clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock

Currently clockevents_notify() is called with interrupts enabled at
some places and interrupts disabled at some other places.

This results in a deadlock in this scenario.

cpu A holds clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs enabled
cpu B waits for clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs disabled
cpu C doing set_mtrr() which will try to rendezvous of all the cpus.

This will result in C and A come to the rendezvous point and waiting
for B. B is stuck forever waiting for the spinlock and thus not
reaching the rendezvous point.

Fix the clockevents code so that clockevents_lock is taken with
interrupts disabled and thus avoid the above deadlock.

Also call lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast() on the destination cpu so
that we avoid calling smp_call_function() in the clockevents notifier
chain.

This issue left us wondering if we need to change the MTRR rendezvous
logic to use stop machine logic (instead of smp_call_function) or add
a check in spinlock debug code to see if there are other spinlocks
which gets taken under both interrupts enabled/disabled conditions.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250544899.2709.210.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index a6dcd67b041..620b58abdc3 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -137,11 +137,12 @@ int clockevents_program_event(struct clock_event_device *dev, ktime_t expires,
  */
 int clockevents_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret;
 
-	spin_lock(&clockevents_lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 	ret = raw_notifier_chain_register(&clockevents_chain, nb);
-	spin_unlock(&clockevents_lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -178,16 +179,18 @@ static void clockevents_notify_released(void)
  */
 void clockevents_register_device(struct clock_event_device *dev)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
+
 	BUG_ON(dev->mode != CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED);
 	BUG_ON(!dev->cpumask);
 
-	spin_lock(&clockevents_lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 
 	list_add(&dev->list, &clockevent_devices);
 	clockevents_do_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_ADD, dev);
 	clockevents_notify_released();
 
-	spin_unlock(&clockevents_lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clockevents_register_device);
 
@@ -235,8 +238,9 @@ void clockevents_exchange_device(struct clock_event_device *old,
 void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg)
 {
 	struct list_head *node, *tmp;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock(&clockevents_lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 	clockevents_do_notify(reason, arg);
 
 	switch (reason) {
@@ -251,7 +255,7 @@ void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg)
 	default:
 		break;
 	}
-	spin_unlock(&clockevents_lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clockevents_notify);
 #endif