From: Neal Cardwell Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:09:37 +0000 (-0400) Subject: nohz: Fix stale jiffies update in tick_nohz_restart() X-Git-Tag: v3.0.29~43 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ca8877b566438c293e4e54d39c959a9a847a77b;p=karo-tx-linux.git nohz: Fix stale jiffies update in tick_nohz_restart() commit 6f103929f8979d2638e58d7f7fda0beefcb8ee7e upstream. Fix tick_nohz_restart() to not use a stale ktime_t "now" value when calling tick_do_update_jiffies64(now). If we reach this point in the loop it means that we crossed a tick boundary since we grabbed the "now" timestamp, so at this point "now" refers to a time in the old jiffy, so using the old value for "now" is incorrect, and is likely to give us a stale jiffies value. In particular, the first time through the loop the tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) call is always a no-op, since the caller, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(), will have already called tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) with that "now" value. Note that tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() already uses the correct approach: when we notice we cross a jiffy boundary, grab a new timestamp with ktime_get(), and *then* update jiffies. Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Cc: Ben Segall Cc: Ingo Molnar Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332875377-23014-1-git-send-email-ncardwell@google.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index d5097c44b407..c473ce246cb7 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -484,9 +484,9 @@ static void tick_nohz_restart(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now) hrtimer_get_expires(&ts->sched_timer), 0)) break; } - /* Update jiffies and reread time */ - tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); + /* Reread time and update jiffies */ now = ktime_get(); + tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); } }