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    tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic · 07bd1172
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    The recent implementation of a generic dummy timer resulted in a
    different registration order of per cpu local timers which made the
    broadcast control logic go belly up.
    
    If the dummy timer is the first clock event device which is registered
    for a CPU, then it is installed, the broadcast timer is initialized
    and the CPU is marked as broadcast target.
    
    If a real clock event device is installed after that, we can fail to
    take the CPU out of the broadcast mask. In the worst case we end up
    with two periodic timer events firing for the same CPU. One from the
    per cpu hardware device and one from the broadcast.
    
    Now the problem is that we have no way to distinguish whether the
    system is in a state which makes broadcasting necessary or the
    broadcast bit was set due to the nonfunctional dummy timer
    installment.
    
    To solve this we need to keep track of the system state seperately and
    provide a more detailed decision logic whether we keep the CPU in
    broadcast mode or not.
    
    The old decision logic only clears the broadcast mode, if the newly
    installed clock event device is not affected by power states.
    
    The new logic clears the broadcast mode if one of the following is
    true:
    
      - The new device is not affected by power states.
    
      - The system is not in a power state affected mode
    
      - The system has switched to oneshot mode. The oneshot broadcast is
        controlled from the deep idle state. The CPU is not in idle at
        this point, so it's safe to remove it from the mask.
    
    If we clear the broadcast bit for the CPU when a new device is
    installed, we also shutdown the broadcast device when this was the
    last CPU in the broadcast mask.
    
    If the broadcast bit is kept, then we leave the new device in shutdown
    state and rely on the broadcast to deliver the timer interrupts via
    the broadcast ipis.
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarStehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
    Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
    Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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