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    nohz: Fix spurious warning when hrtimer and clockevent get out of sync · d4af6d93
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    The sanity check ensuring that the tick expiry cache (ts->next_tick)
    is actually in sync with the hardware clock (dev->next_event) makes the
    wrong assumption that the clock can't be programmed later than the
    hrtimer deadline.
    
    In fact the clock hardware can be programmed later on some conditions
    such as:
    
        * The hrtimer deadline is already in the past.
        * The hrtimer deadline is earlier than the minimum delay supported
          by the hardware.
    
    Such conditions can be met when we program the tick, for example if the
    last jiffies update hasn't been seen by the current CPU yet, we may
    program the hrtimer to a deadline that is earlier than ktime_get()
    because last_jiffies_update is our timestamp base to compute the next
    tick.
    
    As a result, we can randomly observe such warning:
    
    	WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 0 at kernel/time/tick-sched.c:794 tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick kernel/time/tick-sched.c:791 [inline]
    	Call Trace:
    	 tick_nohz_irq_exit
    	 tick_irq_exit
    	 irq_exit
    	 exiting_irq
    	 smp_call_function_interrupt
    	 smp_call_function_single_interrupt
    	 call_function_single_interrupt
    
    Therefore, let's rather make sure that the tick expiry cache is sync'ed
    with the tick hrtimer deadline, against which it is not supposed to
    drift away. The clock hardware instead has its own will and can't be
    used as a reliable comparison point.
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarSasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarAbdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: James Hartsock <hartsjc@redhat.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Tim Wright <tim@binbash.co.uk>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497326654-14122-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
    [ Minor readability edit. ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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