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Commit 012a45e3 authored by Leon Ma's avatar Leon Ma Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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hrtimer: Prevent remote enqueue of leftmost timers



If a cpu is idle and starts an hrtimer which is not pinned on that
same cpu, the nohz code might target the timer to a different cpu.

In the case that we switch the cpu base of the timer we already have a
sanity check in place, which determines whether the timer is earlier
than the current leftmost timer on the target cpu. In that case we
enqueue the timer on the current cpu because we cannot reprogram the
clock event device on the target.

If the timers base is already the target CPU we do not have this
sanity check in place so we enqueue the timer as the leftmost timer in
the target cpus rb tree, but we cannot reprogram the clock event
device on the target cpu. So the timer expires late and subsequently
prevents the reprogramming of the target cpu clock event device until
the previously programmed event fires or a timer with an earlier
expiry time gets enqueued on the target cpu itself.

Add the same target check as we have for the switch base case and
start the timer on the current cpu if it would become the leftmost
timer on the target.

[ tglx: Rewrote subject and changelog ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarLeon Ma <xindong.ma@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398847391-5994-1-git-send-email-xindong.ma@intel.com


Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 6c6c0d5a
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