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[RFC v6 22/23] clockevents: make setting of ->mult and ->mult_adjusted atomic

From Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [RFC v6 22/23] clockevents: make setting of ->mult and ->mult_adjusted atomic
Date 2016-09-09 22:20 +0200
Message-ID <sfArg-7zf-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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In order to avoid races between setting a struct clock_event_device's
->mult_adjusted in clockevents_update_freq() and yet to be implemented
updates triggered from the timekeeping core, the setting of ->mult and
->mult_adjusted should be made atomic.

Protect the update in clockevents_update_freq() by locking the
clockevents_lock spinlock. Frequency updates are expected to be done
seldomly and thus, taking this subsystem lock should not have any impact
on performance.

Note that the call to tick_broadcast_update_freq() is also protected
by this clockevents_lock and thus, this patch can take the
tick_broadcast_lock with the clockevents_lock being held. However,
this is supposed to be safe since the sequence
  __clockevents_unbind() -> clockevents_replace() ->
  tick_install_replacement() -> tick_setup_device() ->
  tick_device_uses_broadcast()
already does this, too.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/time/clockevents.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index 67d572e..b121932 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -658,11 +658,11 @@ int clockevents_update_freq(struct clock_event_device *dev, u32 freq)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret;
 
-	local_irq_save(flags);
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 	ret = tick_broadcast_update_freq(dev, freq);
 	if (ret == -ENODEV)
 		ret = __clockevents_update_freq(dev, freq);
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clockevents_lock, flags);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
2.9.3

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[RFC v6 00/23] adapt clockevents frequencies to mono clock Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 22:10 +0200
  [RFC v6 07/23] many clockevent drivers: set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 22:10 +0200
  [RFC v6 04/23] clocksource: em_sti: compute rate before registration Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 22:10 +0200
  [RFC v6 19/23] timer_list: print_tickdevice(): calculate ->min_delta_ns dynamically Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 22:20 +0200
  [RFC v6 22/23] clockevents: make setting of ->mult and ->mult_adjusted atomic Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 22:20 +0200
  [RFC v6 18/23] clockevents: min delta increment: calculate min_delta_ns from ticks Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 22:20 +0200
  [RFC v6 21/23] clockevents: initial support for mono to raw time conversion Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 22:20 +0200
  [RFC v6 20/23] clockevents: purge ->min_delta_ns Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 22:20 +0200
  [RFC v6 23/23] timekeeping: inform clockevents about freq adjustments Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 22:20 +0200
  [RFC v6 16/23] clockevents: clockevents_program_min_delta(): don't set ->next_event Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 22:20 +0200
  [RFC v6 17/23] clockevents: use ->min_delta_ticks_adjusted to program minimum delta Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 22:30 +0200

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