1. 08 4月, 2008 2 次提交
  2. 05 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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      x86: tsc prevent time going backwards · 47001d60
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      We already catch most of the TSC problems by sanity checks, but there
      is a subtle bug which has been in the code for ever. This can cause
      time jumps in the range of hours.
      
      This was reported in:
           http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/23/96
      and
           http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/31/23
      
      I was able to reproduce the problem with a gettimeofday loop test on a
      dual core and a quad core machine which both have sychronized
      TSCs. The TSCs seems not to be perfectly in sync though, but the
      kernel is not able to detect the slight delta in the sync check. Still
      there exists an extremly small window where this delta can be observed
      with a real big time jump. So far I was only able to reproduce this
      with the vsyscall gettimeofday implementation, but in theory this
      might be observable with the syscall based version as well.
      
      CPU 0 updates the clock source variables under xtime/vyscall lock and
      CPU1, where the TSC is slighty behind CPU0, is reading the time right
      after the seqlock was unlocked.
      
      The clocksource reference data was updated with the TSC from CPU0 and
      the value which is read from TSC on CPU1 is less than the reference
      data. This results in a huge delta value due to the unsigned
      subtraction of the TSC value and the reference value. This algorithm
      can not be changed due to the support of wrapping clock sources like
      pm timer.
      
      The huge delta is converted to nanoseconds and added to xtime, which
      is then observable by the caller. The next gettimeofday call on CPU1
      will show the correct time again as now the TSC has advanced above the
      reference value.
      
      To prevent this TSC specific wreckage we need to compare the TSC value
      against the reference value and return the latter when it is larger
      than the actual TSC value.
      
      I pondered to mark the TSC unstable when the readout is smaller than
      the reference value, but this would render an otherwise good and fast
      clocksource unusable without a real good reason.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      47001d60
  3. 30 1月, 2008 7 次提交
  4. 20 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      x86: convert cpuinfo_x86 array to a per_cpu array · 92cb7612
      Mike Travis 提交于
      cpu_data is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS.  This means that
      we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpus.
      When NR_CPU count is raised to 4096 the size of cpu_data becomes
      3,145,728 bytes.
      
      These changes were adopted from the sparc64 (and ia64) code.  An
      additional field was added to cpuinfo_x86 to be a non-ambiguous cpu
      index.  This corresponds to the index into a cpumask_t as well as the
      per_cpu index.  It's used in various places like show_cpuinfo().
      
      cpu_data is defined to be the boot_cpu_data structure for the NON-SMP
      case.
      Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
      Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
      Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
      Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      92cb7612
  5. 13 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  6. 11 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  7. 27 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  8. 22 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  9. 20 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  10. 03 5月, 2007 2 次提交
  11. 05 3月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] clocksource init adjustments (fix bug #7426) · 6bb74df4
      john stultz 提交于
      This patch resolves the issue found here:
      http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7426
      
      The basic summary is:
      Currently we register most of i386/x86_64 clocksources at module_init
      time. Then we enable clocksource selection at late_initcall time. This
      causes some problems for drivers that use gettimeofday for init
      calibration routines (specifically the es1968 driver in this case),
      where durring module_init, the only clocksource available is the low-res
      jiffies clocksource. This may cause slight calibration errors, due to
      the small sampling time used.
      
      It should be noted that drivers that require fine grained time may not
      function on architectures that do not have better then jiffies
      resolution timekeeping (there are a few). However, this does not
      discount the reasonable need for such fine-grained timekeeping at init
      time.
      
      Thus the solution here is to register clocksources earlier (ideally when
      the hardware is being initialized), and then we enable clocksource
      selection at fs_initcall (before device_initcall).
      
      This patch should probably get some testing time in -mm, since
      clocksource selection is one of the most important issues for correct
      timekeeping, and I've only been able to test this on a few of my own
      boxes.
      Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6bb74df4
  12. 17 2月, 2007 3 次提交