clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock

Currently clockevents_notify() is called with interrupts enabled at
some places and interrupts disabled at some other places.

This results in a deadlock in this scenario.

cpu A holds clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs enabled
cpu B waits for clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs disabled
cpu C doing set_mtrr() which will try to rendezvous of all the cpus.

This will result in C and A come to the rendezvous point and waiting
for B. B is stuck forever waiting for the spinlock and thus not
reaching the rendezvous point.

Fix the clockevents code so that clockevents_lock is taken with
interrupts disabled and thus avoid the above deadlock.

Also call lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast() on the destination cpu so
that we avoid calling smp_call_function() in the clockevents notifier
chain.

This issue left us wondering if we need to change the MTRR rendezvous
logic to use stop machine logic (instead of smp_call_function) or add
a check in spinlock debug code to see if there are other spinlocks
which gets taken under both interrupts enabled/disabled conditions.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250544899.2709.210.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index a6dcd67b041..620b58abdc3 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -137,11 +137,12 @@ int clockevents_program_event(struct clock_event_device *dev, ktime_t expires,
  */
 int clockevents_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
+        unsigned long flags;
         int ret;
 
-        spin_lock(&clockevents_lock);
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&clockevents_lock, flags);
         ret = raw_notifier_chain_register(&clockevents_chain, nb);
-        spin_unlock(&clockevents_lock);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 
         return ret;
 }
@@ -178,16 +179,18 @@ static void clockevents_notify_released(void)
  */
 void clockevents_register_device(struct clock_event_device *dev)
 {
+        unsigned long flags;
+
         BUG_ON(dev->mode != CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED);
         BUG_ON(!dev->cpumask);
 
-        spin_lock(&clockevents_lock);
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 
         list_add(&dev->list, &clockevent_devices);
         clockevents_do_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_ADD, dev);
         clockevents_notify_released();
 
-        spin_unlock(&clockevents_lock);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clockevents_register_device);
 
@@ -235,8 +238,9 @@ void clockevents_exchange_device(struct clock_event_device *old,
 void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg)
 {
         struct list_head *node, *tmp;
+        unsigned long flags;
 
-        spin_lock(&clockevents_lock);
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&clockevents_lock, flags);
         clockevents_do_notify(reason, arg);
 
         switch (reason) {
@@ -251,7 +255,7 @@ void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg)
         default:
                 break;
         }
-        spin_unlock(&clockevents_lock);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clockevents_notify);
 #endif
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index 877dbedc311..c2ec25087a3 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -205,11 +205,11 @@ static void tick_handle_periodic_broadcast(struct clock_event_device *dev)
  * Powerstate information: The system enters/leaves a state, where
  * affected devices might stop
  */
-static void tick_do_broadcast_on_off(void *why)
+static void tick_do_broadcast_on_off(unsigned long *reason)
 {
         struct clock_event_device *bc, *dev;
         struct tick_device *td;
-        unsigned long flags, *reason = why;
+        unsigned long flags;
         int cpu, bc_stopped;
 
         spin_lock_irqsave(&tick_broadcast_lock, flags);
@@ -276,8 +276,7 @@ void tick_broadcast_on_off(unsigned long reason, int *oncpu)
                 printk(KERN_ERR "tick-broadcast: ignoring broadcast for "
                        "offline CPU #%d\n", *oncpu);
         else
-                smp_call_function_single(*oncpu, tick_do_broadcast_on_off,
-                                         &reason, 1);
+                tick_do_broadcast_on_off(&reason);
 }
 
 /*