Commit 2c8bd588 authored by Ahmed S. Darwish's avatar Ahmed S. Darwish Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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time/sched_clock: Expire timer in hardirq context



To minimize latency, PREEMPT_RT kernels expires hrtimers in preemptible
softirq context by default. This can be overriden by marking the timer's
expiry with HRTIMER_MODE_HARD.

sched_clock_timer is missing this annotation: if its callback is preempted
and the duration of the preemption exceeds the wrap around time of the
underlying clocksource, sched clock will get out of sync.

Mark the sched_clock_timer for expiry in hard interrupt context.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAhmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200309181529.26558-1-a.darwish@linutronix.de
parent 048495eb
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@@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ sched_clock_register(u64 (*read)(void), int bits, unsigned long rate)

	if (sched_clock_timer.function != NULL) {
		/* update timeout for clock wrap */
		hrtimer_start(&sched_clock_timer, cd.wrap_kt, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
		hrtimer_start(&sched_clock_timer, cd.wrap_kt,
			      HRTIMER_MODE_REL_HARD);
	}

	r = rate;
@@ -254,9 +255,9 @@ void __init generic_sched_clock_init(void)
	 * Start the timer to keep sched_clock() properly updated and
	 * sets the initial epoch.
	 */
	hrtimer_init(&sched_clock_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
	hrtimer_init(&sched_clock_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL_HARD);
	sched_clock_timer.function = sched_clock_poll;
	hrtimer_start(&sched_clock_timer, cd.wrap_kt, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
	hrtimer_start(&sched_clock_timer, cd.wrap_kt, HRTIMER_MODE_REL_HARD);
}

/*
@@ -293,7 +294,7 @@ void sched_clock_resume(void)
	struct clock_read_data *rd = &cd.read_data[0];

	rd->epoch_cyc = cd.actual_read_sched_clock();
	hrtimer_start(&sched_clock_timer, cd.wrap_kt, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
	hrtimer_start(&sched_clock_timer, cd.wrap_kt, HRTIMER_MODE_REL_HARD);
	rd->read_sched_clock = cd.actual_read_sched_clock;
}