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Commit 58d4e21e authored by Tony Luck's avatar Tony Luck Committed by Steven Rostedt
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tracing: Fix wraparound problems in "uptime" trace clock

The "uptime" trace clock added in:

    commit 8aacf017
    tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies

has wraparound problems when the system has been up more
than 1 hour 11 minutes and 34 seconds. It converts jiffies
to nanoseconds using:
        (u64)jiffies_to_usecs(jiffy) * 1000ULL
but since jiffies_to_usecs() only returns a 32-bit value, it
truncates at 2^32 microseconds.  An additional problem on 32-bit
systems is that the argument is "unsigned long", so fixing the
return value only helps until 2^32 jiffies (49.7 days on a HZ=1000
system).

Avoid these problems by using jiffies_64 as our basis, and
not converting to nanoseconds (we do convert to clock_t because
user facing API must not be dependent on internal kernel
HZ values).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/99d63c5bfe9b320a3b428d773825a37095bf6a51.1405708254.git.tony.luck@intel.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Fixes: 8aacf017

 "tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies"
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 9a3c4145
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