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-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-sched.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index b416995b9757..8c3fef1db09c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -160,6 +160,18 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void)
cpu = smp_processor_id();
ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
+ /*
+ * If this cpu is offline and it is the one which updates
+ * jiffies, then give up the assignment and let it be taken by
+ * the cpu which runs the tick timer next. If we don't drop
+ * this here the jiffies might be stale and do_timer() never
+ * invoked.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(!cpu_online(cpu))) {
+ if (cpu == tick_do_timer_cpu)
+ tick_do_timer_cpu = -1;
+ }
+
if (unlikely(ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE))
goto end;