The generic sched_clock registration function was previously done lockless, due to the fact that it was expected to be called only once. However, now there are systems that may register multiple sched_clock sources, for which the lack of locking has casued problems: If two sched_clock sources are registered we may end up in a situation where a call to sched_clock() may be accessing the epoch cycle count for the old counter and the cycle count for the new counter. This can lead to confusing results where sched_clock() values jump and then are reset to 0 (due to the way the registration function forces the epoch_ns to be 0). Fix this by reorganizing the registration function to hold the seqlock for as short a time as possible while we update the clock_data structure for a new counter. We also put any accumulated time into epoch_ns instead of resetting the time to 0 so that the clock doesn't reset after each successful registration. [jstultz: Added extra context to the commit message] Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Josh Cartwright <joshc@codeaurora.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392662736-7803-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
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| clocksource.c | ||
| jiffies.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
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| ntp.c | ||
| ntp_internal.h | ||
| posix-clock.c | ||
| sched_clock.c | ||
| tick-broadcast.c | ||
| tick-common.c | ||
| tick-internal.h | ||
| tick-oneshot.c | ||
| tick-sched.c | ||
| timeconv.c | ||
| timekeeping.c | ||
| timekeeping_debug.c | ||
| timekeeping_internal.h | ||
| timer_list.c | ||
| timer_stats.c | ||