EXP tick: Detect and fix jiffies update stall
authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Wed, 2 Feb 2022 00:01:07 +0000 (01:01 +0100)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:45:09 +0000 (10:45 -0800)
commite062a9cf73abb9386b8434df6285ffde4b6c0e06
tree666e74410f17b82bd52f7796e3deaf9b8f80ddfb
parentf5303a97aa76f1bcd059df52fa2a2ee34140216a
EXP tick: Detect and fix jiffies update stall

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: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
kernel/time/tick-sched.c
kernel/time/tick-sched.h