3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]> commit 6f103929f8979d2638e58d7f7fda0beefcb8ee7e upstream. Fix tick_nohz_restart() to not use a stale ktime_t "now" value when calling tick_do_update_jiffies64(now). If we reach this point in the loop it means that we crossed a tick boundary since we grabbed the "now" timestamp, so at this point "now" refers to a time in the old jiffy, so using the old value for "now" is incorrect, and is likely to give us a stale jiffies value. In particular, the first time through the loop the tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) call is always a no-op, since the caller, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(), will have already called tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) with that "now" value. Note that tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() already uses the correct approach: when we notice we cross a jiffy boundary, grab a new timestamp with ktime_get(), and *then* update jiffies. Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]> Cc: Ben Segall <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -508,9 +508,9 @@ static void tick_nohz_restart(struct tic hrtimer_get_expires(&ts->sched_timer), 0)) break; } - /* Update jiffies and reread time */ - tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); + /* Reread time and update jiffies */ now = ktime_get(); + tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); } } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
