From 1fb9b7d29d8e85ba3196eaa7ab871bf76fc98d36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:37:14 +0000 Subject: clockevents: prevent endless loop lockup The C1E/HPET bug reports on AMDX2/RS690 systems where tracked down to a too small value of the HPET minumum delta for programming an event. The clockevents code needs to enforce an interrupt event on the clock event device in some cases. The enforcement code was stupid and naive, as it just added the minimum delta to the current time and tried to reprogram the device. When the minimum delta is too small, then this loops forever. Add a sanity check. Allow reprogramming to fail 3 times, then print a warning and double the minimum delta value to make sure, that this does not happen again. Use the same function for both tick-oneshot and tick-broadcast code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/time/tick-oneshot.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-oneshot.c') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-oneshot.c b/kernel/time/tick-oneshot.c index 06595c64b0c9..2e35501e61dd 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-oneshot.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-oneshot.c @@ -25,18 +25,42 @@ /** * tick_program_event internal worker function */ -static int __tick_program_event(struct clock_event_device *dev, - ktime_t expires, int force) +int tick_dev_program_event(struct clock_event_device *dev, ktime_t expires, + int force) { ktime_t now = ktime_get(); + int i; - while (1) { + for (i = 0;;) { int ret = clockevents_program_event(dev, expires, now); if (!ret || !force) return ret; + + /* + * We tried 2 times to program the device with the given + * min_delta_ns. If that's not working then we double it + * and emit a warning. + */ + if (++i > 2) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "CE: __tick_program_event of %s is " + "stuck %llx %llx\n", dev->name ? dev->name : "?", + now.tv64, expires.tv64); + printk(KERN_WARNING + "CE: increasing min_delta_ns %ld to %ld nsec\n", + dev->min_delta_ns, dev->min_delta_ns << 1); + WARN_ON(1); + + /* Double the min. delta and try again */ + if (!dev->min_delta_ns) + dev->min_delta_ns = 5000; + else + dev->min_delta_ns <<= 1; + i = 0; + } + now = ktime_get(); - expires = ktime_add(now, ktime_set(0, dev->min_delta_ns)); + expires = ktime_add_ns(now, dev->min_delta_ns); } } @@ -47,7 +71,7 @@ int tick_program_event(ktime_t expires, int force) { struct clock_event_device *dev = __get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_device).evtdev; - return __tick_program_event(dev, expires, force); + return tick_dev_program_event(dev, expires, force); } /** @@ -71,7 +95,7 @@ void tick_setup_oneshot(struct clock_event_device *newdev, { newdev->event_handler = handler; clockevents_set_mode(newdev, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT); - __tick_program_event(newdev, next_event, 1); + tick_dev_program_event(newdev, next_event, 1); } /** -- cgit v1.2.3