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hrtimers: allow the hot-unplugging of all cpus

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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>
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Sebastien Dugue
2008-12-01 14:09:07 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 7f22391cbe
commit 94df7de028
3 changed files with 24 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -1608,6 +1608,10 @@ static int __cpuinit hrtimer_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
break;
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
case CPU_DYING:
case CPU_DYING_FROZEN:
clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_CPU_DYING, &scpu);
break;
case CPU_DEAD:
case CPU_DEAD_FROZEN:
{