[PATCH] inline more audit helpers

[pandora-kernel.git] / kernel / timer.c

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 8837737..9e49dee 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -541,6 +541,22 @@ found:
        }
        spin_unlock(&base->lock);
 
+       /*
+        * It can happen that other CPUs service timer IRQs and increment
+        * jiffies, but we have not yet got a local timer tick to process
+        * the timer wheels.  In that case, the expiry time can be before
+        * jiffies, but since the high-resolution timer here is relative to
+        * jiffies, the default expression when high-resolution timers are
+        * not active,
+        *
+        *   time_before(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET + jiffies, expires)
+        *
+        * would falsely evaluate to true.  If that is the case, just
+        * return jiffies so that we can immediately fire the local timer
+        */
+       if (time_before(expires, jiffies))
+               return jiffies;
+
        if (time_before(hr_expires, expires))
                return hr_expires;
 
@@ -1314,7 +1330,7 @@ static void __devinit migrate_timers(int cpu)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
 
-static int __devinit timer_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, 
+static int timer_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
                                unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
 {
        long cpu = (long)hcpu;
@@ -1334,7 +1350,7 @@ static int __devinit timer_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
        return NOTIFY_OK;
 }
 
-static struct notifier_block __devinitdata timers_nb = {
+static struct notifier_block timers_nb = {
        .notifier_call  = timer_cpu_notify,
 };