tip is broken with NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()

[Yinghai Lu]

all my servers are broken with following commit.


yhlu@linux-zpir:~/xx/xx/
kernel/tip/linux-2.6> git bisect bad
fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208 is first bad commit
commit fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Oct 17 10:01:23 2008 +0200

    NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()

    We did not restart the tick device from irq_enter() to avoid double
    reprogramming and extra events in the return immediate to idle case.

    But long lasting softirqs can lead to a situation where jiffies become
    stale:

    idle()
      tick stopped (reprogrammed to next pending timer)
      halt()
       interrupt
         jiffies updated from irq_enter()
         interrupt handler
         softirq function 1 runs 20ms
         softirq function 2 arms a 10ms timer with a stale jiffies value
         jiffies updated from irq_exit()
         timer wheel has now an already expired timer
         (the one added in function 2)
         timer fires and timer softirq runs

    This was discovered when debugging a timer problem which happend only
    when the ath5k driver is active. The debugging proved that there is a
    softirq function running for more than 20ms, which is a bug by itself.

    To solve this we restart the tick timer right from irq_enter(), but do
    not go through the other functions which are necessary to return from
    idle when need_resched() is set.

    Reported-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Tested-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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cf494796e1b4e824ec6da6f337569c4b090e
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yhlu@linux-zpir:~/xx/xx/kernel/tip/linux-2.6> git bisect log
git-bisect start
# bad: [8600bfdb4112c49ad09e7339010221e4a531716d] Merge branch 'warnings/simple'
git-bisect bad 8600bfdb4112c49ad09e7339010221e4a531716d
# good: [9601fd2e889cda328dbe66c2a907973916567c11] Merge branch 'sched/urgent'
git-bisect good 9601fd2e889cda328dbe66c2a907973916567c11
# good: [0cfd81031a26717fe14380d18275f8e217571615] Merge
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
git-bisect good 0cfd81031a26717fe14380d18275f8e217571615
# good: [2414719fbef90730a7521efb0074b8fb5905557f] Merge branch 'sched/urgent'
git-bisect good 2414719fbef90730a7521efb0074b8fb5905557f
# bad: [49ee4ff800b1d624fcd8bfa1ea3a55d1227635c3] Merge branch 'x86/doc'
git-bisect bad 49ee4ff800b1d624fcd8bfa1ea3a55d1227635c3
# bad: [0c4a0feaeb867cfa9486cef7555e1f23ceca2609] Merge branch 'tracing/urgent'
git-bisect bad 0c4a0feaeb867cfa9486cef7555e1f23ceca2609
# bad: [a597cb549361f6211d98edc99e672555899838f9] manual merge of
timers/range-hrtimers
git-bisect bad a597cb549361f6211d98edc99e672555899838f9
# bad: [14fedb9d17f5cb35ba805e39b5db9b48cee44c7e] manual merge of timers/nohz
git-bisect bad 14fedb9d17f5cb35ba805e39b5db9b48cee44c7e
# good: [322acf6585f3c4e82ee32a246b0483ca0f6ad3f4] fix documentation
of sysrq-q really
git-bisect good 322acf6585f3c4e82ee32a246b0483ca0f6ad3f4
# good: [c34bec5a44e9486597d78e7a686b2f9088a0564c] NOHZ: split
tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick()
git-bisect good c34bec5a44e9486597d78e7a686b2f9088a0564c
# bad: [fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208] NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter()
git-bisect bad fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208
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