[GIT PULL] timer fix

[Ingo Molnar]

Linus,

Please pull the latest timers-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-urgent-for-linus

   # HEAD: b9023b91dd020ad7e093baa5122b6968c48cc9e0 tick: broadcast-hrtimer: Fix a race in bc_set_next

Fix a broadcast-timer handling race that can result in spuriously and 
indefinitely delayed hrtimers and even RCU stalls if the system is 
otherwise quiet.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

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Balasubramani Vivekanandan (1):
      tick: broadcast-hrtimer: Fix a race in bc_set_next


 kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
index c1f5bb590b5e..b5a65e212df2 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
@@ -42,39 +42,39 @@ static int bc_shutdown(struct clock_event_device *evt)
  */
 static int bc_set_next(ktime_t expires, struct clock_event_device *bc)
 {
-	int bc_moved;
 	/*
-	 * We try to cancel the timer first. If the callback is on
-	 * flight on some other cpu then we let it handle it. If we
-	 * were able to cancel the timer nothing can rearm it as we
-	 * own broadcast_lock.
+	 * This is called either from enter/exit idle code or from the
+	 * broadcast handler. In all cases tick_broadcast_lock is held.
 	 *
-	 * However we can also be called from the event handler of
-	 * ce_broadcast_hrtimer itself when it expires. We cannot
-	 * restart the timer because we are in the callback, but we
-	 * can set the expiry time and let the callback return
-	 * HRTIMER_RESTART.
+	 * hrtimer_cancel() cannot be called here neither from the
+	 * broadcast handler nor from the enter/exit idle code. The idle
+	 * code can run into the problem described in bc_shutdown() and the
+	 * broadcast handler cannot wait for itself to complete for obvious
+	 * reasons.
 	 *
-	 * Since we are in the idle loop at this point and because
-	 * hrtimer_{start/cancel} functions call into tracing,
-	 * calls to these functions must be bound within RCU_NONIDLE.
+	 * Each caller tries to arm the hrtimer on its own CPU, but if the
+	 * hrtimer callbback function is currently running, then
+	 * hrtimer_start() cannot move it and the timer stays on the CPU on
+	 * which it is assigned at the moment.
+	 *
+	 * As this can be called from idle code, the hrtimer_start()
+	 * invocation has to be wrapped with RCU_NONIDLE() as
+	 * hrtimer_start() can call into tracing.
 	 */
-	RCU_NONIDLE(
-		{
-			bc_moved = hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&bctimer) >= 0;
-			if (bc_moved) {
-				hrtimer_start(&bctimer, expires,
-					      HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_HARD);
-			}
-		}
-	);
-
-	if (bc_moved) {
-		/* Bind the "device" to the cpu */
-		bc->bound_on = smp_processor_id();
-	} else if (bc->bound_on == smp_processor_id()) {
-		hrtimer_set_expires(&bctimer, expires);
-	}
+	RCU_NONIDLE( {
+		hrtimer_start(&bctimer, expires, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_HARD);
+		/*
+		 * The core tick broadcast mode expects bc->bound_on to be set
+		 * correctly to prevent a CPU which has the broadcast hrtimer
+		 * armed from going deep idle.
+		 *
+		 * As tick_broadcast_lock is held, nothing can change the cpu
+		 * base which was just established in hrtimer_start() above. So
+		 * the below access is safe even without holding the hrtimer
+		 * base lock.
+		 */
+		bc->bound_on = bctimer.base->cpu_base->cpu;
+	} );
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -100,10 +100,6 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart bc_handler(struct hrtimer *t)
 {
 	ce_broadcast_hrtimer.event_handler(&ce_broadcast_hrtimer);
 
-	if (clockevent_state_oneshot(&ce_broadcast_hrtimer))
-		if (ce_broadcast_hrtimer.next_event != KTIME_MAX)
-			return HRTIMER_RESTART;
-
 	return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
 }