tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic

The recent implementation of a generic dummy timer resulted in a
different registration order of per cpu local timers which made the
broadcast control logic go belly up.

If the dummy timer is the first clock event device which is registered
for a CPU, then it is installed, the broadcast timer is initialized
and the CPU is marked as broadcast target.

If a real clock event device is installed after that, we can fail to
take the CPU out of the broadcast mask. In the worst case we end up
with two periodic timer events firing for the same CPU. One from the
per cpu hardware device and one from the broadcast.

Now the problem is that we have no way to distinguish whether the
system is in a state which makes broadcasting necessary or the
broadcast bit was set due to the nonfunctional dummy timer
installment.

To solve this we need to keep track of the system state seperately and
provide a more detailed decision logic whether we keep the CPU in
broadcast mode or not.

The old decision logic only clears the broadcast mode, if the newly
installed clock event device is not affected by power states.

The new logic clears the broadcast mode if one of the following is
true:

  - The new device is not affected by power states.

  - The system is not in a power state affected mode

  - The system has switched to oneshot mode. The oneshot broadcast is
    controlled from the deep idle state. The CPU is not in idle at
    this point, so it's safe to remove it from the mask.

If we clear the broadcast bit for the CPU when a new device is
installed, we also shutdown the broadcast device when this was the
last CPU in the broadcast mask.

If the broadcast bit is kept, then we leave the new device in shutdown
state and rely on the broadcast to deliver the timer interrupts via
the broadcast ipis.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
index edd45f64162f..64522ecdfe0e 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
@@ -194,7 +194,8 @@ static void tick_setup_device(struct tick_device *td,
 	 * When global broadcasting is active, check if the current
 	 * device is registered as a placeholder for broadcast mode.
 	 * This allows us to handle this x86 misfeature in a generic
-	 * way.
+	 * way. This function also returns !=0 when we keep the
+	 * current active broadcast state for this CPU.
 	 */
 	if (tick_device_uses_broadcast(newdev, cpu))
 		return;