linux-kernel - [GIT pull] timers bugfix for .28

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810212053120.3301@apollo>
Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:29:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Venkatesch Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Subject: [GIT pull] timers bugfix for .28

Linus,

Please pull the latest v28-timers-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git v28-timers-for-linus

A single bugfix for a brown paperbag thinko introduced by myself.

Thanks,

	tglx 
------------------>
Thomas Gleixner (1):
      NOHZ: fix thinko in the timer restart code path


 kernel/time/tick-sched.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 0581c11..727c1ae 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -567,11 +567,21 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void)
 static void tick_nohz_kick_tick(int cpu)
 {
 	struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
+	ktime_t delta, now;
 
 	if (!ts->tick_stopped)
 		return;
 
-	tick_nohz_restart(ts, ktime_get());
+	/*
+	 * Do not touch the tick device, when the next expiry is either
+	 * already reached or less/equal than the tick period.
+	 */
+	now = ktime_get();
+	delta =	ktime_sub(ts->sched_timer.expires, now);
+	if (delta.tv64 <= tick_period.tv64)
+		return;
+
+	tick_nohz_restart(ts, now);
 }
 
 #else
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