Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751373AbaLCWTd (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:19:33 -0500 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:55864 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750840AbaLCWTc (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:19:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 23:19:11 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Linus Torvalds cc: Dave Jones , Chris Mason , Mike Galbraith , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?D=E2niel_Fraga?= , Sasha Levin , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , John Stultz Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20141201230339.GA20487@ret.masoncoding.com> <1417529606.3924.26.camel@maggy.simpson.net> <1417540493.21136.3@mail.thefacebook.com> <20141203184111.GA32005@redhat.com> <20141203190045.GB32005@redhat.com> <20141203200906.GA3118@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > But it's always negative, which means HPET is always ahead of > > TSC. That excludes pretty much the clocksource watchdog starvation > > issue which results in TSC being ahead of HPET due to a HPET > > wraparound (which takes ~300s). > > Still, I'd be more likely to trust the TSC than the HPET on modern > machines.. And DaveJ's machine isn't some old one. Well, that does not explain the softlock watchdog which is solely relying on the TSC. > Of course, there's always BIOS games. Can we read the TSC offset > register and check it being constant (modulo sleep events)? The kernel does not touch it. Here is a untested hack to verify it on every local apic timer interrupt. Not nice, but simple :) Thanks. tglx --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c index ba6cc041edb1..69b0a8143e83 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c @@ -554,6 +554,7 @@ static struct clock_event_device lapic_clockevent = { .irq = -1, }; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct clock_event_device, lapic_events); +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, tsc_adjust); /* * Setup the local APIC timer for this CPU. Copy the initialized values @@ -569,6 +570,13 @@ static void setup_APIC_timer(void) lapic_clockevent.rating = 150; } + if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC_ADJUST)) { + u64 adj; + + rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_TSC_ADJUST, adj); + __this_cpu_write(tsc_adjust, adj); + } + memcpy(levt, &lapic_clockevent, sizeof(*levt)); levt->cpumask = cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()); @@ -912,6 +920,19 @@ static void local_apic_timer_interrupt(void) return; } + if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC_ADJUST)) { + u64 adj; + + rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_TSC_ADJUST, adj); + if (adj != __this_cpu_read(tsc_adjust)) { + pr_err("TSC adjustment on cpu %d changed %llu -> %llu\n", + cpu, + (unsigned long long) __this_cpu_read(tsc_adjust), + (unsigned long long) adj); + __this_cpu_write(tsc_adjust, adj); + } + } + /* * the NMI deadlock-detector uses this. */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/