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clocksource: Make watchdog robust vs. interruption
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:22:08 +0000 (16:22 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:31:23 +0000 (05:31 +0200)
commit43b951e4185f3132e77e6340d1aed42e90618e4b
treefe4b2aa91bd9cb217396bbfed8afe775236c02e9
parent6961b18f7cdd1357b3e31a6b97807034204220c6
clocksource: Make watchdog robust vs. interruption

commit b5199515c25cca622495eb9c6a8a1d275e775088 upstream.

The clocksource watchdog code is interruptible and it has been
observed that this can trigger false positives which disable the TSC.

The reason is that an interrupt storm or a long running interrupt
handler between the read of the watchdog source and the read of the
TSC brings the two far enough apart that the delta is larger than the
unstable treshold. Move both reads into a short interrupt disabled
region to avoid that.

Reported-and-tested-by: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
include/linux/clocksource.h
kernel/time/clocksource.c