From 98962465ed9e6ea99c38e0af63fe1dcb5a79dc25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jon Hunter Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:45:10 -0500 Subject: nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle The dynamic tick allows the kernel to sleep for periods longer than a single tick, but it does not limit the sleep time currently. In the worst case the kernel could sleep longer than the wrap around time of the time keeping clock source which would result in losing track of time. Prevent this by limiting it to the safe maximum sleep time of the current time keeping clock source. The value is calculated when the clock source is registered. [ tglx: simplified the code a bit and massaged the commit msg ] Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter Cc: John Stultz LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-2-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/clocksource.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/clocksource.h') diff --git a/include/linux/clocksource.h b/include/linux/clocksource.h index f57f882..279c547 100644 --- a/include/linux/clocksource.h +++ b/include/linux/clocksource.h @@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ extern u64 timecounter_cyc2time(struct timecounter *tc, * subtraction of non 64 bit counters * @mult: cycle to nanosecond multiplier * @shift: cycle to nanosecond divisor (power of two) + * @max_idle_ns: max idle time permitted by the clocksource (nsecs) * @flags: flags describing special properties * @vread: vsyscall based read * @resume: resume function for the clocksource, if necessary @@ -168,6 +169,7 @@ struct clocksource { cycle_t mask; u32 mult; u32 shift; + u64 max_idle_ns; unsigned long flags; cycle_t (*vread)(void); void (*resume)(void); -- cgit v1.1