linux-kernel - How is jiffies upation while holding spinlock in Uniprocessor or SMP environment?

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Message-ID: <CAG1O52Wq9uCXkOgttQ7gYECQsbFufug2LCBJQfNU309i5QNH6A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:19:31 +0530
From:	raghu MG <raghumag@...il.com>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: How is jiffies upation while holding spinlock in Uniprocessor or SMP environment?

Hello,
I have couple of questions.
1) In case of UP how is jiffies(timer) get updated while holding spin
lock using spinlock_irq_save?

2)My understanding is in smp environment jiffies updation cannot be
done on processor holding spinlock irrespective of spinlock API.So
timer interrupt should be enabled across all cores in SoC. Imagine a
scenario in quad core processor where 4 cores are holding 4 different
spinlocks & how is the timer interrupt for jiffies handled?
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