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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2012-06-01 18:13:43 +1000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-06-17 11:21:22 -0700
commite6a6c7d2e51c9af9ce9fab247b1bc2af3967cfbb (patch)
treefd18abf642963b7aca359e9c00f3671b29b61c29 /arch
parent5a32293d5c1045e99b70582783b453d08e71cfdb (diff)
powerpc/time: Sanity check of decrementer expiration is necessary
commit 860aed25a1f0936d4852ab936252b47cd1e630f1 upstream. This reverts 68568add2c ("powerpc/time: Remove unnecessary sanity check of decrementer expiration"). We do need to check whether we have reached the expiration time of the next event, because we sometimes get an early decrementer interrupt, most notably when we set the decrementer to 1 in arch_irq_work_raise(). The effect of not having the sanity check is that if timer_interrupt() gets called early, we leave the decrementer set to its maximum value, which means we then don't get any more decrementer interrupts for about 4 seconds (or longer, depending on timebase frequency). I saw these pauses as a consequence of getting a stray hypervisor decrementer interrupt left over from exiting a KVM guest. This isn't quite a straight revert because of changes to the surrounding code, but it restores the same algorithm as was previously used. Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index 2c42cd72d0f..730e69cb7e9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ void timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs * regs)
struct pt_regs *old_regs;
u64 *next_tb = &__get_cpu_var(decrementers_next_tb);
struct clock_event_device *evt = &__get_cpu_var(decrementers);
+ u64 now;
/* Ensure a positive value is written to the decrementer, or else
* some CPUs will continue to take decrementer exceptions.
@@ -508,9 +509,16 @@ void timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs * regs)
irq_work_run();
}
- *next_tb = ~(u64)0;
- if (evt->event_handler)
- evt->event_handler(evt);
+ now = get_tb_or_rtc();
+ if (now >= *next_tb) {
+ *next_tb = ~(u64)0;
+ if (evt->event_handler)
+ evt->event_handler(evt);
+ } else {
+ now = *next_tb - now;
+ if (now <= DECREMENTER_MAX)
+ set_dec((int)now);
+ }
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
/* collect purr register values often, for accurate calculations */