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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-common.c | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c index 21a5ca8..83c4417 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c @@ -93,7 +93,17 @@ void tick_handle_periodic(struct clock_event_device *dev) for (;;) { if (!clockevents_program_event(dev, next, ktime_get())) return; - tick_periodic(cpu); + /* + * Have to be careful here. If we're in oneshot mode, + * before we call tick_periodic() in a loop, we need + * to be sure we're using a real hardware clocksource. + * Otherwise we could get trapped in an infinite + * loop, as the tick_periodic() increments jiffies, + * when then will increment time, posibly causing + * the loop to trigger again and again. + */ + if (timekeeping_valid_for_hres()) + tick_periodic(cpu); next = ktime_add(next, tick_period); } } diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c index e97c50f..e8c77d9 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ /* * This read-write spinlock protects us from races in SMP while - * playing with xtime and avenrun. + * playing with xtime. */ __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SEQLOCK(xtime_lock); |