From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Subject: [PATCH v6 17/46] clockevents: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() in clockevents_notify() Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:10:42 +0530 Message-ID: <20130218124042.26245.92242.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> References: <20130218123714.26245.61816.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, rjw@sisk.pl, sbw@mit.edu, fweisbec@gmail.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, walken@google.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org To: tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, tj@kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mingo@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, namhyung@kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130218123714.26245.61816.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org The cpu idle code invokes clockevents_notify() during idle state transitions and the cpu offline code invokes it during the CPU_DYING phase. There seems to be a race-condition between the two, where the clockevents_lock never gets released, ending in a lockup. This can be fixed by synchronizing clockevents_notify() with CPU offline, by wrapping its contents within get/put_online_cpus_atomic(). Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat --- kernel/time/clockevents.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c index 30b6de0..ca340fd 100644 --- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c +++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "tick-internal.h" @@ -431,6 +432,7 @@ void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg) unsigned long flags; int cpu; + get_online_cpus_atomic(); raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&clockevents_lock, flags); clockevents_do_notify(reason, arg); @@ -459,6 +461,7 @@ void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg) break; } raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clockevents_lock, flags); + put_online_cpus_atomic(); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clockevents_notify); #endif