The expiry function compares the timer against current time and does
not expire the timer when the expiry time is >= now. That's wrong. If
the timer is set for now, then it must expire.
Make the condition expiry > now for breaking out the loop.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clockevents: Set noop handler in clockevents_exchange_device()
tick-broadcast: Stop active broadcast device when replacing it
clocksource: Fix bug with max_deferment margin calculation
rtc: Fix some bugs that allowed accumulating time drift in suspend/resume
rtc: Disable the alarm in the hardware
If a device is shutdown, then there might be a pending interrupt,
which will be processed after we reenable interrupts, which causes the
original handler to be run. If the old handler is the (broadcast)
periodic handler the shutdown state might hang the kernel completely.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
When a better rated broadcast device is installed, then the current
active device is not disabled, which results in two running broadcast
devices.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
In order to leave a margin of 12.5% we should >> 3 not >> 5.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Honggang (Joseph) <eagle.rtlinux@gmail.com>
[jstultz: Modified commit subject]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
hrtimer: Fix extra wakeups from __remove_hrtimer()
timekeeping: add arch_offset hook to ktime_get functions
clocksource: Avoid selecting mult values that might overflow when adjusted
time: Improve documentation of timekeeeping_adjust()
ktime_get and ktime_get_ts were calling timekeeping_get_ns()
but later they were not calling arch_gettimeoffset() so architectures
using this mechanism returned 0 ns when calling these functions.
This happened for example when running Busybox's ping which calls
syscall(__NR_clock_gettime, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ts) which eventually
calls ktime_get. As a result the returned ping travel time was zero.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
For some frequencies, the clocks_calc_mult_shift() function will
unfortunately select mult values very close to 0xffffffff. This
has the potential to overflow when NTP adjusts the clock, adding
to the mult value.
This patch adds a clocksource.maxadj value, which provides
an approximation of an 11% adjustment(NTP limits adjustments to
500ppm and the tick adjustment is limited to 10%), which could
be made to the clocksource.mult value. This is then used to both
check that the current mult value won't overflow/underflow, as
well as warning us if the timekeeping_adjust() code pushes over
that 11% boundary.
v2: Fix max_adjustment calculation, and improve WARN_ONCE
messages.
v3: Don't warn before maxadj has actually been set
CC: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
CC: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>
CC: zhangfx <zhangfx@lemote.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>
Reported-by: zhangfx <zhangfx@lemote.com>
Tested-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
These files were getting <linux/module.h> via an implicit non-obvious
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason. Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
After getting a number of questions in private emails about the
math around admittedly very complex timekeeping_adjust() and
timekeeping_big_adjust(), I figure the code needs some better
comments.
Hopefully the explanations are clear enough and don't muddy the
water any worse.
Still needs documentation for ntp_error, but I couldn't recall
exactly the full explanation behind the code that's there
(although I do recall once working it out when Roman first
proposed it). Given a bit more time I can probably work it out,
but I don't want to hold back this documentation until then.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1319764362-32367-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
time, s390: Get rid of compile warning
dw_apb_timer: constify clocksource name
time: Cleanup old CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME references that snuck in
time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type to unsigned long
alarmtimers: Fix error handling
clocksource: Make watchdog reset lockless
posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities
s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device
clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function
clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable
nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messages
proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times
nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional
nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting
cputime: Clean up cputime_to_usecs and usecs_to_cputime macros
alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interface
alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionality
alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state tracking
alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structure
alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hack
...
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
rcu: Move propagation of ->completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
...
RCU no longer uses this global variable, nor does anyone else. This
commit therefore removes this variable. This reduces memory footprint
and also removes some atomic instructions and memory barriers from
the dyntick-idle path.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
commit 8bc0daf (alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class
interface) did not implement required error checks. Add them.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The table_lock lock can be taken in atomic context and therefore
cannot be preempted on -rt - annotate it.
In mainline this change documents the low level nature of
the lock - otherwise there's no functional difference. Lockdep
and Sparse checking will work as usual.
Reported-by: Andreas Sundebo <kernel@sundebo.dk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Andreas Sundebo <kernel@sundebo.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
KGDB needs to trylock watchdog_lock when trying to reset the
clocksource watchdog after the system has been stopped to avoid a
potential deadlock. When the trylock fails TSC usually becomes
unstable.
We can be more clever by using an atomic counter and checking it in
the clocksource_watchdog callback. We restart the watchdog whenever
the counter is > 0 and only decrement the counter when we ran through
a full update cycle.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1109121326280.2723@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
There is at least one architecture (s390) with a sane clockevent device
that can be programmed with the equivalent of a ktime. No need to create
a delta against the current time, the ktime can be used directly.
A new clock device function 'set_next_ktime' is introduced that is called
with the unmodified ktime for the timer if the clock event device has the
CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME bit set.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.815350967@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The automatic increase of the min_delta_ns of a clockevents device
should be done in the clockevents code as the minimum delay is an
attribute of the clockevents device.
