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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-02-24 11:36:09 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-02-24 11:36:09 +0100
commit546121b65f47384e11ec1fa2e55449fc9f4846b2 (patch)
tree8f18470ec7c0c77b0f48eb1b2338e591b0b0aaff /kernel/time/tick-sched.c
parent000619680c3714020ce9db17eef6a4a7ce2dc28b (diff)
parentf8788d86ab28f61f7b46eb6be375f8a726783636 (diff)
Merge tag 'v5.6-rc3' into sched/core, to pick up fixes and dependent patches
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-sched.c')
-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 8b192e67aabc..a792d21cac64 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ 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;
@@ -70,8 +71,9 @@ 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)) {
@@ -79,8 +81,10 @@ 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);