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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index 877dbedc3118..c2ec25087a35 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);
 }
 
 /*