tick: Detect and fix jiffies update stall
authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Wed, 2 Feb 2022 00:01:07 +0000 (01:01 +0100)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Mon, 7 Mar 2022 22:01:19 +0000 (23:01 +0100)
commita1ff03cd6fb9c501fff63a4a2bface9adcfa81cd
tree5a5e4af9948395d52664857409bb6d4c4811efe8
parent58dedf0a4782ce42b4d31f1f62e5ad80a1b73d72
tick: Detect and fix jiffies update stall

On some rare cases, the timekeeper CPU may be delaying its jiffies
update duty for a while. Known causes include:

* The timekeeper is waiting on stop_machine in a MULTI_STOP_DISABLE_IRQ
  or MULTI_STOP_RUN state. Disabled interrupts prevent from timekeeping
  updates while waiting for the target CPU to complete its
  stop_machine() callback.

* The timekeeper vcpu has VMEXIT'ed for a long while due to some overload
  on the host.

Detect and fix these situations with emergency timekeeping catchups.

Original-patch-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/time/tick-sched.c
kernel/time/tick-sched.h