kernel/linux.git/include/linux/clocksource.h, branch v6.6.132

clocksource: Scale the watchdog read retries automatically

2024-08-14T11:58:56+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2ed08e4bc53298db3f87b528cd804cb0cce066a9 ] On a 8-socket server the TSC is wrongly marked as 'unstable' and disabled during boot time on about one out of 120 boot attempts: clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU227: wd-tsc-wd excessive read-back delay of 153560ns vs. limit of 125000ns, wd-wd read-back delay only 11440ns, attempt 3, marking tsc unstable tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog TSC found unstable after boot, most likely due to broken BIOS. Use 'tsc=unstable'. sched_clock: Marking unstable (119294969739, 159204297)<-(125446229205, -5992055152) clocksource: Checking clocksource tsc synchronization from CPU 319 to CPUs 0,99,136,180,210,542,601,896. clocksource: Switched to clocksource hpet The reason is that for platform with a large number of CPUs, there are sporadic big or huge read latencies while reading the watchog/clocksource during boot or when system is under stress work load, and the frequency and maximum value of the latency goes up with the number of online CPUs. The cCurrent code already has logic to detect and filter such high latency case by reading the watchdog twice and checking the two deltas. Due to the randomness of the latency, there is a low probabilty that the first delta (latency) is big, but the second delta is small and looks valid. The watchdog code retries the readouts by default twice, which is not necessarily sufficient for systems with a large number of CPUs. There is a command line parameter 'max_cswd_read_retries' which allows to increase the number of retries, but that's not user friendly as it needs to be tweaked per system. As the number of required retries is proportional to the number of online CPUs, this parameter can be calculated at runtime. Scale and enlarge the number of retries according to the number of online CPUs and remove the command line parameter completely. [ tglx: Massaged change log and comments ] Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Jin Wang Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Waiman Long Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221060859.1027450-1-feng.tang@intel.com Stable-dep-of: f2655ac2c06a ("clocksource: Fix brown-bag boolean thinko in cs_watchdog_read()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

clocksource: Provide kernel module to test clocksource watchdog

2021-06-22T14:53:17+00:00

When the clocksource watchdog marks a clock as unstable, this might be due to that clock being unstable or it might be due to delays that happen to occur between the reads of the two clocks. It would be good to have a way of testing the clocksource watchdog's ability to distinguish between these two causes of clock skew and instability. Therefore, provide a new clocksource-wdtest module selected by a new TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG Kconfig option. This module has a single module parameter named "holdoff" that provides the number of seconds of delay before testing should start, which defaults to zero when built as a module and to 10 seconds when built directly into the kernel. Very large systems that boot slowly may need to increase the value of this module parameter. This module uses hand-crafted clocksource structures to do its testing, thus avoiding messing up timing for the rest of the kernel and for user applications. This module first verifies that the ->uncertainty_margin field of the clocksource structures are set sanely. It then tests the delay-detection capability of the clocksource watchdog, increasing the number of consecutive delays injected, first provoking console messages complaining about the delays and finally forcing a clock-skew event. Unexpected test results cause at least one WARN_ON_ONCE() console splat. If there are no splats, the test has passed. Finally, it fuzzes the value returned from a clocksource to test the clocksource watchdog's ability to detect time skew. This module checks the state of its clocksource after each test, and uses WARN_ON_ONCE() to emit a console splat if there are any failures. This should enable all types of test frameworks to detect any such failures. This facility is intended for diagnostic use only, and should be avoided on production systems. Reported-by: Chris Mason Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Feng Tang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-5-paulmck@kernel.org

clocksource: Reduce clocksource-skew threshold

2021-06-22T14:53:16+00:00

Currently, WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD is set to detect a 62.5-millisecond skew in a 500-millisecond WATCHDOG_INTERVAL. This requires that clocks be skewed by more than 12.5% in order to be marked unstable. Except that a clock that is skewed by that much is probably destroying unsuspecting software right and left. And given that there are now checks for false-positive skews due to delays between reading the two clocks, it should be possible to greatly decrease WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD, at least for fine-grained clocks such as TSC. Therefore, add a new uncertainty_margin field to the clocksource structure that contains the maximum uncertainty in nanoseconds for the corresponding clock. This field may be initialized manually, as it is for clocksource_tsc_early and clocksource_jiffies, which is copied to refined_jiffies. If the field is not initialized manually, it will be computed at clock-registry time as the period of the clock in question based on the scale and freq parameters to __clocksource_update_freq_scale() function. If either of those two parameters are zero, the tens-of-milliseconds WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD is used as a cowardly alternative to dividing by zero. No matter how the uncertainty_margin field is calculated, it is bounded below by twice WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW, that is, by 100 microseconds. Note that manually initialized uncertainty_margin fields are not adjusted, but there is a WARN_ON_ONCE() that triggers if any such field is less than twice WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW. This WARN_ON_ONCE() is intended to discourage production use of the one-nanosecond uncertainty_margin values that are used to test the clock-skew code itself. The actual clock-skew check uses the sum of the uncertainty_margin fields of the two clocksource structures being compared. Integer overflow is avoided because the largest computed value of the uncertainty_margin fields is one billion (10^9), and double that value fits into an unsigned int. However, if someone manually specifies (say) UINT_MAX, they will get what they deserve. Note that the refined_jiffies uncertainty_margin field is initialized to TICK_NSEC, which means that skew checks involving this clocksource will be sufficently forgiving. In a similar vein, the clocksource_tsc_early uncertainty_margin field is initialized to 32*NSEC_PER_MSEC, which replicates the current behavior and allows custom setting if needed in order to address the rare skews detected for this clocksource in current mainline. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Feng Tang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-4-paulmck@kernel.org

