projects/linux·commit 58bfea95

timekeeping: Fix __ktime_get_fast_ns() regression

58bfea95 · John Stultz <[email protected]> · 2016-10-04 19:55:48 -07:00

In commit 27727df240c7 ("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: 27727df240c7 "timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"
Reported-by: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Tested-and-reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Commit
58bfea9532552d422bde7afa207e1a0f08dffa7d
Parents
597f03f9

Changes

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kernel/time/timekeeping.c

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diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index e07fb09..37dec7e 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -403,8 +403,11 @@ static __always_inline u64 __ktime_get_fast_ns(struct tk_fast *tkf)
tkr = tkf->base + (seq & 0x01);
now = ktime_to_ns(tkr->base);
- now += clocksource_delta(tkr->read(tkr->clock),
- tkr->cycle_last, tkr->mask);
+ now += timekeeping_delta_to_ns(tkr,
+ clocksource_delta(
+ tkr->read(tkr->clock),
+ tkr->cycle_last,
+ tkr->mask));
} while (read_seqcount_retry(&tkf->seq, seq));
return now;