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>
Add timekeeper_read_clock_ntp and timekeeper_read_clock_raw and use
them for getnstimeofday, ktime_get, ktime_get_ts and getrawmonotonic.
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: <20090814134810.435105711@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>
The xtime_nsec value in the timekeeper structure is shifted by a few
bits to improve precision. This happens to be the same value as the
clock->shift. To improve readability add xtime_shift to the timekeeper
and use it instead of the clock->shift. Likewise add ntp_error_shift
and replace all (NTP_SCALE_SHIFT - clock->shift) expressions.
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: <20090814134809.871899606@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>
Move the downgrade of an unstable clocksource from the timer interrupt
context into the process context of a work queue thread. This is
needed to be able to do the clocksource switch 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: <20090814134809.354926067@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Refactor clocksource watchdog code to make it more readable. Add
clocksource_dequeue_watchdog to remove a clocksource from the watchdog
list when it is unregistered.
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: <20090814134809.110881699@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To resume the clocksource watchdog just remove the CLOCK_SOURCE_WATCHDOG
bit from the watched clocksource.
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: <20090814134808.880925790@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The clocksource watchdog marks a clock as highres capable before it
checked the deviation from the watchdog clocksource even for a single
time. Make sure that the deviation is at least checked once before
doing the switch to highres mode.
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: <20090814134808.627795883@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>
change_clocksource resets the cycle_last value to zero then sets it to
a value read from the clocksource. The reset to zero is required only
for the TSC clocksource to make the read_tsc function work after a
resume. The reason is that the TSC read function uses cycle_last to
detect backwards going TSCs. In the resume case cycle_last contains
the TSC value from the last update before the suspend. On resume the
TSC starts counting from 0 again and would trip over the cycle_last
comparison.
This is subtle and surprising. Move the reset to a resume function in
the tsc code.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134808.142191175@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>
Move the adjustment of xtime, wall_to_monotonic and the update of the
vsyscall variables to the timekeeping code.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134807.609730216@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Writing a zero length string to sys/.../current_clocksource will cause
a NULL pointer dereference if the clock events system is in one shot
(highres or nohz) mode.
Pointed-out-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0907191545580.12306@bicker>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The timer migration expiry check should prevent the migration of a
timer to another CPU when the timer expires before the next event is
scheduled on the other CPU. Migrating the timer might delay it because
we can not reprogram the clock event device on the other CPU. But the
code implementing that check has two flaws:
- for !HIGHRES the check compares the expiry value with the clock
events device expiry value which is wrong for CLOCK_REALTIME based
timers.
- the check is racy. It holds the hrtimer base lock of the target CPU,
but the clock event device expiry value can be modified
nevertheless, e.g. by an timer interrupt firing.
The !HIGHRES case is easy to fix as we can enqueue the timer on the
cpu which was selected by the load balancer. It runs the idle
balancing code once per jiffy anyway. So the maximum delay for the
timer is the same as when we keep the tick on the current cpu going.
In the HIGHRES case we can get the next expiry value from the hrtimer
cpu_base of the target CPU and serialize the update with the cpu_base
lock. This moves the lock section in hrtimer_interrupt() so we can set
next_event to KTIME_MAX while we are handling the expired timers and
set it to the next expiry value after we handled the timers under the
base lock. While the expired timers are processed timer migration is
blocked because the expiry time of the timer is always <= KTIME_MAX.
Also remove the now useless clockevents_get_next_event() function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The ktime_get() functions for GENERIC_TIME=n are still located in
hrtimer.c. Move them to time/timekeeping.c where they belong.
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The generic ktime_get function defined in kernel/hrtimer.c is suboptimial
for GENERIC_TIME=y:
0) | ktime_get() {
0) | ktime_get_ts() {
0) | getnstimeofday() {
0) | read_tod_clock() {
0) 0.601 us | }
0) 1.938 us | }
0) | set_normalized_timespec() {
0) 0.602 us | }
0) 4.375 us | }
0) 5.523 us | }
Overall there are two read_seqbegin/read_seqretry loops and a lot of
unnecessary struct timespec calculations. ktime_get returns a nano second
value which is the sum of xtime, wall_to_monotonic and the nano second
delta from the clock source.
ktime_get can be optimized for GENERIC_TIME=y. The new version only calls
clocksource_read:
0) | ktime_get() {
0) | read_tod_clock() {
0) 0.610 us | }
0) 1.977 us | }
It uses a single read_seqbegin/readseqretry loop and just adds everthing
to a nano second value.
ktime_get_ts is optimized in a similar fashion.
