Martin Schwidefsky analyzed it:
To register a clocksource the clocksource_mutex is acquired and if
necessary timekeeping_notify is called to install the clocksource as
the timekeeper clock. timekeeping_notify uses stop_machine which needs
to take cpu_add_remove_lock mutex.
Starting a new cpu is done with the cpu_add_remove_lock mutex held.
native_cpu_up checks the tsc of the new cpu and if the tsc is no good
clocksource_change_rating is called. Which needs the clocksource_mutex
and the deadlock is complete.
The solution is to replace the TSC via the clocksource watchdog
mechanism. Mark the TSC as unstable and schedule the watchdog work so
it gets removed in the watchdog thread context.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
After talking with some application writers who want very fast, but not
fine-grained timestamps, I decided to try to implement new clock_ids
to clock_gettime(): CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE
which returns the time at the last tick. This is very fast as we don't
have to access any hardware (which can be very painful if you're using
something like the acpi_pm clocksource), and we can even use the vdso
clock_gettime() method to avoid the syscall. The only trade off is you
only get low-res tick grained time resolution.
This isn't a new idea, I know Ingo has a patch in the -rt tree that made
the vsyscall gettimeofday() return coarse grained time when the
vsyscall64 sysctrl was set to 2. However this affects all applications
on a system.
With this method, applications can choose the proper speed/granularity
trade-off for themselves.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: nikolag@ca.ibm.com
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org
Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org
LKML-Reference: <1250734414.6897.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add the new function read_boot_clock to get the exact time the system
has been started. For architectures without support for exact boot
time a new weak function is added that returns 0. Use the exact boot
time to initialize wall_to_monotonic, or xtime if the read_boot_clock
returned 0.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134811.296703241@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The persistent clock of some architectures (e.g. s390) have a
better granularity than seconds. To reduce the delta between the
host clock and the guest clock in a virtualized system change the
read_persistent_clock function to return a struct timespec.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134811.013873340@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
update_wall_time calls change_clocksource HZ times per second to check
if a new clock source is available. In close to 100% of all calls
there is no new clock. Replace the tick based check by an update done
with stop_machine.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134810.711836357@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The clocksource structure has two multipliers, the unmodified multiplier
clock->mult_orig and the NTP corrected multiplier clock->mult. The NTP
multiplier is misplaced in the struct clocksource, this is private
information of the timekeeping code. Add the mult field to the struct
timekeeper to contain the NTP corrected value, keep the unmodifed
multiplier in clock->mult and remove clock->mult_orig.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134810.149047645@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add struct timekeeper to keep the internal values timekeeping.c needs
in regard to the currently selected clock source. This moves the
timekeeping intervals, xtime_nsec and the ntp error value from struct
clocksource to struct timekeeper. The raw_time is removed from the
clocksource as well. It gets treated like xtime as a global variable.
Eventually xtime raw_time should be moved to struct timekeeper.
[ tglx: minor cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134809.613209842@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
If a non high-resolution clocksource is first set as override clock
and then registered it becomes active even if the system is in one-shot
mode. Move the override check from sysfs_override_clocksource to the
clocksource selection. That fixes the bug and simplifies the code. The
check in clocksource_register for double registration of the same
clocksource is removed without replacement.
To find the initial clocksource a new weak function in jiffies.c is
defined that returns the jiffies clocksource. The architecture code
can then override the weak function with a more suitable clocksource,
e.g. the TOD clock on s390.
[ tglx: Folded in a fix from John Stultz ]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134808.388024160@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The three inline functions clocksource_read, clocksource_enable and
clocksource_disable are simple wrappers of an indirect call plus the
copy from and to the mult_orig value. The functions are exclusively
used by the timekeeping code which has intimate knowledge of the
clocksource anyway. Therefore remove the inline functions. No
functional change.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134807.903108946@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf_counter: Report the cloning task as parent on perf_counter_fork()
perf_counter: Fix an ipi-deadlock
perf: Rework/fix the whole read vs group stuff
perf_counter: Fix swcounter context invariance
perf report: Don't show unresolved DSOs and symbols when -S/-d is used
perf tools: Add a general option to enable raw sample records
perf tools: Add a per tracepoint counter attribute to get raw sample
perf_counter: Provide hw_perf_counter_setup_online() APIs
perf list: Fix large list output by using the pager
perf_counter, x86: Fix/improve apic fallback
perf record: Add missing -C option support for specifying profile cpu
perf tools: Fix dso__new handle() to handle deleted DSOs
perf tools: Fix fallback to cplus_demangle() when bfd_demangle() is not available
perf report: Show the tid too in -D
perf record: Fix .tid and .pid fill-in when synthesizing events
perf_counter, x86: Fix generic cache events on P6-mobile CPUs
perf_counter, x86: Fix lapic printk message
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
futex: Fix handling of bad requeue syscall pairing
futex: Fix compat_futex to be same as futex for REQUEUE_PI
locking, sched: Give waitqueue spinlocks their own lockdep classes
futex: Update futex_q lock_ptr on requeue proxy lock
Provide weak aliases for hw_perf_counter_setup_online(). This is
used by the BTS patches (for v2.6.32), but it interacts with
fixes so propagate this upstream. (it has no effect as of yet)
Also export perf_counter_output() to architecture code.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We can't call nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release() without
first initialising and referencing args.context. Doing so inside
nfs_direct_read_schedule_segment()/nfs_direct_write_schedule_segment()
causes an Oops.
