Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 99b00a25f88b..b024106daa70 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -451,10 +451,18 @@ void add_timer_on(struct timer_list *timer, int cpu)
         spin_lock_irqsave(&base->lock, flags);
         timer_set_base(timer, base);
         internal_add_timer(base, timer);
+        /*
+         * Check whether the other CPU is idle and needs to be
+         * triggered to reevaluate the timer wheel when nohz is
+         * active. We are protected against the other CPU fiddling
+         * with the timer by holding the timer base lock. This also
+         * makes sure that a CPU on the way to idle can not evaluate
+         * the timer wheel.
+         */
+        wake_up_idle_cpu(cpu);
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock, flags);
 }
 
-
 /**
  * mod_timer - modify a timer's timeout
  * @timer: the timer to be modified