This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hrtimer: Prevent all reprogramming if hang detected
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:
hrtimer-prevent-all-reprogramming-if-hang-detected.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 6c6c0d5a1c949d2e084706f9e5fb1fccc175b265 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:55:02 -0500
Subject: hrtimer: Prevent all reprogramming if hang detected
From: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 6c6c0d5a1c949d2e084706f9e5fb1fccc175b265 upstream.
If the last hrtimer interrupt detected a hang it sets hang_detected=1
and programs the clock event device with a delay to let the system
make progress.
If hang_detected == 1, we prevent reprogramming of the clock event
device in hrtimer_reprogram() but not in hrtimer_force_reprogram().
This can lead to the following situation:
hrtimer_interrupt()
hang_detected = 1;
program ce device to Xms from now (hang delay)
We have two timers pending:
T1 expires 50ms from now
T2 expires 5s from now
Now T1 gets canceled, which causes hrtimer_force_reprogram() to be
invoked, which in turn programs the clock event device to T2 (5
seconds from now).
Any hrtimer_start after that will not reprogram the hardware due to
hang_detected still being set. So we effectivly block all timers until
the T2 event fires and cleans up the hang situation.
Add a check for hang_detected to hrtimer_force_reprogram() which
prevents the reprogramming of the hang delay in the hardware
timer. The subsequent hrtimer_interrupt will resolve all outstanding
issues.
[ tglx: Rewrote subject and changelog and fixed up the comment in
hrtimer_force_reprogram() ]
Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53602DC6.2060101@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/hrtimer.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -580,6 +580,23 @@ hrtimer_force_reprogram(struct hrtimer_c
cpu_base->expires_next.tv64 = expires_next.tv64;
+ /*
+ * If a hang was detected in the last timer interrupt then we
+ * leave the hang delay active in the hardware. We want the
+ * system to make progress. That also prevents the following
+ * scenario:
+ * T1 expires 50ms from now
+ * T2 expires 5s from now
+ *
+ * T1 is removed, so this code is called and would reprogram
+ * the hardware to 5s from now. Any hrtimer_start after that
+ * will not reprogram the hardware due to hang_detected being
+ * set. So we'd effectivly block all timers until the T2 event
+ * fires.
+ */
+ if (cpu_base->hang_detected)
+ return;
+
if (cpu_base->expires_next.tv64 != KTIME_MAX)
tick_program_event(cpu_base->expires_next, 1);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stuart.w.hayes@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/hrtimer-prevent-all-reprogramming-if-hang-detected.patch
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