Re: [git pull] x86/hrtimer/acpi fixes

From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Date: Fri Dec 07 2007 - 13:50:35 EST


On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 19:36 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git
>
> This contains 3 x86/hrtimer/hpet/ACPI fixes from Thomas: the ACPI fix
> has been ACK-ed by Venki. Build and boot tested on various boxes.

Ingo, I was about to post about timer problems in 2.6.23.9+rt12 when I
saw this. Would this be related / should I test / will this solve
everything? :-)

What I'm seeing is jack "delays" that go away if I boot with
"idle=poll", just like it was happening a long time ago. Smells like
'time of day' glitches when the process switches cpus (this is on a dual
core intel laptop).

Does not happen in 2.6.22.10 + rt9 - well, I do see very occassional
delay warnings there as well.

I also see occassional complete hangs but I don't have a way of knowing
what triggers that.

-- Fernando


> ------------------>
> Thomas Gleixner (3):
> hrtimers: avoid overflow for large relative timeouts
> clockevents: warn once when program_event() is called with negative expiry
> ACPI: move timer broadcast before busmaster disable
>
> drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
> kernel/hrtimer.c | 8 ++++++++
> kernel/time/clockevents.c | 5 +++++
> 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> index b1fbee3..2fe34cc 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> @@ -531,6 +531,11 @@ static void acpi_processor_idle(void)
>
> case ACPI_STATE_C3:
> /*
> + * Must be done before busmaster disable as we might
> + * need to access HPET !
> + */
> + acpi_state_timer_broadcast(pr, cx, 1);
> + /*
> * disable bus master
> * bm_check implies we need ARB_DIS
> * !bm_check implies we need cache flush
> @@ -557,7 +562,6 @@ static void acpi_processor_idle(void)
> /* Get start time (ticks) */
> t1 = inl(acpi_gbl_FADT.xpm_timer_block.address);
> /* Invoke C3 */
> - acpi_state_timer_broadcast(pr, cx, 1);
> /* Tell the scheduler that we are going deep-idle: */
> sched_clock_idle_sleep_event();
> acpi_cstate_enter(cx);
> @@ -1401,9 +1405,6 @@ static int acpi_idle_enter_simple(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
> if (acpi_idle_suspend)
> return(acpi_idle_enter_c1(dev, state));
>
> - if (pr->flags.bm_check)
> - acpi_idle_update_bm_rld(pr, cx);
> -
> local_irq_disable();
> current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING;
> /*
> @@ -1418,13 +1419,21 @@ static int acpi_idle_enter_simple(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
> return 0;
> }
>
> + /*
> + * Must be done before busmaster disable as we might need to
> + * access HPET !
> + */
> + acpi_state_timer_broadcast(pr, cx, 1);
> +
> + if (pr->flags.bm_check)
> + acpi_idle_update_bm_rld(pr, cx);
> +
> if (cx->type == ACPI_STATE_C3)
> ACPI_FLUSH_CPU_CACHE();
>
> t1 = inl(acpi_gbl_FADT.xpm_timer_block.address);
> /* Tell the scheduler that we are going deep-idle: */
> sched_clock_idle_sleep_event();
> - acpi_state_timer_broadcast(pr, cx, 1);
> acpi_idle_do_entry(cx);
> t2 = inl(acpi_gbl_FADT.xpm_timer_block.address);
>
> diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
> index 22a2514..e65dd0b 100644
> --- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
> +++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
> @@ -850,6 +850,14 @@ hrtimer_start(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim, const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
> #ifdef CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES
> tim = ktime_add(tim, base->resolution);
> #endif
> + /*
> + * Careful here: User space might have asked for a
> + * very long sleep, so the add above might result in a
> + * negative number, which enqueues the timer in front
> + * of the queue.
> + */
> + if (tim.tv64 < 0)
> + tim.tv64 = KTIME_MAX;
> }
> timer->expires = tim;
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
> index 822beeb..5fb139f 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
> @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ int clockevents_program_event(struct clock_event_device *dev, ktime_t expires,
> unsigned long long clc;
> int64_t delta;
>
> + if (unlikely(expires.tv64 < 0)) {
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> + return -ETIME;
> + }
> +
> delta = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(expires, now));
>
> if (delta <= 0)
> --
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