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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2008-07-03 14:31:26 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-03 11:36:48 -0700
commitee3ece830f6db9837f7ac67008f532a8c1e755f4 (patch)
tree86512e4fe0a03970003260671a3c28045f57f5e8 /kernel
parent6beef7eb0c16b5216814148b04838cfa963d2cb4 (diff)
hrtimer: prevent migration for raising softirq
Due to a possible deadlock, the waking of the softirq was pushed outside of the hrtimer base locks. See commit 0c96c5979a522c3323c30a078a70120e29b5bdbc Unfortunately this allows the task to migrate after setting up the softirq and raising it. Since softirqs run a queue that is per-cpu we may raise the softirq on the wrong CPU and this will keep the queued softirq task from running. To solve this issue, this patch disables preemption around the releasing of the hrtimer lock and raising of the softirq. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/hrtimer.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
index 421be5fe5cc..ab80515008f 100644
--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -1003,10 +1003,18 @@ hrtimer_start(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim, const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
*/
raise = timer->state == HRTIMER_STATE_PENDING;
+ /*
+ * We use preempt_disable to prevent this task from migrating after
+ * setting up the softirq and raising it. Otherwise, if me migrate
+ * we will raise the softirq on the wrong CPU.
+ */
+ preempt_disable();
+
unlock_hrtimer_base(timer, &flags);
if (raise)
hrtimer_raise_softirq();
+ preempt_enable();
return ret;
}