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nohz: Fix stale jiffies update in tick_nohz_restart() 

Fix tick_nohz_restart() to not use a stale ktime_t "now" value when
calling tick_do_update_jiffies64(now).

If we reach this point in the loop it means that we crossed a tick
boundary since we grabbed the "now" timestamp, so at this point "now"
refers to a time in the old jiffy, so using the old value for "now" is
incorrect, and is likely to give us a stale jiffies value.

In particular, the first time through the loop the
tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) call is always a no-op, since the
caller, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(), will have already called
tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) with that "now" value.

Note that tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() already uses the correct
approach: when we notice we cross a jiffy boundary, grab a new
timestamp with ktime_get(), and *then* update jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332875377-23014-1-git-send-email-ncardwell@google.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Neal Cardwell 2012-03-27 15:09:37 -04:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 3872c48b14
commit 6f103929f8
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -534,9 +534,9 @@ static void tick_nohz_restart(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
hrtimer_get_expires(&ts->sched_timer), 0))
break;
}
/* Update jiffies and reread time */
tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
/* Reread time and update jiffies */
now = ktime_get();
tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
}
}