tick: Cure broadcast false positive pending bit warning
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 28 May 2013 07:33:01 +0000 (09:33 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 28 May 2013 07:33:01 +0000 (09:33 +0200)
commit2938d2757fc99c26aa678ce4eba910c4a77c3a55
tree67a083021705f6cac75f6bea2fa83e975807c624
parente4aa937ec75df0eea0bee03bffa3303ad36c986b
tick: Cure broadcast false positive pending bit warning

commit 26517f3e (tick: Avoid programming the local cpu timer if
broadcast pending) added a warning if the cpu enters broadcast mode
again while the pending bit is still set. Meelis reported that the
warning triggers. There are two corner cases which have been not
considered:

1) cpuidle calls clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
   twice. That can result in the following scenario

   CPU0                    CPU1
                           cpuidle_idle_call()
                             clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
                               set cpu in tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask

   broadcast interrupt
     event expired for cpu1
     set pending bit

                             acpi_idle_enter_simple()
                               clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
                                 WARN_ON(pending bit)

  Move the WARN_ON into the section where we enter broadcast mode so
  it wont provide false positives on the second call.

2) safe_halt() enables interrupts, so a broadcast interrupt can be
   delivered befor the broadcast mode is disabled. That sets the
   pending bit for the CPU which receives the broadcast
   interrupt. Though the interrupt is delivered right away from the
   broadcast handler and leaves the pending bit stale.

   Clear the pending bit for the current cpu in the broadcast handler.

Reported-and-tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305271841130.4220@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c