clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop

There is a ordering related problem with clockevents code, due to which
clockevents_register_device() called after tickless/highres switch
will not work. The new clockevent ends up with clockevents_handle_noop as
event handler, resulting in no timer activity.

The problematic path seems to be

* old device already has hrtimer_interrupt as the event_handler
* new clockevent device registers with a higher rating
* tick_check_new_device() is called
  * clockevents_exchange_device() gets called
    * old->event_handler is set to clockevents_handle_noop
  * tick_setup_device() is called for the new device
    * which sets new->event_handler using the old->event_handler which is noop.

Change the ordering so that new device inherits the proper handler.

This does not have any issue in normal case as most likely all the clockevent
devices are setup before the highres switch. But, can potentially be affecting
some corner case where HPET force detect happens after the highres switch.
This was a problem with HPET in MSI mode code that we have been experimenting
with.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
index 80c4336..c477719 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ static void tick_setup_device(struct tick_device *td,
 	} else {
 		handler = td->evtdev->event_handler;
 		next_event = td->evtdev->next_event;
+		td->evtdev->event_handler = clockevents_handle_noop;
 	}
 
 	td->evtdev = newdev;