linux-toradex.git/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c, branch v3.4.67 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode 2013-07-28T23:25:44+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2013-07-01T20:14:10+00:00 60a0c1a6129d06f1f6bc71acd50c8d289484c7ea commit 1f73a9806bdd07a5106409bbcab3884078bd34fe upstream. When the system switches from periodic to oneshot mode, the broadcast logic causes a possibility that a CPU which has not yet switched to oneshot mode puts its own clock event device into oneshot mode without updating the state and the timer handler. CPU0 CPU1 per cpu tickdev is in periodic mode and switched to broadcast Switch to oneshot mode tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot() cpumask_copy(tick_oneshot_broacast_mask, tick_broadcast_mask); broadcast device mode = oneshot Timer interrupt irq_enter() tick_check_oneshot_broadcast() dev->set_mode(ONESHOT); tick_handle_periodic() if (dev->mode == ONESHOT) dev->next_event += period; FAIL. We fail, because dev->next_event contains KTIME_MAX, if the device was in periodic mode before the uncontrolled switch to oneshot happened. We must copy the broadcast bits over to the oneshot mask, because otherwise a CPU which relies on the broadcast would not been woken up anymore after the broadcast device switched to oneshot mode. So we need to verify in tick_check_oneshot_broadcast() whether the CPU has already switched to oneshot mode. If not, leave the device untouched and let the CPU switch controlled into oneshot mode. This is a long standing bug, which was never noticed, because the main user of the broadcast x86 cannot run into that scenario, AFAICT. The nonarchitected timer mess of ARM creates a gazillion of differently broken abominations which trigger the shortcomings of that broadcast code, which better had never been necessary in the first place. Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>, Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 1f73a9806bdd07a5106409bbcab3884078bd34fe upstream.

When the system switches from periodic to oneshot mode, the broadcast
logic causes a possibility that a CPU which has not yet switched to
oneshot mode puts its own clock event device into oneshot mode without
updating the state and the timer handler.

CPU0				CPU1
				per cpu tickdev is in periodic mode
				and switched to broadcast

Switch to oneshot mode
 tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot()
  cpumask_copy(tick_oneshot_broacast_mask,
	       tick_broadcast_mask);

  broadcast device mode = oneshot

				Timer interrupt

				irq_enter()
				 tick_check_oneshot_broadcast()
				  dev->set_mode(ONESHOT);

				tick_handle_periodic()
				 if (dev->mode == ONESHOT)
				   dev->next_event += period;
				   FAIL.

We fail, because dev->next_event contains KTIME_MAX, if the device was
in periodic mode before the uncontrolled switch to oneshot happened.

We must copy the broadcast bits over to the oneshot mask, because
otherwise a CPU which relies on the broadcast would not been woken up
anymore after the broadcast device switched to oneshot mode.

So we need to verify in tick_check_oneshot_broadcast() whether the CPU
has already switched to oneshot mode. If not, leave the device
untouched and let the CPU switch controlled into oneshot mode.

This is a long standing bug, which was never noticed, because the main
user of the broadcast x86 cannot run into that scenario, AFAICT. The
nonarchitected timer mess of ARM creates a gazillion of differently
broken abominations which trigger the shortcomings of that broadcast
code, which better had never been necessary in the first place.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
clockevents: Set dummy handler on CPU_DEAD shutdown 2013-05-08T02:51:56+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2013-04-25T09:45:53+00:00 357093a8b82c10e6fff37d3c772ccc0e3b0549c4 commit 6f7a05d7018de222e40ca003721037a530979974 upstream. Vitaliy reported that a per cpu HPET timer interrupt crashes the system during hibernation. What happens is that the per cpu HPET timer gets shut down when the nonboot cpus are stopped. When the nonboot cpus are onlined again the HPET code sets up the MSI interrupt which fires before the clock event device is registered. The event handler is still set to hrtimer_interrupt, which then crashes the machine due to highres mode not being active. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700333 There is no real good way to avoid that in the HPET code. The HPET code alrady has a mechanism to detect spurious interrupts when event handler == NULL for a similar reason. We can handle that in the clockevent/tick layer and replace the previous functional handler with a dummy handler like we do in tick_setup_new_device(). The original clockevents code did this in clockevents_exchange_device(), but that got removed by commit 7c1e76897 (clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop) which forgot to fix it up in tick_shutdown(). Same issue with the broadcast device. Reported-by: Vitaliy Fillipov <vitalif@yourcmc.ru> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: 700333@bugs.debian.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 6f7a05d7018de222e40ca003721037a530979974 upstream.

