Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936550Ab3DHKUk (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Apr 2013 06:20:40 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:42691 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935505Ab3DHJva (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Apr 2013 05:51:30 -0400 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Luis Henriques Subject: [PATCH 019/102] nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 10:49:34 +0100 Message-Id: <1365414657-29191-20-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1365414657-29191-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1365414657-29191-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2417 Lines: 74 3.5.7.10 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Frederic Weisbecker commit e5ab012c3271990e8457055c25cafddc1ae8aa6b upstream. As it stands, irq_exit() may or may not be called with irqs disabled, depending on __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED that the arch can define. It makes tick_nohz_irq_exit() unsafe. For example two interrupts can race in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(): the inner most one computes the expiring time on top of the timer list, then it's interrupted right before reprogramming the clock. The new interrupt enqueues a new timer list timer, it reprogram the clock to take it into account and it exits. The CPUs resumes the inner most interrupt and performs the clock reprogramming without considering the new timer list timer. This regression has been introduced by: 280f06774afedf849f0b34248ed6aff57d0f6908 ("nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logic") Let's fix it right now with the appropriate protections. A saner long term solution will be to remove __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED and mandate that irq_exit() is called with interrupts disabled. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: #v3.2+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361373336-11337-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [ luis: backported to 3.5 ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 4a08472..cc1825f 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -500,12 +500,17 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void) */ void tick_nohz_irq_exit(void) { + unsigned long flags; struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched); if (!ts->inidle) return; + local_irq_save(flags); + tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(ts); + + local_irq_restore(flags); } /** -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/