From d4496b39559c6d43f83e4c08b899984f8b8089b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:36:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler The reprogramming of the periodic broadcast handler was broken, when the first programming returned -ETIME. The clockevents code stores the new expiry value in the clock events device next_event field only when the programming time has not been elapsed yet. The loop in question calculates the new expiry value from the next_event value and therefor never increases. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c index 31463d370b9..3044a88357f 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -175,6 +175,8 @@ static void tick_do_periodic_broadcast(void) */ static void tick_handle_periodic_broadcast(struct clock_event_device *dev) { + ktime_t next; + tick_do_periodic_broadcast(); /* @@ -185,10 +187,13 @@ static void tick_handle_periodic_broadcast(struct clock_event_device *dev) /* * Setup the next period for devices, which do not have - * periodic mode: + * periodic mode. We read dev->next_event first and add to it + * when the event alrady expired. clockevents_program_event() + * sets dev->next_event only when the event is really + * programmed to the device. */ - for (;;) { - ktime_t next = ktime_add(dev->next_event, tick_period); + for (next = dev->next_event; ;) { + next = ktime_add(next, tick_period); if (!clockevents_program_event(dev, next, ktime_get())) return; -- 2.41.1