Re: [PATCH] clockevent: don't remove broadcast device when cpu isdead

[Xiaotian Feng]

Hi:

    Any comments on the patch? Marc confirmed this patch also fixed his 
hang at suspend/resume stage. Thanks.

    (Cc'ed stable@xxxxxxxxxx)

Regards
Xiaotian

On 01/07/2010 11:22 AM, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
> Marc reported BUG during shutdown, after debugging, kernel is trying
> to remove a broadcast device which mode is CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT.
>
> The root cause for this bug is that in clockevents_notify,
> "cpumask_weight(dev->cpumask) == 1" is always true even if dev is a
> broadcast device. We need to use tick_is_broadcast_device to check
> if it is a broadcast device.
>
> Reported-by: Marc Dionne<marc.c.dionne@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Marc Dionne<marc.c.dionne@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng<dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner<tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Magnus Damm<damm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: H Hartley Sweeten<hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   kernel/time/clockevents.c |    2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
> index 6f740d9..0223d83 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
> @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg)
>   		cpu = *((int *)arg);
>   		list_for_each_entry_safe(dev, tmp,&clockevent_devices, list) {
>   			if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, dev->cpumask)&&
> -			    cpumask_weight(dev->cpumask) == 1) {
> +			    !tick_is_broadcast_device(dev)) {
>   				BUG_ON(dev->mode != CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED);
>   				list_del(&dev->list);
>   			}
>    

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