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timekeeping: Fix leapsecond triggered load spike issue
authorJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:49:26 +0000 (17:49 -0400)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:35:47 +0000 (15:35 -0400)
commit7e565a62054f05baecbc74ec28613b09bad57bcf
treed5c20923380c544b557b16b7925a76fcfbdf98bb
parent25b2871241b14b0b01b7aa1ffc958b565ad03e3e
timekeeping: Fix leapsecond triggered load spike issue

commit 4873fa070ae84a4115f0b3c9dfabc224f1bc7c51 upstream.

The timekeeping code misses an update of the hrtimer subsystem after a
leap second happened. Due to that timers based on CLOCK_REALTIME are
either expiring a second early or late depending on whether a leap
second has been inserted or deleted until an operation is initiated
which causes that update. Unless the update happens by some other
means this discrepancy between the timekeeping and the hrtimer data
stays forever and timers are expired either early or late.

The reported immediate workaround - $ data -s "`date`" - is causing a
call to clock_was_set() which updates the hrtimer data structures.
See: http://www.sheeri.com/content/mysql-and-leap-second-high-cpu-and-fix

Add the missing clock_was_set() call to update_wall_time() in case of
a leap second event. The actual update is deferred to softirq context
as the necessary smp function call cannot be invoked from hard
interrupt context.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-3-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
kernel/time/timekeeping.c