This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/time: Sanity check of decrementer expiration is necessary
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-time-sanity-check-of-decrementer-expiration-is-necessary.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 860aed25a1f0936d4852ab936252b47cd1e630f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 18:13:43 +1000
Subject: powerpc/time: Sanity check of decrementer expiration is necessary
From: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
commit 860aed25a1f0936d4852ab936252b47cd1e630f1 upstream.
This reverts 68568add2c ("powerpc/time: Remove unnecessary sanity check
of decrementer expiration"). We do need to check whether we have reached
the expiration time of the next event, because we sometimes get an early
decrementer interrupt, most notably when we set the decrementer to 1 in
arch_irq_work_raise(). The effect of not having the sanity check is that
if timer_interrupt() gets called early, we leave the decrementer set to
its maximum value, which means we then don't get any more decrementer
interrupts for about 4 seconds (or longer, depending on timebase
frequency). I saw these pauses as a consequence of getting a stray
hypervisor decrementer interrupt left over from exiting a KVM guest.
This isn't quite a straight revert because of changes to the surrounding
code, but it restores the same algorithm as was previously used.
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ void timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs * re
struct pt_regs *old_regs;
u64 *next_tb = &__get_cpu_var(decrementers_next_tb);
struct clock_event_device *evt = &__get_cpu_var(decrementers);
+ u64 now;
/* Ensure a positive value is written to the decrementer, or else
* some CPUs will continue to take decrementer exceptions.
@@ -508,9 +509,16 @@ void timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs * re
irq_work_run();
}
- *next_tb = ~(u64)0;
- if (evt->event_handler)
- evt->event_handler(evt);
+ now = get_tb_or_rtc();
+ if (now >= *next_tb) {
+ *next_tb = ~(u64)0;
+ if (evt->event_handler)
+ evt->event_handler(evt);
+ } else {
+ now = *next_tb - now;
+ if (now <= DECREMENTER_MAX)
+ set_dec((int)now);
+ }
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
/* collect purr register values often, for accurate calculations */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.4/powerpc-time-sanity-check-of-decrementer-expiration-is-necessary.patch
queue-3.4/powerpc-fix-kernel-panic-during-kernel-module-load.patch
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