[tip:timers/core] clocksource: Improve clocksource watchdog reporting

From: tip-bot for John Stultz
Date: Fri Mar 13 2015 - 05:04:10 EST


Commit-ID: 0b046b217ad4c64fbbeaaac24d0648cb1fa49ad8
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0b046b217ad4c64fbbeaaac24d0648cb1fa49ad8
Author: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:16:36 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 08:07:06 +0100

clocksource: Improve clocksource watchdog reporting

The clocksource watchdog reporting has been less helpful
then desired, as it just printed the delta between
the two clocksources. This prevents any useful analysis
of why the skew occurred.

Thus this patch tries to improve the output when we
mark a clocksource as unstable, printing out the cycle
last and now values for both the current clocksource
and the watchdog clocksource. This will allow us to see
if the result was due to a false positive caused by
a problematic watchdog.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-9-git-send-email-john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx
[ Minor cleanups of kernel messages. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/clocksource.c | 18 +++++++++---------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index fc2a9de..c4cc04b 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -142,13 +142,6 @@ static void __clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs)
schedule_work(&watchdog_work);
}

-static void clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs, int64_t delta)
-{
- printk(KERN_WARNING "Clocksource %s unstable (delta = %Ld ns)\n",
- cs->name, delta);
- __clocksource_unstable(cs);
-}
-
/**
* clocksource_mark_unstable - mark clocksource unstable via watchdog
* @cs: clocksource to be marked unstable
@@ -174,7 +167,7 @@ void clocksource_mark_unstable(struct clocksource *cs)
static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data)
{
struct clocksource *cs;
- cycle_t csnow, wdnow, delta;
+ cycle_t csnow, wdnow, cslast, wdlast, delta;
int64_t wd_nsec, cs_nsec;
int next_cpu, reset_pending;

@@ -213,6 +206,8 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data)

delta = clocksource_delta(csnow, cs->cs_last, cs->mask);
cs_nsec = clocksource_cyc2ns(delta, cs->mult, cs->shift);
+ wdlast = cs->wd_last; /* save these in case we print them */
+ cslast = cs->cs_last;
cs->cs_last = csnow;
cs->wd_last = wdnow;

@@ -221,7 +216,12 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data)

/* Check the deviation from the watchdog clocksource. */
if ((abs(cs_nsec - wd_nsec) > WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD)) {
- clocksource_unstable(cs, cs_nsec - wd_nsec);
+ pr_warn("timekeeping watchdog: Marking clocksource '%s' as unstable, because the skew is too large:\n", cs->name);
+ pr_warn(" '%s' wd_now: %llx wd_last: %llx mask: %llx\n",
+ watchdog->name, wdnow, wdlast, watchdog->mask);
+ pr_warn(" '%s' cs_now: %llx cs_last: %llx mask: %llx\n",
+ cs->name, csnow, cslast, cs->mask);
+ __clocksource_unstable(cs);
continue;
}

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