[PATCH RT 2/9] timers: wakeup all timer waiters without holding the base lock

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Sep 23 2016 - 11:30:23 EST


3.12.63-rt85-rc2 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/timer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 13d87cffb33e..3c3bc6bba12e 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1267,8 +1267,8 @@ 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