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Commit f55a6faa authored by John Stultz's avatar John Stultz Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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hrtimer: Provide clock_was_set_delayed()



clock_was_set() cannot be called from hard interrupt context because
it calls on_each_cpu().

For fixing the widely reported leap seconds issue it is necessary to
call it from hard interrupt context, i.e. the timer tick code, which
does the timekeeping updates.

Provide a new function which denotes it in the hrtimer cpu base
structure of the cpu on which it is called and raise the hrtimer
softirq. We then execute the clock_was_set() notificiation from
softirq context in run_hrtimer_softirq(). The hrtimer softirq is
rarely used, so polling the flag there is not a performance issue.

[ tglx: Made it depend on CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS. We really should get
  rid of all this ifdeffery ASAP ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: default avatarJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: default avatarPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-2-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 055c9fa8
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