Up to commit 5d33b883a (clocksource: Always verify highres capability)
we had no sanity check when selecting a clocksource, which prevented
that a non highres capable clocksource is used when the system already
switched to highres/nohz mode.
The new sanity check works as Alex and Tim found out. It prevents the
TSC from being used. This happens because on x86 the boot process
looks like this:
tsc_start_freqency_validation(TSC);
clocksource_register(HPET);
clocksource_done_booting();
clocksource_select()
Selects HPET which is valid for high-res
switch_to_highres();
clocksource_register(TSC);
TSC is not selected, because it is not yet
flagged as VALID_HIGH_RES
clocksource_watchdog()
Validates TSC for highres, but that does not make TSC
the current clocksource.
Before the sanity check was added, we installed TSC unvalidated which
worked most of the time. If the TSC was really detected as unstable,
then the unstable logic removed it and installed HPET again.
The sanity check is correct and needed. So the watchdog needs to kick
a reselection of the clocksource, when it qualifies TSC as a valid
high res clocksource.
To solve this, we mark the clocksource which got the flag
CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES set by the watchdog with an new flag
CLOCK_SOURCE_RESELECT and trigger the watchdog thread. The watchdog
thread evaluates the flag and invokes clocksource_select() when set.
To avoid that the clocksource_done_booting() code, which is about to
install the first real clocksource anyway, needs to go through
clocksource_select and tick_oneshot_notify() pointlessly, split out
the clocksource_watchdog_kthread() list walk code and invoke the
select/notify only when called from clocksource_watchdog_kthread().
So clocksource_done_booting() can utilize the same splitout code
without the select/notify invocation and the clocksource_mutex
unlock/relock dance.
Reported-and-tested-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: Hans Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307042239150.11637@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
commit 7eaeb34305 (clocksource: Provide unbind interface in sysfs)
implemented clocksource_select_fallback() which is not defined for
CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET=y. Add an empty inline function for
that.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reported-by: fengguang.wu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Provide a sysfs interface to allow unbinding of clockevent
devices. The device is unbound if it is unused or if there is a
replacement device available. Unbinding of broadcast devices is not
supported as we don't want to foster that nonsense. If no replacement
device is available the unbind returns -EBUSY. Unbind is available
from the kernel and through sysfs, which is necessary to drop the
module refcount.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.499216659@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
With the module refcount held for the current clocksource there is no
way to unload the module.
Provide a sysfs interface which allows to unbind the clocksource. One
could argue that the clocksource override could be (ab)used to do so,
but the clocksource override cannot be used from the kernel itself,
while an unbind function can be used to programmatically check whether
a clocksource can be shutdown or not.
The unbind functionality uses the new skip current feature of
clocksource_select and verifies that a fallback clocksource has been
installed. If the clocksource which should be unbound is the current
clocksource and no fallback can be found, unbind returns -EBUSY.
This does not support the unbinding of a clocksource which is used as
the watchdog clocksource. No point in fostering crappy hardware.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143435.964218245@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This resolves the conflict in the arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/s3c6400.c file,
and it fixes the build error in the arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
file, that the merge did not catch.
The microcode_core.c patch was provided by Stephen Rothwell
<sfr@canb.auug.org.au> who was invaluable in the merge issues involved
with the large sysdev removal process in the driver-core tree.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
For some frequencies, the clocks_calc_mult_shift() function will
unfortunately select mult values very close to 0xffffffff. This
has the potential to overflow when NTP adjusts the clock, adding
to the mult value.
This patch adds a clocksource.maxadj value, which provides
an approximation of an 11% adjustment(NTP limits adjustments to
500ppm and the tick adjustment is limited to 10%), which could
be made to the clocksource.mult value. This is then used to both
check that the current mult value won't overflow/underflow, as
well as warning us if the timekeeping_adjust() code pushes over
that 11% boundary.
v2: Fix max_adjustment calculation, and improve WARN_ONCE
messages.
v3: Don't warn before maxadj has actually been set
CC: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
CC: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>
CC: zhangfx <zhangfx@lemote.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>
Reported-by: zhangfx <zhangfx@lemote.com>
Tested-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
KGDB needs to trylock watchdog_lock when trying to reset the
clocksource watchdog after the system has been stopped to avoid a
potential deadlock. When the trylock fails TSC usually becomes
unstable.
