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2009-12-15sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCKDavid Miller
Relax stable-sched-clock architectures to not save/disable/restore hardirqs in cpu_clock(). The background is that I was trying to resolve a sparc64 perf issue when I discovered this problem. On sparc64 I implement pseudo NMIs by simply running the kernel at IRQ level 14 when local_irq_disable() is called, this allows performance counter events to still come in at IRQ level 15. This doesn't work if any code in an NMI handler does local_irq_save() or local_irq_disable() since the "disable" will kick us back to cpu IRQ level 14 thus letting NMIs back in and we recurse. The only path which that does that in the perf event IRQ handling path is the code supporting frequency based events. It uses cpu_clock(). cpu_clock() simply invokes sched_clock() with IRQs disabled. And that's a fundamental bug all on it's own, particularly for the HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK case. NMIs can thus get into the sched_clock() code interrupting the local IRQ disable code sections of it. Furthermore, for the not-HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK case, the IRQ disabling done by cpu_clock() is just pure overhead and completely unnecessary. So the core problem is that sched_clock() is not NMI safe, but we are invoking it from NMI contexts in the perf events code (via cpu_clock()). A less important issue is the overhead of IRQ disabling when it isn't necessary in cpu_clock(). CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK architectures are not affected by this patch. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091213.182502.215092085.davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-30sched_clock: Fix atomicity/continuity bug by using cmpxchg64()Eric Dumazet
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 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090930170754.0886ff2e@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18sched_clock: Make it NMI safePeter Zijlstra
Arjan complained about the suckyness of TSC on modern machines, and asked if we could do something about that for PERF_SAMPLE_TIME. Make cpu_clock() NMI safe by removing the spinlock and using cmpxchg. This also makes it smaller and more robust. Affects architectures that use HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK, i.e. IA64 and x86. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-09sched: Fix fallback sched_clock()'s offset when using jiffiesRon
Account for the initial offset to the jiffy count. [ Impact: fix printk timestamps on architectures using fallback sched_clock() ] Signed-off-by: Ron Lee <ron@debian.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-02Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linusIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/linux/slub_def.h lib/Kconfig.debug mm/slob.c mm/slub.c
2009-02-27Merge branch 'sched/clock' into tracing/ftraceIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/sched_clock.c
2009-02-26sched_clock: cleanupsPeter Zijlstra
- remove superfluous checks in __update_sched_clock() - skip sched_clock_tick() for sched_clock_stable - reinstate the simple !HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK code to please the bloatwatch Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26sched: allow architectures to specify sched_clock_stableIngo Molnar
Allow CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK architectures to still specify that their sched_clock() implementation is reliable. This will be used by x86 to switch on a faster sched_clock_cpu() implementation on certain CPU types. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26sched: sched_clock() improvement: use in_nmi()Ingo Molnar
make sure we dont execute more complex sched_clock() code in NMI context. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-31sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards, take #2Thomas Gleixner
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>
2008-12-14Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 5b7dba4ff834259a5623e03a565748704a8fe449, which caused a regression in hibernate, reported by and bisected by Fabio Comolli. This revert fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12155 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12149 Bisected-by: Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@gmail.com> Requested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-10sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwardsDave Kleikamp
When sched_clock_cpu() couples the clocks between two cpus, it may increment scd->clock beyond the GTOD tick window that __update_sched_clock() uses to clamp the clock. A later call to __update_sched_clock() may move the clock back to scd->tick_gtod + TICK_NSEC, violating the clock's monotonic property. This patch ensures that scd->clock will not be set backward. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-25sched_clock: fix cpu_clock()Peter Zijlstra
