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* time: catch xtime_nsec underflows and fix themjohn stultz2008-12-041-0/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix time warp bug Alex Shi, along with Yanmin Zhang have been noticing occasional time inconsistencies recently. Through their great diagnosis, they found that the xtime_nsec value used in update_wall_time was occasionally going negative. After looking through the code for awhile, I realized we have the possibility for an underflow when three conditions are met in update_wall_time(): 1) We have accumulated a second's worth of nanoseconds, so we incremented xtime.tv_sec and appropriately decrement xtime_nsec. (This doesn't cause xtime_nsec to go negative, but it can cause it to be small). 2) The remaining offset value is large, but just slightly less then cycle_interval. 3) clocksource_adjust() is speeding up the clock, causing a corrective amount (compensating for the increase in the multiplier being multiplied against the unaccumulated offset value) to be subtracted from xtime_nsec. This can cause xtime_nsec to underflow. Unfortunately, since we notify the NTP subsystem via second_overflow() whenever we accumulate a full second, and this effects the error accumulation that has already occured, we cannot simply revert the accumulated second from xtime nor move the second accumulation to after the clocksource_adjust call without a change in behavior. This leaves us with (at least) two options: 1) Simply return from clocksource_adjust() without making a change if we notice the adjustment would cause xtime_nsec to go negative. This would work, but I'm concerned that if a large adjustment was needed (due to the error being large), it may be possible to get stuck with an ever increasing error that becomes too large to correct (since it may always force xtime_nsec negative). This may just be paranoia on my part. 2) Catch xtime_nsec if it is negative, then add back the amount its negative to both xtime_nsec and the error. This second method is consistent with how we've handled earlier rounding issues, and also has the benefit that the error being added is always in the oposite direction also always equal or smaller then the correction being applied. So the risk of a corner case where things get out of control is lessened. This patch fixes bug 11970, as tested by Yanmin Zhang http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11970 Reported-by: alex.shi@intel.com Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for nowThomas Gleixner2008-11-101-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: nohz powersavings and wakeup regression commit fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208 (NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()) causes a serious wakeup regression. While the patch is correct it does not take into account that spurious wakeups happen on x86. A fix for this issue is available, but we just revert to the .27 behaviour and let long running softirqs screw themself. Disable it for now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2Thomas Gleixner2008-10-223-17/+19
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: kernel/time/tick-sched.c Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * Merge commit 'linus/master' into merge-linusArjan van de Ven2008-10-178-50/+163
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
| * | hrtimer: show the timer ranges in /proc/timer_listArjan van de Ven2008-09-071-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to help debugging and visibility of timer ranges, show them in the existing timer list in /proc/timer_list Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
| * | hrtimer: convert kernel/* to the new hrtimer apisArjan van de Ven2008-09-053-15/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to be able to do range hrtimers we need to use accessor functions to the "expire" member of the hrtimer struct. This patch converts kernel/* to these accessors. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
* | | NOHZ: fix thinko in the timer restart code pathThomas Gleixner2008-10-211-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208 (NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()) solves the problem of stale jiffies when long running softirqs happen in a long idle sleep period, but it has a major thinko in it: When the interrupt which came in _is_ the timer interrupt which should expire ts->sched_timer then we cancel and rearm the timer _before_ it gets expired in hrtimer_interrupt() to the next period. That means the call back function is not called. This game can go on for ever :( Prevent this by making sure to only rearm the timer when the expiry time is more than one tick_period away. Otherwise keep it running as it is either already expired or will expiry at the right point to update jiffies. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Venkatesch Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
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*-------. \ \ Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', ↵Thomas Gleixner2008-10-2010-137/+315
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/debug' into v28-timers-for-linus
| | | | | * | | timer_list: add base address to clock baseThomas Gleixner2008-10-201-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The base address of a (per cpu) clock base is a useful debug info. Add it and bump the version number of timer_lists. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | | | | * | | timer_list: print cpu number of clockevents deviceThomas Gleixner2008-10-201-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The per cpu clock events device output of timer_list lacks an association of the device to the cpu which is annoying when looking at the output of /proc/timer_list from a 128 way system. Add the CPU number info and mark the broadcast device in the device list printout. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | | | | * | | timer_list: print real timer addressThomas Gleixner2008-10-201-3/+4
