linux/kernel/time
Heiko Carstens 857f3fd7a4 nohz: don't stop idle tick if softirqs are pending.
In case a cpu goes idle but softirqs are pending only an error message is
printed to the console. It may take a very long time until the pending
softirqs will finally be executed. Worst case would be a hanging system.

With this patch the timer tick just continues and the softirqs will be
executed after the next interrupt. Still a delay but better than a
hanging system.

Currently we have at least two device drivers on s390 which under certain
circumstances schedule a tasklet from process context. This is a reason
why we can end up with pending softirqs when going idle. Fixing these
drivers seems to be non-trivial.
However there is no question that the drivers should be fixed.
This patch shouldn't be considered as a bug fix. It just is intended to
keep a system running even if device drivers are buggy.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 11:17:04 +02:00
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clockevents.c time: fix typo in comments 2008-02-08 09:22:29 -08:00
clocksource.c clocksource: allow read access to available/current_clocksource 2008-05-03 18:11:48 +02:00
jiffies.c [PATCH] fix jiffies clocksource inittime 2007-04-04 21:12:47 -07:00
Kconfig clockevents: Allow build w/o run-tine usage for migration purposes 2007-10-12 23:04:05 +02:00
Makefile clockevents: Allow build w/o run-tine usage for migration purposes 2007-10-12 23:04:05 +02:00
ntp.c ntp: handle leap second via timer 2008-05-01 08:03:59 -07:00
tick-broadcast.c clockevents: fix typo in tick-broadcast.c 2008-04-21 07:59:51 +02:00
tick-common.c [S390] genirq/clockevents: move irq affinity prototypes/inlines to interrupt.h 2008-04-17 07:47:05 +02:00
tick-internal.h timer: clean up tick-broadcast.c 2008-01-30 13:30:01 +01:00
tick-oneshot.c [S390] genirq/clockevents: move irq affinity prototypes/inlines to interrupt.h 2008-04-17 07:47:05 +02:00
tick-sched.c nohz: don't stop idle tick if softirqs are pending. 2008-07-11 11:17:04 +02:00
timekeeping.c ntp: handle leap second via timer 2008-05-01 08:03:59 -07:00
timer_list.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
timer_stats.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00