clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop

There is a ordering related problem with clockevents code, due to which
clockevents_register_device() called after tickless/highres switch
will not work. The new clockevent ends up with clockevents_handle_noop as
event handler, resulting in no timer activity.

The problematic path seems to be

* old device already has hrtimer_interrupt as the event_handler
* new clockevent device registers with a higher rating
* tick_check_new_device() is called
  * clockevents_exchange_device() gets called
    * old->event_handler is set to clockevents_handle_noop
  * tick_setup_device() is called for the new device
    * which sets new->event_handler using the old->event_handler which is noop.

Change the ordering so that new device inherits the proper handler.

This does not have any issue in normal case as most likely all the clockevent
devices are setup before the highres switch. But, can potentially be affecting
some corner case where HPET force detect happens after the highres switch.
This was a problem with HPET in MSI mode code that we have been experimenting
with.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/include/linux/clockchips.h b/include/linux/clockchips.h
index c33b0dc28e4db5de75df8a2419c128d22c8e29d9..ed3a5d473e52b2282c0d09c2c25d406400dc7522 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/clockchips.h
+++ b/include/linux/clockchips.h
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ extern int clockevents_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 extern int clockevents_program_event(struct clock_event_device *dev,
                                     ktime_t expires, ktime_t now);
 
+extern void clockevents_handle_noop(struct clock_event_device *dev);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
 extern void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg);
 #else

diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index 3d1e3e1a19716e94cdad4116b1ca73242ac45f1e..1876b526c7783db17d4dd5050a899e640670ef59 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ void clockevents_register_device(struct clock_event_device *dev)
 /*
  * Noop handler when we shut down an event device
  */
-static void clockevents_handle_noop(struct clock_event_device *dev)
+void clockevents_handle_noop(struct clock_event_device *dev)
 {
 }
 
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ void clockevents_exchange_device(struct clock_event_device *old,
         * released list and do a notify add later.
         */
        if (old) {
-               old->event_handler = clockevents_handle_noop;
                clockevents_set_mode(old, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED);
                list_del(&old->list);
                list_add(&old->list, &clockevents_released);

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
index 80c4336f4188409a077d3f4ae4dde727f856de55..c4777193d56734d0276aa210ddbbad2e79c416c8 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ static void tick_setup_device(struct tick_device *td,
        } else {
                handler = td->evtdev->event_handler;
                next_event = td->evtdev->next_event;
+               td->evtdev->event_handler = clockevents_handle_noop;
        }
 
        td->evtdev = newdev;