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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-03-29 03:51:10 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-04-01 04:37:07 (GMT)
commit963e5d3b76d657f1ebcf3561446d2ba1872bbfa2 (patch)
tree323acf4be02bddfebc9fe0a415b9e709fb8f5bf5 /arch
parentecb78ab6f30106ab72a575a25b1cdfd1633b7ca2 (diff)
downloadlinux-963e5d3b76d657f1ebcf3561446d2ba1872bbfa2.tar.xz
powerpc: Make decrementer interrupt robust against offlined CPUs
With some implementations, it is possible that a timer interrupt occurs every few seconds on an offline CPU. In this case, just re-arm the decrementer and return immediately Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index aa92696..375480c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -577,14 +577,21 @@ void timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs * regs)
struct clock_event_device *evt = &decrementer->event;
u64 now;
+ /* Ensure a positive value is written to the decrementer, or else
+ * some CPUs will continue to take decrementer exceptions.
+ */
+ set_dec(DECREMENTER_MAX);
+
+ /* Some implementations of hotplug will get timer interrupts while
+ * offline, just ignore these
+ */
+ if (!cpu_online(smp_processor_id()))
+ return;
+
trace_timer_interrupt_entry(regs);
__get_cpu_var(irq_stat).timer_irqs++;
- /* Ensure a positive value is written to the decrementer, or else
- * some CPUs will continuue to take decrementer exceptions */
- set_dec(DECREMENTER_MAX);
-
#if defined(CONFIG_PPC32) && defined(CONFIG_PMAC)
if (atomic_read(&ppc_n_lost_interrupts) != 0)
do_IRQ(regs);