[PATCH 3.10 44/52] nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-06-24T16:41:24Z

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

commit 0e576acbc1d9600cf2d9b4a141a2554639959d50 upstream.

If CONFIG_NO_HZ=n tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() returns NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ.

If CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and the nohz functionality is disabled via the
command line option "nohz=off" or not enabled due to missing hardware
support, then tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() returns 0. That happens
because ts->sleep_length is never set in that case.

Set it to NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ when the NOHZ mode is inactive.

Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -720,8 +720,10 @@ static bool can_stop_idle_tick(int cpu,
return false;
}

- if (unlikely(ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE))
+ if (unlikely(ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE)) {
+ ts->sleep_length = (ktime_t) { .tv64 = NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ };
return false;
+ }

if (need_resched())
return false;