Re: [PATCH] timers/migration: Fix ignored event due to missing CPU update

[Anna-Maria Behnsen]

Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> When a group event is updated with its expiry unchanged but a different
> CPU, that target change may go unnoticed and the event may be propagated
> up with a stale CPU value. The following depicts a scenario that has
> been actually observed:

urgh...

>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/time/timer_migration.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/timer_migration.c b/kernel/time/timer_migration.c
> index c63a0afdcebe..90786bb9a607 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/timer_migration.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/timer_migration.c
> @@ -762,8 +762,11 @@ bool tmigr_update_events(struct tmigr_group *group, struct tmigr_group *child,
>  	 * queue when the expiry time changed only or when it could be ignored.
>  	 */
>  	if (timerqueue_node_queued(&evt->nextevt)) {
> -		if ((evt->nextevt.expires == nextexp) && !evt->ignore)
> +		if ((evt->nextevt.expires == nextexp) && !evt->ignore) {
> +			if (evt->cpu != first_childevt->cpu)
> +				evt->cpu = first_childevt->cpu;

Why not just unconditionally overwriting the evt->cpu value here?

>  			goto check_toplvl;
> +		}
>  
>  		if (!timerqueue_del(&group->events, &evt->nextevt))
>  			WRITE_ONCE(group->next_expiry, KTIME_MAX);

Thanks,

        Anna-Maria