Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' into for-2.6.33

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index e0f59a21c061..89aed5933ed4 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -231,6 +231,13 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle)
         if (!inidle && !ts->inidle)
                 goto end;
 
+        /*
+         * Set ts->inidle unconditionally. Even if the system did not
+         * switch to NOHZ mode the cpu frequency governers rely on the
+         * update of the idle time accounting in tick_nohz_start_idle().
+         */
+        ts->inidle = 1;
+
         now = tick_nohz_start_idle(ts);
 
         /*
@@ -248,8 +255,6 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle)
         if (unlikely(ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE))
                 goto end;
 
-        ts->inidle = 1;
-
         if (need_resched())
                 goto end;