From 6f103929f8979d2638e58d7f7fda0beefcb8ee7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neal Cardwell Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:09:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] nohz: Fix stale jiffies update in tick_nohz_restart() Fix tick_nohz_restart() to not use a stale ktime_t "now" value when calling tick_do_update_jiffies64(now). If we reach this point in the loop it means that we crossed a tick boundary since we grabbed the "now" timestamp, so at this point "now" refers to a time in the old jiffy, so using the old value for "now" is incorrect, and is likely to give us a stale jiffies value. In particular, the first time through the loop the tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) call is always a no-op, since the caller, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(), will have already called tick_do_update_jiffies64(now) with that "now" value. Note that tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() already uses the correct approach: when we notice we cross a jiffy boundary, grab a new timestamp with ktime_get(), and *then* update jiffies. Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Cc: Ben Segall Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332875377-23014-1-git-send-email-ncardwell@google.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 3526038f2836..6a3a5b9ff561 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -534,9 +534,9 @@ static void tick_nohz_restart(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now) hrtimer_get_expires(&ts->sched_timer), 0)) break; } - /* Update jiffies and reread time */ - tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); + /* Reread time and update jiffies */ now = ktime_get(); + tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); } }