hrtimers: allow the hot-unplugging of all cpus
authorSebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:09:07 +0000 (14:09 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:35:29 +0000 (22:35 +0100)
commit94df7de0289bc2df3d6e85cd2ece52bf42682f45
treeb3f614b015adfb9574959687bb9b7ac4c884e23a
parent7f22391cbe82a80a9f891d8bd10fc28ff248d1e2
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>
include/linux/clockchips.h
kernel/hrtimer.c
kernel/time/tick-common.c