linux/kernel/time
Thomas Gleixner 1c0d08e652 tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic
commit 07bd117290 upstream.

The recent implementation of a generic dummy timer resulted in a
different registration order of per cpu local timers which made the
broadcast control logic go belly up.

If the dummy timer is the first clock event device which is registered
for a CPU, then it is installed, the broadcast timer is initialized
and the CPU is marked as broadcast target.

If a real clock event device is installed after that, we can fail to
take the CPU out of the broadcast mask. In the worst case we end up
with two periodic timer events firing for the same CPU. One from the
per cpu hardware device and one from the broadcast.

Now the problem is that we have no way to distinguish whether the
system is in a state which makes broadcasting necessary or the
broadcast bit was set due to the nonfunctional dummy timer
installment.

To solve this we need to keep track of the system state seperately and
provide a more detailed decision logic whether we keep the CPU in
broadcast mode or not.

The old decision logic only clears the broadcast mode, if the newly
installed clock event device is not affected by power states.

The new logic clears the broadcast mode if one of the following is
true:

  - The new device is not affected by power states.

  - The system is not in a power state affected mode

  - The system has switched to oneshot mode. The oneshot broadcast is
    controlled from the deep idle state. The CPU is not in idle at
    this point, so it's safe to remove it from the mask.

If we clear the broadcast bit for the CPU when a new device is
installed, we also shutdown the broadcast device when this was the
last CPU in the broadcast mask.

If the broadcast bit is kept, then we leave the new device in shutdown
state and rely on the broadcast to deliver the timer interrupts via
the broadcast ipis.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-25 14:07:29 -07:00
..
alarmtimer.c alarmtimer: Rename alarmtimer_remove to alarmtimer_dequeue 2012-09-24 12:38:03 -04:00
clockevents.c clockevents: export clockevents_config_and_register for module use 2013-01-14 10:12:37 -08:00
clocksource.c kernel-time: fix s/then/than/ spelling errors 2012-03-23 16:49:21 -07:00
jiffies.c time: Kill xtime_lock, replacing it with jiffies_lock 2012-11-13 14:08:23 -05:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-05-15 14:05:17 -07:00
Makefile time: remove the timecompare code. 2012-11-01 11:41:35 -04:00
ntp_internal.h ntp: Rework do_adjtimex to take timespec and tai arguments 2013-04-04 13:18:15 -07:00
ntp.c ntp: Remove unused variable flags in __hardpps 2013-05-28 13:45:19 -07:00
posix-clock.c kernel: Fix files explicitly needing EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure 2011-10-31 19:30:05 -04:00
tick-broadcast.c tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic 2013-07-25 14:07:29 -07:00
tick-common.c tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic 2013-07-25 14:07:29 -07:00
tick-internal.h Merge branch 'fortglx/3.10/time' of git://git.linaro.org/people/jstultz/linux into timers/core 2013-04-03 12:27:29 +02:00
tick-oneshot.c clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable 2011-09-08 11:10:56 +02:00
tick-sched.c nohz: Fix notifier return val that enforce timekeeping 2013-05-31 11:33:10 +02:00
timeconv.c
timekeeping.c timekeeping: Correct run-time detection of persistent_clock. 2013-05-28 13:45:19 -07:00
timer_list.c timer_list: Convert timer list to be a proper seq_file 2013-04-17 20:51:02 +02:00
timer_stats.c locking, timer_stats: Annotate table_lock as raw 2011-09-13 11:12:00 +02:00