We should rather be calling nfs_readdata_free()/nfs_writedata_free() in
those cases.
Looking at the O_DIRECT code, the "struct nfs_direct_req" is already
referencing the nfs_open_context for us. Since the readdata and writedata
structures carry a reference to that, we can simplify things by getting rid
of the extra nfs_open_context references, so that we can replace all
instances of nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release().
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits)
perf_counter: Zero dead bytes from ftrace raw samples size alignment
perf_counter: Subtract the buffer size field from the event record size
perf_counter: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for raw tracepoint data
perf_counter: Correct PERF_SAMPLE_RAW output
perf tools: callchain: Fix bad rounding of minimum rate
perf_counter tools: Fix libbfd detection for systems with libz dependency
perf: "Longum est iter per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla"
perf_counter: Fix a race on perf_counter_ctx
perf_counter: Fix tracepoint sampling to be part of generic sampling
perf_counter: Work around gcc warning by initializing tracepoint record unconditionally
perf tools: callchain: Fix sum of percentages to be 100% by displaying amount of ignored chains in fractal mode
perf tools: callchain: Fix 'perf report' display to be callchain by default
perf tools: callchain: Fix spurious 'perf report' warnings: ignore empty callchains
perf record: Fix the -A UI for empty or non-existent perf.data
perf util: Fix do_read() to fail on EOF instead of busy-looping
perf list: Fix the output to not include tracepoints without an id
perf_counter/powerpc: Fix oops on cpus without perf_counter hardware support
perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scale
perf report: Add debug help for the finding of symbol bugs - show the symtab origin (DSO, build-id, kernel, etc)
perf report: Fix per task mult-counter stat reporting
...
We compute the perf raw sample size by aligning the raw ftrace
event size plus the buffer size field itself. We do that
instead of aligning only the perf raw sample size, so that we
might economize some in some cases.
But this buffer size field is not stored in the perf raw
sample, we must then substract its size from the buffer once we
computed the alignment unless we may get a useless u32 field in
the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090810141129.GA5124@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
PERF_SAMPLE_* output switches should unconditionally output the
correct format, as they are the only way to unambiguously parse
the PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE data.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1249896447.17467.74.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: Avoid redelivery of edge interrupt before next edge
KVM: MMU: limit rmap chain length
KVM: ia64: fix build failures due to ia64/unsigned long mismatches
KVM: Make KVM_HPAGES_PER_HPAGE unsigned long to avoid build error on powerpc
KVM: fix ack not being delivered when msi present
KVM: s390: fix wait_queue handling
KVM: VMX: Fix locking imbalance on emulation failure
KVM: VMX: Fix locking order in handle_invalid_guest_state
KVM: MMU: handle n_free_mmu_pages > n_alloc_mmu_pages in kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages
KVM: SVM: force new asid on vcpu migration
KVM: x86: verify MTRR/PAT validity
KVM: PIT: fix kpit_elapsed division by zero
KVM: Fix KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST
Based on Peter's comments, make tracepoint sampling generic
just like all the other sampling bits are. This is a rename
with no code changes:
- PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD to PERF_SAMPLE_RAW
- struct perf_tracepoint_record to perf_raw_record
We want the system in place that transport tracepoints raw
samples events into the perf ring buffer to be generalized and
usable by any type of counter.
Reported-by; Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1249698400-5441-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Randy Dunlap
Thomas Gleixner
john stultz
Martin Schwidefsky
Linus Torvalds
Peter Zijlstra
Ingo Molnar
Trond Myklebust
Frederic Weisbecker
Peter Zijlstra