From f833bab87fca5c3ce13778421b1365845843b976 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Siddha Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:34:59 -0700 Subject: clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock 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 Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" Cc: "Brown Len" LKML-Reference: <1250544899.2709.210.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c index 877dbedc311..c2ec25087a3 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -205,11 +205,11 @@ static void tick_handle_periodic_broadcast(struct clock_event_device *dev) * Powerstate information: The system enters/leaves a state, where * affected devices might stop */ -static void tick_do_broadcast_on_off(void *why) +static void tick_do_broadcast_on_off(unsigned long *reason) { struct clock_event_device *bc, *dev; struct tick_device *td; - unsigned long flags, *reason = why; + unsigned long flags; int cpu, bc_stopped; spin_lock_irqsave(&tick_broadcast_lock, flags); @@ -276,8 +276,7 @@ void tick_broadcast_on_off(unsigned long reason, int *oncpu) printk(KERN_ERR "tick-broadcast: ignoring broadcast for " "offline CPU #%d\n", *oncpu); else - smp_call_function_single(*oncpu, tick_do_broadcast_on_off, - &reason, 1); + tick_do_broadcast_on_off(&reason); } /* -- cgit v1.2.3