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    nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe · e5ab012c
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    As it stands, irq_exit() may or may not be called with
    irqs disabled, depending on __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED
    that the arch can define.
    
    It makes tick_nohz_irq_exit() unsafe. For example two
    interrupts can race in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(): the inner
    most one computes the expiring time on top of the timer list,
    then it's interrupted right before reprogramming the
    clock. The new interrupt enqueues a new timer list timer,
    it reprogram the clock to take it into account and it exits.
    The CPUs resumes the inner most interrupt and performs the clock
    reprogramming without considering the new timer list timer.
    
    This regression has been introduced by:
         280f0677
    
    
         ("nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logic")
    
    Let's fix it right now with the appropriate protections.
    
    A saner long term solution will be to remove
    __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED and mandate that irq_exit() is called
    with interrupts disabled.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #v3.2+
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361373336-11337-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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