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Date:      Sat, 02 Jul 2022 17:21:07 +0000
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To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 264867] kevent EVFILT_TIMER, timer expiration with twice the period
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Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> ---
Ok, I'm still able to reproduce the problem with my patch.  But, the freque=
ncy
of the late wakeups is much much lower, and I'm fairly sure that the patch
solves a legitimate problem on its own.

Specifically, getnextcpuevent() contains the following bit of code:

/* Handle callout events. */
if (event > state->nextcall)
    event =3D state->nextcall;

It gets called when a CPU goes idle, and the idle thread is scheduling the =
next
timer interrupt.  "nextcall" is not volatile, and interrupts are enabled, so
state->nextcall can be modified between the check and the load, and the CPU
will end up using a stale value.

It might be that there is another, similar race in handleevents(), since a
different CPU might be updating state->nextcall concurrently.  But I think =
the
race is harmless since callout_process() should be able to find the next
callout...

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