[patch] high-res timers: fix APIC event-broadcasting code

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Dec 21 2006 - 16:29:56 EST


Subject: [patch] high-res timers: fix APIC event-broadcasting code
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

this patch fixes a bug in the APCI-C3-turns-off-lapic related
event-broadcasting code: it accidentally reactivated the global tick,
instead of the global event emulation layer.

The effect of this bug was a rare bootup hang on one of my test-laptops
- but it could also result in other types of timer related problems (but
not hangs in an already running system), such as imprecise high-res
timeouts.

Debugged via SysRq-Q.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/i386/kernel/apic.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-hres-timers.q/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c
===================================================================
--- linux-hres-timers.q.orig/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c
+++ linux-hres-timers.q/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ void switch_APIC_timer_to_ipi(void *cpum
int cpu = smp_processor_id();

if (cpu_isset(cpu, mask) && levt->event_handler)
- clockevents_set_global_broadcast(levt, 1);
+ clockevents_set_broadcast(levt, 1);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(switch_APIC_timer_to_ipi);

@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ void switch_ipi_to_APIC_timer(void *cpum
int cpu = smp_processor_id();

if (cpu_isset(cpu, mask) && levt->event_handler)
- clockevents_set_global_broadcast(levt, 0);
+ clockevents_set_broadcast(levt, 0);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(switch_ipi_to_APIC_timer);

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