This patch fixes 3 issues: a) it removes the dependency on jiffies, because jiffies are incremented by a single CPU, and the tick is not synchronized between CPUs. Therefore relying on it to calculate a window to clip whacky TSC values doesn't work as it can drift around. So instead use [GTOD, GTOD+TICK_NSEC) as the window. b) __update_sched_clock() did (roughly speaking): delta = sched_clock() - scd->tick_raw; clock += delta; Which gives exponential growth, instead of linear. c) allows the sched_clock_cpu() value to warp the u64 without breaking. the results are more reliable sched_clock() deltas: before after sched_clock cpu_clock: 15750 51312 51488 cpu_clock: 59719 51052 50947 cpu_clock: 15879 51249 51061 cpu_clock: 1 50933 51198 cpu_clock: 1 50931 51039 cpu_clock: 1 51093 50981 cpu_clock: 1 51043 51040 cpu_clock: 1 50959 50938 cpu_clock: 1 50981 51011 cpu_clock: 1 51364 51212 cpu_clock: 1 51219 51273 cpu_clock: 1 51389 51048 cpu_clock: 1 51285 51611 cpu_clock: 1 50964 51137 cpu_clock: 1 50973 50968 cpu_clock: 1 50967 50972 cpu_clock: 1 58910 58485 cpu_clock: 1 51082 51025 cpu_clock: 1 50957 50958 cpu_clock: 1 50958 50957 cpu_clock: 1006128 51128 50971 cpu_clock: 1 51107 51155 cpu_clock: 1 51371 51081 cpu_clock: 1 51104 51365 cpu_clock: 1 51363 51309 cpu_clock: 1 51107 51160 cpu_clock: 1 51139 51100 cpu_clock: 1 51216 51136 cpu_clock: 1 51207 51215 cpu_clock: 1 51087 51263 cpu_clock: 1 51249 51177 cpu_clock: 1 51519 51412 cpu_clock: 1 51416 51255 cpu_clock: 1 51591 51594 cpu_clock: 1 50966 51374 cpu_clock: 1 50966 50966 cpu_clock: 1 51291 50948 cpu_clock: 1 50973 50867 cpu_clock: 1 50970 50970 cpu_clock: 998306 50970 50971 cpu_clock: 1 50971 50970 cpu_clock: 1 50970 50970 cpu_clock: 1 50971 50971 cpu_clock: 1 50970 50970 cpu_clock: 1 51351 50970 cpu_clock: 1 50970 51352 cpu_clock: 1 50971 50970 cpu_clock: 1 50970 50970 cpu_clock: 1 51321 50971 cpu_clock: 1 50974 51324 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11sched_clock: delay using sched_clock()Peter Zijlstra
Some arch's can't handle sched_clock() being called too early - delay this until sched_clock_init() has been called. Reported-by: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> CC: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-31sched clock: couple local and remote clocksIngo Molnar
When taking the time of a remote CPU, use the opportunity to couple (sync) the clocks to each other. (in a monotonic way) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-31sched clock: simplify __update_sched_clock()Ingo Molnar
- return the current clock instead of letting callers fetch it from scd->clock Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-31sched: eliminate scd->prev_rawIngo Molnar
eliminate prev_raw and use tick_raw instead. It's enough to base the current time on the scheduler tick timestamp alone - the monotonicity and maximum checks will prevent any damage. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-31sched clock: clean up sched_clock_cpu()Ingo Molnar
- simplify the remote clock rebasing Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-31sched clock: revert various sched_clock() changesIngo Molnar
Found an interactivity problem on a quad core test-system - simple CPU loops would occasionally delay the system un an unacceptable way. After much debugging with Peter Zijlstra it turned out that the problem is caused by the string of sched_clock() changes - they caused the CPU clock to jump backwards a bit - which confuses the scheduler arithmetics. (which is unsigned for performance reasons) So revert: # c300ba2: sched_clock: and multiplier for TSC to gtod drift # c0c8773: sched_clock: only update deltas with local reads. # af52a90: sched_clock: stop maximum check on NO HZ # f7cce27: sched_clock: widen the max and min time This solves the interactivity problems. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-28sched: move sched_clock before first useHugh Dickins
Move sched_clock() up to stop warning: weak declaration of `sched_clock' after first use results in unspecified behavior (if -fno-unit-at-a-time). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-14Merge branch 'sched/clock' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-07-11sched_clock: and multiplier for TSC to gtod driftSteven Rostedt
The sched_clock code currently tries to keep all CPU clocks of all CPUS somewhat in sync. At every clock tick it records the gtod clock and uses that and jiffies and the TSC to calculate a CPU clock that tries to stay in sync with all the other CPUs. ftrace depends heavily on this timer and it detects when this timer "jumps". One problem is that the TSC and the gtod also drift. When the TSC is 0.1% faster or slower than the gtod it is very noticeable in ftrace. To help compensate for this, I've added a multiplier that tries to keep the CPU clock updating at the same rate as the gtod. I've tried various ways to get it to be in sync and this ended up being the most reliable. At every scheduler tick we calculate the new multiplier: multi = delta_gtod / delta_TSC This means we perform a 64 bit divide at the tick (once a HZ). A shift is used to handle the accuracy. Other methods that failed due to dynamic HZ are: (not used) multi += (gtod - tsc) / delta_gtod (not used) multi += (gtod - (last_tsc + delta_tsc)) / delta_gtod as well as other variants. This code still allows for a slight drift between TSC and gtod, but it keeps the damage down to a minimum. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11sched_clock: record TSC after gtodSteven Rostedt
To read the gtod we need to grab the xtime lock for read. Reading the gtod before the TSC can cause a bigger gab if the xtime lock is contended. This patch simply reverses the order to read the TSC after the gtod. The locking in the reading of the gtod handles any barriers one might think is needed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11sched_clock: only update deltas with local reads.Steven Rostedt
Reading the CPU clock should try to stay accurate within the CPU. By reading the CPU clock from another CPU and updating the deltas can cause unneeded jumps when reading from the local CPU. This patch changes the code to update the last read TSC only when read from the local CPU. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11sched_clock: fix calculation of other CPUSteven Rostedt
