timer: Kick dynticks targets on mod_timer*() calls
When a timer is enqueued or modified on a dynticks target, that CPU must re-evaluate the next tick to service that timer. The tick re-evaluation is performed by an IPI kick on the target. Now while we correctly call wake_up_nohz_cpu() from add_timer_on(), the mod_timer*() API family doesn't support so well dynticks targets. The reason for this is likely that __mod_timer() isn't supposed to select an idle target for a timer, unless that target is the current CPU, in which case a dynticks idle kick isn't actually needed. But there is a small race window lurking behind that assumption: the elected target has all the time to turn dynticks idle between the call to get_nohz_timer_target() and the locking of its base. Hence a risk that we enqueue a timer on a dynticks idle destination without kicking it. As a result, the timer might be serviced too late in the future. Also a target elected by __mod_timer() can be in full dynticks mode and thus require to be kicked as well. And unlike idle dynticks, this concern both local and remote targets. To fix this whole issue, lets centralize the dynticks kick to internal_add_timer() so that it is well handled for all sort of timer enqueue. Even timer migration is concerned so that a full dynticks target is correctly kicked as needed when timers are migrating to it. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403393357-2070-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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