Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-rmk

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index b854a895591..beef7ccdf84 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now)
 	unsigned long ticks = 0;
 	ktime_t delta;
 
+	/*
+	 * Do a quick check without holding xtime_lock:
+	 */
+	delta = ktime_sub(now, last_jiffies_update);
+	if (delta.tv64 < tick_period.tv64)
+		return;
+
 	/* Reevalute with xtime_lock held */
 	write_seqlock(&xtime_lock);
 
@@ -228,6 +235,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void)
 			       local_softirq_pending());
 			ratelimit++;
 		}
+		goto end;
 	}
 
 	ts->idle_calls++;
@@ -276,6 +284,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void)
 			ts->tick_stopped = 1;
 			ts->idle_jiffies = last_jiffies;
 			rcu_enter_nohz();
+			sched_clock_tick_stop(cpu);
 		}
 
 		/*
@@ -375,6 +384,7 @@ void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void)
 	select_nohz_load_balancer(0);
 	now = ktime_get();
 	tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
+	sched_clock_tick_start(cpu);
 	cpu_clear(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask);
 
 	/*