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| author | Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> | 2006-08-22 20:36:05 -0500 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2006-08-23 15:51:18 +1000 |
| commit | 5db9fa9593e2ff69f2b95f9d59229dc4faaa564d (patch) | |
| tree | d58ba58c05408edf8993d0da5a31b3ea3df1a053 /arch | |
| parent | aa74a30be971c632d734e487df42278b1cf85151 (diff) | |
[POWERPC] Fix gettimeofday inaccuracies
There are two problems in the powerpc gettimeofday code which can
cause incorrect results to be returned.
The first is that there is a race between do_gettimeofday and the
timer interrupt:
1. do_gettimeofday does get_tb()
2. decrementer exception on boot cpu which runs timer_recalc_offset,
which also samples the timebase and updates the do_gtod structure
with a greater timebase value.
3. do_gettimeofday calls __do_gettimeofday, which leads to the
negative result from tb_val - temp_varp->tb_orig_stamp.
The second is caused by taking the boot cpu offline, which can cause
the value of tb_last_jiffy to be increased past the currently
available timebase, causing the same underflow as above.
[paulus@samba.org - define and use data_barrier() instead of mb().]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c index 774c0a3c501..18e59e43d2b 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ static __inline__ void timer_check_rtc(void) /* * This version of gettimeofday has microsecond resolution. */ -static inline void __do_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, u64 tb_val) +static inline void __do_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv) { unsigned long sec, usec; u64 tb_ticks, xsec; @@ -431,7 +431,12 @@ static inline void __do_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, u64 tb_val) * without a divide (and in fact, without a multiply) */ temp_varp = do_gtod.varp; - tb_ticks = tb_val - temp_varp->tb_orig_stamp; + + /* Sampling the time base must be done after loading + * do_gtod.varp in order to avoid racing with update_gtod. + */ + data_barrier(temp_varp); + tb_ticks = get_tb() - temp_varp->tb_orig_stamp; temp_tb_to_xs = temp_varp->tb_to_xs; temp_stamp_xsec = temp_varp->stamp_xsec; xsec = temp_stamp_xsec + mulhdu(tb_ticks, temp_tb_to_xs); @@ -464,7 +469,7 @@ void do_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv) tv->tv_usec = usec; return; } - __do_gettimeofday(tv, get_tb()); + __do_gettimeofday(tv); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_gettimeofday); @@ -650,6 +655,7 @@ void timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs * regs) int next_dec; int cpu = smp_processor_id(); unsigned long ticks; + u64 tb_next_jiffy; #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32 if (atomic_read(&ppc_n_lost_interrupts) != 0) @@ -691,11 +697,14 @@ void timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs * regs) continue; write_seqlock(&xtime_lock); - tb_last_jiffy += tb_ticks_per_jiffy; - tb_last_stamp = per_cpu(last_jiffy, cpu); - do_timer(regs); - timer_recalc_offset(tb_last_jiffy); - timer_check_rtc(); + tb_next_jiffy = tb_last_jiffy + tb_ticks_per_jiffy; + if (per_cpu(last_jiffy, cpu) >= tb_next_jiffy) { + tb_last_jiffy = tb_next_jiffy; + tb_last_stamp = per_cpu(last_jiffy, cpu); + do_timer(regs); + timer_recalc_offset(tb_last_jiffy); + timer_check_rtc(); + } write_sequnlock(&xtime_lock); } |