From 152f9d0710a62708710161bce1b29fa8292c8c11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:36:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sched_clock: Fix atomicity/continuity bug by using cmpxchg64() Commit def0a9b2573 (sched_clock: Make it NMI safe) assumed cmpxchg() of 64bit values was available on X86_32. That is not so - and causes some subtle scheduler misbehavior due to incorrect timestamps off to up by ~4 seconds. Two symptoms are known right now: - interactivity problems seen by Arjan: up to 600 msecs latencies instead of the expected 20-40 msecs. These latencies are very visible on the desktop. - incorrect CPU stats: occasionally too high percentages in 'top', and crazy CPU usage stats. Reported-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: John Stultz Cc: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <20090930170754.0886ff2e@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched_clock.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched_clock.c b/kernel/sched_clock.c index ac2e1dc708bd..479ce5682d7c 100644 --- a/kernel/sched_clock.c +++ b/kernel/sched_clock.c @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ again: clock = wrap_max(clock, min_clock); clock = wrap_min(clock, max_clock); - if (cmpxchg(&scd->clock, old_clock, clock) != old_clock) + if (cmpxchg64(&scd->clock, old_clock, clock) != old_clock) goto again; return clock; @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ again: val = remote_clock; } - if (cmpxchg(ptr, old_val, val) != old_val) + if (cmpxchg64(ptr, old_val, val) != old_val) goto again; return val;