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authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>2008-09-03 21:36:50 +0000
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2008-09-05 11:11:51 +0200
commit7c1e76897492d92b6a1c2d6892494d39ded9680c (patch)
treeea04e1be252e176fe5a665a28fd1c26a562cb1fa /kernel
parentd210baf53b699fc61aa891c177b71d7082d3b957 (diff)
downloadlinux-7c1e76897492d92b6a1c2d6892494d39ded9680c.tar.bz2
clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
There is a ordering related problem with clockevents code, due to which clockevents_register_device() called after tickless/highres switch will not work. The new clockevent ends up with clockevents_handle_noop as event handler, resulting in no timer activity. The problematic path seems to be * old device already has hrtimer_interrupt as the event_handler * new clockevent device registers with a higher rating * tick_check_new_device() is called * clockevents_exchange_device() gets called * old->event_handler is set to clockevents_handle_noop * tick_setup_device() is called for the new device * which sets new->event_handler using the old->event_handler which is noop. Change the ordering so that new device inherits the proper handler. This does not have any issue in normal case as most likely all the clockevent devices are setup before the highres switch. But, can potentially be affecting some corner case where HPET force detect happens after the highres switch. This was a problem with HPET in MSI mode code that we have been experimenting with. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/clockevents.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-common.c1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index 3d1e3e1a1971..1876b526c778 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ void clockevents_register_device(struct clock_event_device *dev)
/*
* Noop handler when we shut down an event device
*/
-static void clockevents_handle_noop(struct clock_event_device *dev)
+void clockevents_handle_noop(struct clock_event_device *dev)
{
}
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ void clockevents_exchange_device(struct clock_event_device *old,
* released list and do a notify add later.
*/
if (old) {
- old->event_handler = clockevents_handle_noop;
clockevents_set_mode(old, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED);
list_del(&old->list);
list_add(&old->list, &clockevents_released);
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
index 80c4336f4188..c4777193d567 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ static void tick_setup_device(struct tick_device *td,
} else {
handler = td->evtdev->event_handler;
next_event = td->evtdev->next_event;
+ td->evtdev->event_handler = clockevents_handle_noop;
}
td->evtdev = newdev;