clocksource: Check per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable

2021-06-22T14:53:16+00:00

Some sorts of per-CPU clock sources have a history of going out of synchronization with each other. However, this problem has purportedy been solved in the past ten years. Except that it is all too possible that the problem has instead simply been made less likely, which might mean that some of the occasional "Marking clocksource 'tsc' as unstable" messages might be due to desynchronization. How would anyone know? Therefore apply CPU-to-CPU synchronization checking to newly unstable clocksource that are marked with the new CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU flag. Lists of desynchronized CPUs are printed, with the caveat that if it is the reporting CPU that is itself desynchronized, it will appear that all the other clocks are wrong. Just like in real life. Reported-by: Chris Mason Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Feng Tang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-2-paulmck@kernel.org

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2021-05-01T17:14:08+00:00

Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "This is a large update by KVM standards, including AMD PSP (Platform Security Processor, aka "AMD Secure Technology") and ARM CoreSight (debug and trace) changes. ARM: - CoreSight: Add support for ETE and TRBE - Stage-2 isolation for the host kernel when running in protected mode - Guest SVE support when running in nVHE mode - Force W^X hypervisor mappings in nVHE mode - ITS save/restore for guests using direct injection with GICv4.1 - nVHE panics now produce readable backtraces - Guest support for PTP using the ptp_kvm driver - Performance improvements in the S2 fault handler x86: - AMD PSP driver changes - Optimizations and cleanup of nested SVM code - AMD: Support for virtual SPEC_CTRL - Optimizations of the new MMU code: fast invalidation, zap under read lock, enable/disably dirty page logging under read lock - /dev/kvm API for AMD SEV live migration (guest API coming soon) - support SEV virtual machines sharing the same encryption context - support SGX in virtual machines - add a few more statistics - improved directed yield heuristics - Lots and lots of cleanups Generic: - Rework of MMU notifier interface, simplifying and optimizing the architecture-specific code - a handful of "Get rid of oprofile leftovers" patches - Some selftests improvements" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (379 commits) KVM: selftests: Speed up set_memory_region_test selftests: kvm: Fix the check of return value KVM: x86: Take advantage of kvm_arch_dy_has_pending_interrupt() KVM: SVM: Skip SEV cache flush if no ASIDs have been used KVM: SVM: Remove an unnecessary prototype declaration of sev_flush_asids() KVM: SVM: Drop redundant svm_sev_enabled() helper KVM: SVM: Move SEV VMCB tracking allocation to sev.c KVM: SVM: Explicitly check max SEV ASID during sev_hardware_setup() KVM: SVM: Unconditionally invoke sev_hardware_teardown() KVM: SVM: Enable SEV/SEV-ES functionality by default (when supported) KVM: SVM: Condition sev_enabled and sev_es_enabled on CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y KVM: SVM: Append "_enabled" to module-scoped SEV/SEV-ES control variables KVM: SEV: Mask CPUID[0x8000001F].eax according to supported features KVM: SVM: Move SEV module params/variables to sev.c KVM: SVM: Disable SEV/SEV-ES if NPT is disabled KVM: SVM: Free sev_asid_bitmap during init if SEV setup fails KVM: SVM: Zero out the VMCB array used to track SEV ASID association x86/sev: Drop redundant and potentially misleading 'sev_enabled' KVM: x86: Move reverse CPUID helpers to separate header file KVM: x86: Rename GPR accessors to make mode-aware variants the defaults ...

time: Add mechanism to recognize clocksource in time_get_snapshot

2021-04-07T15:33:20+00:00

System time snapshots are not conveying information about the current clocksource which was used, but callers like the PTP KVM guest implementation have the requirement to evaluate the clocksource type to select the appropriate mechanism. Introduce a clocksource id field in struct clocksource which is by default set to CSID_GENERIC (0). Clocksource implementations can set that field to a value which allows to identify the clocksource. Store the clocksource id of the current clocksource in the system_time_snapshot so callers can evaluate which clocksource was used to take the snapshot and act accordingly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201209060932.212364-5-jianyong.wu@arm.com

timekeeping, clocksource: Fix various typos in comments

2021-03-22T22:06:48+00:00

Fix ~56 single-word typos in timekeeping & clocksource code comments. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: John Stultz Cc: Stephen Boyd Cc: Daniel Lezcano Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

linux/clocksource.h: Extract common header for vDSO

2020-03-21T14:23:56+00:00

The vDSO library should only include the necessary headers required for a userspace library (UAPI and a minimal set of kernel headers). To make this possible it is necessary to isolate from the kernel headers the common parts that are strictly necessary to build the library. Split clocksource.h into linux and common headers to make the latter suitable for inclusion in the vDSO library. Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200320145351.32292-9-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com

lib/vdso: Move VCLOCK_TIMENS to vdso_clock_modes

2020-02-17T19:12:17+00:00

Move the time namespace indicator clock mode to the other ones for consistency sake. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207124403.656097274@linutronix.de

lib/vdso: Cleanup clock mode storage leftovers

2020-02-17T19:12:17+00:00

Now that all architectures are converted to use the generic storage the helpers and conditionals can be removed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207124403.470699892@linutronix.de