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tick/broadcast: Handle spurious interrupts gracefully
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Andriy reported that on a virtual machine the warning about negative
expiry time in the clock events programming code triggered:

hpet: hpet0 irq 40 for MSI
hpet: hpet1 irq 41 for MSI
Switching to clocksource hpet
WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c:239

[<ffffffff810ce6eb>] clockevents_program_event+0xdb/0xf0
[<ffffffff810cf211>] tick_handle_periodic_broadcast+0x41/0x50
[<ffffffff81016525>] timer_interrupt+0x15/0x20

When the second hpet is installed as a per cpu timer the broadcast
event is not longer required and stopped, which sets the next_evt of
the broadcast device to KTIME_MAX.

If after that a spurious interrupt happens on the broadcast device,
then the current code blindly handles it and tries to reprogram the
broadcast device afterwards, which adds the period to
next_evt. KTIME_MAX + period results in a negative expiry value
causing the WARN_ON in the clockevents code to trigger.

Add a proper check for the state of the broadcast device into the
interrupt handler and return if the interrupt is spurious.

[ Folded in pointer fix from Sudeep ]

Reported-by: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150705205221.802094647@linutronix.de
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Thomas Gleixner committed Jul 7, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -316,6 +316,13 @@ static void tick_handle_periodic_broadcast(struct clock_event_device *dev)
bool bc_local;

raw_spin_lock(&tick_broadcast_lock);

/* Handle spurious interrupts gracefully */
if (clockevent_state_shutdown(tick_broadcast_device.evtdev)) {
raw_spin_unlock(&tick_broadcast_lock);
return;
}

bc_local = tick_do_periodic_broadcast();

if (clockevent_state_oneshot(dev)) {
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