This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled clockevents: Set dummy handler on CPU_DEAD shutdown to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: clockevents-set-dummy-handler-on-cpu_dead-shutdown.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6f7a05d7018de222e40ca003721037a530979974 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:45:53 +0200 Subject: clockevents: Set dummy handler on CPU_DEAD shutdown From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6f7a05d7018de222e40ca003721037a530979974 upstream. Vitaliy reported that a per cpu HPET timer interrupt crashes the system during hibernation. What happens is that the per cpu HPET timer gets shut down when the nonboot cpus are stopped. When the nonboot cpus are onlined again the HPET code sets up the MSI interrupt which fires before the clock event device is registered. The event handler is still set to hrtimer_interrupt, which then crashes the machine due to highres mode not being active. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700333 There is no real good way to avoid that in the HPET code. The HPET code alrady has a mechanism to detect spurious interrupts when event handler == NULL for a similar reason. We can handle that in the clockevent/tick layer and replace the previous functional handler with a dummy handler like we do in tick_setup_new_device(). The original clockevents code did this in clockevents_exchange_device(), but that got removed by commit 7c1e76897 (clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop) which forgot to fix it up in tick_shutdown(). Same issue with the broadcast device. Reported-by: Vitaliy Fillipov <vitalif@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: 700333@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 4 ++++ kernel/time/tick-common.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ static void tick_broadcast_start_periodi */ int tick_check_broadcast_device(struct clock_event_device *dev) { + struct clock_event_device *cur = tick_broadcast_device.evtdev; + if ((dev->features & CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY) || (tick_broadcast_device.evtdev && tick_broadcast_device.evtdev->rating >= dev->rating) || @@ -73,6 +75,8 @@ int tick_check_broadcast_device(struct c return 0; clockevents_exchange_device(tick_broadcast_device.evtdev, dev); + if (cur) + cur->event_handler = clockevents_handle_noop; tick_broadcast_device.evtdev = dev; if (!cpumask_empty(tick_get_broadcast_mask())) tick_broadcast_start_periodic(dev); --- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c @@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ static void tick_shutdown(unsigned int * */ dev->mode = CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED; clockevents_exchange_device(dev, NULL); + dev->event_handler = clockevents_handle_noop; td->evtdev = NULL; } raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_device_lock, flags); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/clockevents-set-dummy-handler-on-cpu_dead-shutdown.patch queue-3.4/drivers-rtc-rtc-cmos.c-don-t-disable-hpet-emulation-on-suspend.patch queue-3.4/hrtimer-add-expiry-time-overflow-check-in-hrtimer_interrupt.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html