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    tick: Detect and fix jiffies update stall · a1ff03cd
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    On some rare cases, the timekeeper CPU may be delaying its jiffies
    update duty for a while. Known causes include:
    
    * The timekeeper is waiting on stop_machine in a MULTI_STOP_DISABLE_IRQ
      or MULTI_STOP_RUN state. Disabled interrupts prevent from timekeeping
      updates while waiting for the target CPU to complete its
      stop_machine() callback.
    
    * The timekeeper vcpu has VMEXIT'ed for a long while due to some overload
      on the host.
    
    Detect and fix these situations with emergency timekeeping catchups.
    Original-patch-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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