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<entry>
<title>timers/sched_clock: Prevent generic sched_clock wrap caused by tick_freeze()</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T07:36:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chang-An Chen</name>
<email>chang-an.chen@mediatek.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-29T02:59:09+00:00</published>
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commit 3f2552f7e9c5abef2775c53f7af66532f8bf65bc upstream.

tick_freeze() introduced by suspend-to-idle in commit 124cf9117c5f ("PM /
sleep: Make it possible to quiesce timers during suspend-to-idle") uses
timekeeping_suspend() instead of syscore_suspend() during
suspend-to-idle. As a consequence generic sched_clock will keep going
because sched_clock_suspend() and sched_clock_resume() are not invoked
during suspend-to-idle which can result in a generic sched_clock wrap.

On a ARM system with suspend-to-idle enabled, sched_clock is registered
as "56 bits at 13MHz, resolution 76ns, wraps every 4398046511101ns", which
means the real wrapping duration is 8796093022202ns.

[  134.551779] suspend-to-idle suspend (timekeeping_suspend())
[ 1204.912239] suspend-to-idle resume (timekeeping_resume())
......
[ 1206.912239] suspend-to-idle suspend (timekeeping_suspend())
[ 5880.502807] suspend-to-idle resume (timekeeping_resume())
......
[ 6000.403724] suspend-to-idle suspend (timekeeping_suspend())
[ 8035.753167] suspend-to-idle resume  (timekeeping_resume())
......
[ 8795.786684] (2)[321:charger_thread]......
[ 8795.788387] (2)[321:charger_thread]......
[    0.057226] (0)[0:swapper/0]......
[    0.061447] (2)[0:swapper/2]......

sched_clock was not stopped during suspend-to-idle, and sched_clock_poll
hrtimer was not expired because timekeeping_suspend() was invoked during
suspend-to-idle. It makes sched_clock wrap at kernel time 8796s.

To prevent this, invoke sched_clock_suspend() and sched_clock_resume() in
tick_freeze() together with timekeeping_suspend() and timekeeping_resume().

Fixes: 124cf9117c5f (PM / sleep: Make it possible to quiesce timers during suspend-to-idle)
Signed-off-by: Chang-An Chen &lt;chang-an.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthias Brugger &lt;matthias.bgg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stanley Chu &lt;stanley.chu@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;kuohong.wang@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;freddy.hsin@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1553828349-8914-1-git-send-email-chang-an.chen@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3f2552f7e9c5abef2775c53f7af66532f8bf65bc upstream.

tick_freeze() introduced by suspend-to-idle in commit 124cf9117c5f ("PM /
sleep: Make it possible to quiesce timers during suspend-to-idle") uses
timekeeping_suspend() instead of syscore_suspend() during
suspend-to-idle. As a consequence generic sched_clock will keep going
because sched_clock_suspend() and sched_clock_resume() are not invoked
during suspend-to-idle which can result in a generic sched_clock wrap.

On a ARM system with suspend-to-idle enabled, sched_clock is registered
as "56 bits at 13MHz, resolution 76ns, wraps every 4398046511101ns", which
means the real wrapping duration is 8796093022202ns.

[  134.551779] suspend-to-idle suspend (timekeeping_suspend())
[ 1204.912239] suspend-to-idle resume (timekeeping_resume())
......
[ 1206.912239] suspend-to-idle suspend (timekeeping_suspend())
[ 5880.502807] suspend-to-idle resume (timekeeping_resume())
......
[ 6000.403724] suspend-to-idle suspend (timekeeping_suspend())
[ 8035.753167] suspend-to-idle resume  (timekeeping_resume())
......
[ 8795.786684] (2)[321:charger_thread]......
[ 8795.788387] (2)[321:charger_thread]......
[    0.057226] (0)[0:swapper/0]......
[    0.061447] (2)[0:swapper/2]......

sched_clock was not stopped during suspend-to-idle, and sched_clock_poll
hrtimer was not expired because timekeeping_suspend() was invoked during
suspend-to-idle. It makes sched_clock wrap at kernel time 8796s.

To prevent this, invoke sched_clock_suspend() and sched_clock_resume() in
tick_freeze() together with timekeeping_suspend() and timekeeping_resume().