In addition not all architectures want the automatic adjustment, on a
massively virtualized system it can happen that the programming of a
clock event fails several times in a row because the virtual cpu has
been rescheduled quickly enough. In that case the minimum delay will
erroneously be increased with no way back. The new config symbol
GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST is used to enable the automatic
adjustment. The config option is selected only for x86.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.494157493@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When performing cpu hotplug tests the kernel printk log buffer gets flooded
with pointless "Switched to NOHz mode..." messages. Especially when afterwards
analyzing a dump this might have removed more interesting stuff out of the
buffer.
Assuming that switching to NOHz mode simply works just remove the printk.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823112046.GB2540@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us update idle/iowait counters
unconditionally if the given CPU is in the idle loop.
This doesn't work well outside of CPU governors which are singletons
so nobody (except for IRQ) can race with them.
We will need to use both functions from /proc/stat handler to properly
handle nohz idle/iowait times.
Make the update depend on a non NULL last_update_time argument.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/11f23179472635ce52e78921d47a20216b872f23.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
update_ts_time_stat currently updates idle time even if we are in
iowait loop at the moment. The only real users of the idle counter
(via get_cpu_idle_time_us) are CPU governors and they expect to get
cumulative time for both idle and iowait times.
The value (idle_sleeptime) is also printed to userspace by print_cpu
but it prints both idle and iowait times so the idle part is misleading.
Let's clean this up and fix update_ts_time_stat to account both counters
properly and update consumers of idle to consider iowait time as well.
If we do this we might use get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us from other
contexts as well and we will get expected values.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9c909c221a8da402c4da07e4cd968c3218f8eb1.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This allows cleaner detection of the RTC device being registered, rather
then probing any time someone calls alarmtimer_get_rtcdev.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
There's a number of edge cases when cancelling a alarm, so
to be sure we accurately do so, introduce try_to_cancel, which
returns proper failure errors if it cannot. Also modify cancel
to spin until the alarm is properly disabled.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
In order to allow for functionality like try_to_cancel, add
more refined state tracking (similar to hrtimers).
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Now that periodic alarmtimers are managed by the handler function,
remove the period value from the alarm structure and let the handlers
manage the interval on their own.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Now that the alarmtimers code has been refactored, the interval
cap limit can be removed.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
In order to avoid wasting time expiring and re-adding very high freq
periodic alarmtimers, introduce alarm_forward() which is similar to
hrtimer_forward and moves the timer to the next future expiration time
and returns the number of overruns.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
This patch pushes the periodic alarmtimer re-arming down into the alarmtimer
handler, mimicking how hrtimers handle this.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
In order to properly fix the denial of service issue with high freq
periodic alarm timers, we need to push the re-arming logic into the
alarm timer handler, much as the hrtimer code does.
This patch introduces alarmtimer_restart enum and changes the
alarmtimer handler declarations to use it as a return value. Further,
to ease following changes, it extends the alarmtimer handler functions
to also take the time at expiration. No logic is yet modified.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Its possible to jam up the alarm timers by setting very small interval
timers, which will cause the alarmtimer subsystem to spend all of its time
firing and restarting timers. This can effectivly lock up a box.
A deeper fix is needed, closely mimicking the hrtimer code, but for now
just cap the interval to 100us to avoid userland hanging the system.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Following common_timer_get, zero out the itimerspec passed in.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
We don't check if old_setting is non null before assigning it, so
correct this.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Terribly embarassing. Don't know how I committed this, but its
KERN_WARNING not KERN_WARN.
This fixes the following compile error:
kernel/time/timekeeping.c: In function ‘__timekeeping_inject_sleeptime’:
kernel/time/timekeeping.c:608: error: ‘KERN_WARN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/time/timekeeping.c:608: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/time/timekeeping.c:608: error: for each function it appears in.)
kernel/time/timekeeping.c:608: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
make[2]: *** [kernel/time/timekeeping.o] Error 1
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Because the read_persistent_clock interface is usually backed by
only a second granular interface, each time we read from the persistent
clock for suspend/resume, we introduce a half second (on average) of error.
In order to avoid this error accumulating as the system is suspended
over and over, this patch measures the time delta between the persistent
clock and the system CLOCK_REALTIME.
If the delta is less then 2 seconds from the last suspend, we compensate
by using the previous time delta (keeping it close). If it is larger
then 2 seconds, we assume the clock was set or has been changed, so we
do no correction and update the delta.
Note: If NTP is running, ths could seem to "fight" with the NTP corrected
time, where as if the system time was off by 1 second, and NTP slewed the
value in, a suspend/resume cycle could undo this correction, by trying to
restore the previous offset from the persistent clock. However, without
this patch, since each read could cause almost a full second worth of
error, its possible to get almost 2 seconds of error just from the
suspend/resume cycle alone, so this about equal to any offset added by
the compensation.
Further on systems that suspend/resume frequently, this should keep time
closer then NTP could compensate for if the errors were allowed to
accumulate.
Credits to Arve Hjønnevåg for suggesting this solution.
CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Arve suggested making sure we catch possible negative sleep time
intervals that could be passed into timekeeping_inject_sleeptime.
CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Toralf Förster and Richard Weinberger noted that if there is
no RTC device, the alarm timers core prints out an annoying
"ALARM timers will not wake from suspend" message.
This warning has been removed in a previous patch, however
the issue still remains: The original idea was to support
alarm timers even if there was no rtc device, as long as the
system didn't go into suspend.
However, after further consideration, communicating to the application
that alarmtimers are not fully functional seems like the better
solution.
So this patch makes it so we return -ENOTSUPP to any posix _ALARM
clockid calls if there is no backing RTC device on the system.
Further this changes the behavior where when there is no rtc device
we will check for one on clock_getres, clock_gettime, timer_create,
and timer_nsleep instead of on suspend.
CC: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
CC: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Reported by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
The alarmtimers code currently picks a rtc device to use at
late init time. However, if your rtc driver is loaded as a module,
it may be registered after the alarmtimers late init code, leaving
the alarmtimers nonfunctional.
This patch moves the the rtcdevice selection to when we actually try
to use it, allowing us to make use of rtc modules that may have been
loaded at any point since bootup.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Meelis Roos <mroos@ut.ee>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@ut.ee>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
The clocksource watchdog code is interruptible and it has been
observed that this can trigger false positives which disable the TSC.
The reason is that an interrupt storm or a long running interrupt
handler between the read of the watchdog source and the read of the
TSC brings the two far enough apart that the delta is larger than the
unstable treshold. Move both reads into a short interrupt disabled
region to avoid that.
Reported-and-tested-by: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
For UP it's stupid to request an initialized cpumask for the clock
event devices. Though we need the mask set even on UP to avoid a
horrible ifdeffery especially in the broadcast code.
For SMP we can at least try to survive with a warning and set the
cpumask of the cpu we're running on. That gives a decent chance to
bring the machine up and retrieve the debug info.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Instead of iterating over all possible timer bases avoid it by marking
the active bases in the cpu base.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
hrtimer: Make lookup table const
RTC: Disable CONFIG_RTC_CLASS from being built as a module
timers: Fix alarmtimer build issues when CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=n
timers: Remove delayed irqwork from alarmtimers implementation
timers: Improve alarmtimer comments and minor fixes
timers: Posix interface for alarm-timers
timers: Introduce in-kernel alarm-timer interface
timers: Add rb_init_node() to allow for stack allocated rb nodes
time: Add timekeeping_inject_sleeptime
* 'timers-clockevents-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: hpet: Cleanup the clockevents init and register code
x86: Convert PIT to clockevents_config_and_register()
clockevents: Provide interface to reconfigure an active clock event device
clockevents: Provide combined configure and register function
clockevents: Restructure clock_event_device members
clocksource: Get rid of the hardcoded 5 seconds sleep time limit
clocksource: Restructure clocksource struct members
Some ARM SoCs have clock event devices which have their frequency
modified due to frequency scaling. Provide an interface which allows
to reconfigure an active device. After reconfiguration reprogram the
current pending event.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.437459958%40linutronix.de%3E
All clockevent devices have the same open coded initialization
functions. Provide an interface which does all necessary
initialization in the core code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.331975870%40linutronix.de%3E
Slow clocksources can have a way longer sleep time than 5 seconds and
even fast ones can easily cope with 600 seconds and still maintain
proper accuracy.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.109811585%40linutronix.de%3E
The first cpu which switches from periodic to oneshot mode switches
also the broadcast device into oneshot mode. The broadcast device
serves as a backup for per cpu timers which stop in deeper
C-states. To avoid starvation of the cpus which might be in idle and
depend on broadcast mode it marks the other cpus as broadcast active
and sets the brodcast expiry value of those cpus to the next tick.
The oneshot mode broadcast bit for the other cpus is sticky and gets
only cleared when those cpus exit idle. If a cpu was not idle while
the bit got set in consequence the bit prevents that the broadcast
device is armed on behalf of that cpu when it enters idle for the
first time after it switched to oneshot mode.
In most cases that goes unnoticed as one of the other cpus has usually
a timer pending which keeps the broadcast device armed with a short
timeout. Now if the only cpu which has a short timer active has the
bit set then the broadcast device will not be armed on behalf of that
cpu and will fire way after the expected timer expiry. In the case of
Christians bug report it took ~145 seconds which is about half of the
wrap around time of HPET (the limit for that device) due to the fact
that all other cpus had no timers armed which expired before the 145
seconds timeframe.
The solution is simply to clear the broadcast active bit
unconditionally when a cpu switches to oneshot mode after the first
cpu switched the broadcast device over. It's not idle at that point
otherwise it would not be executing that code.
[ I fundamentally hate that broadcast crap. Why the heck thought some
folks that when going into deep idle it's a brilliant concept to
switch off the last device which brings the cpu back from that
state? ]
Thanks to Christian for providing all the valuable debug information!
Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Hoffmann <email@christianhoffmann.info>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Calpine.LFD.2.02.1105161105170.3078%40ionos%3E
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