[ tglx: added WARN_ON(timekeeping_suspended) as in getnstimeofday() ]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090707112728.3005244d@skybase>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When the kernel is configured with CONFIG_TIMER_STATS but timer
stats are runtime disabled we still get calls to
__timer_stats_timer_set_start_info which initializes some
fields in the corresponding struct timer_list.
So add some quick checks in the the timer stats setup functions
to avoid function calls to __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info
when timer stats are disabled.
In an artificial workload that does nothing but playing ping
pong with a single tcp packet via loopback this decreases cpu
consumption by 1 - 1.5%.
This is part of a modified function trace output on SLES11:
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732388 [+ 125]: sk_reset_timer <-tcp_v4_rcv
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732513 [+ 125]: mod_timer <-sk_reset_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732638 [+ 125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-mod_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732763 [+ 125]: __mod_timer <-mod_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732888 [+ 125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-__mod_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177733013 [+ 93]: lock_timer_base <-__mod_timer
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mustafa Mesanovic <mustafa.mesanovic@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090623153811.GA4641@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration
timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers
timers: allow deferrable timers for intervals tv2-tv5 to be deferred
Fix up conflicts in kernel/sched.c and kernel/timer.c manually
* 'timers-for-linus-clockevents' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
clockevent: export register_device and delta2ns
clockevents: tick_broadcast_device can become static
* 'timers-for-linus-clocksource' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
clocksource: prevent selection of low resolution clocksourse also for nohz=on
clocksource: sanity check sysfs clocksource changes
commit 3f68535ada (clocksource: sanity check sysfs clocksource
changes) prevents selection of non high resolution capable
clocksources when high resolution mode is active, but did not take
into account that the same rules apply for highres=off nohz=on.
Check the tick device mode instead of hrtimer_hres_active() to verify
whether the system needs to be protected from a switch to jiffies or
other non highres capable clock sources.
Reported-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thomas, Andrew and Ingo pointed out that we don't have any safety checks
in the clocksource sysfs entries to make sure sysadmins don't try to
change the clocksource to a non high-res timer capable clocksource (such
as jiffies) when high-res timers (HRT) is enabled. Doing so will likely
hang a system.
Correct this by filtering non HRT clocksources from available_clocksources
and not accepting non HRT clocksources with HRT enabled.
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>
A call from irq_exit() may occasionally pause the timing
info for cpufreq ondemand governor. This results in the
cpufreq ondemand governor to fail to calculate the
system load properly. Thus, relocate the checks for this
particular case to keep the governor always functional.
Signed-off-by: Eero Nurkkala <ext-eero.nurkkala@nokia.com>
Reported-by: Tero Kristo <tero.kristo@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Dimitri Sivanich noticed that xtime_lock is held write locked across
calc_load() which iterates over all online CPUs. That can cause long
latencies for xtime_lock readers on large SMP systems.
The load average calculation is an rough estimate anyway so there is
no real need to protect the readers vs. the update. It's not a problem
when the avenrun array is updated while a reader copies the values.
Instead of iterating over all online CPUs let the scheduler_tick code
update the number of active tasks shortly before the avenrun update
happens. The avenrun update itself is handled by the CPU which calls
do_timer().
[ Impact: reduce xtime_lock write locked section ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:
This patch migrates all non pinned timers and hrtimers to the current
idle load balancer, from all the idle CPUs. Timers firing on busy CPUs
are not migrated.
While migrating hrtimers, care should be taken to check if migrating
a hrtimer would result in a latency or not. So we compare the expiry of the
hrtimer with the next timer interrupt on the target cpu and migrate the
hrtimer only if it expires *after* the next interrupt on the target cpu.
