linux/kernel
James Hogan 3a29ddb1c5 clockevents: Retry programming min delta up to 10 times
When CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST=n, the call path
hrtimer_reprogram -> clockevents_program_event ->
clockevents_program_min_delta will not retry if the clock event driver
returns -ETIME.

If the driver could not satisfy the program_min_delta for any reason, the
lack of a retry means the CPU may not receive a tick interrupt, potentially
until the counter does a full period. This leads to rcu_sched timeout
messages as the stalled CPU is detected by other CPUs, and other issues if
the CPU is holding locks or other resources at the point at which it
stalls.

There have been a couple of observed mechanisms through which a clock event
driver could not satisfy the requested min_delta and return -ETIME.

With the MIPS GIC driver, the shared execution resource within MT cores
means inconventient latency due to execution of instructions from other
hardware threads in the core, within gic_next_event, can result in an event
being set in the past.

Additionally under virtualisation it is possible to get unexpected latency
during a clockevent device's set_next_event() callback which can make it
return -ETIME even for a delta based on min_delta_ns.

It isn't appropriate to use MIN_ADJUST in the virtualisation case as
occasional hypervisor induced high latency will cause min_delta_ns to
quickly increase to the maximum.

Instead, borrow the retry pattern from the MIN_ADJUST case, but without
making adjustments. Retry up to 10 times, each time increasing the
attempted delta by min_delta, before giving up.

[ Matt: Reworked the loop and made retry increase the delta. ]

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@mips.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508422643-6075-1-git-send-email-matt.redfearn@mips.com
2017-10-19 16:29:15 +02:00
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bpf bpf: fix ri->map_owner pointer on bpf_prog_realloc 2017-09-19 16:38:53 -07:00
cgroup cgroup: Reinit cgroup_taskset structure before cgroup_migrate_execute() returns 2017-09-22 08:14:45 -07:00
configs ANDROID: binder: add hwbinder,vndbinder to BINDER_DEVICES. 2017-08-22 18:43:23 -07:00
debug
events perf/aux: Only update ->aux_wakeup in non-overwrite mode 2017-09-29 10:06:45 +02:00
gcov
irq timer: Remove expires and data arguments from DEFINE_TIMER 2017-10-05 15:01:20 +02:00
livepatch
locking locking/rwsem-xadd: Fix missed wakeup due to reordering of load 2017-09-29 10:10:20 +02:00
power Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-12 11:30:56 -07:00
printk Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk 2017-09-07 21:00:52 -07:00
rcu Stack tracing and RCU has been having issues with each other and lockdep 2017-09-25 15:22:31 -07:00
sched sched/debug: Ignore TASK_IDLE for SysRq-W 2017-09-29 11:02:57 +02:00
time clockevents: Retry programming min delta up to 10 times 2017-10-19 16:29:15 +02:00
trace sched/tracing: Use common task-state helpers 2017-09-29 11:02:45 +02:00
.gitignore
acct.c fs: make the buf argument to __kernel_write a void pointer 2017-09-04 19:05:15 -04:00
async.c
audit.c audit: update the function comments 2017-09-05 09:46:59 -04:00
audit.h ipc: mqueue: Replace timespec with timespec64 2017-09-03 20:21:24 -04:00
audit_fsnotify.c
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c audit/stable-4.13 PR 20170816 2017-08-16 16:48:34 -07:00
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c Merge branch 'work.ipc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 17:37:26 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu.c smp/hotplug: Hotplug state fail injection 2017-09-25 22:11:44 +02:00
cpu_pm.c
crash_core.c
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c fix infoleak in waitid(2) 2017-09-29 13:43:15 -04:00
extable.c extable: Enable RCU if it is not watching in kernel_text_address() 2017-09-23 16:50:20 -04:00
fork.c selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
freezer.c
futex.c futex: Fix pi_state->owner serialization 2017-09-25 16:37:11 +02:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c
hung_task.c
irq_work.c
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c kcov: support compat processes 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
kexec.c
kexec_core.c
kexec_file.c
kexec_internal.h
kmod.c kmod: move #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES wrapper to Makefile 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c kthread: Convert callback to use from_timer() 2017-10-05 15:01:22 +02:00
latencytop.c
Makefile kmod: move #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES wrapper to Makefile 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
memremap.c mm/device-public-memory: device memory cache coherent with CPU 2017-09-08 18:26:46 -07:00
module-internal.h
module.c
module_signing.c
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection 2017-08-17 10:40:26 +02:00
params.c
pid.c pids: make task_tgid_nr_ns() safe 2017-08-21 12:47:31 -07:00
pid_namespace.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c
resource.c
seccomp.c seccomp: fix the usage of get/put_seccomp_filter() in seccomp_get_filter() 2017-09-27 22:51:12 -07:00
signal.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-09-11 18:34:47 -07:00
smp.c treewide: make "nr_cpu_ids" unsigned 2017-09-08 18:26:48 -07:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg 2017-09-29 13:20:13 +02:00
sysctl_binary.c fs: fix kernel_write prototype 2017-09-04 19:05:15 -04:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
ucount.c
uid16.c
umh.c kmod: split out umh code into its own file 2017-09-08 18:26:50 -07:00
up.c smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data 2017-08-29 15:14:38 +02:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes 2017-08-18 12:35:02 +02:00
watchdog_hld.c kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes 2017-08-18 12:35:02 +02:00
workqueue.c workqueue: Convert timers to use timer_setup() (part 2) 2017-10-18 17:04:25 +02:00
workqueue_internal.h