[PATCH 3.14 018/140] tick-sched: Dont call update_wall_time() when delta is lesser than tick_period

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-05-29T05:39:00Z

From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

commit 03e6bdc5c4d0fc166bfd5d3cf749a5a0c1b5b1bd upstream.

In tick_do_update_jiffies64() we are processing ticks only if delta is
greater than tick_period. This is what we are supposed to do here and
it broke a bit with this patch:

commit 47a1b796 (tick/timekeeping: Call update_wall_time outside the
jiffies lock)

With above patch, we might end up calling update_wall_time() even if
delta is found to be smaller that tick_period. Fix this by returning
when the delta is less than tick period.

[ tglx: Made it a 3 liner and massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arvind.Chauhan@arm.com
Cc: linaro-networking@linaro.org
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/80afb18a494b0bd9710975bcc4de134ae323c74f.1397537987.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(kti

/* Keep the tick_next_period variable up to date */
tick_next_period = ktime_add(last_jiffies_update, tick_period);
+ } else {
+ write_sequnlock(&jiffies_lock);
+ return;
}
write_sequnlock(&jiffies_lock);
update_wall_time();