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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index b416995b9757..8c3fef1db09c 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -160,6 +160,18 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void) cpu = smp_processor_id(); ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu); + /* + * If this cpu is offline and it is the one which updates + * jiffies, then give up the assignment and let it be taken by + * the cpu which runs the tick timer next. If we don't drop + * this here the jiffies might be stale and do_timer() never + * invoked. + */ + if (unlikely(!cpu_online(cpu))) { + if (cpu == tick_do_timer_cpu) + tick_do_timer_cpu = -1; + } + if (unlikely(ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE)) goto end; |