rtc: fix deadlock

if get_rtc_time() is _ever_ called with IRQs off, we deadlock badly
in it, waiting for jiffies to increment.

So make the code more robust by doing an explicit mdelay(20).

This solves a very hard to reproduce/debug hard lockup reported
by Mikael Pettersson.

Reported-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/rtc.h b/include/asm-generic/rtc.h
index be4af0029ac..71ef3f0b968 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/rtc.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/rtc.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/mc146818rtc.h>
 #include <linux/rtc.h>
 #include <linux/bcd.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
 
 #define RTC_PIE 0x40            /* periodic interrupt enable */
 #define RTC_AIE 0x20            /* alarm interrupt enable */
@@ -43,7 +44,6 @@ static inline unsigned char rtc_is_updating(void)
 
 static inline unsigned int get_rtc_time(struct rtc_time *time)
 {
-        unsigned long uip_watchdog = jiffies;
         unsigned char ctrl;
         unsigned long flags;
 
@@ -53,19 +53,15 @@ static inline unsigned int get_rtc_time(struct rtc_time *time)
 
         /*
          * read RTC once any update in progress is done. The update
-         * can take just over 2ms. We wait 10 to 20ms. There is no need to
+         * can take just over 2ms. We wait 20ms. There is no need to
          * to poll-wait (up to 1s - eeccch) for the falling edge of RTC_UIP.
          * If you need to know *exactly* when a second has started, enable
          * periodic update complete interrupts, (via ioctl) and then 
          * immediately read /dev/rtc which will block until you get the IRQ.
          * Once the read clears, read the RTC time (again via ioctl). Easy.
          */
-
-        if (rtc_is_updating() != 0)
-                while (jiffies - uip_watchdog < 2*HZ/100) {
-                        barrier();
-                        cpu_relax();
-                }
+        if (rtc_is_updating())
+                mdelay(20);
 
         /*
          * Only the values that we read from the RTC are set. We leave