linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] timers/urgent for v5.16-rc4

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Date:   Sun, 5 Dec 2021 12:59:26 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] timers/urgent for v5.16-rc4

Hi Linus,

please pull a single urgent timers fix for 5.16.

Thx.

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The following changes since commit d58071a8a76d779eedab38033ae4c821c30295a5:

  Linux 5.16-rc3 (2021-11-28 14:09:19 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tags/timers_urgent_for_v5.16_rc4

for you to fetch changes up to 53e87e3cdc155f20c3417b689df8d2ac88d79576:

  timers/nohz: Last resort update jiffies on nohz_full IRQ entry (2021-12-02 15:07:22 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
- Prevent a tick storm when a dedicated timekeeper CPU in nohz_full
mode runs for prolonged periods with interrupts disabled and ends up
programming the next tick in the past, leading to that storm

----------------------------------------------------------------
Frederic Weisbecker (1):
      timers/nohz: Last resort update jiffies on nohz_full IRQ entry

 kernel/softirq.c         | 3 ++-
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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