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Commit 4ca22c26 authored by John Stultz's avatar John Stultz Committed by Ingo Molnar
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timekeeping: Add warnings when overflows or underflows are observed



It was suggested that the underflow/overflow protection
should probably throw some sort of warning out, rather
than just silently fixing the issue.

So this patch adds some warnings here. The flag variables
used are not protected by locks, but since we can't print
from the reading functions, just being able to say we
saw an issue in the update interval is useful enough,
and can be slightly racy without real consequence.

The big complication is that we're only under a read
seqlock, so the data could shift under us during
our calculation to see if there was a problem. This
patch avoids this issue by nesting another seqlock
which allows us to snapshot the just required values
atomically. So we shouldn't see false positives.

I also added some basic rate-limiting here, since
on one build machine w/ skewed TSCs it was fairly
noisy at bootup.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-8-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 057b87e3
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