2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Thomas Gleixner commit 7300711e8c6824fcfbd42a126980ff50439d8dd0 upstream Until the C1E patches arrived there where no users of periodic broadcast before switching to oneshot mode. Now we need to trigger a possible waiter for a periodic broadcast when switching to oneshot mode. Otherwise we can starve them for ever. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -490,6 +490,18 @@ static void tick_broadcast_clear_oneshot cpu_clear(cpu, tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask); } +static void tick_broadcast_init_next_event(cpumask_t *mask, ktime_t expires) +{ + struct tick_device *td; + int cpu; + + for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, *mask) { + td = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_device, cpu); + if (td->evtdev) + td->evtdev->next_event = expires; + } +} + /** * tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot - setup the broadcast device */ @@ -497,9 +509,32 @@ void tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(struct { /* Set it up only once ! */ if (bc->event_handler != tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast) { + int was_periodic = bc->mode == CLOCK_EVT_MODE_PERIODIC; + int cpu = smp_processor_id(); + cpumask_t mask; + bc->event_handler = tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast; clockevents_set_mode(bc, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT); - bc->next_event.tv64 = KTIME_MAX; + + /* Take the do_timer update */ + tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu; + + /* + * We must be careful here. There might be other CPUs + * waiting for periodic broadcast. We need to set the + * oneshot_mask bits for those and program the + * broadcast device to fire. + */ + mask = tick_broadcast_mask; + cpu_clear(cpu, mask); + cpus_or(tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask, + tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask, mask); + + if (was_periodic && !cpus_empty(mask)) { + tick_broadcast_init_next_event(&mask, tick_next_period); + tick_broadcast_set_event(tick_next_period, 1); + } else + bc->next_event.tv64 = KTIME_MAX; } } -- -- 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/