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NOHZ: fix thinko in the timer restart code path
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commit fb02fbc (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter())

solves the problem of stale jiffies when long running softirqs happen
in a long idle sleep period, but it has a major thinko in it:

When the interrupt which came in _is_ the timer interrupt which should
expire ts->sched_timer then we cancel and rearm the timer _before_ it
gets expired in hrtimer_interrupt() to the next period. That means the
call back function is not called. This game can go on for ever :(

Prevent this by making sure to only rearm the timer when the expiry
time is more than one tick_period away. Otherwise keep it running as
it is either already expired or will expiry at the right point to
update jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Venkatesch Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
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Thomas Gleixner committed Oct 21, 2008
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12 changes: 11 additions & 1 deletion kernel/time/tick-sched.c
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Expand Up @@ -567,11 +567,21 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void)
static void tick_nohz_kick_tick(int cpu)
{
struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
ktime_t delta, now;

if (!ts->tick_stopped)
return;

tick_nohz_restart(ts, ktime_get());
/*
* Do not touch the tick device, when the next expiry is either
* already reached or less/equal than the tick period.
*/
now = ktime_get();
delta = ktime_sub(ts->sched_timer.expires, now);
if (delta.tv64 <= tick_period.tv64)
return;

tick_nohz_restart(ts, now);
}

#else
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