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rcutorture: use monotonic timestamp for stall detection

Message ID 20180618144741.339763-1-arnd@arndb.de
State Superseded
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Series rcutorture: use monotonic timestamp for stall detection | expand

Commit Message

Arnd Bergmann June 18, 2018, 2:47 p.m. UTC
The get_seconds() call is deprecated because it overflows on 32-bit
architectures. The algorithm in rcu_torture_stall() can deal with
the overflow, but another problem here is that using a CLOCK_REALTIME
stamp can lead to a false-positive stall warning when a settimeofday()
happens concurrently.

Using ktime_get_seconds() instead avoids those issues and will never
overflow. The added cast to 'unsigned long' however is necessary to
make ULONG_CMP_LT() work correctly.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

---
 kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

-- 
2.9.0

Comments

Paul E. McKenney June 18, 2018, 3:30 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 04:47:34PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The get_seconds() call is deprecated because it overflows on 32-bit

> architectures. The algorithm in rcu_torture_stall() can deal with

> the overflow, but another problem here is that using a CLOCK_REALTIME

> stamp can lead to a false-positive stall warning when a settimeofday()

> happens concurrently.

> 

> Using ktime_get_seconds() instead avoids those issues and will never

> overflow. The added cast to 'unsigned long' however is necessary to

> make ULONG_CMP_LT() work correctly.

> 

> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


Queued for testing and review, thank you!  If things go well, I
expect this to be ready for the v4.19 merge window.

							Thanx, Paul

> ---

>  kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 5 +++--

>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

> 

> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c

> index 42fcb7f05fac..f42cf69ef539 100644

> --- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c

> +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c

> @@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ static int rcu_torture_stall(void *args)

>  		VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_stall end holdoff");

>  	}

>  	if (!kthread_should_stop()) {

> -		stop_at = get_seconds() + stall_cpu;

> +		stop_at = ktime_get_seconds() + stall_cpu;

>  		/* RCU CPU stall is expected behavior in following code. */

>  		rcu_read_lock();

>  		if (stall_cpu_irqsoff)

> @@ -1455,7 +1455,8 @@ static int rcu_torture_stall(void *args)

>  			preempt_disable();

>  		pr_alert("rcu_torture_stall start on CPU %d.\n",

>  			 smp_processor_id());

> -		while (ULONG_CMP_LT(get_seconds(), stop_at))

> +		while (ULONG_CMP_LT((unsigned long)ktime_get_seconds(),

> +				    stop_at))

>  			continue;  /* Induce RCU CPU stall warning. */

>  		if (stall_cpu_irqsoff)

>  			local_irq_enable();

> -- 

> 2.9.0

>
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diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index 42fcb7f05fac..f42cf69ef539 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@  static int rcu_torture_stall(void *args)
 		VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_stall end holdoff");
 	}
 	if (!kthread_should_stop()) {
-		stop_at = get_seconds() + stall_cpu;
+		stop_at = ktime_get_seconds() + stall_cpu;
 		/* RCU CPU stall is expected behavior in following code. */
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		if (stall_cpu_irqsoff)
@@ -1455,7 +1455,8 @@  static int rcu_torture_stall(void *args)
 			preempt_disable();
 		pr_alert("rcu_torture_stall start on CPU %d.\n",
 			 smp_processor_id());
-		while (ULONG_CMP_LT(get_seconds(), stop_at))
+		while (ULONG_CMP_LT((unsigned long)ktime_get_seconds(),
+				    stop_at))
 			continue;  /* Induce RCU CPU stall warning. */
 		if (stall_cpu_irqsoff)
 			local_irq_enable();