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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/time, branch v2.6.28-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now</title>
<updated>2008-11-10T21:39:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
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<published>2008-11-10T12:20:23+00:00</published>
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Impact: nohz powersavings and wakeup regression

commit fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208 (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter()) causes a serious wakeup regression.

While the patch is correct it does not take into account that spurious
wakeups happen on x86. A fix for this issue is available, but we just
revert to the .27 behaviour and let long running softirqs screw
themself.

Disable it for now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Impact: nohz powersavings and wakeup regression

commit fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208 (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter()) causes a serious wakeup regression.

While the patch is correct it does not take into account that spurious
wakeups happen on x86. A fix for this issue is available, but we just
revert to the .27 behaviour and let long running softirqs screw
themself.

Disable it for now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2</title>
<updated>2008-10-22T07:48:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
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<published>2008-10-22T07:48:06+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:

	kernel/time/tick-sched.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Conflicts:

	kernel/time/tick-sched.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>NOHZ: fix thinko in the timer restart code path</title>
<updated>2008-10-21T18:53:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
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<published>2008-10-21T18:17:35+00:00</published>
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commit fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208 (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter())

solves the problem of stale jiffies when long running softirqs happen
in a long idle sleep period, but it has a major thinko in it:

When the interrupt which came in _is_ the timer interrupt which should
expire ts-&gt;sched_timer then we cancel and rearm the timer _before_ it
gets expired in hrtimer_interrupt() to the next period. That means the
call back function is not called. This game can go on for ever :(

Prevent this by making sure to only rearm the timer when the expiry
time is more than one tick_period away. Otherwise keep it running as
it is either already expired or will expiry at the right point to
update jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Venkatesch Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
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commit fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208 (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter())

solves the problem of stale jiffies when long running softirqs happen
in a long idle sleep period, but it has a major thinko in it:

When the interrupt which came in _is_ the timer interrupt which should
expire ts-&gt;sched_timer then we cancel and rearm the timer _before_ it
gets expired in hrtimer_interrupt() to the next period. That means the
call back function is not called. This game can go on for ever :(

Prevent this by making sure to only rearm the timer when the expiry
time is more than one tick_period away. Otherwise keep it running as
it is either already expired or will expiry at the right point to
update jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Venkatesch Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/debug' into v28-timers-for-linus</title>
<updated>2008-10-20T11:14:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-20T11:14:06+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>timer_list: add base address to clock base</title>
<updated>2008-10-20T09:51:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
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<published>2008-09-29T15:41:55+00:00</published>
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The base address of a (per cpu) clock base is a useful debug info.
Add it and bump the version number of timer_lists.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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The base address of a (per cpu) clock base is a useful debug info.
Add it and bump the version number of timer_lists.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timer_list: print cpu number of clockevents device</title>
<updated>2008-10-20T09:51:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-29T15:31:41+00:00</published>
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The per cpu clock events device output of timer_list lacks an
association of the device to the cpu which is annoying when looking at
the output of /proc/timer_list from a 128 way system. 

Add the CPU number info and mark the broadcast device in the device
list printout.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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The per cpu clock events device output of timer_list lacks an
association of the device to the cpu which is annoying when looking at
the output of /proc/timer_list from a 128 way system. 

Add the CPU number info and mark the broadcast device in the device
list printout.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timer_list: print real timer address</title>
<updated>2008-10-20T09:51:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-25T21:50:23+00:00</published>
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The current timer_list output prints the address of the on stack copy
of the active hrtimer instead of the hrtimer itself.

Print the address of the real timer instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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The current timer_list output prints the address of the on stack copy
of the active hrtimer instead of the hrtimer itself.

Print the address of the real timer instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge commit 'linus/master' into merge-linus</title>
<updated>2008-10-17T16:20:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-17T16:20:26+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
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Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
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<entry>
<title>NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()</title>
<updated>2008-10-17T16:13:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-17T08:01:23+00:00</published>
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We did not restart the tick device from irq_enter() to avoid double
reprogramming and extra events in the return immediate to idle case.

But long lasting softirqs can lead to a situation where jiffies become
stale:

idle()
  tick stopped (reprogrammed to next pending timer)
  halt()
   interrupt
     jiffies updated from irq_enter()
     interrupt handler
     softirq function 1 runs 20ms
     softirq function 2 arms a 10ms timer with a stale jiffies value
     jiffies updated from irq_exit()
     timer wheel has now an already expired timer
     (the one added in function 2)
     timer fires and timer softirq runs

This was discovered when debugging a timer problem which happend only
when the ath5k driver is active. The debugging proved that there is a
softirq function running for more than 20ms, which is a bug by itself.

To solve this we restart the tick timer right from irq_enter(), but do
not go through the other functions which are necessary to return from
idle when need_resched() is set.

Reported-by: Elias Oltmanns &lt;eo@nebensachen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Elias Oltmanns &lt;eo@nebensachen.de&gt;
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We did not restart the tick device from irq_enter() to avoid double
reprogramming and extra events in the return immediate to idle case.

But long lasting softirqs can lead to a situation where jiffies become
stale:

idle()
  tick stopped (reprogrammed to next pending timer)
  halt()
   interrupt
     jiffies updated from irq_enter()
     interrupt handler
     softirq function 1 runs 20ms
     softirq function 2 arms a 10ms timer with a stale jiffies value
     jiffies updated from irq_exit()
     timer wheel has now an already expired timer
     (the one added in function 2)
     timer fires and timer softirq runs

This was discovered when debugging a timer problem which happend only
when the ath5k driver is active. The debugging proved that there is a
softirq function running for more than 20ms, which is a bug by itself.

To solve this we restart the tick timer right from irq_enter(), but do
not go through the other functions which are necessary to return from
idle when need_resched() is set.

Reported-by: Elias Oltmanns &lt;eo@nebensachen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Elias Oltmanns &lt;eo@nebensachen.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>NOHZ: split tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick()</title>
<updated>2008-10-17T16:13:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-17T08:04:34+00:00</published>
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Split out the clock event device reprogramming. Preparatory
patch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Split out the clock event device reprogramming. Preparatory
patch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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