linux/kernel/time
Sebastien Dugue 94df7de028 hrtimers: allow the hot-unplugging of all cpus
Impact: fix CPU hotplug hang on Power6 testbox

On architectures that support offlining all cpus (at least powerpc/pseries),
hot-unpluging the tick_do_timer_cpu can result in a system hang.

This comes from the fact that if the cpu going down happens to be the
cpu doing the tick, then as the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happens after the
cpu is dead (via the CPU_DEAD notification), we're left without ticks,
jiffies are frozen and any task relying on timers (msleep, ...) is stuck.
That's particularly the case for the cpu looping in __cpu_die() waiting
for the dying cpu to be dead.

This patch addresses this by having the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happen
earlier during the CPU_DYING notification. For this, a new clockevent
notification type is introduced (CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_CPU_DYING) which is triggered
in hrtimer_cpu_notify().

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-30 22:35:29 +01:00
..
clockevents.c
clocksource.c
jiffies.c trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation 2009-01-06 11:28:06 +01:00
Kconfig
Makefile
ntp.c
tick-broadcast.c
tick-common.c hrtimers: allow the hot-unplugging of all cpus 2009-01-30 22:35:29 +01:00
tick-internal.h
tick-oneshot.c
tick-sched.c time-sched.c: tick_nohz_update_jiffies should be static 2009-01-15 12:06:56 +01:00
timekeeping.c
timer_list.c
timer_stats.c