Vitaliy reported that a per cpu HPET timer interrupt crashes the
system during hibernation. What happens is that the per cpu HPET timer
gets shut down when the nonboot cpus are stopped. When the nonboot
cpus are onlined again the HPET code sets up the MSI interrupt which
fires before the clock event device is registered. The event handler
is still set to hrtimer_interrupt, which then crashes the machine due
to highres mode not being active.

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700333

There is no real good way to avoid that in the HPET code. The HPET
code alrady has a mechanism to detect spurious interrupts when event
handler == NULL for a similar reason.

We can handle that in the clockevent/tick layer and replace the
previous functional handler with a dummy handler like we do in
tick_setup_new_device().

The original clockevents code did this in clockevents_exchange_device(),
but that got removed by commit 7c1e76897 (clockevents: prevent
clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop) which forgot to fix
it up in tick_shutdown(). Same issue with the broadcast device.

Reported-by: Vitaliy Fillipov <vitalif@yourcmc.ru>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: 700333@bugs.debian.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
clockevents: Don't allow dummy broadcast timers 2013-03-28T19:12:26+00:00 Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com 2013-03-07T15:09:24+00:00 8d96fcec68c30196fca01a75a911835c7b89a50d commit a7dc19b8652c862d5b7c4d2339bd3c428bd29c4a upstream. Currently tick_check_broadcast_device doesn't reject clock_event_devices with CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY, and may select them in preference to real hardware if they have a higher rating value. In this situation, the dummy timer is responsible for broadcasting to itself, and the core clockevents code may attempt to call non-existent callbacks for programming the dummy, eventually leading to a panic. This patch makes tick_check_broadcast_device always reject dummy timers, preventing this problem. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit a7dc19b8652c862d5b7c4d2339bd3c428bd29c4a upstream.

Currently tick_check_broadcast_device doesn't reject clock_event_devices
with CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY, and may select them in preference to real
hardware if they have a higher rating value. In this situation, the
dummy timer is responsible for broadcasting to itself, and the core
clockevents code may attempt to call non-existent callbacks for
programming the dummy, eventually leading to a panic.

This patch makes tick_check_broadcast_device always reject dummy timers,
preventing this problem.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tick: Fix the spurious broadcast timer ticks after resume 2012-04-19T19:27:50+00:00 Suresh Siddha suresh.b.siddha@intel.com 2012-04-19T02:27:39+00:00 a6371f80230eaaafd7eef7efeedaa9509bdc982d During resume, tick_resume_broadcast() programs the broadcast timer in oneshot mode unconditionally. On the platforms where broadcast timer is not really required, this will generate spurious broadcast timer ticks upon resume. For example, on the always running apic timer platforms with HPET, I see spurious hpet tick once every ~5minutes (which is the 32-bit hpet counter wraparound time). Similar to boot time, during resume make the oneshot mode setting of the broadcast clock event device conditional on the state of active broadcast users. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Tested-by: svenjoac@gmx.de Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: rjw@sisk.pl Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334802459.28674.209.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 
During resume, tick_resume_broadcast() programs the broadcast timer in
oneshot mode unconditionally. On the platforms where broadcast timer
is not really required, this will generate spurious broadcast timer
ticks upon resume. For example, on the always running apic timer
platforms with HPET, I see spurious hpet tick once every ~5minutes
(which is the 32-bit hpet counter wraparound time).

