From: Ingo Molnar Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:17:18 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [PATCH] hrtimers: fix reprogramming SMP race X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc6~81 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=935c631db827cc3a96df4dcc6fec374b994fdbd1;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git [PATCH] hrtimers: fix reprogramming SMP race hrtimer_start() incorrectly set the 'reprogram' flag to enqueue_hrtimer(), which should only be 1 if the hrtimer is queued to the current CPU. Doing otherwise could result in a reprogramming of the current CPU's clockevents device, with a timer that is not queued to it - resulting in a bogus next expiry value. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Michal Piotrowski Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c index 6a7938a0d51..067ba2c0532 100644 --- a/kernel/hrtimer.c +++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c @@ -814,7 +814,12 @@ hrtimer_start(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim, const enum hrtimer_mode mode) timer_stats_hrtimer_set_start_info(timer); - enqueue_hrtimer(timer, new_base, base == new_base); + /* + * Only allow reprogramming if the new base is on this CPU. + * (it might still be on another CPU if the timer was pending) + */ + enqueue_hrtimer(timer, new_base, + new_base->cpu_base == &__get_cpu_var(hrtimer_bases)); unlock_hrtimer_base(timer, &flags);