK_EVT_MODE_PERIODIC; >>>> >>>> bc->event_handler = tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast; >>>> - clockevents_set_mode(bc, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT); >>>> >>>> /* Take the do_timer update */ >>>> tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu; >>>> @@ -549,6 +548,7 @@ void tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(struct clock_event_device *bc) >>>> to_cpumask(tmpmask)); >>>> >>>> if (was_periodic && !cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(tmpmask))) { >>>> + clockevents_set_mode(bc, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT); >> >> For some reason above if() check fails in my case, so broadcast device >> never set to ONESHOT mode. That explains the problem I am seeing on >> OMAP with the $subject patch. At this point of time bc->mode is >> CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED. > > Darn, crap. I wonder how that works on x86 > > diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c > index bf57abd..e8f5479 100644 > --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c > +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c > @@ -373,6 +373,9 @@ static int tick_broadcast_set_event(ktime_t expires, int force) > { > struct clock_event_device *bc = tick_broadcast_device.evtdev; > > + if (bc->mode != CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT) > + clockevents_set_mode(bc, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT); > + > return clockevents_program_event(bc, expires, force); > } > Appending above change to $subject patch makes things work nicely again. Regards Santosh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html