Fixes: 124cf9117c5f (PM / sleep: Make it possible to quiesce timers during suspend-to-idle)
Signed-off-by: Chang-An Chen &lt;chang-an.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthias Brugger &lt;matthias.bgg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stanley Chu &lt;stanley.chu@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;kuohong.wang@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;freddy.hsin@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1553828349-8914-1-git-send-email-chang-an.chen@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/clock: Move sched clock initialization and merge with generic clock</title>
<updated>2018-07-19T22:02:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Tatashin</name>
<email>pasha.tatashin@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-19T20:55:41+00:00</published>
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sched_clock_postinit() initializes a generic clock on systems where no
other clock is provided. This function may be called only after
timekeeping_init().

Rename sched_clock_postinit to generic_clock_inti() and call it from
sched_clock_init(). Move the call for sched_clock_init() until after
time_init().

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com
Cc: daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: feng.tang@intel.com
Cc: pmladek@suse.com
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180719205545.16512-23-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com

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sched_clock_postinit() initializes a generic clock on systems where no
other clock is provided. This function may be called only after
timekeeping_init().

Rename sched_clock_postinit to generic_clock_inti() and call it from
sched_clock_init(). Move the call for sched_clock_init() until after
time_init().

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com
Cc: daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: feng.tang@intel.com
Cc: pmladek@suse.com
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180719205545.16512-23-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers, sched_clock: Update timeout for clock wrap</title>
<updated>2017-03-23T19:30:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Engraf</name>
<email>david.engraf@sysgo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-17T07:51:03+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The scheduler clock framework may not use the correct timeout for the clock
wrap. This happens when a new clock driver calls sched_clock_register()
after the kernel called sched_clock_postinit(). In this case the clock wrap
timeout is too long thus sched_clock_poll() is called too late and the clock
already wrapped.

On my ARM system the scheduler was no longer scheduling any other task than
the idle task because the sched_clock() wrapped.

Signed-off-by: David Engraf &lt;david.engraf@sysgo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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<pre>
The scheduler clock framework may not use the correct timeout for the clock
wrap. This happens when a new clock driver calls sched_clock_register()
after the kernel called sched_clock_postinit(). In this case the clock wrap
timeout is too long thus sched_clock_poll() is called too late and the clock
already wrapped.

On my ARM system the scheduler was no longer scheduling any other task than
the idle task because the sched_clock() wrapped.

Signed-off-by: David Engraf &lt;david.engraf@sysgo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T15:36:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e601757102cfd3eeae068f53b3bc1234f3a2b2e9'/>
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<content type='text'>
We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers, sched/clock: Clean up the code a bit</title>
<updated>2015-03-27T07:34:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-27T06:08:06+00:00</published>
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Trivial cleanups, to improve the readability of the generic sched_clock() code:

 - Improve and standardize comments
 - Standardize the coding style
 - Use vertical spacing where appropriate
 - etc.

No code changed:

  md5:
    19a053b31e0c54feaeff1492012b019a  sched_clock.o.before.asm
    19a053b31e0c54feaeff1492012b019a  sched_clock.o.after.asm

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Trivial cleanups, to improve the readability of the generic sched_clock() code:

 - Improve and standardize comments
 - Standardize the coding style
 - Use vertical spacing where appropriate
 - etc.

No code changed:

  md5:
    19a053b31e0c54feaeff1492012b019a  sched_clock.o.before.asm
    19a053b31e0c54feaeff1492012b019a  sched_clock.o.after.asm

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers, sched/clock: Avoid deadlock during read from NMI</title>
<updated>2015-03-27T07:34:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Thompson</name>
<email>daniel.thompson@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-26T19:23:26+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Currently it is possible for an NMI (or FIQ on ARM) to come in
and read sched_clock() whilst update_sched_clock() has locked
the seqcount for writing. This results in the NMI handler
locking up when it calls raw_read_seqcount_begin().

This patch fixes the NMI safety issues by providing banked clock
data. This is a similar approach to the one used in Thomas
Gleixner's 4396e058c52e("timekeeping: Provide fast and NMI safe
access to CLOCK_MONOTONIC").

Suggested-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427397806-20889-6-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently it is possible for an NMI (or FIQ on ARM) to come in
and read sched_clock() whilst update_sched_clock() has locked
the seqcount for writing. This results in the NMI handler
locking up when it calls raw_read_seqcount_begin().

This patch fixes the NMI safety issues by providing banked clock
data. This is a similar approach to the one used in Thomas
Gleixner's 4396e058c52e("timekeeping: Provide fast and NMI safe
access to CLOCK_MONOTONIC").