Similar to boot time, during resume make the oneshot mode setting of
the broadcast clock event device conditional on the state of active
broadcast users.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Tested-by: svenjoac@gmx.de
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334802459.28674.209.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
tick: Ensure that the broadcast device is initialized 2012-04-19T19:27:35+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2012-04-18T15:31:58+00:00 b9a6a23566960d0dd3f51e2e68b472cd61911078 Santosh found another trap when we avoid to initialize the broadcast device in the switch_to_oneshot code. The broadcast device might be still in SHUTDOWN state when we actually need to use it. That obviously breaks, as set_next_event() is called on a shutdown device. This did not break on x86, but Suresh analyzed it: From the review, most likely on Sven's system we are force enabling the hpet using the pci quirk's method very late. And in this case, hpet_clockevent (which will be global_clock_event) handler can be null, specifically as this platform might not be using deeper c-states and using the reliable APIC timer. Prior to commit 'fa4da365bc7772c', that handler will be set to 'tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast' when we switch the broadcast timer to oneshot mode, even though we don't use it. Post commit 'fa4da365bc7772c', we stopped switching the broadcast mode to oneshot as this is not really needed and his platform's global_clock_event's handler will remain null. While on my SNB laptop, same is set to 'clockevents_handle_noop' because hpet gets enabled very early. (noop handler on my platform set when the early enabled hpet timer gets replaced by the lapic timer). But the commit 'fa4da365bc7772c' tracked the broadcast timer mode in the SW as oneshot, even though it didn't touch the HW timer. During resume however, tick_resume_broadcast() saw the SW broadcast mode as oneshot and actually programmed the broadcast device also into oneshot mode. So this triggered the null pointer de-reference after the hpet wraps around and depending on what the hpet counter is set to. On the normal platforms where hpet gets enabled early we should be seeing a spurious interrupt (in my SNB laptop I see one spurious interrupt after around 5 minutes ;) which is 32-bit hpet counter wraparound time), but that's a separate issue. Enforce the mode setting when trying to set an event. Reported-and-tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: svenjoac@gmx.de Cc: rjw@sisk.pl Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1204181723350.2542@ionos 
Santosh found another trap when we avoid to initialize the broadcast
device in the switch_to_oneshot code. The broadcast device might be
still in SHUTDOWN state when we actually need to use it. That
obviously breaks, as set_next_event() is called on a shutdown
device. This did not break on x86, but Suresh analyzed it:

From the review, most likely on Sven's system we are force enabling
the hpet using the pci quirk's method very late. And in this case,
hpet_clockevent (which will be global_clock_event) handler can be
null, specifically as this platform might not be using deeper c-states
and using the reliable APIC timer.

Prior to commit 'fa4da365bc7772c', that handler will be set to
'tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast' when we switch the broadcast timer to
oneshot mode, even though we don't use it. Post commit
'fa4da365bc7772c', we stopped switching the broadcast mode to oneshot
as this is not really needed and his platform's global_clock_event's
handler will remain null. While on my SNB laptop, same is set to
'clockevents_handle_noop' because hpet gets enabled very early. (noop
handler on my platform set when the early enabled hpet timer gets
replaced by the lapic timer).

But the commit 'fa4da365bc7772c' tracked the broadcast timer mode in
the SW as oneshot, even though it didn't touch the HW timer. During
resume however, tick_resume_broadcast() saw the SW broadcast mode as
oneshot and actually programmed the broadcast device also into oneshot
mode. So this triggered the null pointer de-reference after the hpet
wraps around and depending on what the hpet counter is set to. On the
normal platforms where hpet gets enabled early we should be seeing a
spurious interrupt (in my SNB laptop I see one spurious interrupt
after around 5 minutes ;) which is 32-bit hpet counter wraparound
time), but that's a separate issue.

Enforce the mode setting when trying to set an event.

Reported-and-tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: svenjoac@gmx.de
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1204181723350.2542@ionos
tick: Fix oneshot broadcast setup really 2012-04-18T12:00:56+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2012-04-18T10:08:23+00:00 b435092f70ec5ebbfb6d075d5bf3c631b49a51de Sven Joachim reported, that suspend/resume on rc3 trips over a NULL pointer dereference. Linus spotted the clockevent handler being NULL. commit fa4da365b(clockevents: tTack broadcast device mode change in tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot()) tried to fix a problem with the broadcast device setup, which was introduced in commit 77b0d60c5( clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not needed). The initial commit avoided to set up the broadcast device when no broadcast request bits were set, but that left the broadcast device disfunctional. In consequence deep idle states which need the broadcast device were not woken up. commit fa4da365b tried to fix that by initializing the state of the broadcast facility, but that missed the fact, that nothing initializes the event handler and some other state of the underlying clock event device. The fix is to revert both commits and make only the mode setting of the clock event device conditional on the state of active broadcast users. That initializes everything except the low level device mode, but this happens when the broadcast functionality is invoked by deep idle. Reported-and-tested-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1204181205540.2542@ionos 
Sven Joachim reported, that suspend/resume on rc3 trips over a NULL
pointer dereference. Linus spotted the clockevent handler being NULL.

commit fa4da365b(clockevents: tTack broadcast device mode change in
tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot()) tried to fix a problem with the
broadcast device setup, which was introduced in commit 77b0d60c5(
clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not
needed).

The initial commit avoided to set up the broadcast device when no
broadcast request bits were set, but that left the broadcast device
disfunctional. In consequence deep idle states which need the
broadcast device were not woken up.

commit fa4da365b tried to fix that by initializing the state of the
broadcast facility, but that missed the fact, that nothing initializes
the event handler and some other state of the underlying clock event
device.

