Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 2 authors, 2012-07-05

Re: [PATCH 1/3] [RFC] hrtimer: Fix clock_was_set so it is safe to call from irq context

From: Prarit Bhargava <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-05 14:29:22
Also in: lkml


On 07/04/2012 02:21 AM, John Stultz wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
NOTE:This is a prerequisite patch that's required to
address the widely observed leap-second related futex/hrtimer
issues.

Currently clock_was_set() is unsafe to be called from irq
context, as it calls on_each_cpu(). This causes problems when
we need to adjust the time from update_wall_time().

To fix this, if clock_was_set is called when irqs are
disabled, we schedule a timer to fire for immedately after
we're out of interrupt context to then notify the hrtimer
subsystem.

CC: Prarit Bhargava <redacted>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
CC: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
CC: linux@openhuawei.org
Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <redacted>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <redacted>
---
 kernel/hrtimer.c |   17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
index ae34bf5..d730678 100644
--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ static inline void retrigger_next_event(void *arg) { }
  * resolution timer interrupts. On UP we just disable interrupts and
  * call the high resolution interrupt code.
  */
-void clock_was_set(void)
+static void do_clock_was_set(unsigned long data)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
 	/* Retrigger the CPU local events everywhere */
@@ -755,6 +755,21 @@ void clock_was_set(void)
 	timerfd_clock_was_set();
 }
 
+static DEFINE_TIMER(clock_was_set_timer, do_clock_was_set , 0, 0);
+
+void clock_was_set(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * We can't call on_each_cpu() from irq context,
+	 * so if irqs are disabled , schedule the clock_was_set
+	 * via a timer_list timer for right after.
+	 */
+	if (irqs_disabled())
I was wondering about this in earlier versions of the patchset.  I thought it
was supposed to be irqs_disabled.  Thanks for changing this.

Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <redacted>

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