Suggested-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427397806-20889-6-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers, sched/clock: Remove redundant notrace from update function</title>
<updated>2015-03-27T07:33:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Thompson</name>
<email>daniel.thompson@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-26T19:23:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9fee69a8c8070b38b558161a3f18bd5e2b664682'/>
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<content type='text'>
Currently update_sched_clock() is marked as notrace but this
function is not called by ftrace. This is trivially fixed by
removing the mark up.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427397806-20889-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Currently update_sched_clock() is marked as notrace but this
function is not called by ftrace. This is trivially fixed by
removing the mark up.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427397806-20889-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers, sched/clock: Remove suspend from clock_read_data()</title>
<updated>2015-03-27T07:33:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Thompson</name>
<email>daniel.thompson@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-26T19:23:24+00:00</published>
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Currently cd.read_data.suspended is read by the hotpath function
sched_clock(). This variable need not be accessed on the
hotpath. In fact, once it is removed, we can remove the
conditional branches from sched_clock() and install a dummy
read_sched_clock function to suspend the clock.

The new master copy of the function pointer
(actual_read_sched_clock) is introduced and is used for all
reads of the clock hardware except those within sched_clock
itself.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427397806-20889-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently cd.read_data.suspended is read by the hotpath function
sched_clock(). This variable need not be accessed on the
hotpath. In fact, once it is removed, we can remove the
conditional branches from sched_clock() and install a dummy
read_sched_clock function to suspend the clock.

The new master copy of the function pointer
(actual_read_sched_clock) is introduced and is used for all
reads of the clock hardware except those within sched_clock
itself.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427397806-20889-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>timers, sched/clock: Optimize cache line usage</title>
<updated>2015-03-27T07:33:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Thompson</name>
<email>daniel.thompson@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-26T19:23:23+00:00</published>
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Currently sched_clock(), a very hot code path, is not optimized
to minimise its cache profile. In particular:

  1. cd is not ____cacheline_aligned,

  2. struct clock_data does not distinguish between hotpath and
     coldpath data, reducing locality of reference in the hotpath,

  3. Some hotpath data is missing from struct clock_data and is marked
     __read_mostly (which more or less guarantees it will not share a
     cache line with cd).

This patch corrects these problems by extracting all hotpath
data into a separate structure and using ____cacheline_aligned
to ensure the hotpath uses a single (64 byte) cache line.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427397806-20889-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently sched_clock(), a very hot code path, is not optimized
to minimise its cache profile. In particular:

  1. cd is not ____cacheline_aligned,

  2. struct clock_data does not distinguish between hotpath and
     coldpath data, reducing locality of reference in the hotpath,

  3. Some hotpath data is missing from struct clock_data and is marked
     __read_mostly (which more or less guarantees it will not share a
     cache line with cd).

This patch corrects these problems by extracting all hotpath
data into a separate structure and using ____cacheline_aligned
to ensure the hotpath uses a single (64 byte) cache line.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427397806-20889-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timers, sched/clock: Match scope of read and write seqcounts</title>
<updated>2015-03-27T07:33:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Thompson</name>
<email>daniel.thompson@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-26T19:23:22+00:00</published>
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Currently the scope of the raw_write_seqcount_begin/end() in
sched_clock_register() far exceeds the scope of the read section
in sched_clock(). This gives the impression of safety during
cursory review but achieves little.

Note that this is likely to be a latent issue at present because
sched_clock_register() is typically called before we enable
interrupts, however the issue does risk bugs being needlessly
introduced as the code evolves.

This patch fixes the problem by increasing the scope of the read
locking performed by sched_clock() to cover all data modified by
sched_clock_register.

We also improve clarity by moving writes to struct clock_data
that do not impact sched_clock() outside of the critical
section.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
[ Reworked it slightly to apply to tip/timers/core]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427397806-20889-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently the scope of the raw_write_seqcount_begin/end() in
sched_clock_register() far exceeds the scope of the read section
in sched_clock(). This gives the impression of safety during
cursory review but achieves little.

Note that this is likely to be a latent issue at present because
sched_clock_register() is typically called before we enable
interrupts, however the issue does risk bugs being needlessly
introduced as the code evolves.

This patch fixes the problem by increasing the scope of the read
locking performed by sched_clock() to cover all data modified by
sched_clock_register.

We also improve clarity by moving writes to struct clock_data
that do not impact sched_clock() outside of the critical
section.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
[ Reworked it slightly to apply to tip/timers/core]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427397806-20889-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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