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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2017-01-19 14:36:33 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-01-20 02:38:46 +0100
commitacb04058de49458010c44bb35b849d45113fd668 (patch)
tree6011ca77b47f21fcd5e65e5a2f02dddadd3f950c /Documentation/scheduler
parent02cfdc95a0104fa5812d855d1e4ec687312aaa6f (diff)
sched/clock: Fix hotplug crash
Mike reported that he could trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE() in set_sched_clock_stable() using hotplug. This exposed a fundamental problem with the interface, we should never mark the TSC stable if we ever find it to be unstable. Therefore set_sched_clock_stable() is a broken interface. The reason it existed is that not having it is a pain, it means all relevant architecture code needs to call clear_sched_clock_stable() where appropriate. Of the three architectures that select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK ia64 and parisc are trivial in that they never called set_sched_clock_stable(), so add an unconditional call to clear_sched_clock_stable() to them. For x86 the story is a lot more involved, and what this patch tries to do is ensure we preserve the status quo. So even is Cyrix or Transmeta have usable TSC they never called set_sched_clock_stable() so they now get an explicit mark unstable. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 9881b024b7d7 ("sched/clock: Delay switching sched_clock to stable") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170119133633.GB6536@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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