linux-kernel - [PATCH] kernel: time: forward timer base before migrating timers

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Date:   Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:22:57 +0530
From:   Lingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@...eaurora.org>
To:     tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, neeraju@...eaurora.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        Lingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@...eaurora.org>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel: time: forward timer base before migrating timers

In case when timers are migrated to a CPU, after it exits
idle, but before timer base is forwarded, either from
run_timer_softirq()/mod_timer()/add_timer_on(), it's
possible that migrated timers are queued, based on older
clock value. This can cause delays in handling those timers.

For example, consider below sequence of events:

- CPU0 timer1 expires = 59969 and base->clk = 59131. So,
  timer is queued at level 2, with next expiry for this timer
  = 60032 (due to granularity addition).
- CPU1 enters idle @60007, with next timer expiry @60020.
- CPU1 exits idle.
- CPU0 is hotplugged at 60009, and timers are migrated to
  CPU1, with new base->clk = 60007. timer1 is queued,
  based on 60007 at level 0, for immediate handling (in
  next timer softirq handling).
- CPU1's base->clk is forwarded to 60009, so, in next sched
  timer interrupt, timer1 is not handled.

The issue happens as timer wheel collects expired timers
starting from the current clk's index onwards, but migrated
timers, if enqueued, based on older clk value can result
in their index being less than clk's current index.
This can only happen if new base->clk is ahead of
timer->expires, resulting in timer being queued at
new base->clk's current index.

Change-Id: Idbe737b346f00e6e7241b93181bbbd80871f1400
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Lingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@...eaurora.org>

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 89a9e1b4264a..ae94aa97b5a9 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1886,6 +1886,11 @@ int timers_dead_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 		raw_spin_lock_irq(&new_base->lock);
 		raw_spin_lock_nested(&old_base->lock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
 
+		/* Before migrating timers, update new base clk to avoid
+		 * queueing timers based on older clock value.
+		 */
+		forward_timer_base(new_base);
+
 		BUG_ON(old_base->running_timer);
 
 		for (i = 0; i < WHEEL_SIZE; i++)
-- 
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