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| author | Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org> | 2013-12-31 12:59:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org> | 2013-12-31 12:59:55 +0000 |
| commit | 68066bb378a0504439e046cdb55d88362eb6379d (patch) | |
| tree | 0b60f72ddf7108a63dd4db617b42e07fbae5346d /kernel/time/tick-common.c | |
| parent | 43f627ac9de42607b2cdcc7a41f2bcc82187e06a (diff) | |
| parent | 802eee95bde72fd0cd0f3a5b2098375a487d1eda (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into spi-dw
To resolve trivial overlaps with fixes.
Linux 3.13-rc6
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-common.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-common.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c index 64522ecdfe0..162b03ab0ad 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c @@ -33,6 +33,21 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tick_device, tick_cpu_device); */ ktime_t tick_next_period; ktime_t tick_period; + +/* + * tick_do_timer_cpu is a timer core internal variable which holds the CPU NR + * which is responsible for calling do_timer(), i.e. the timekeeping stuff. This + * variable has two functions: + * + * 1) Prevent a thundering herd issue of a gazillion of CPUs trying to grab the + * timekeeping lock all at once. Only the CPU which is assigned to do the + * update is handling it. + * + * 2) Hand off the duty in the NOHZ idle case by setting the value to + * TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE, i.e. a non existing CPU. So the next cpu which looks + * at it will take over and keep the time keeping alive. The handover + * procedure also covers cpu hotplug. + */ int tick_do_timer_cpu __read_mostly = TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT; /* |