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authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2015-03-11 21:16:36 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-03-13 08:07:06 +0100
commit0b046b217ad4c64fbbeaaac24d0648cb1fa49ad8 (patch)
tree2ef6b549867b96cbe344ff9c67bcc4f00e43f492 /kernel
parent4ca22c2648f9c1cec0b242f58d7302136f5a4cbb (diff)
downloadlinux-0b046b217ad4c64fbbeaaac24d0648cb1fa49ad8.tar.bz2
clocksource: Improve clocksource watchdog reporting
The clocksource watchdog reporting has been less helpful then desired, as it just printed the delta between the two clocksources. This prevents any useful analysis of why the skew occurred. Thus this patch tries to improve the output when we mark a clocksource as unstable, printing out the cycle last and now values for both the current clocksource and the watchdog clocksource. This will allow us to see if the result was due to a false positive caused by a problematic watchdog. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-9-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org [ Minor cleanups of kernel messages. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/clocksource.c18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index fc2a9de43ca1..c4cc04bec698 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -142,13 +142,6 @@ static void __clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs)
schedule_work(&watchdog_work);
}
-static void clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs, int64_t delta)
-{
- printk(KERN_WARNING "Clocksource %s unstable (delta = %Ld ns)\n",
- cs->name, delta);
- __clocksource_unstable(cs);
-}
-
/**
* clocksource_mark_unstable - mark clocksource unstable via watchdog
* @cs: clocksource to be marked unstable
@@ -174,7 +167,7 @@ void clocksource_mark_unstable(struct clocksource *cs)
static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data)
{
struct clocksource *cs;
- cycle_t csnow, wdnow, delta;
+ cycle_t csnow, wdnow, cslast, wdlast, delta;
int64_t wd_nsec, cs_nsec;
int next_cpu, reset_pending;
@@ -213,6 +206,8 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data)
delta = clocksource_delta(csnow, cs->cs_last, cs->mask);
cs_nsec = clocksource_cyc2ns(delta, cs->mult, cs->shift);
+ wdlast = cs->wd_last; /* save these in case we print them */
+ cslast = cs->cs_last;
cs->cs_last = csnow;
cs->wd_last = wdnow;
@@ -221,7 +216,12 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data)
/* Check the deviation from the watchdog clocksource. */
if ((abs(cs_nsec - wd_nsec) > WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD)) {
- clocksource_unstable(cs, cs_nsec - wd_nsec);
+ pr_warn("timekeeping watchdog: Marking clocksource '%s' as unstable, because the skew is too large:\n", cs->name);
+ pr_warn(" '%s' wd_now: %llx wd_last: %llx mask: %llx\n",
+ watchdog->name, wdnow, wdlast, watchdog->mask);
+ pr_warn(" '%s' cs_now: %llx cs_last: %llx mask: %llx\n",
+ cs->name, csnow, cslast, cs->mask);
+ __clocksource_unstable(cs);
continue;
}