Merge tag 'v4.0-rc6' into timers/core, before applying new patches

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
index eb682d5c697c..6aac4beedbbe 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ static void bc_set_mode(enum clock_event_mode mode,
  */
 static int bc_set_next(ktime_t expires, struct clock_event_device *bc)
 {
+        int bc_moved;
         /*
          * We try to cancel the timer first. If the callback is on
          * flight on some other cpu then we let it handle it. If we
@@ -60,9 +61,15 @@ static int bc_set_next(ktime_t expires, struct clock_event_device *bc)
          * restart the timer because we are in the callback, but we
          * can set the expiry time and let the callback return
          * HRTIMER_RESTART.
+         *
+         * Since we are in the idle loop at this point and because
+         * hrtimer_{start/cancel} functions call into tracing,
+         * calls to these functions must be bound within RCU_NONIDLE.
          */
-        if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&bctimer) >= 0) {
-                hrtimer_start(&bctimer, expires, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
+        RCU_NONIDLE(bc_moved = (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&bctimer) >= 0) ?
+                !hrtimer_start(&bctimer, expires, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED) :
+                        0);
+        if (bc_moved) {
                 /* Bind the "device" to the cpu */
                 bc->bound_on = smp_processor_id();
         } else if (bc->bound_on == smp_processor_id()) {