tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 1 Jul 2013 20:14:10 +0000 (22:14 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:07:29 +0000 (14:07 -0700)
commit084c895d3c9fecf80fe02ba442b90818116b30d2
tree046bafa3c00253b857c483d0b7406ffceeedb73e
parent1c0d08e652c18e3f3198969435fef31941b2eec3
tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode

commit 1f73a9806bdd07a5106409bbcab3884078bd34fe upstream.

When the system switches from periodic to oneshot mode, the broadcast
logic causes a possibility that a CPU which has not yet switched to
oneshot mode puts its own clock event device into oneshot mode without
updating the state and the timer handler.

CPU0 CPU1
per cpu tickdev is in periodic mode
and switched to broadcast

Switch to oneshot mode
 tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot()
  cpumask_copy(tick_oneshot_broacast_mask,
       tick_broadcast_mask);

  broadcast device mode = oneshot

Timer interrupt

irq_enter()
 tick_check_oneshot_broadcast()
  dev->set_mode(ONESHOT);

tick_handle_periodic()
 if (dev->mode == ONESHOT)
   dev->next_event += period;
   FAIL.

We fail, because dev->next_event contains KTIME_MAX, if the device was
in periodic mode before the uncontrolled switch to oneshot happened.

We must copy the broadcast bits over to the oneshot mask, because
otherwise a CPU which relies on the broadcast would not been woken up
anymore after the broadcast device switched to oneshot mode.

So we need to verify in tick_check_oneshot_broadcast() whether the CPU
has already switched to oneshot mode. If not, leave the device
untouched and let the CPU switch controlled into oneshot mode.

This is a long standing bug, which was never noticed, because the main
user of the broadcast x86 cannot run into that scenario, AFAICT. The
nonarchitected timer mess of ARM creates a gazillion of differently
broken abominations which trigger the shortcomings of that broadcast
code, which better had never been necessary in the first place.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c