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2009-08-19clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lockSuresh Siddha
Currently clockevents_notify() is called with interrupts enabled at some places and interrupts disabled at some other places. This results in a deadlock in this scenario. cpu A holds clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs enabled cpu B waits for clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs disabled cpu C doing set_mtrr() which will try to rendezvous of all the cpus. This will result in C and A come to the rendezvous point and waiting for B. B is stuck forever waiting for the spinlock and thus not reaching the rendezvous point. Fix the clockevents code so that clockevents_lock is taken with interrupts disabled and thus avoid the above deadlock. Also call lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast() on the destination cpu so that we avoid calling smp_call_function() in the clockevents notifier chain. This issue left us wondering if we need to change the MTRR rendezvous logic to use stop machine logic (instead of smp_call_function) or add a check in spinlock debug code to see if there are other spinlocks which gets taken under both interrupts enabled/disabled conditions. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: "Brown Len" <len.brown@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1250544899.2709.210.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-10hrtimer: Fix migration expiry checkThomas Gleixner
The timer migration expiry check should prevent the migration of a timer to another CPU when the timer expires before the next event is scheduled on the other CPU. Migrating the timer might delay it because we can not reprogram the clock event device on the other CPU. But the code implementing that check has two flaws: - for !HIGHRES the check compares the expiry value with the clock events device expiry value which is wrong for CLOCK_REALTIME based timers. - the check is racy. It holds the hrtimer base lock of the target CPU, but the clock event device expiry value can be modified nevertheless, e.g. by an timer interrupt firing. The !HIGHRES case is easy to fix as we can enqueue the timer on the cpu which was selected by the load balancer. It runs the idle balancing code once per jiffy anyway. So the maximum delay for the timer is the same as when we keep the tick on the current cpu going. In the HIGHRES case we can get the next expiry value from the hrtimer cpu_base of the target CPU and serialize the update with the cpu_base lock. This moves the lock section in hrtimer_interrupt() so we can set next_event to KTIME_MAX while we are handling the expired timers and set it to the next expiry value after we handled the timers under the base lock. While the expired timers are processed timer migration is blocked because the expiry time of the timer is always <= KTIME_MAX. Also remove the now useless clockevents_get_next_event() function. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-06-15Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: Logic to move non pinned timers timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers timers: allow deferrable timers for intervals tv2-tv5 to be deferred Fix up conflicts in kernel/sched.c and kernel/timer.c manually
2009-05-13timers: Logic to move non pinned timersArun R Bharadwaj
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]: This patch migrates all non pinned timers and hrtimers to the current idle load balancer, from all the idle CPUs. Timers firing on busy CPUs are not migrated. While migrating hrtimers, care should be taken to check if migrating a hrtimer would result in a latency or not. So we compare the expiry of the hrtimer with the next timer interrupt on the target cpu and migrate the hrtimer only if it expires *after* the next interrupt on the target cpu. So, added a clockevents_get_next_event() helper function to return the next_event on the target cpu's clock_event_device. [ tglx: cleanups and simplifications ] Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-02clockevent: export register_device and delta2nsMagnus Damm
Export the following symbols using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL: - clockevent_delta2ns - clockevents_register_device This allows us to build SuperH clockevent and clocksource drivers as modules, see drivers/clocksource/sh_*.c [ Impact: allow modular build of clockevent drivers ] Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> LKML-Reference: <20090501055247.8286.64067.sendpatchset@rx1.opensource.se> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-01-16clockevents: let set_mode() setup delta informationMagnus Damm
Allow the set_mode() clockevent callback to decide and fill in delta details such as shift, mult, max_delta_ns and min_delta_ns. With this change the clockevent can be registered without delta details which allows us to keep the parent clock disabled until the clockevent gets setup using set_mode(). Letting set_mode() fill in or update delta details allows us to save power by disabling the parent clock while the clockevent is unused. This may however make the parent clock rate change, so next time the clockevent gets enabled we need let set_mode() to update the detla details accordingly. Doing it at registration time is not enough. Furthermore, the delta details seem unused in the case of periodic-only clockevent drivers, so this change also allows registration of such drivers without the delta details filled in. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-12-13cpumask: convert struct clock_event_device to cpumask pointers.Rusty Russell
Impact: change calling convention of existing clock_event APIs struct clock_event_timer's cpumask field gets changed to take pointer, as does the ->broadcast function. Another single-patch change. For safety, we BUG_ON() in clockevents_register_device() if it's not set. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-16clockevents: make device shutdown robustThomas Gleixner
The device shut down does not cleanup the next_event variable of the clock event device. So when the device is reactivated the possible stale next_event value can prevent the device to be reprogrammed as it claims to wait on a event already. This is the root cause of the resurfacing suspend/resume problem, where systems need key press to come back to life. Fix this by setting next_event to KTIME_MAX when the device is shut down. Use a separate function for shutdown which takes care of that and only keep the direct set mode call in the broadcast code, where we can not touch the next_event value. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-05clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noopVenkatesh Pallipadi
There is a ordering related problem with clockevents code, due to which clockevents_register_device() called after tickless/highres switch will not work. The new clockevent ends up with clockevents_handle_noop as event handler, resulting in no timer activity. The problematic path seems to be * old device already has hrtimer_interrupt as the event_handler * new clockevent device registers with a higher rating * tick_check_new_device() is called * clockevents_exchange_device() gets called * old->event_handler is set to clockevents_handle_noop * tick_setup_device() is called for the new device * which sets new->event_handler using the old->event_handler which is noop. Change the ordering so that new device inherits the proper handler. This does not have any issue in normal case as most likely all the clockevent devices are setup before the highres switch. But, can potentially be affecting some corner case where HPET force detect happens after the highres switch. This was a problem with HPET in MSI mode code that we have been experimenting with. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-08time: fix typo in commentsLi Zefan
Fix typo in comments. BTW: I have to fix coding style in arch/ia64/kernel/time.c also, otherwise checkpatch.pl will be complaining. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08clockevent: simplify list operationsLi Zefan
list_for_each_safe() suffices here. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-30x86: make clockevents more robustIngo Molnar
detect zero event-device multiplicators - they then cause division-by-zero crashes if a clockevent has been initialized incorrectly. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-12-07clockevents: warn once when program_event() is called with negative expiryThomas Gleixner
The hrtimer problem with large relative timeouts resulting in a negative expiry time went unnoticed as there is no check in the clockevents_program_event() code. Put a check there with a WARN_ONCE to avoid such problems in the future. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-12clockevents: Allow build w/o run-tine usage for migration purposesThomas Gleixner
Migration aid to allow preparatory patches which introduce not yet used parts of clock events code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2007-08-11timer: remove clockevents_unregister_notifierMiao Xie
I find a function(clockevents_unregister_notifier) which is not called by anything in tree. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Remove clockevents_{release,request}_deviceAndi Kleen
Not called by anything in tree. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-26[PATCH] clockevents: remove bad designed sysfs support for nowThomas Gleixner
The current sysfs support of clockevents does not obey the "only one value per file" rule. The real fix is not 2.6.21 material. Therefor remove the sysfs support for now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] clockevents: add core functionalityThomas Gleixner
Architectures register their clock event devices, in the clock events core. Users of the clockevents core can get clock event devices for their use. The clockevents core code provides notification mechanisms for various clock related management events. This allows to control the clock event devices without the architectures having to worry about the details of function assignment. This is also a preliminary for high resolution timers and dynamic ticks to allow the core code to control the clock functionality without intrusive changes to the architecture code. [Fixes-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>