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From: Thomas Gleixner on 15 Feb 2010 10:50
Linus,

Please pull the latest timers-fixes-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git timers-fixes-for-linus

Thanks,

tglx

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Peter Zijlstra (1):
hrtimer, softirq: Fix hrtimer->softirq trampoline


kernel/softirq.c | 15 +++++----------
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index a09502e..7c1a67e 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -500,22 +500,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklet_kill);
*/

/*
- * The trampoline is called when the hrtimer expires. If this is
- * called from the hrtimer interrupt then we schedule the tasklet as
- * the timer callback function expects to run in softirq context. If
- * it's called in softirq context anyway (i.e. high resolution timers
- * disabled) then the hrtimer callback is called right away.
+ * The trampoline is called when the hrtimer expires. It schedules a tasklet
+ * to run __tasklet_hrtimer_trampoline() which in turn will call the intended
+ * hrtimer callback, but from softirq context.
*/
static enum hrtimer_restart __hrtimer_tasklet_trampoline(struct hrtimer *timer)
{
struct tasklet_hrtimer *ttimer =
container_of(timer, struct tasklet_hrtimer, timer);

- if (hrtimer_is_hres_active(timer)) {
- tasklet_hi_schedule(&ttimer->tasklet);
- return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
- }
- return ttimer->function(timer);
+ tasklet_hi_schedule(&ttimer->tasklet);
+ return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
}

/*
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