The patch titled highres: do not run the TIMER_SOFTIRQ after switching to highres mode has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was highres-do-not-run-the-timer_softirq-after-switching-to-highres-mode.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: highres: do not run the TIMER_SOFTIRQ after switching to highres mode From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The TIMER_SOFTIRQ runs the hrtimers during bootup until a usable clocksource and clock event sources are registered. The switch to high resolution mode happens inside of the TIMER_SOFTIRQ, but runs the softirq afterwards. That way the tick emulation timer, which was set up in the switch to highres might be executed in the softirq context, which is a BUG. The rbtree has not to be touched by the softirq after the highres switch. This BUG was observed by Andres Salomon, who provided the information to debug it. Return early from the softirq, when the switch was sucessful. [dilinger@xxxxxxxxxx: add debug warning] [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: make debug warning compile] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/hrtimer.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/hrtimer.c~highres-do-not-run-the-timer_softirq-after-switching-to-highres-mode kernel/hrtimer.c --- a/kernel/hrtimer.c~highres-do-not-run-the-timer_softirq-after-switching-to-highres-mode +++ a/kernel/hrtimer.c @@ -540,19 +540,19 @@ static inline int hrtimer_enqueue_reprog /* * Switch to high resolution mode */ -static void hrtimer_switch_to_hres(void) +static int hrtimer_switch_to_hres(void) { struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base = &__get_cpu_var(hrtimer_bases); unsigned long flags; if (base->hres_active) - return; + return 1; local_irq_save(flags); if (tick_init_highres()) { local_irq_restore(flags); - return; + return 0; } base->hres_active = 1; base->clock_base[CLOCK_REALTIME].resolution = KTIME_HIGH_RES; @@ -565,13 +565,14 @@ static void hrtimer_switch_to_hres(void) local_irq_restore(flags); printk(KERN_INFO "Switched to high resolution mode on CPU %d\n", smp_processor_id()); + return 1; } #else static inline int hrtimer_hres_active(void) { return 0; } static inline int hrtimer_is_hres_enabled(void) { return 0; } -static inline void hrtimer_switch_to_hres(void) { } +static inline int hrtimer_switch_to_hres(void) { return 0; } static inline void hrtimer_force_reprogram(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base) { } static inline int hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram(struct hrtimer *timer, struct hrtimer_clock_base *base) @@ -1130,6 +1131,9 @@ static inline void run_hrtimer_queue(str if (base->softirq_time.tv64 <= timer->expires.tv64) break; +#ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS + WARN_ON_ONCE(timer->cb_mode == HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ); +#endif timer_stats_account_hrtimer(timer); fn = timer->function; @@ -1173,7 +1177,8 @@ void hrtimer_run_queues(void) * deadlock vs. xtime_lock. */ if (tick_check_oneshot_change(!hrtimer_is_hres_enabled())) - hrtimer_switch_to_hres(); + if (hrtimer_switch_to_hres()) + return; hrtimer_get_softirq_time(cpu_base); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch paravirt-build-fixes.patch scheduled-removal-of-sa_xxx-interrupt-flags-fixups-4.patch git-ieee1394.patch log-reason-why-tsc-was-marked-unstable.patch optimize-timespec_trunc.patch sched-fix-idle-load-balancing-in-softirqd-context.patch sched-dynticks-idle-load-balancing-v3.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html