linux/kernel
Zachary Amsden 0662b71322 [PATCH] Fix a NO_IDLE_HZ timer bug
Under certain timing conditions, a race during boot occurs where timer
ticks are being processed on remote CPUs.  The remote timer ticks can
increment jiffies, and if this happens during a window when a timeout is
very close to expiring but a local tick has not yet been delivered, you can
end up with

1) No softirq pending
2) A local timer wheel which is not synced to jiffies
3) No high resolution timer active
4) A local timer which is supposed to fire before the current jiffies value.

In this circumstance, the comparison in next_timer_interrupt overflows,
because the base of the comparison for high resolution timers is jiffies,
but for the softirq timer wheel, it is relative the the current base of the
wheel (jiffies_base).

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:21 -07:00
..
irq [PATCH] request_irq(): remove warnings from irq probing 2006-04-28 08:33:46 -07:00
power [PATCH] off-by-1 in kernel/power/main.c 2006-04-28 08:33:46 -07:00
.gitignore gitignore: ignore more generated files 2006-01-03 11:35:26 +01:00
acct.c [PATCH] Fix pacct bug in multithreading case. 2006-03-31 12:18:54 -08:00
audit.c [PATCH] More user space subject labels 2006-05-01 06:10:01 -04:00
audit.h [PATCH] support for context based audit filtering, part 2 2006-05-01 06:09:36 -04:00
auditfilter.c [PATCH] More user space subject labels 2006-05-01 06:10:01 -04:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] Audit Filter Performance 2006-05-01 06:10:07 -04:00
capability.c [PATCH] refactor capable() to one implementation, add __capable() helper 2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
compat.c [PATCH] lightweight robust futexes: compat 2006-03-27 08:44:49 -08:00
configs.c update the email address of Randy Dunlap 2006-01-03 13:37:51 +01:00
cpu.c [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes 2006-03-27 08:44:50 -08:00
cpuset.c [PATCH] cpuset: might_sleep_if check in cpuset_zones_allowed 2006-05-21 12:59:18 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c [PATCH] Fix module refcount leak in __set_personality() 2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
exit.c [PATCH] move call of audit_free() into do_exit() 2006-05-01 06:06:13 -04:00
extable.c [PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernel 2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
fork.c [PATCH] move call of audit_free() into do_exit() 2006-05-01 06:06:13 -04:00
futex_compat.c [PATCH] futex: check and validate timevals 2006-03-31 12:18:59 -08:00
futex.c [PATCH] futex: check and validate timevals 2006-03-31 12:18:59 -08:00
hrtimer.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00
intermodule.c [PATCH] missing license tag in intermodule 2006-02-05 11:06:52 -08:00
itimer.c [PATCH] hrtimers: remove data field 2006-03-26 08:57:03 -08:00
kallsyms.c [PATCH] fix missing includes 2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt 2005-06-23 09:45:10 -07:00
Kconfig.preempt [PATCH] sched: voluntary kernel preemption 2005-06-25 16:24:45 -07:00
kexec.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
kfifo.c [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
kmod.c [PATCH] wait_for_helper: trivial style cleanup 2006-03-28 18:36:41 -08:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] kprobes: NULL out non-relevant fields in struct kretprobe 2006-04-20 07:54:03 -07:00
ksysfs.c [PATCH] fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=n 2006-03-24 07:33:31 -08:00
kthread.c [PATCH] find_task_by_pid() needs tasklist_lock 2006-03-25 08:22:57 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] lightweight robust futexes: compat 2006-03-27 08:44:49 -08:00
module.c [PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernel 2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
mutex-debug.c [PATCH] fix/simplify mutex debugging code 2006-01-11 08:14:16 -08:00
mutex-debug.h [PATCH] mutex subsystem, debugging code 2006-01-09 15:59:20 -08:00
mutex.c [PATCH] mutex: trivial whitespace cleanups 2006-01-10 14:27:59 -08:00
mutex.h [PATCH] mutex subsystem, core 2006-01-09 15:59:19 -08:00
panic.c [PATCH] the scheduled unexport of panic_timeout 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
params.c [PATCH] Change dash2underscore() return value to char 2006-03-28 09:16:03 -08:00
pid.c [PATCH] pidhash: Refactor the pid hash table 2006-03-31 12:19:00 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c [PATCH] hrtimer: switch clock_nanosleep to hrtimer nanosleep API 2006-01-10 08:01:38 -08:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] hrtimers: remove data field 2006-03-26 08:57:03 -08:00
printk.c BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/printk.c 2006-04-01 01:21:17 +02:00
profile.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00
ptrace.c ptrace_attach: fix possible deadlock schenario with irqs 2006-05-11 11:08:49 -07:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] RCU: introduce rcu_needs_cpu() interface 2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
rcutorture.c [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: fixes for generic part 2006-03-28 09:16:05 -08:00
relay.c [PATCH] relay: consolidate sendfile() and read() code 2006-03-23 19:58:45 +01:00
resource.c [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: __check_region(): remove pointless __deprecated 2006-01-10 08:02:02 -08:00
sched.c [PATCH] Remove __devinitdata from notifier block definitions 2006-04-26 08:27:50 -07:00
seccomp.c
signal.c [PATCH] fix non-leader exec under ptrace 2006-04-14 08:59:13 -07:00
softirq.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00
softlockup.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] BUILD_LOCK_OPS: cleanup preempt_disable() usage 2006-03-23 07:38:16 -08:00
stop_machine.c [PATCH] Remove set_fs() in stop_machine() 2006-01-10 08:01:25 -08:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] frv: define MMU mode specific syscalls as 'cond_syscall' and clean up unneeded macros 2006-04-11 06:18:33 -07:00
sys.c [PATCH] Make setsid() more robust 2006-03-31 12:18:59 -08:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] Range checking in do_proc_dointvec_(userhz_)jiffies_conv 2006-03-24 07:33:20 -08:00
time.c Fix comments: s/granuality/granularity/ 2006-04-01 01:41:22 +02:00
timer.c [PATCH] Fix a NO_IDLE_HZ timer bug 2006-05-21 12:59:21 -07:00
uid16.c [PATCH] Add more prevent_tail_call() 2006-04-19 16:27:18 -07:00
user.c [PATCH] free_uid() locking improvement 2006-03-24 07:33:20 -08:00
wait.c
workqueue.c [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions 2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00