From 94df7de0289bc2df3d6e85cd2ece52bf42682f45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastien Dugue Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:09:07 +0100 Subject: hrtimers: allow the hot-unplugging of all cpus 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 Cc: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/hrtimer.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/hrtimer.c') diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c index 8fea312ca36c..647a40e2fea1 100644 --- a/kernel/hrtimer.c +++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c @@ -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: { -- cgit v1.2.3