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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Stable Team <stable@kernel.org>,
	"Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" <Vincent.Fortier1@EC.GC.CA>
Subject: [PATCH] NTP: remove clock_was_set() call to prevent deadlock
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:05:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183485920.3291.28.camel@chaos> (raw)

The clock_was_set() call in seconds_overflow() which happens only when
leap seconds are inserted / deleted is wrong in two aspects:

1. it results in a call to on_each_cpu() with interrupts disabled
2. it is potential deadlock source vs. call_lock in smp_call_function()

The only possible side effect of the removal might be, that an absolute
CLOCK_REALTIME timer fires 1 second too late, in the rare case of leap
second deletion and an absolute CLOCK_REALTIME timer which expires in
the affected time frame. It will never fire too early.

This was probably observed by the reporter of a June 30th -> July 1st
hang: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/3/

A similar problem was observed by Dave Jones, who provided a screen shot
with a lockdep back trace, which allowed to analyse the problem.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ void second_overflow(void)
 			 */
 			time_interpolator_update(-NSEC_PER_SEC);
 			time_state = TIME_OOP;
-			clock_was_set();
 			printk(KERN_NOTICE "Clock: inserting leap second "
 					"23:59:60 UTC\n");
 		}
@@ -137,7 +136,6 @@ void second_overflow(void)
 			 */
 			time_interpolator_update(NSEC_PER_SEC);
 			time_state = TIME_WAIT;
-			clock_was_set();
 			printk(KERN_NOTICE "Clock: deleting leap second "
 					"23:59:59 UTC\n");
 		}



             reply	other threads:[~2007-07-03 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-03 18:05 Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-07-03 19:41 ` [PATCH] NTP: remove clock_was_set() call to prevent deadlock Ingo Molnar
2007-07-03 19:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-07-04 11:06 ` Roman Zippel
2007-07-04 11:15   ` Thomas Gleixner

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