[PATCH RT 02/10] timers: wakeup all timer waiters without holding the base lock

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Sep 22 2016 - 18:00:50 EST


4.1.33-rt38-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

There should be no need to hold the base lock during the wakeup. There
should be no boosting involved, the wakeup list has its own lock so it
should be safe to do this without the lock.

Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/timer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 5a45162ae924..b1f9e6c5bec4 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1279,8 +1279,8 @@ static inline void __run_timers(struct tvec_base *base)
}
}
}
- wakeup_timer_waiters(base);
spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock);
+ wakeup_timer_waiters(base);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
--
2.8.1