Merge tag 'timers_urgent_for_v5.16_rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fix from Borislav Petkov:
- Prevent a tick storm when a dedicated timekeeper CPU in nohz_full
mode runs for prolonged periods with interrupts disabled and ends up
programming the next tick in the past, leading to that storm
* tag 'timers_urgent_for_v5.16_rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timers/nohz: Last resort update jiffies on nohz_full IRQ entry
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 322b65d..41f4709 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -595,7 +595,8 @@
{
__irq_enter_raw();
- if (is_idle_task(current) && (irq_count() == HARDIRQ_OFFSET))
+ if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()) ||
+ (is_idle_task(current) && (irq_count() == HARDIRQ_OFFSET)))
tick_irq_enter();
account_hardirq_enter(current);
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 6bffe5af..17a283c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -1375,6 +1375,13 @@
now = ktime_get();
if (ts->idle_active)
tick_nohz_stop_idle(ts, now);
+ /*
+ * If all CPUs are idle. We may need to update a stale jiffies value.
+ * Note nohz_full is a special case: a timekeeper is guaranteed to stay
+ * alive but it might be busy looping with interrupts disabled in some
+ * rare case (typically stop machine). So we must make sure we have a
+ * last resort.
+ */
if (ts->tick_stopped)
tick_nohz_update_jiffies(now);
}
