linux-kernel - Re: [patch 8/8] hrtimer: Avoid more SMP function calls in clock_was

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Message-ID: <877dkno5w0.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:59:43 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@...hat.com>,
        Alex Belits <abelits@...vell.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 8/8] hrtimer: Avoid more SMP function calls in clock_was_set()

On Tue, Apr 27 2021 at 12:11, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 10:25:45AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Consider
>
>
> hrtimer_interrupt
> in_hrtirq = 1
> __run_hrtimer
> raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_base->lock, flags)
> 								settimeofday
> 								clock_was_set
> 								lock cpu_base->lock
> 								update_needs_ipi returns false
> continue to process hrtimers with stale base->offset

Bah. I somehow convinced myself that hrtimer_interrupt() rechecks the
offset before clearing in_hrtirq, but that's not true. It does so when
reprogramming fails, but not for the regular case.

Lemme stare at it some more.

Thanks,

        tglx