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Commit 6b43ae8a authored by John Stultz's avatar John Stultz
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ntp: Fix leap-second hrtimer livelock



Since commit 7dffa3c6 the ntp
subsystem has used an hrtimer for triggering the leapsecond
adjustment. However, this can cause a potential livelock.

Thomas diagnosed this as the following pattern:
CPU 0                                                    CPU 1
do_adjtimex()
  spin_lock_irq(&ntp_lock);
    process_adjtimex_modes();				 timer_interrupt()
      process_adj_status();                                do_timer()
        ntp_start_leap_timer();                             write_lock(&xtime_lock);
          hrtimer_start();                                  update_wall_time();
             hrtimer_reprogram();                            ntp_tick_length()
               tick_program_event()                            spin_lock(&ntp_lock);
                 clockevents_program_event()
		   ktime_get()
                     seq = req_seqbegin(xtime_lock);

This patch tries to avoid the problem by reverting back to not using
an hrtimer to inject leapseconds, and instead we handle the leapsecond
processing in the second_overflow() function.

The downside to this change is that on systems that support highres
timers, the leap second processing will occur on a HZ tick boundary,
(ie: ~1-10ms, depending on HZ)  after the leap second instead of
possibly sooner (~34us in my tests w/ x86_64 lapic).

This patch applies on top of tip/timers/core.

CC: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: default avatarSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Diagnoised-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: default avatarSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
parent 57779dc2
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