Linus,
please pull the latest timers-urgent-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git
timers-urgent-for-linus
Two fixes for timekeeping:
- Revert to the previous kthread based update, which is unfortunately
required due to lock ordering issues. The removal caused boot failures
on old Core2 machines. Add a proper comment why the thread needs to stay
to prevent accidental removal in the future.
- Fix a silly typo in a function declaration
Thanks,
tglx
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Christian Borntraeger (1):
timekeeping: Fix declaration of read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()
Peter Zijlstra (1):
clocksource: Revert "Remove kthread"
include/linux/timekeeping.h | 4 ++--
kernel/time/clocksource.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/timekeeping.h b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
index 5d738804e3d6..a5a3cfc3c2fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/timekeeping.h
+++ b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
@@ -258,8 +258,8 @@ extern void ktime_get_snapshot(struct system_time_snapshot
*systime_snapshot);
extern int persistent_clock_is_local;
extern void read_persistent_clock64(struct timespec64 *ts);
-void read_persistent_clock_and_boot_offset(struct timespec64 *wall_clock,
- struct timespec64 *boot_offset);
+void read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset(struct timespec64 *wall_clock,
+ struct timespec64 *boot_offset);
extern int update_persistent_clock64(struct timespec64 now);
/*
diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index f74fb00d8064..0e6e97a01942 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -133,19 +133,40 @@ static void inline clocksource_watchdog_unlock(unsigned
long *flags)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&watchdog_lock, *flags);
}
+static int clocksource_watchdog_kthread(void *data);
+static void __clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating);
+
/*
* Interval: 0.5sec Threshold: 0.0625s
*/
#define WATCHDOG_INTERVAL (HZ >> 1)
#define WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD (NSEC_PER_SEC >> 4)
+static void clocksource_watchdog_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ /*
+ * We cannot directly run clocksource_watchdog_kthread() here, because
+ * clocksource_select() calls timekeeping_notify() which uses
+ * stop_machine(). One cannot use stop_machine() from a workqueue() due
+ * lock inversions wrt CPU hotplug.
+ *
+ * Also, we only ever run this work once or twice during the lifetime
+ * of the kernel, so there is no point in creating a more permanent
+ * kthread for this.
+ *
+ * If kthread_run fails the next watchdog scan over the
+ * watchdog_list will find the unstable clock again.
+ */
+ kthread_run(clocksource_watchdog_kthread, NULL, "kwatchdog");
+}
+
static void __clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs)
{
cs->flags &= ~(CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES | CLOCK_SOURCE_WATCHDOG);
cs->flags |= CLOCK_SOURCE_UNSTABLE;
/*
- * If the clocksource is registered clocksource_watchdog_work() will
+ * If the clocksource is registered clocksource_watchdog_kthread() will
* re-rate and re-select.
*/
if (list_empty(&cs->list)) {
@@ -156,7 +177,7 @@ static void __clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs)
if (cs->mark_unstable)
cs->mark_unstable(cs);
- /* kick clocksource_watchdog_work() */
+ /* kick clocksource_watchdog_kthread() */
if (finished_booting)
schedule_work(&watchdog_work);
}
@@ -166,7 +187,7 @@ static void __clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs)
* @cs: clocksource to be marked unstable
*
* This function is called by the x86 TSC code to mark clocksources as
unstable;
- * it defers demotion and re-selection to a work.
+ * it defers demotion and re-selection to a kthread.
*/
void clocksource_mark_unstable(struct clocksource *cs)
{
@@ -391,9 +412,7 @@ static void clocksource_dequeue_watchdog(struct clocksource
*cs)
}
}
-static void __clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating);
-
-static int __clocksource_watchdog_work(void)
+static int __clocksource_watchdog_kthread(void)
{
struct clocksource *cs, *tmp;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -418,12 +437,13 @@ static int __clocksource_watchdog_work(void)
return select;
}
-static void clocksource_watchdog_work(struct work_struct *work)
+static int clocksource_watchdog_kthread(void *data)
{
mutex_lock(&clocksource_mutex);
- if (__clocksource_watchdog_work())
+ if (__clocksource_watchdog_kthread())
clocksource_select();
mutex_unlock(&clocksource_mutex);
+ return 0;
}
static bool clocksource_is_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs)
@@ -442,7 +462,7 @@ static void clocksource_enqueue_watchdog(struct clocksource
*cs)
static void clocksource_select_watchdog(bool fallback) { }
static inline void clocksource_dequeue_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs) { }
static inline void clocksource_resume_watchdog(void) { }
-static inline int __clocksource_watchdog_work(void) { return 0; }
+static inline int __clocksource_watchdog_kthread(void) { return 0; }
static bool clocksource_is_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs) { return false; }
void clocksource_mark_unstable(struct clocksource *cs) { }
@@ -810,7 +830,7 @@ static int __init clocksource_done_booting(void)
/*
* Run the watchdog first to eliminate unstable clock sources
*/
- __clocksource_watchdog_work();
+ __clocksource_watchdog_kthread();
clocksource_select();
mutex_unlock(&clocksource_mutex);
return 0;
