Patch "hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context

to the 3.10-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:
     hrtimers-move-smp-function-call-to-thread-context.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 5ec2481b7b47a4005bb446d176e5d0257400c77d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 12:09:18 +0200
Subject: hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 5ec2481b7b47a4005bb446d176e5d0257400c77d upstream.

smp_call_function_* must not be called from softirq context.

But clock_was_set() which calls on_each_cpu() is called from softirq
context to implement a delayed clock_was_set() for the timer interrupt
handler. Though that almost never gets invoked. A recent change in the
resume code uses the softirq based delayed clock_was_set to support
Xens resume mechanism.

linux-next contains a new warning which warns if smp_call_function_*
is called from softirq context which gets triggered by that Xen
change.

Fix this by moving the delayed clock_was_set() call to a work context.

Reported-and-tested-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>,
Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 kernel/hrtimer.c |   28 +++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -721,17 +721,20 @@ static int hrtimer_switch_to_hres(void)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+static void clock_was_set_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	clock_was_set();
+}
+
+static DECLARE_WORK(hrtimer_work, clock_was_set_work);
+
 /*
- * Called from timekeeping code to reprogramm the hrtimer interrupt
- * device. If called from the timer interrupt context we defer it to
- * softirq context.
+ * Called from timekeeping and resume code to reprogramm the hrtimer
+ * interrupt device on all cpus.
  */
 void clock_was_set_delayed(void)
 {
-	struct hrtimer_cpu_base *cpu_base = &__get_cpu_var(hrtimer_bases);
-
-	cpu_base->clock_was_set = 1;
-	__raise_softirq_irqoff(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ);
+	schedule_work(&hrtimer_work);
 }
 
 #else
@@ -780,8 +783,10 @@ void hrtimers_resume(void)
 	WARN_ONCE(!irqs_disabled(),
 		  KERN_INFO "hrtimers_resume() called with IRQs enabled!");
 
+	/* Retrigger on the local CPU */
 	retrigger_next_event(NULL);
-	timerfd_clock_was_set();
+	/* And schedule a retrigger for all others */
+	clock_was_set_delayed();
 }
 
 static inline void timer_stats_hrtimer_set_start_info(struct hrtimer *timer)
@@ -1432,13 +1437,6 @@ void hrtimer_peek_ahead_timers(void)
 
 static void run_hrtimer_softirq(struct softirq_action *h)
 {
-	struct hrtimer_cpu_base *cpu_base = &__get_cpu_var(hrtimer_bases);
-
-	if (cpu_base->clock_was_set) {
-		cpu_base->clock_was_set = 0;
-		clock_was_set();
-	}
-
 	hrtimer_peek_ahead_timers();
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.10/hrtimers-move-smp-function-call-to-thread-context.patch
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