[PATCH] timer: nohz: don't disable the timer if we don't have irqwork interrupt

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Tue Jun 23 2015 - 10:08:12 EST


The irq work interrupt is optional: If an architecture does not provide
it then the callback will be run from update_process_times(). This does
not work well for nohz_full_kick_work_func() as we learned in commit
76a33061b932 ("irq_work: Force raised irq work to run on irq work
interrupt").

This patch is just a precaution to ensure that that an irq work
interrupt is required and the timer callback is not enough.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index c792429e98c6..d9481bebae22 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -176,6 +176,11 @@ static bool can_stop_full_tick(void)
return false;
}

+ if (!arch_irq_work_has_interrupt()) {
+ trace_tick_stop(0, "missing irq work interrupt\n");
+ return false;
+ }
+
/* sched_clock_tick() needs us? */
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
/*
--
2.1.4

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