So, added a clockevents_get_next_event() helper function to return the
next_event on the target cpu's clock_event_device.
[ tglx: cleanups and simplifications ]
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:
The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked:
1)sched_rt_period_timer
2)tick_sched_timer
3)stack_trace_timer_fn
[ tglx: fixup the hrtimer pinned mode ]
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Export the following symbols using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL:
- clockevent_delta2ns
- clockevents_register_device
This allows us to build SuperH clockevent and clocksource
drivers as modules, see drivers/clocksource/sh_*.c
[ Impact: allow modular build of clockevent drivers ]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
LKML-Reference: <20090501055247.8286.64067.sendpatchset@rx1.opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Some arches don't supply their own clocksource. This is mainly the
case in architectures that get their inter-tick times by reading the
counter on their interval timer. Since these timers wrap every tick,
they're not really useful as clocksources. Wrapping them to act like
one is possible but not very efficient. So we provide a callout these
arches can implement for use with the jiffies clocksource to provide
finer then tick granular time.
[ Impact: ease the migration to generic time keeping ]
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>
Setup clocksource mult_orig in clocksource_enable().
Clocksource drivers can save power by using keeping the
device clock disabled while the clocksource is unused.
In practice this means that the enable() and disable()
callbacks perform clk_enable() and clk_disable().
The enable() callback may also use clk_get_rate() to get
the clock rate from the clock framework. This information
can then be used to calculate the shift and mult variables.
Currently the mult_orig variable is setup from mult at
registration time only. This is conflicting with the above
case since the clock is disabled and the mult variable is
not yet calculated at the time of registration.
Moving the mult_orig setup code to clocksource_enable()
allows us to both handle the common case with no enable()
callback and the mult-changed-after-enable() case.
[ Impact: allow dynamic clock source usage ]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
LKML-Reference: <20090501054546.8193.10688.sendpatchset@rx1.opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The variable tick_broadcast_device is not used outside of the
file where it is defined, so let's make it static.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
tick_handle_periodic() can lock up hard when a one shot clock event
device is used in combination with jiffies clocksource.
Avoid an endless loop issue by requiring that a highres valid
clocksource be installed before we call tick_periodic() in a loop when
using ONESHOT mode. The result is we will only increment jiffies once
per interrupt until a continuous hardware clocksource is available.
Without this, we can run into a endless loop, where each cycle through
the loop, jiffies is updated which increments time by tick_period or
more (due to clock steering), which can cause the event programming to
think the next event was before the newly incremented time and fail
causing tick_periodic() to be called again and the whole process loops
forever.
[ Impact: prevent hard lock up ]
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>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Add enable() and disable() callbacks for clocksources.
This allows us to put unused clocksources in power save mode. The
functions clocksource_enable() and clocksource_disable() wrap the
callbacks and are inserted in the timekeeping code to enable before use
and disable after switching to a new clocksource.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pass clocksource pointer to the read() callback for clocksources. This
allows us to share the callback between multiple instances.
[hugh@veritas.com: fix powerpc build of clocksource pass clocksource mods]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The time_status conditional was accidentally placed right after we clear
the checked time_status bits, which causes us to take the conditional
every time through. This fixes it by moving the conditional to before we
clear the time_status bits.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
The 'time_adj' local variable is named in a very confusing
way because it almost shadows the 'time_adjust' global
variable - which is used in this same function.
Rename it to 'delta' - to make them stand apart more clearly.
