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-rw-r--r--kernel/time/clockevents.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-sched.c18
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index 9cd928f7a7c6..7e1ce012a851 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -297,8 +297,7 @@ void clockevents_register_device(struct clock_event_device *dev)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clockevents_register_device);
-static void clockevents_config(struct clock_event_device *dev,
- u32 freq)
+void clockevents_config(struct clock_event_device *dev, u32 freq)
{
u64 sec;
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 0c927cd85345..da70c6db496c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -815,6 +815,16 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
return HRTIMER_RESTART;
}
+static int sched_skew_tick;
+
+static int __init skew_tick(char *str)
+{
+ get_option(&str, &sched_skew_tick);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("skew_tick", skew_tick);
+
/**
* tick_setup_sched_timer - setup the tick emulation timer
*/
@@ -832,6 +842,14 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
/* Get the next period (per cpu) */
hrtimer_set_expires(&ts->sched_timer, tick_init_jiffy_update());
+ /* Offset the tick to avert xtime_lock contention. */
+ if (sched_skew_tick) {
+ u64 offset = ktime_to_ns(tick_period) >> 1;
+ do_div(offset, num_possible_cpus());
+ offset *= smp_processor_id();
+ hrtimer_add_expires_ns(&ts->sched_timer, offset);
+ }
+
for (;;) {
hrtimer_forward(&ts->sched_timer, now, tick_period);
hrtimer_start_expires(&ts->sched_timer,