From: Suresh Siddha Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:34:59 +0000 (-0700) Subject: clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc8~31^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f833bab87fca5c3ce13778421b1365845843b976;p=pandora-kernel.git clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock Currently clockevents_notify() is called with interrupts enabled at some places and interrupts disabled at some other places. This results in a deadlock in this scenario. cpu A holds clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs enabled cpu B waits for clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs disabled cpu C doing set_mtrr() which will try to rendezvous of all the cpus. This will result in C and A come to the rendezvous point and waiting for B. B is stuck forever waiting for the spinlock and thus not reaching the rendezvous point. Fix the clockevents code so that clockevents_lock is taken with interrupts disabled and thus avoid the above deadlock. Also call lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast() on the destination cpu so that we avoid calling smp_call_function() in the clockevents notifier chain. This issue left us wondering if we need to change the MTRR rendezvous logic to use stop machine logic (instead of smp_call_function) or add a check in spinlock debug code to see if there are other spinlocks which gets taken under both interrupts enabled/disabled conditions. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" Cc: "Brown Len" LKML-Reference: <1250544899.2709.210.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Reading git-diff-tree failed