From b5199515c25cca622495eb9c6a8a1d275e775088 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:22:08 +0200 Subject: clocksource: Make watchdog robust vs. interruption The clocksource watchdog code is interruptible and it has been observed that this can trigger false positives which disable the TSC. The reason is that an interrupt storm or a long running interrupt handler between the read of the watchdog source and the read of the TSC brings the two far enough apart that the delta is larger than the unstable treshold. Move both reads into a short interrupt disabled region to avoid that. Reported-and-tested-by: Vernon Mauery Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@kernel.org --- include/linux/clocksource.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/clocksource.h') diff --git a/include/linux/clocksource.h b/include/linux/clocksource.h index d4646b4..18a1baf 100644 --- a/include/linux/clocksource.h +++ b/include/linux/clocksource.h @@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ struct clocksource { #ifdef CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG /* Watchdog related data, used by the framework */ struct list_head wd_list; + cycle_t cs_last; cycle_t wd_last; #endif } ____cacheline_aligned; -- cgit v1.1