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 <jon-hunter@ti.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-2-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 96b3f0d..5d4d423 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -478,6 +478,17 @@ int timekeeping_valid_for_hres(void)
 }
 
 /**
+ * timekeeping_max_deferment - Returns max time the clocksource can be deferred
+ *
+ * Caller must observe xtime_lock via read_seqbegin/read_seqretry to
+ * ensure that the clocksource does not change!
+ */
+u64 timekeeping_max_deferment(void)
+{
+	return timekeeper.clock->max_idle_ns;
+}
+
+/**
  * read_persistent_clock -  Return time from the persistent clock.
  *
  * Weak dummy function for arches that do not yet support it.