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2545 114 144 2803 af3 ntp.o.before
2545 114 144 2803 af3 ntp.o.after
md5:
1bf0b3be564512279ba7cee299d1d2be ntp.o.before.asm
1bf0b3be564512279ba7cee299d1d2be ntp.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: micro-optimization
Convert the (internal) ntp_tick_adj value we store from unscaled
units to scaled units. This is a constant that we never modify,
so scaling it up once during bootup is enough - we dont have to
do it for every adjustment step.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Further simplify do_adjtimex():
- introduce the ntp_start_leap_timer() helper function
- eliminate the goto adj_done complication
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
do_adjtimex() is currently a monster function with a maze of
branches. Refactor the txc->modes setting aspects of it into
two new helper functions:
process_adj_status()
process_adjtimex_modes()
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2512 114 136 2762 aca ntp.o.before
2512 114 136 2762 aca ntp.o.after
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change (fix) the way the NTP PLL seconds offset is initialized/tracked
Fix a bug and do a micro-optimization:
When PLL is enabled we do not reset time_reftime. If the PLL
was off for a long time (for example after bootup), this is
arguably the wrong thing to do.
We already had a hack for the common boot-time case in
ntp_update_offset(), in form of:
if (unlikely(time_status & STA_FREQHOLD || time_reftime == 0))
secs = 0;
But the update delta should be reset later on too - not just when
the PLL is enabled for the first time after bootup.
So do it on !STA_PLL -> STA_PLL transitions.
This changes behavior, as previously if ntpd was disabled for
a long time and we restarted it, we'd run from that last update,
with a very large delta.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
The time_reftime update in ntp_update_offset() to xtime.tv_sec
is a convoluted way of saying that we want to freeze the frequency
and want the 'secs' delta to be 0. Also make this branch unlikely.
This shaves off 8 bytes from the code size:
text data bss dec hex filename
2504 114 136 2754 ac2 ntp.o.before
2496 114 136 2746 aba ntp.o.after
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Change ntp_update_offset_fll() to delta logic instead of
absolute value logic. This eliminates 'freq_adj' from the
function.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Change ntp_update_frequency() from a hard to follow code
flow that uses global variables as temporaries, to a clean
input+output flow.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
There's an ugly u64 typecase in the MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED definition,
this can be eliminated by making the MAX_TICKADJ constant's type
64-bit (signed).
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2504 114 136 2754 ac2 ntp.o.before
2504 114 136 2754 ac2 ntp.o.after
md5:
41f3009debc9b397d7394dd77d912f0a ntp.o.before.asm
41f3009debc9b397d7394dd77d912f0a ntp.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Instead of a hierarchy of conditions, transform them to clean
gradual conditions and return's.
This makes the flow easier to read and makes the purpose of
the function easier to understand.
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.before
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.after
md5:
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.before.asm
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Make this file a bit more readable by applying a consistent coding style.
No code changed:
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.before
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.after
md5:
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.before.asm
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since the GENERIC_TIME changes landed, the adjtimex behavior changed
for struct timex.tick and .freq changed. When the tick or freq value
is set, we adjust the tick_length_base in ntp_update_frequency().
However, this new value doesn't get applied to tick_length until the
next second (via second_overflow).
This means some applications that do quick time tweaking do not see the
requested change made as quickly as expected.
I've run a few tests with this change, and ntpd still functions fine.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mapping from a struct timecounter to a time returned by functions like
ktime_get_real() is implemented. This is sufficient to use this code
in a network device driver which wants to support hardware time
stamping and transformation of hardware time stamps to system time.
The interface could have been made more versatile by not depending on
a time counter, but this wasn't done to avoid writing glue code
elsewhere.
The method implemented here is the one used and analyzed under the name
"assisted PTP" in the LCI PTP paper:
http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/conferences/archive/2008/PDF/Ohly_92221.pdf
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
So far struct clocksource acted as the interface between time/timekeeping.c
and hardware. This patch generalizes the concept so that a similar
interface can also be used in other contexts. For that it introduces
new structures and related functions *without* touching the existing
struct clocksource.
The reasons for adding these new structures to clocksource.[ch] are
* the APIs are clearly related
* struct clocksource could be cleaned up to use the new structs
* avoids proliferation of files with similar names (timesource.h?
timecounter.h?)
As outlined in the discussion with John Stultz, this patch adds
* struct cyclecounter: stateless API to hardware which counts clock cycles
* struct timecounter: stateful utility code built on a cyclecounter which
provides a nanosecond counter
* only the function to read the nanosecond counter; deltas are used internally
and not exposed to users of timecounter
The code does no locking of the shared state. It must be called at least
as often as the cycle counter wraps around to detect these wrap arounds.