The algorithm to calculate the 'now' of another CPU is not correct. At each scheduler tick, each CPU records the last sched_clock and gtod (tick_raw and tick_gtod respectively). If the TSC is somewhat the same in speed between two clocks the algorithm would be: tick_gtod1 + (now1 - tick_raw1) = tick_gtod2 + (now2 - tick_raw2) To calculate now2 we would have: now2 = (tick_gtod1 - tick_gtod2) + (tick_raw2 - tick_raw1) + now1 Currently the algorithm is: now2 = (tick_gtod1 - tick_gtod2) + (tick_raw1 - tick_raw2) + now1 This solves most of the rest of the issues I've had with timestamps in ftace. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11sched_clock: stop maximum check on NO HZSteven Rostedt
Working with ftrace I would get large jumps of 11 millisecs or more with the clock tracer. This killed the latencing timings of ftrace and also caused the irqoff self tests to fail. What was happening is with NO_HZ the idle would stop the jiffy counter and before the jiffy counter was updated the sched_clock would have a bad delta jiffies to compare with the gtod with the maximum. The jiffies would stop and the last sched_tick would record the last gtod. On wakeup, the sched clock update would compare the gtod + delta jiffies (which would be zero) and compare it to the TSC. The TSC would have correctly (with a stable TSC) moved forward several jiffies. But because the jiffies has not been updated yet the clock would be prevented from moving forward because it would appear that the TSC jumped too far ahead. The clock would then virtually stop, until the jiffies are updated. Then the next sched clock update would see that the clock was very much behind since the delta jiffies is now correct. This would then jump the clock forward by several jiffies. This caused ftrace to report several milliseconds of interrupts off latency at every resume from NO_HZ idle. This patch adds hooks into the nohz code to disable the checking of the maximum clock update when nohz is in effect. It resumes the max check when nohz has updated the jiffies again. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11sched_clock: widen the max and min timeSteven Rostedt
With keeping the max and min sched time within one jiffy of the gtod clock was too tight. Just before a schedule tick the max could easily be hit, as well as just after a schedule_tick the min could be hit. This caused the clock to jump around by a jiffy. This patch widens the minimum to last gtod + (delta_jiffies ? delta_jiffies - 1 : 0) * TICK_NSECS and the maximum to last gtod + (2 + delta_jiffies) * TICK_NSECS This keeps the minum to gtod or if one jiffy less than delta jiffies and the maxim 2 jiffies ahead of gtod. This may cause unstable TSCs to be a bit more sporadic, but it helps keep a clock with a stable TSC working well. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11sched_clock: record from last tickSteven Rostedt
The sched_clock code tries to keep within the gtod time by one tick (jiffy). The current code mistakenly keeps track of the delta jiffies between updates of the clock, where the the delta is used to compare with the number of jiffies that have past since an update of the gtod. The gtod is updated at each schedule tick not each sched_clock update. After one jiffy passes the clock is updated fine. But the delta is taken from the last update so if the next update happens before the next tick the delta jiffies used will be incorrect. This patch changes the code to check the delta of jiffies between ticks and not updates to match the comparison of the updates with the gtod. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-29sched: sched_clock_cpu() based cpu_clock(), lockdep fixIngo Molnar
Vegard Nossum reported: > WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2738 check_flags+0x142/0x160() which happens due to: unsigned long long cpu_clock(int cpu) { unsigned long long clock; unsigned long flags; raw_local_irq_save(flags); as lower level functions can take locks, we must not do that, use proper lockdep-annotated irq save/restore. Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27sched: export cpu_clockIngo Molnar
the rcutorture module relies on cpu_clock. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27sched: sched_clock_cpu() based cpu_clock()Peter Zijlstra
with sched_clock_cpu() being reasonably in sync between cpus (max 1 jiffy difference) use this to provide cpu_clock(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-29sched: fix sched_clock_cpu()Peter Zijlstra
Make sched_clock_cpu() return 0 before it has been initialized and avoid corrupting its state due to doing so. This fixes the weird printk timestamp jump reported. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-05-05sched: add optional support for CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCKPeter Zijlstra
this replaces the rq->clock stuff (and possibly cpu_clock()). - architectures that have an 'imperfect' hardware clock can set CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK - the 'jiffie' window might be superfulous when we update tick_gtod before the __update_sched_clock() call in sched_clock_tick() - cpu_clock() might be implemented as: sched_clock_cpu(smp_processor_id()) if the accuracy proves good enough - how far can TSC drift in a single jiffie when considering the filtering and idle hooks? [ mingo@elte.hu: various fixes and cleanups ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>