nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe
As it stands, irq_exit() may or may not be called with irqs disabled, depending on __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED that the arch can define. It makes tick_nohz_irq_exit() unsafe. For example two interrupts can race in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(): the inner most one computes the expiring time on top of the timer list, then it's interrupted right before reprogramming the clock. The new interrupt enqueues a new timer list timer, it reprogram the clock to take it into account and it exits. The CPUs resumes the inner most interrupt and performs the clock reprogramming without considering the new timer list timer. This regression has been introduced by: 280f0677 ("nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logic") Let's fix it right now with the appropriate protections. A saner long term solution will be to remove __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED and mandate that irq_exit() is called with interrupts disabled. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #v3.2+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361373336-11337-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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