Both is the responsibility of the timecounter user.
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Impact: fix CPU hotplug hang on Power6 testbox
On architectures that support offlining all cpus (at least powerpc/pseries),
hot-unpluging the tick_do_timer_cpu can result in a system hang.
This comes from the fact that if the cpu going down happens to be the
cpu doing the tick, then as the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happens after the
cpu is dead (via the CPU_DEAD notification), we're left without ticks,
jiffies are frozen and any task relying on timers (msleep, ...) is stuck.
That's particularly the case for the cpu looping in __cpu_die() waiting
for the dying cpu to be dead.
This patch addresses this by having the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happen
earlier during the CPU_DYING notification. For this, a new clockevent
notification type is introduced (CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_CPU_DYING) which is triggered
in hrtimer_cpu_notify().
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Allow the set_mode() clockevent callback to decide and fill in delta
details such as shift, mult, max_delta_ns and min_delta_ns.
With this change the clockevent can be registered without delta details
which allows us to keep the parent clock disabled until the clockevent
gets setup using set_mode().
Letting set_mode() fill in or update delta details allows us to save
power by disabling the parent clock while the clockevent is unused.
This may however make the parent clock rate change, so next time the
clockevent gets enabled we need let set_mode() to update the detla
details accordingly. Doing it at registration time is not enough.
Furthermore, the delta details seem unused in the case of periodic-only
clockevent drivers, so this change also allows registration of such
drivers without the delta details filled in.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: cleanup, reduce kernel size a bit, avoid sparse warning
Fixes sparse warning:
kernel/time/tick-sched.c:137:6: warning: symbol 'tick_nohz_update_jiffies' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits)
trivial: chack -> check typo fix in main Makefile
trivial: Add a space (and a comma) to a printk in 8250 driver
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in docs for ncr53c8xx/sym53c8xx
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in powerpc Makefile
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in usb.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in qla1280.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in a100u2w.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in megaraid.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ql4_mbx.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in acpi_memhotplug.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ipw2100.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in atmel.c
trivial: Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig
trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments
trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation
trivial: update Jesper Juhl CREDITS entry with new email
trivial: fix singal -> signal typo
trivial: Fix incorrect use of "loose" in event.c
trivial: printk: fix indentation of new_text_line declaration
trivial: rtc-stk17ta8: fix sparse warning
...
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (77 commits)
x86: setup_per_cpu_areas() cleanup
cpumask: fix compile error when CONFIG_NR_CPUS is not defined
cpumask: use alloc_cpumask_var_node where appropriate
cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t
x86: use cpumask_var_t in acpi/boot.c
x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids
sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c
x86: enable cpus display of kernel_max and offlined cpus
ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix
xtensa: define __fls
mn10300: define __fls
m32r: define __fls
h8300: define __fls
frv: define __fls
cris: define __fls
cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node
cpumask: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu in kernel/time/
cpumask: convert mm/
...
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
Impact: cleanup
Simple replacement, now the _nr is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Impact: Use new APIs
Convert kernel/time functions to use struct cpumask *.
Note the ugly bitmap declarations in tick-broadcast.c. These should
be cpumask_var_t, but there was no obvious initialization function to
put the alloc_cpumask_var() calls in. This was safe.
(Eventually 'struct cpumask' will be undefined for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK,
so we use a bitmap here to show we really mean it).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is
currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures
that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the
time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first
is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time.
The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not
the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle
process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true
idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time
instead of just testing for the idle process.
To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture
primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context
points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu.
In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process.
This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should
be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as
every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle
time.
This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to
distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with
support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The utimescaled / stimescaled fields in the task structure and the
global cpustat should be set on all architectures. On s390 the calls
to account_user_time_scaled and account_system_time_scaled never have
been added. In addition system time that is accounted as guest time
to the user time of a process is accounted to the scaled system time
instead of the scaled user time.
