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| author | Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> | 2008-07-11 11:09:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-11 11:17:04 +0200 |
| commit | 857f3fd7a496ddf4329345af65a4a2b16dd25fe8 (patch) | |
| tree | 7bd1b0de6e82363beba60097529b72ac7de923f5 /kernel | |
| parent | 7a14ce1d8c1d3a6118d406e64eaf9aa70375e085 (diff) | |
| download | linux-857f3fd7a496ddf4329345af65a4a2b16dd25fe8.tar.bz2 | |
nohz: don't stop idle tick if softirqs are pending.
In case a cpu goes idle but softirqs are pending only an error message is
printed to the console. It may take a very long time until the pending
softirqs will finally be executed. Worst case would be a hanging system.
With this patch the timer tick just continues and the softirqs will be
executed after the next interrupt. Still a delay but better than a
hanging system.
Currently we have at least two device drivers on s390 which under certain
circumstances schedule a tasklet from process context. This is a reason
why we can end up with pending softirqs when going idle. Fixing these
drivers seems to be non-trivial.
However there is no question that the drivers should be fixed.
This patch shouldn't be considered as a bug fix. It just is intended to
keep a system running even if device drivers are buggy.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index cb75394ed00e..86baa4f0dfe4 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void) local_softirq_pending()); ratelimit++; } + goto end; } ts->idle_calls++; |