| | | | | | |/ | | | | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current timer_list output prints the address of the on stack copy of the active hrtimer instead of the hrtimer itself. Print the address of the real timer instead. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | | * | | | ntp: improve adjtimex frequency roundingRoman Zippel2008-09-241-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change PPM_SCALE_INV_SHIFT so that it doesn't throw away any input bits (19 is the amount of the factor 2 in PPM_SCALE), the output frequency can then be calculated back to its input value, as the inverse divide produce a slightly larger value, which is then correctly rounded by the final shift. Reported-by: Martin Ziegler <ziegler@uni-freiburg.de> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | | * | | | timekeeping: fix rounding problem during clock updateRoman Zippel2008-09-241-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to a rounding problem during a clock update it's possible for readers to observe the clock jumping back by 1nsec. The following simplified example demonstrates the problem: cycle xtime 0 0 1000 999999.6 2000 1999999.2 3000 2999998.8 ... 1500 = 1499999.4 = 0.0 + 1499999.4 = 999999.6 + 499999.8 When reading the clock only the full nanosecond part is used, while timekeeping internally keeps nanosecond fractions. If the clock is now updated at cycle 1500 here, a nanosecond is missing due to the truncation. The simple fix is to round up the xtime value during the update, this also changes the distance to the reference time, but the adjustment will automatically take care that it stays under control. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | | * | | | ntp: let update_persistent_clock() sleepMaciej W. Rozycki2008-09-241-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a change that makes the 11-minute RTC update be run in the process context. This is so that update_persistent_clock() can sleep, which may be required for certain types of RTC hardware -- most notably I2C devices. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | | * | | | Merge branch 'linus' into timers/ntpIngo Molnar2008-09-061-1/+8
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| | | * | | | ntp: fix ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ bug and do_adjtimex() cleanupRoman Zippel2008-08-221-36/+40
| | |/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thanks to the review by Michael Kerrisk a bug in the recent ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ option was discovered, where the ntp time_offset was inadvertently set by it. This fixes this by making the adjtime code more separate from the ntp_adjtime code (both of which really want to be separate syscalls). Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()Thomas Gleixner2008-10-173-8/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We did not restart the tick device from irq_enter() to avoid double reprogramming and extra events in the return immediate to idle case. But long lasting softirqs can lead to a situation where jiffies become stale: idle() tick stopped (reprogrammed to next pending timer) halt() interrupt jiffies updated from irq_enter() interrupt handler softirq function 1 runs 20ms softirq function 2 arms a 10ms timer with a stale jiffies value jiffies updated from irq_exit() timer wheel has now an already expired timer (the one added in function 2) timer fires and timer softirq runs This was discovered when debugging a timer problem which happend only when the ath5k driver is active. The debugging proved that there is a softirq function running for more than 20ms, which is a bug by itself. To solve this we restart the tick timer right from irq_enter(), but do not go through the other functions which are necessary to return from idle when need_resched() is set. Reported-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
| | * | | | NOHZ: split tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick()Thomas Gleixner2008-10-171-22/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split out the clock event device reprogramming. Preparatory patch. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | | | NOHZ: unify the nohz function calls in irq_enter()Thomas Gleixner2008-10-171-1/+12
| | | |_|/ | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have two separate nohz function calls in irq_enter() for no good reason. Just call a single NOHZ function from irq_enter() and call the bits in the tick code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | | Merge branch 'core-v28-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-10-161-1/+1
| | |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: do_generic_file_read: s/EINTR/EIO/ if lock_page_killable() fails softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning softirqs, debug: preemption check x86, pci-hotplug, calgary / rio: fix EBDA ioremap() IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding, fix IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes softlockup: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description dmi scan: warn about too early calls to dmi_check_system() generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t generic: make PFN_PHYS explicitly return phys_addr_t generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses softirq: allocate less vectors IO resources: fix/remove printk printk: robustify printk, update comment printk: robustify printk, fix #2 printk: robustify printk, fix printk: robustify printk Fixed up conflicts in: arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype manually.