To fix the bugs and to prevent future forgetfulness this patch merges
account_system_time_scaled into account_system_time and
account_user_time_scaled into account_user_time.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Redo:
5b7dba4: sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards
which had to be reverted due to s2ram hangs:
ca7e716: Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards"
... this time with resume restoring GTOD later in the sequence
taken into account as well.
The "timekeeping_suspended" flag is not very nice but we cannot call into
GTOD before it has been properly resumed and the scheduler will run very
early in the resume sequence.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix CPU hotplug hang on Power6 testbox
On architectures that support offlining all cpus (at least powerpc/pseries),
hot-unpluging the tick_do_timer_cpu can result in a system hang.
This comes from the fact that if the cpu going down happens to be the
cpu doing the tick, then as the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happens after the
cpu is dead (via the CPU_DEAD notification), we're left without ticks,
jiffies are frozen and any task relying on timers (msleep, ...) is stuck.
That's particularly the case for the cpu looping in __cpu_die() waiting
for the dying cpu to be dead.
This patch addresses this by having the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happen
earlier during the CPU_DYING notification. For this, a new clockevent
notification type is introduced (CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_CPU_DYING) which is triggered
in hrtimer_cpu_notify().
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change calling convention of existing clock_event APIs
struct clock_event_timer's cpumask field gets changed to take pointer,
as does the ->broadcast function.
Another single-patch change. For safety, we BUG_ON() in
clockevents_register_device() if it's not set.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change existing irq_chip API
Not much point with gentle transition here: the struct irq_chip's
setaffinity method signature needs to change.
Fortunately, not widely used code, but hits a few architectures.
Note: In irq_select_affinity() I save a temporary in by mangling
irq_desc[irq].affinity directly. Ingo, does this break anything?
(Folded in fix from KOSAKI Motohiro)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: grundler@parisc-linux.org
Cc: jeremy@xensource.com
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
In my device I get many interrupts from a high speed USB device in a very
short period of time. The system spends a lot of time reprogramming the
hardware timer which is in a slower timing domain as compared to the CPU.
This results in the CPU spending a huge amount of time waiting for the
timer posting to be done. All of this reprogramming is useless as the
wake up time has not changed.
As measured using ETM trace this drops my reprogramming penalty from
almost 60% CPU load down to 15% during high interrupt rate. I can send
traces to show this.
Suppress setting of duplicate timer event when timer already stopped.
Timer programming can be very costly and can result in long cpu stall/wait
times.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[tglx@linutronix.de: move the check to the right place and avoid raising
the softirq for nothing]
Signed-off-by: Richard Woodruff <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: remove false positive warning
After a cpu was taken down during cpu hotplug (read: disabled for interrupts)
it still might have pending softirqs. However take_cpu_down makes sure
that the idle task will run next instead of ksoftirqd on the taken down cpu.
The idle task will call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick which might warn about
pending softirqs just before the cpu kills itself completely.
However the pending softirqs on the dead cpu aren't a problem because they
will be moved to an online cpu during CPU_DEAD handling.
So make sure we warn only for online cpus.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Impact: cleanup, move all hrtimer processing into hardirq context
This is an attempt at removing some of the hrtimer complexity by
reducing the number of callback modes to 1.
This means that all hrtimer callback functions will be ran from HARD-irq
context.
I went through all the 30 odd hrtimer callback functions in the kernel
and saw only one that I'm not quite sure of, which is the one in
net/can/bcm.c - hence I'm CC-ing the folks responsible for that code.
Furthermore, the hrtimer core now calls callbacks directly with IRQs
disabled in case you try to enqueue an expired timer. If this timer is a
periodic timer (which should use hrtimer_forward() to advance its time)
then it might be possible to end up in an inf. recursive loop due to the
fact that hrtimer_forward() doesn't round up to the next timer
granularity, and therefore keeps on calling the callback - obviously
this needs a fix.
Aside from that, this seems to compile and actually boot on my dual core
test box - although I'm sure there are some bugs in, me not hitting any
makes me certain :-)
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.
Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: nohz powersavings and wakeup regression
commit fb02fbc14d (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>
commit fb02fbc14d (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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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