hrtimers: Unconditionally update target CPU base after offline timer migration
authorXiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Tue, 5 Aug 2025 08:10:25 +0000 (16:10 +0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 9 Sep 2025 12:05:16 +0000 (14:05 +0200)
commite895f8e29119c8c966ea794af9e9100b10becb88
tree022c9dc2065cd5c2580d62bee8a917616e5354f2
parent76eeb9b8de9880ca38696b2fb56ac45ac0a25c6c
hrtimers: Unconditionally update target CPU base after offline timer migration

When testing softirq based hrtimers on an ARM32 board, with high resolution
mode and NOHZ inactive, softirq based hrtimers fail to expire after being
moved away from an offline CPU:

CPU0 CPU1
hrtimer_start(..., HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT);
cpu_down(CPU1) ...
hrtimers_cpu_dying()
  // Migrate timers to CPU0
  smp_call_function_single(CPU0, returgger_next_event);
  retrigger_next_event()
    if (!highres && !nohz)
        return;

As retrigger_next_event() is a NOOP when both high resolution timers and
NOHZ are inactive CPU0's hrtimer_cpu_base::softirq_expires_next is not
updated and the migrated softirq timers never expire unless there is a
softirq based hrtimer queued on CPU0 later.

Fix this by removing the hrtimer_hres_active() and tick_nohz_active() check
in retrigger_next_event(), which enforces a full update of the CPU base.
As this is not a fast path the extra cost does not matter.

[ tglx: Massaged change log ]

Fixes: 5c0930ccaad5 ("hrtimers: Push pending hrtimers away from outgoing CPU earlier")
Co-developed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250805081025.54235-1-wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com
kernel/time/hrtimer.c