[tip: timers/core] tick/sched: Release seqcount before invoking calc_load_global()

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The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     896b969e6732b68ee3c12ae4e1aeddf5db99bc46
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/896b969e6732b68ee3c12ae4e1aeddf5db99bc46
Author:        Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@huawei.com>
AuthorDate:    Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:19:48 +01:00
Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitterDate: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:48:29 +01:00

tick/sched: Release seqcount before invoking calc_load_global()

calc_load_global() does not need the sequence count protection.

[ tglx: Split it up properly and added comments ]

Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201117132006.660902274@linutronix.de

---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 306adeb..33c897b 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
 #include <linux/sched/stat.h>
 #include <linux/sched/nohz.h>
+#include <linux/sched/loadavg.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/irq_work.h>
 #include <linux/posix-timers.h>
@@ -107,7 +108,8 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now)
 						tick_period);
 	}
 
-	do_timer(ticks);
+	/* Advance jiffies to complete the jiffies_seq protected job */
+	jiffies_64 += ticks;
 
 	/*
 	 * Keep the tick_next_period variable up to date.  WRITE_ONCE()
@@ -116,7 +118,15 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now)
 	WRITE_ONCE(tick_next_period,
 		   ktime_add(last_jiffies_update, tick_period));
 
+	/*
+	 * Release the sequence count. calc_global_load() below is not
+	 * protected by it, but jiffies_lock needs to be held to prevent
+	 * concurrent invocations.
+	 */
 	write_seqcount_end(&jiffies_seq);
+
+	calc_global_load();
+
 	raw_spin_unlock(&jiffies_lock);
 	update_wall_time();
 }