3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a5fd9733a30d18d7ac23f17080e7e07bb3205b69 upstream. commit 4dbd27711cd9 "tick: export nohz tick idle symbols for module use" was merged via the thermal tree without an explicit ack from the relevant maintainers. The exports are abused by the intel powerclamp driver which implements a fake idle state from a sched FIFO task. This causes all kinds of wreckage in the NOHZ core code which rightfully assumes that tick_nohz_idle_enter/exit() are only called from the idle task itself. Recent changes in the NOHZ core lead to a failure of the powerclamp driver and now people try to hack completely broken and backwards workarounds into the NOHZ core code. This is completely unacceptable and just papers over the real problem. There are way more subtle issues lurking around the corner. The real solution is to fix the powerclamp driver by rewriting it with a sane concept, but that's beyond the scope of this. So the only solution for now is to remove the calls into the core NOHZ code from the powerclamp trainwreck along with the exports. Fixes: d6d71ee4a14a "PM: Introduce Intel PowerClamp Driver" Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pan Jacob jun <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: LKP <lkp@xxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412181110110.17382@nanos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c | 2 -- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 -- 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c +++ b/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c @@ -435,7 +435,6 @@ static int clamp_thread(void *arg) * allowed. thus jiffies are updated properly. */ preempt_disable(); - tick_nohz_idle_enter(); /* mwait until target jiffies is reached */ while (time_before(jiffies, target_jiffies)) { unsigned long ecx = 1; @@ -451,7 +450,6 @@ static int clamp_thread(void *arg) start_critical_timings(); atomic_inc(&idle_wakeup_counter); } - tick_nohz_idle_exit(); preempt_enable(); } del_timer_sync(&wakeup_timer); --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -847,7 +847,6 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void) local_irq_enable(); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_idle_enter); /** * tick_nohz_irq_exit - update next tick event from interrupt exit @@ -974,7 +973,6 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void) local_irq_enable(); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_idle_exit); static int tick_nohz_reprogram(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now) { -- 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