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authorMarcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>2020-03-08 00:54:04 +0100
committerMarcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>2020-03-08 00:54:04 +0100
commitf2c1392ff3473a396e4d177ff5ad368b9d6cd211 (patch)
tree2111e8c1e50e3fa56fc46bd4e80e5a577459e768 /kernel/time
parentb16d3d60b112c8cb90ebcd7ae97a5d2207d6f43c (diff)
parente0f8b8a65a473a8baa439cf865a694bbeb83fe90 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.14.170' into 4.14-2.3.x-imx
This is the 4.14.170 stable release Conflicts: drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c drivers/tty/serial/imx.c include/linux/platform_data/dma-imx-sdma.h net/wireless/util.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-sched.c14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index a8fa0a896b78..3c7b400512eb 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -60,8 +60,9 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now)
/*
* Do a quick check without holding jiffies_lock:
+ * The READ_ONCE() pairs with two updates done later in this function.
*/
- delta = ktime_sub(now, last_jiffies_update);
+ delta = ktime_sub(now, READ_ONCE(last_jiffies_update));
if (delta < tick_period)
return;
@@ -72,8 +73,9 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now)
if (delta >= tick_period) {
delta = ktime_sub(delta, tick_period);
- last_jiffies_update = ktime_add(last_jiffies_update,
- tick_period);
+ /* Pairs with the lockless read in this function. */
+ WRITE_ONCE(last_jiffies_update,
+ ktime_add(last_jiffies_update, tick_period));
/* Slow path for long timeouts */
if (unlikely(delta >= tick_period)) {
@@ -81,8 +83,10 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now)
ticks = ktime_divns(delta, incr);
- last_jiffies_update = ktime_add_ns(last_jiffies_update,
- incr * ticks);
+ /* Pairs with the lockless read in this function. */
+ WRITE_ONCE(last_jiffies_update,
+ ktime_add_ns(last_jiffies_update,
+ incr * ticks));
}
do_timer(++ticks);