[patch 4/6] clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdown

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Sep 03 2008 - 17:38:42 EST


While chasing the C1E/HPET bugreports I went through the clock events
code inch by inch and found that the broadcast device can be initialized
and shutdown multiple times. Multiple shutdowns are not critical, but
useless waste of time. Multiple initializations are simply broken. Another
CPU might have the device in use already after the first initialization and
the second init could just render it unusable again.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static void tick_do_broadcast_on_off(voi
struct clock_event_device *bc, *dev;
struct tick_device *td;
unsigned long flags, *reason = why;
- int cpu;
+ int cpu, bc_stopped;

spin_lock_irqsave(&tick_broadcast_lock, flags);

@@ -228,6 +228,8 @@ static void tick_do_broadcast_on_off(voi
if (!tick_device_is_functional(dev))
goto out;

+ bc_stopped = cpus_empty(tick_broadcast_mask);
+
switch (*reason) {
case CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ON:
case CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_FORCE:
@@ -250,9 +252,10 @@ static void tick_do_broadcast_on_off(voi
break;
}

- if (cpus_empty(tick_broadcast_mask))
- clockevents_set_mode(bc, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_SHUTDOWN);
- else {
+ if (cpus_empty(tick_broadcast_mask)) {
+ if (!bc_stopped)
+ clockevents_set_mode(bc, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_SHUTDOWN);
+ } else if (bc_stopped) {
if (tick_broadcast_device.mode == TICKDEV_MODE_PERIODIC)
tick_broadcast_start_periodic(bc);
else
@@ -501,9 +504,12 @@ static void tick_broadcast_clear_oneshot
*/
void tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(struct clock_event_device *bc)
{
- bc->event_handler = tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast;
- clockevents_set_mode(bc, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT);
- bc->next_event.tv64 = KTIME_MAX;
+ /* Set it up only once ! */
+ if (bc->event_handler != tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast) {
+ bc->event_handler = tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast;
+ clockevents_set_mode(bc, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT);
+ bc->next_event.tv64 = KTIME_MAX;
+ }
}

/*

--

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