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| | | *---. \ \ Merge branches 'core/softlockup', 'core/softirq', 'core/resources', ↵Ingo Molnar2008-10-151-1/+1
| | | |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | |/ / | | | | | |/| / | | | | | |_|/ | | | | |/| | 'core/printk' and 'core/misc' into core-v28-for-linus
| | | | | | * printk: robustify printkPeter Zijlstra2008-08-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Avoid deadlocks against rq->lock and xtime_lock by deferring the klogd wakeup by polling from the timer tick. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructsJan Beulich2008-10-161-1/+0
| | |/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more appropriate. Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't selected by anything seems also at least questionable. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| | * | | | [CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand ↵venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com2008-10-091-1/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | governor export get_cpu_idle_time_us() for it to be used in ondemand governor. Last update time can be current time when the CPU is currently non-idle, accounting for the busy time since last idle. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
| | * | | | clockevents: check broadcast tick device not the clock events deviceThomas Gleixner2008-10-041-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: jiffies increment too fast. Hugh Dickins noted that with NOHZ=n and HIGHRES=n jiffies get incremented too fast. The reason is a wrong check in the broadcast enter/exit code, which keeps the local apic timer in periodic mode when the switch happens. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | | | hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimersThomas Gleixner2008-09-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is active at migration time. Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | | | timers: fix build error in !oneshot caseIngo Molnar2008-09-231-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel/time/tick-common.c: In function ‘tick_setup_periodic’: kernel/time/tick-common.c:113: error: implicit declaration of function ‘tick_broadcast_oneshot_active’ Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu onlineThomas Gleixner2008-09-233-1/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: timer hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E systems When a CPU is brought online then the broadcast machinery can be in the one shot state already. Check this and setup the timer device of the new CPU in one shot mode so the broadcast code can pick up the next_event value correctly. Another AMD C1E oddity, as we switch to broadcast immediately and not after the full bring up via the ACPI cpu idle code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | | | clockevents: check broadcast device not tick deviceThomas Gleixner2008-09-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: Possible hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E machines. The broadcast setup code looks at the mode of the tick device to determine whether it needs to be shut down or setup. This is wrong when the broadcast mode is set to one shot already. This can happen when a CPU is brought online as it goes through the periodic setup first. The problem went unnoticed as sane systems do not call into that code before the switch to one shot for the clock event device happens. The AMD C1E idle routine switches over immediately and thereby shuts down the just setup device before the first interrupt happens. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | | | clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUsThomas Gleixner2008-09-231-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: possible hang on CPU onlining in timer one shot mode. The tick_next_period variable is only used during boot on nohz/highres enabled systems, but for CPU onlining it needs to be maintained when the per cpu clock events device operates in one shot mode. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | | | clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohzThomas Gleixner2008-09-233-7/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: rare hang which can be triggered on CPU online. tick_do_timer_cpu keeps track of the CPU which updates jiffies via do_timer. The value -1 is used to signal, that currently no CPU is doing this. There are two cases, where the variable can have this state: boot: necessary for systems where the boot cpu id can be != 0 nohz long idle sleep: When the CPU which did the jiffies update last goes into a long idle sleep it drops the update jiffies duty so another CPU which is not idle can pick it up and keep jiffies going. Using the same value for both situations is wrong, as the CPU online code can see the -1 state when the timer of the newly onlined CPU is setup. The setup for a newly onlined CPU goes through periodic mode and can pick up the do_timer duty without being aware of the nohz / highres mode of the already running system. Use two separate states and make them constants to avoid magic numbers confusion. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | | | clockevents: make device shutdown robustThomas Gleixner2008-09-164-8/+19
| | |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The device shut down does not cleanup the next_event variable of the clock event device. So when the device is reactivated the possible stale next_event value can prevent the device to be reprogrammed as it claims to wait on a event already. This is the root cause of the resurfacing suspend/resume problem, where systems need key press to come back to life. Fix this by setting next_event to KTIME_MAX when the device is shut down. Use a separate function for shutdown which takes care of that and only keep the direct set mode call in the broadcast code, where we can not touch the next_event value. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | | clockevents: remove WARN_ON which was used to gather informationThomas Gleixner2008-09-091-10/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The issue of the endless reprogramming loop due to a too small min_delta_ns was fixed with the previous updates of the clock events code, but we had no information about the spread of this problem. I added a WARN_ON to get automated information via kerneloops.org and to get some direct reports, which allowed me to analyse the affected machines. The WARN_ON has served its purpose and would be annoying for a release kernel. Remove it and just keep the information about the increase of the min_delta_ns value. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | | Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-09-066-29/+103
