linux/kernel/time
Thomas Gleixner 989dcb645c tick: Handle broadcast wakeup of multiple cpus
Some brilliant hardware implementations wake multiple cores when the
broadcast timer fires. This leads to the following interesting
problem:

CPU0				CPU1
wakeup from idle		wakeup from idle

leave broadcast mode		leave broadcast mode
 restart per cpu timer		 restart per cpu timer
 	     	 		go back to idle
handle broadcast
 (empty mask)			
				enter broadcast mode
				programm broadcast device
enter broadcast mode
programm broadcast device

So what happens is that due to the forced reprogramming of the cpu
local timer, we need to set a event in the future. Now if we manage to
go back to idle before the timer fires, we switch off the timer and
arm the broadcast device with an already expired time (covered by
forced mode). So in the worst case we repeat the above ping pong
forever.
					
Unfortunately we have no information about what caused the wakeup, but
we can check current time against the expiry time of the local cpu. If
the local event is already in the past, we know that the broadcast
timer is about to fire and send an IPI. So we mark ourself as an IPI
target even if we left broadcast mode and avoid the reprogramming of
the local cpu timer.

This still leaves the possibility that a CPU which is not handling the
broadcast interrupt is going to reach idle again before the IPI
arrives. This can't be solved in the core code and will be handled in
follow up patches.

Reported-by: Jason Liu <liu.h.jason@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130306111537.492045206@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-03-13 11:39:39 +01:00
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alarmtimer.c alarmtimer: Rename alarmtimer_remove to alarmtimer_dequeue 2012-09-24 12:38:03 -04:00
clockevents.c clockevents: export clockevents_config_and_register for module use 2013-01-14 10:12:37 -08:00
clocksource.c kernel-time: fix s/then/than/ spelling errors 2012-03-23 16:49:21 -07:00
jiffies.c time: Kill xtime_lock, replacing it with jiffies_lock 2012-11-13 14:08:23 -05:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'fortglx/3.9/time' of git://git.linaro.org/people/jstultz/linux into timers/core 2013-02-04 11:03:03 +01:00
Makefile time: remove the timecompare code. 2012-11-01 11:41:35 -04:00
ntp.c Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-22 19:25:09 -08:00
posix-clock.c kernel: Fix files explicitly needing EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure 2011-10-31 19:30:05 -04:00
tick-broadcast.c tick: Handle broadcast wakeup of multiple cpus 2013-03-13 11:39:39 +01:00
tick-common.c tick: Convert broadcast cpu bitmaps to cpumask_var_t 2013-03-07 16:13:26 +01:00
tick-internal.h tick: Convert broadcast cpu bitmaps to cpumask_var_t 2013-03-07 16:13:26 +01:00
tick-oneshot.c clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable 2011-09-08 11:10:56 +02:00
tick-sched.c Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2013-02-28 19:48:26 -08:00
timeconv.c time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universal use 2009-09-24 07:20:56 -07:00
timekeeping.c arm-soc: cleanups 2013-02-21 14:58:40 -08:00
timer_list.c nohz: Rename ts->idle_tick to ts->last_tick 2012-06-11 20:07:17 +02:00
timer_stats.c locking, timer_stats: Annotate table_lock as raw 2011-09-13 11:12:00 +02:00