1. 16 Oct, 2016 2 commits
    • John Stultz's avatar
      timekeeping: Fix __ktime_get_fast_ns() regression · 78c7b55b
      John Stultz authored
      commit 58bfea95 upstream.
      
      In commit 27727df2 ("Avoid taking lock in NMI path with
      CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"), I changed the logic to open-code
      the timekeeping_get_ns() function, but I forgot to include
      the unit conversion from cycles to nanoseconds, breaking the
      function's output, which impacts users like perf.
      
      This results in bogus perf timestamps like:
       swapper     0 [000]   253.427536:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]   254.426573:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]   254.426687:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]   254.426800:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]   254.426905:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]   254.427022:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]   254.427127:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]   254.427239:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]   254.427346:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]   254.427463:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]   255.426572:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
      
      Instead of more reasonable expected timestamps like:
       swapper     0 [000]    39.953768:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]    40.064839:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]    40.175956:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]    40.287103:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]    40.398217:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]    40.509324:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]    40.620437:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]    40.731546:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]    40.842654:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]    40.953772:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
       swapper     0 [000]    41.064881:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
      
      Add the proper use of timekeeping_delta_to_ns() to convert
      the cycle delta to nanoseconds as needed.
      
      Thanks to Brendan and Alexei for finding this quickly after
      the v4.8 release. Unfortunately the problematic commit has
      landed in some -stable trees so they'll need this fix as
      well.
      
      Many apologies for this mistake. I'll be looking to add a
      perf-clock sanity test to the kselftest timers tests soon.
      
      Fixes: 27727df2 "timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"
      Reported-by: default avatarBrendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
      Tested-and-reviewed-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475636148-26539-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      78c7b55b
    • Christopher S. Hall's avatar
      time: Add cycles to nanoseconds translation · 9b57d91c
      Christopher S. Hall authored
      commit 6bd58f09 upstream.
      
      The timekeeping code does not currently provide a way to translate
      externally provided clocksource cycles to system time. The cycle count
      is always provided by the result clocksource read() method internal to
      the timekeeping code. The added function timekeeping_cycles_to_ns()
      calculated a nanosecond value from a cycle count that can be added to
      tk_read_base.base value yielding the current system time. This allows
      clocksource cycle values external to the timekeeping code to provide a
      cycle count that can be transformed to system time.
      
      Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
      Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Cc: kevin.b.stanton@intel.com
      Cc: kevin.j.clarke@intel.com
      Cc: hpa@zytor.com
      Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
      Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
      Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      9b57d91c
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