The fix is to revert both commits and make only the mode setting of
the clock event device conditional on the state of active broadcast
users. 

That initializes everything except the low level device mode, but this
happens when the broadcast functionality is invoked by deep idle.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1204181205540.2542@ionos
clockevents: tTack broadcast device mode change in tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot() 2012-04-10T09:42:07+00:00 Suresh Siddha suresh.b.siddha@intel.com 2012-04-09T22:41:44+00:00 fa4da365bc7772c2cd6d5405bdf151612455f957 In the commit 77b0d60c5adf39c74039e2142a1d3cd1e4d53799, "clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not needed", we were bailing out too quickly in tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot(), with out tracking the broadcast device mode change to 'TICKDEV_MODE_ONESHOT'. This breaks the platforms which need broadcast device oneshot services during deep idle states. tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() thinks that it is in periodic mode and fails to take proper decisions based on the CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_[ENTER, EXIT] notifications during deep idle entry/exit. Fix this by tracking the broadcast device mode as 'TICKDEV_MODE_ONESHOT', before leaving the broadcast HW device in shutdown mode if there are no active requests for the moment. Reported-and-tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334011304.12400.81.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 
In the commit 77b0d60c5adf39c74039e2142a1d3cd1e4d53799,
"clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not needed",
we were bailing out too quickly in tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot(),
with out tracking the broadcast device mode change to 'TICKDEV_MODE_ONESHOT'.

This breaks the platforms which need broadcast device oneshot services during
deep idle states. tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() thinks that it is
in periodic mode and fails to take proper decisions based on the
CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_[ENTER, EXIT] notifications during deep
idle entry/exit.

Fix this by tracking the broadcast device mode as 'TICKDEV_MODE_ONESHOT',
before leaving the broadcast HW device in shutdown mode if there are no active
requests for the moment.

Reported-and-tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334011304.12400.81.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not needed 2012-02-15T14:23:09+00:00 Suresh Siddha suresh.b.siddha@intel.com 2011-11-05T00:18:21+00:00 77b0d60c5adf39c74039e2142a1d3cd1e4d53799 Platforms with Always Running APIC Timer doesn't use the broadcast timer but the kernel is leaving the broadcast timer (HPET in this case) in oneshot mode. On these platforms, before the switch to oneshot mode, broadcast device is actually in shutdown mode. Code checks for empty tick_broadcast_mask and avoids going into the periodic mode. During switch to oneshot mode, add the same tick_broadcast_mask checks in the tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot() and avoid the broadcast device going into the oneshot mode. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: venki@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320452301.15071.16.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 
Platforms with Always Running APIC Timer doesn't use the broadcast timer
but the kernel is leaving the broadcast timer (HPET in this case)
in oneshot mode.

On these platforms, before the switch to oneshot mode, broadcast device is
actually in shutdown mode. Code checks for empty tick_broadcast_mask and
avoids going into the periodic mode.

During switch to oneshot mode, add the same tick_broadcast_mask checks in the
tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot() and avoid the broadcast device going into
the oneshot mode.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: venki@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320452301.15071.16.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
tick-broadcast: Stop active broadcast device when replacing it 2011-12-02T15:06:54+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2011-12-02T11:34:16+00:00 c1be84309c58b1e7c6d626e28fba41a22b364c3d When a better rated broadcast device is installed, then the current active device is not disabled, which results in two running broadcast devices. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org 
When a better rated broadcast device is installed, then the current
active device is not disabled, which results in two running broadcast
devices.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable 2011-09-08T09:10:56+00:00 Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com 2011-08-23T13:29:42+00:00 d1748302f70be7469809809283fe164156a34231 The automatic increase of the min_delta_ns of a clockevents device should be done in the clockevents code as the minimum delay is an attribute of the clockevents device. In addition not all architectures want the automatic adjustment, on a massively virtualized system it can happen that the programming of a clock event fails several times in a row because the virtual cpu has been rescheduled quickly enough. In that case the minimum delay will erroneously be increased with no way back. The new config symbol GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST is used to enable the automatic adjustment. The config option is selected only for x86. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.494157493@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 
The automatic increase of the min_delta_ns of a clockevents device
should be done in the clockevents code as the minimum delay is an
attribute of the clockevents device.

In addition not all architectures want the automatic adjustment, on a
massively virtualized system it can happen that the programming of a
clock event fails several times in a row because the virtual cpu has
been rescheduled quickly enough. In that case the minimum delay will
erroneously be increased with no way back. The new config symbol
GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST is used to enable the automatic
adjustment. The config option is selected only for x86.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.494157493@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>