tree 7983c4cc3c82e465cfe88a7fd67e39dbed72e1e0
parent 317ec6cd00f25d05d153a780bc178c5335f320ee
author Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1174825877 +0200
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 1174859854 -0700

[PATCH] dynticks: fix hrtimer rounding error in next_timer_interrupt

The rework of next_timer_interrupt() fixed the timer wheel bugs, but
invented a rounding error versus the next hrtimer event. This is caused
by the conversion of the hrtimer internal representation to relative
jiffies.

This causes bug #8100:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8100

next_timer_interrupt() returns "now" in such a case and causes the code
in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() to trigger the timer softirq, which is
bogus as no timer is due for expiry. This results in an endless context
switching between idle and ksoftirqd until a timer is due for expiry.

Modify the hrtimer evaluation so that, it returns now + 1, when the
conversion results in a delta < 1 jiffie.

It's confirmed to resolve bug #8100

Reported-by: Emil Karlson <jkarlson@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>