From 7bd36014460f793c19e7d6c94dab67b0afcfcb7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Stultz Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:50:56 -0700 Subject: timekeeping: Fix HRTICK related deadlock from ntp lock changes Gerlando Falauto reported that when HRTICK is enabled, it is possible to trigger system deadlocks. These were hard to reproduce, as HRTICK has been broken in the past, but seemed to be connected to the timekeeping_seq lock. Since seqlock/seqcount's aren't supported w/ lockdep, I added some extra spinlock based locking and triggered the following lockdep output: [ 15.849182] ntpd/4062 is trying to acquire lock: [ 15.849765] (&(&pool->lock)->rlock){..-...}, at: [] __queue_work+0x145/0x480 [ 15.850051] [ 15.850051] but task is already holding lock: [ 15.850051] (timekeeper_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [] do_adjtimex+0x7f/0x100 [ 15.850051] Chain exists of: &(&pool->lock)->rlock --> &p->pi_lock --> timekeeper_lock [ 15.850051] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 15.850051] [ 15.850051] CPU0 CPU1 [ 15.850051] ---- ---- [ 15.850051] lock(timekeeper_lock); [ 15.850051] lock(&p->pi_lock); [ 15.850051] lock(timekeeper_lock); [ 15.850051] lock(&(&pool->lock)->rlock); [ 15.850051] [ 15.850051] *** DEADLOCK *** The deadlock was introduced by 06c017fdd4dc48451a ("timekeeping: Hold timekeepering locks in do_adjtimex and hardpps") in 3.10 This patch avoids this deadlock, by moving the call to schedule_delayed_work() outside of the timekeeper lock critical section. Reported-by: Gerlando Falauto Tested-by: Lin Ming Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: stable #3.11, 3.10 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378943457-27314-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/timex.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/timex.h b/include/linux/timex.h index b3726e61368e..dd3edd7dfc94 100644 --- a/include/linux/timex.h +++ b/include/linux/timex.h @@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ extern int do_adjtimex(struct timex *); extern void hardpps(const struct timespec *, const struct timespec *); int read_current_timer(unsigned long *timer_val); +void ntp_notify_cmos_timer(void); /* The clock frequency of the i8253/i8254 PIT */ #define PIT_TICK_RATE 1193182ul -- cgit v1.2.3