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Commit 746976a3 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Linus Torvalds
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NTP: remove clock_was_set() call to prevent deadlock

The clock_was_set() call in seconds_overflow() which happens only when
leap seconds are inserted / deleted is wrong in two aspects:

1. it results in a call to on_each_cpu() with interrupts disabled
2. it is potential deadlock source vs. call_lock in smp_call_function()

The only possible side effect of the removal might be, that an absolute
CLOCK_REALTIME timer fires 1 second too late, in the rare case of leap
second deletion and an absolute CLOCK_REALTIME timer which expires in
the affected time frame. It will never fire too early.

This was probably observed by the reporter of a June 30th -> July 1st
hang: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/3/103



A similar problem was observed by Dave Jones, who provided a screen shot
with a lockdep back trace, which allowed to analyse the problem.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 872aad45
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