We can be more clever by using an atomic counter and checking it in
the clocksource_watchdog callback. We restart the watchdog whenever
the counter is > 0 and only decrement the counter when we ran through
a full update cycle.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1109121326280.2723@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The clocksource watchdog code is interruptible and it has been
observed that this can trigger false positives which disable the TSC.
The reason is that an interrupt storm or a long running interrupt
handler between the read of the watchdog source and the read of the
TSC brings the two far enough apart that the delta is larger than the
unstable treshold. Move both reads into a short interrupt disabled
region to avoid that.
Reported-and-tested-by: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'timers-clockevents-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: hpet: Cleanup the clockevents init and register code
x86: Convert PIT to clockevents_config_and_register()
clockevents: Provide interface to reconfigure an active clock event device
clockevents: Provide combined configure and register function
clockevents: Restructure clock_event_device members
clocksource: Get rid of the hardcoded 5 seconds sleep time limit
clocksource: Restructure clocksource struct members
Christian Hoffmann reported that the command line clocksource override
with acpi_pm timer fails:
Kernel command line: <SNIP> clocksource=acpi_pm
hpet clockevent registered
Switching to clocksource hpet
Override clocksource acpi_pm is not HRT compatible.
Cannot switch while in HRT/NOHZ mode.
The watchdog code is what enables CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES, but we
actually end up selecting the clocksource before we enqueue it into
the watchdog list, so that's why we see the warning and fail to switch
to acpi_pm timer as requested. That's particularly bad when we want to
debug timekeeping related problems in early boot.
Put the selection call last.
Reported-by: Christian Hoffmann <email@christianhoffmann.info>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 32...
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C1304558210.2943.24.camel%40work-vm%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings
rcu: demote SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY from kernel-parameter status
rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi()
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, olpc: Add missing Kconfig dependencies
x86, mrst: Set correct APB timer IRQ affinity for secondary cpu
x86: tsc: Fix calibration refinement conditionals to avoid divide by zero
x86, ia64, acpi: Clean up x86-ism in drivers/acpi/numa.c
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timekeeping: Make local variables static
time: Rename misnamed minsec argument of clocks_calc_mult_shift()
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Remove syscall_exit_fields
tracing: Only process module tracepoints once
perf record: Add "nodelay" mode, disabled by default
perf sched: Fix list of events, dropping unsupported ':r' modifier
Revert "perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return"
perf top: Fix annotate segv
perf evsel: Fix order of event list deletion
The minsec argument to clocks_calc_mult_shift() is misnamed. It is used
to clamp the magnitude of the mult factor so that a multiplication with
any value in the given range won't overflow a 64 bit result. Let's
rename it to match the actual usage.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101111207140.17086@xanadu.home>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Russell King reports:
| On the ARM dev boards, we have a 32-bit counter running at 24MHz. Calling
| clocks_calc_mult_shift(&mult, &shift, 24MHz, NSEC_PER_SEC, 60) gives
| us a multiplier of 2796202666 and a shift of 26.
|
| Over a large counter delta, this produces an error - lets take a count
| from 362976315 to 4280663372:
|
| (4280663372-362976315) * 2796202666 / 2^26 - (4280663372-362976315) * (1000/24)
| => -38.91872422891230269990
|
| Can we do better?
|
| (4280663372-362976315) * 2796202667 / 2^26 - (4280663372-362976315) * (1000/24)
| 19.45936211449532822051
|
| which is about twice as good as the 2796202666 multiplier.
|
| Looking at the equivalent divisions obtained, 2796202666 / 2^26 gives
| 41.66666665673255920410ns per tick, whereas 2796202667 / 2^26 gives
| 41.66666667163372039794ns. The actual value wanted is 1000/24 =
| 41.66666666666666666666ns.
Fix this by ensuring we round to nearest when calculating the
multiplier.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Tested-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Tested-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
