Merge tag 'timers_urgent_for_v5.16_rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timer fix from Borislav Petkov:

 - Prevent a tick storm when a dedicated timekeeper CPU in nohz_full
   mode runs for prolonged periods with interrupts disabled and ends up
   programming the next tick in the past, leading to that storm

* tag 'timers_urgent_for_v5.16_rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timers/nohz: Last resort update jiffies on nohz_full IRQ entry

Author: torvalds

kernel/softirq.c

@@ -595,7 +595,8 @@ void irq_enter_rcu(void)
 {
 	__irq_enter_raw();
 
-	if (is_idle_task(current) && (irq_count() == HARDIRQ_OFFSET))
+	if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()) ||
+	    (is_idle_task(current) && (irq_count() == HARDIRQ_OFFSET)))
 		tick_irq_enter();
 
 	account_hardirq_enter(current);

kernel/time/tick-sched.c

@@ -1375,6 +1375,13 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_irq_enter(void)
 	now = ktime_get();
 	if (ts->idle_active)
 		tick_nohz_stop_idle(ts, now);
+	/*
+	 * If all CPUs are idle. We may need to update a stale jiffies value.
+	 * Note nohz_full is a special case: a timekeeper is guaranteed to stay
+	 * alive but it might be busy looping with interrupts disabled in some
+	 * rare case (typically stop machine). So we must make sure we have a
+	 * last resort.
+	 */
 	if (ts->tick_stopped)
 		tick_nohz_update_jiffies(now);
 }