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 would result 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])
This patch adds 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.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <bgr...@netflix.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com>
Fixes: 27727df240c7 "timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with
CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"
Reported-by: Brendan Gregg <bgr...@netflix.com>
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org>
---
Thomas/Ingo:
I've reproduced the issue and validated this fixes it, but given my limited perf
usage so far, I'd appreciate waiting for a Tested-by: from one of the reporters
before considering for tip/timers/urgent.
kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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;
--
1.9.1
