From: Martin Schwidefsky Move the downgrade of an unstable clocksource from the timer interrupt context into the process context of a work queue thread. This is needed to be able to do the clocksource switch with stop_machine. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: john stultz Cc: Daniel Walker Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- include/linux/clocksource.h | 1 kernel/time/clocksource.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/clocksource.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/clocksource.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/clocksource.h @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ extern struct clocksource *clock; /* cur #define CLOCK_SOURCE_WATCHDOG 0x10 #define CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES 0x20 +#define CLOCK_SOURCE_UNSTABLE 0x40 /* simplify initialization of mask field */ #define CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(bits) (cycle_t)((bits) < 64 ? ((1ULL<<(bits))-1) : -1) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/clocksource.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/clocksource.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -143,10 +143,13 @@ fs_initcall(clocksource_done_booting); static LIST_HEAD(watchdog_list); static struct clocksource *watchdog; static struct timer_list watchdog_timer; +static struct work_struct watchdog_work; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(watchdog_lock); static cycle_t watchdog_last; static int watchdog_running; +static void clocksource_watchdog_work(struct work_struct *work); + /* * Interval: 0.5sec Threshold: 0.0625s */ @@ -158,15 +161,16 @@ static void clocksource_unstable(struct printk(KERN_WARNING "Clocksource %s unstable (delta = %Ld ns)\n", cs->name, delta); cs->flags &= ~(CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES | CLOCK_SOURCE_WATCHDOG); - clocksource_change_rating(cs, 0); - list_del(&cs->wd_list); + cs->flags |= CLOCK_SOURCE_UNSTABLE; + schedule_work(&watchdog_work); } static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data) { - struct clocksource *cs, *tmp; + struct clocksource *cs; cycle_t csnow, wdnow; int64_t wd_nsec, cs_nsec; + int next_cpu; spin_lock(&watchdog_lock); if (!watchdog_running) @@ -176,7 +180,12 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigne wd_nsec = cyc2ns(watchdog, (wdnow - watchdog_last) & watchdog->mask); watchdog_last = wdnow; - list_for_each_entry_safe(cs, tmp, &watchdog_list, wd_list) { + list_for_each_entry(cs, &watchdog_list, wd_list) { + + /* Clocksource already marked unstable? */ + if (cs->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_UNSTABLE) + continue; + csnow = cs->read(cs); /* Clocksource initialized ? */ @@ -207,19 +216,15 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigne } } - if (!list_empty(&watchdog_list)) { - /* - * Cycle through CPUs to check if the CPUs stay - * synchronized to each other. - */ - int next_cpu = cpumask_next(raw_smp_processor_id(), - cpu_online_mask); - - if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) - next_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask); - watchdog_timer.expires += WATCHDOG_INTERVAL; - add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer, next_cpu); - } + /* + * Cycle through CPUs to check if the CPUs stay synchronized + * to each other. + */ + next_cpu = cpumask_next(raw_smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_mask); + if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) + next_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask); + watchdog_timer.expires += WATCHDOG_INTERVAL; + add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer, next_cpu); out: spin_unlock(&watchdog_lock); } @@ -228,6 +233,7 @@ static inline void clocksource_start_wat { if (watchdog_running || !watchdog || list_empty(&watchdog_list)) return; + INIT_WORK(&watchdog_work, clocksource_watchdog_work); init_timer(&watchdog_timer); watchdog_timer.function = clocksource_watchdog; watchdog_last = watchdog->read(watchdog); @@ -312,6 +318,22 @@ static void clocksource_dequeue_watchdog spin_unlock_irqrestore(&watchdog_lock, flags); } +static void clocksource_watchdog_work(struct work_struct *work) +{ + struct clocksource *cs, *tmp; + unsigned long flags; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&watchdog_lock, flags); + list_for_each_entry_safe(cs, tmp, &watchdog_list, wd_list) + if (cs->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_UNSTABLE) { + list_del_init(&cs->wd_list); + clocksource_change_rating(cs, 0); + } + /* Check if the watchdog timer needs to be stopped. */ + clocksource_stop_watchdog(); + spin_unlock(&watchdog_lock); +} + #else /* CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG */ static void clocksource_enqueue_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs) -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. -- 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/