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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2009-08-17 14:34:59 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-08-19 18:15:10 +0200
commitf833bab87fca5c3ce13778421b1365845843b976 (patch)
tree020c3e6a70dba34544c963c34647b605035be8fb /kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
parentde809347aeef0a68c04576c464414d0e4dce59fc (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index 877dbedc311..c2ec25087a3 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -205,11 +205,11 @@ static void tick_handle_periodic_broadcast(struct clock_event_device *dev)
* Powerstate information: The system enters/leaves a state, where
* affected devices might stop
*/
-static void tick_do_broadcast_on_off(void *why)
+static void tick_do_broadcast_on_off(unsigned long *reason)
{
struct clock_event_device *bc, *dev;
struct tick_device *td;
- unsigned long flags, *reason = why;
+ unsigned long flags;
int cpu, bc_stopped;
spin_lock_irqsave(&tick_broadcast_lock, flags);
@@ -276,8 +276,7 @@ void tick_broadcast_on_off(unsigned long reason, int *oncpu)
printk(KERN_ERR "tick-broadcast: ignoring broadcast for "
"offline CPU #%d\n", *oncpu);
else
- smp_call_function_single(*oncpu, tick_do_broadcast_on_off,
- &reason, 1);
+ tick_do_broadcast_on_off(&reason);
}
/*