From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Frederic Weisbecker , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Lingzhu Xiang , CAI Qian Subject: [ 61/72] nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:51:44 -0700 Message-Id: <20130326224925.972873650@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130326224919.675227837@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130326224919.675227837@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Frederic Weisbecker commit e5ab012c3271990e8457055c25cafddc1ae8aa6b upstream. As it stands, irq_exit() may or may not be called with irqs disabled, depending on __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED that the arch can define. It makes tick_nohz_irq_exit() unsafe. For example two interrupts can race in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(): the inner most one computes the expiring time on top of the timer list, then it's interrupted right before reprogramming the clock. The new interrupt enqueues a new timer list timer, it reprogram the clock to take it into account and it exits. The CPUs resumes the inner most interrupt and performs the clock reprogramming without considering the new timer list timer. This regression has been introduced by: 280f06774afedf849f0b34248ed6aff57d0f6908 ("nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logic") Let's fix it right now with the appropriate protections. A saner long term solution will be to remove __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED and mandate that irq_exit() is called with interrupts disabled. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361373336-11337-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang Reviewed-by: CAI Qian Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -496,12 +496,17 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void) */ void tick_nohz_irq_exit(void) { + unsigned long flags; struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched); if (!ts->inidle) return; + local_irq_save(flags); + tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(ts); + + local_irq_restore(flags); } /**