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 3.4-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:
hrtimers-move-smp-function-call-to-thread-context.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 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
@@ -707,17 +707,20 @@ 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
@@ -766,8 +769,10 @@ 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)
@@ -1416,13 +1421,6 @@ 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-3.4/hrtimers-move-smp-function-call-to-thread-context.patch
queue-3.4/tick-prevent-uncontrolled-switch-to-oneshot-mode.patch
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