| | |\ \ \ | | | |/ / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: clocksource, acpi_pm.c: check for monotonicity clocksource, acpi_pm.c: use proper read function also in errata mode ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC sync x86: HPET: read back compare register before reading counter x86: HPET fix moronic 32/64bit thinko clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters HPET: make minimum reprogramming delta useful clockevents: prevent endless loop lockup clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdown clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setup clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
| | | * | ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC syncMaciej W. Rozycki2008-09-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have a bug in the calculation of the next jiffie to trigger the RTC synchronisation. The aim here is to run sync_cmos_clock() as close as possible to the middle of a second. Which means we want this function to be called less than or equal to half a jiffie away from when now.tv_nsec equals 5e8 (500000000). If this is not the case for a given call to the function, for this purpose instead of updating the RTC we calculate the offset in nanoseconds to the next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be equal 5e8. The calculated offset is then converted to jiffies as these are the unit used by the timer. Hovewer timespec_to_jiffies() used here uses a ceil()-type rounding mode, where the resulting value is rounded up. As a result the range of now.tv_nsec when the timer will trigger is from 5e8 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC rather than the desired 5e8 - TICK_NSEC / 2 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2. As a result if for example sync_cmos_clock() happens to be called at the time when now.tv_nsec is between 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2 and 5e8 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC, it will simply be rescheduled HZ jiffies later, falling in the same range of now.tv_nsec again. Similarly for cases offsetted by an integer multiple of TICK_NSEC. This change addresses the problem by subtracting TICK_NSEC / 2 from the nanosecond offset to the next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be equal 5e8, effectively shifting the following rounding in timespec_to_jiffies() so that it produces a rounded-to-nearest result. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | | * | clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waitersThomas Gleixner2008-09-061-1/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Until the C1E patches arrived there where no users of periodic broadcast before switching to oneshot mode. Now we need to trigger a possible waiter for a periodic broadcast when switching to oneshot mode. Otherwise we can starve them for ever. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | | * | clockevents: prevent endless loop lockupThomas Gleixner2008-09-053-16/+34
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The C1E/HPET bug reports on AMDX2/RS690 systems where tracked down to a too small value of the HPET minumum delta for programming an event. The clockevents code needs to enforce an interrupt event on the clock event device in some cases. The enforcement code was stupid and naive, as it just added the minimum delta to the current time and tried to reprogram the device. When the minimum delta is too small, then this loops forever. Add a sanity check. Allow reprogramming to fail 3 times, then print a warning and double the minimum delta value to make sure, that this does not happen again. Use the same function for both tick-oneshot and tick-broadcast code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | | * | clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdownThomas Gleixner2008-09-051-7/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While chasing the C1E/HPET bugreports I went through the clock events code inch by inch and found that the broadcast device can be initialized and shutdown multiple times. Multiple shutdowns are not critical, but useless waste of time. Multiple initializations are simply broken. Another CPU might have the device in use already after the first initialization and the second init could just render it unusable again. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | | * | clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setupThomas Gleixner2008-09-051-4/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In tick_oneshot_setup we program the device to the given next_event, but we do not check the return value. We need to make sure that the device is programmed enforced so the interrupt handler engine starts working. Split out the reprogramming function from tick_program_event() and call it with the device, which was handed in to tick_setup_oneshot(). Set the force argument, so the devices is firing an interrupt. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | | * | clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handlerThomas Gleixner2008-09-051-3/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The reprogramming of the periodic broadcast handler was broken, when the first programming returned -ETIME. The clockevents code stores the new expiry value in the clock events device next_event field only when the programming time has not been elapsed yet. The loop in question calculates the new expiry value from the next_event value and therefor never increases. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | | * | clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noopVenkatesh Pallipadi2008-09-052-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a ordering related problem with clockevents code, due to which clockevents_register_device() called after tickless/highres switch will not work. The new clockevent ends up with clockevents_handle_noop as event handler, resulting in no timer activity. The problematic path seems to be * old device already has hrtimer_interrupt as the event_handler * new clockevent device registers with a higher rating * tick_check_new_device() is called * clockevents_exchange_device() gets called * old->event_handler is set to clockevents_handle_noop * tick_setup_device() is called for the new device * which sets new->event_handler using the old->event_handler which is noop. Change the ordering so that new device inherits the proper handler. This does not have any issue in normal case as most likely all the clockevent devices are setup before the highres switch. But, can potentially be affecting some corner case where HPET force detect happens after the highres switch. This was a problem with HPET in MSI mode code that we have been experimenting with. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | sched_clock: fix NOHZ interactionPeter Zijlstra2008-09-051-0/+3
| | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If HLT stops the TSC, we'll fail to account idle time, thereby inflating the actual process times. Fix this by re-calibrating the clock against GTOD when leaving nohz mode. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | nohz: fix wrong event handler after online an offlined cpuMiao Xie2008-08-211-1/+5
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On the tickless system(CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n), after I made an offlined cpu online, I found this cpu's event handler was tick_handle_periodic, not tick_nohz_handler. After debuging, I found this bug was caused by the wrong tick mode. the tick mode is not changed to NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE when the cpu is offline. This patch fixes this bug. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | clocksource: introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAWJohn Stultz2008-08-211-0/+44
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In talking with Josip Loncaric, and his work on clock synchronization (see btime.sf.net), he mentioned that for really close synchronization, it is useful to have access to "hardware time", that is a notion of time that is not in any way adjusted by the clock slewing done to keep close time sync. Part of the issue is if we are using the kernel's ntp adjusted representation of time in order to measure how we should correct time, we can run into what Paul McKenney aptly described as "Painting a road using the lines we're painting as the guide". I had been thinking of a similar problem, and was trying to come up with a way to give users access to a purely hardware based time representation that avoided users having to know the underlying frequency and mask values needed to deal with the wide variety of possible underlying hardware counters. My solution is to introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW. This exposes a nanosecond based time value, that increments starting at bootup and has no frequency adjustments made to it what so ever. The time is accessed from userspace via the posix_clock_gettime() syscall, passing CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW as the clock_id. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | clocksource: introduce clocksource_forward_now()Roman Zippel2008-08-211-38/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To keep the raw monotonic patch simple first introduce clocksource_forward_now(), which takes care of the offset since the last update_wall_time() call and adds it to the clock, so there is no need anymore to deal with it explicitly at various places, which need to make significant changes to the clock. This is also gets rid of the timekeeping_suspend_nsecs, instead of waiting until resume, the value is accumulated during suspend. In the end there is only a single user of __get_nsec_offset() left, so I integrated it back to getnstimeofday(). Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | clocksource: keep track of original clocksource frequencyJohn Stultz2008-08-212-0/+4
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The clocksource frequency is represented by clocksource->mult/2^(clocksource->shift). Currently, when NTP makes adjustments to the clock frequency, they are made directly to the mult value. This has the drawback that once changed, we cannot know what the orignal mult value was, or how much adjustment has been applied. This property causes problems in calculating proper ntp intervals when switching back and forth between clocksources. This patch separates the current mult value into a mult and mult_orig pair. The mult_orig value stays constant, while the ntp clocksource adjustments are done only to the mult value. This allows for correct ntp interval calculation and additionally lays the groundwork for a new notion of time, what I'm calling the monotonic-raw time, which is introduced in a following patch. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched clock: revert various sched_clock() changesIngo Molnar2008-07-311-2/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Found an interactivity problem on a quad core test-system - simple CPU loops would occasionally delay the system un an unacceptable way. After much debugging with Peter Zijlstra it turned out that the problem is caused by the string of sched_clock() changes - they caused the CPU clock to jump backwards a bit - which confuses the scheduler arithmetics. (which is unsigned for performance reasons) So revert: # c300ba2: sched_clock: and multiplier for TSC to gtod drift # c0c8773: sched_clock: only update deltas with local reads. # af52a90: sched_clock: stop maximum check on NO HZ # f7cce27: sched_clock: widen the max and min time This solves the interactivity problems. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
* cpumask: change cpumask_of_cpu_ptr to use new cpumask_of_cpuMike Travis2008-07-261-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | * Replace previous instances of the cpumask_of_cpu_ptr* macros with a the new (lvalue capable) generic cpumask_of_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-07-241-2/+10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: nohz: adjust tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() call of s390 as well nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loop
| * Merge branch 'linus' into timers/nohzIngo Molnar2008-07-182-3/+7
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