Re: [RFC PATCH 16/22 -v2] add get_monotonic_cycles

[john stultz]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 14:36 -0800, john stultz wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008 6:56 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If you really want an seqlock free algorithm (I _do_ want this for
> > tracing!) :) maybe going in the RCU direction could help (I refer to my
> > RCU-based 32-to-64 bits lockless timestamp counter extension, which
> > could be turned into the clocksource updater).
> 
> Yea. After our earlier discussion and talking w/ Steven, I'm taking a
> swing at this now.  The lock-free method still doesn't apply to the
> update_wall_time function, but does work fine for the monotonic cycle
> uses.  I'll send a patch for review as soon as I get things building.

So here's my first attempt at adding Mathieu's lock-free method to
Steven's get_monotonic_cycles() interface. 

Completely un-tested, but it builds, so I figured I'd send it out for
review.

I'm not super sure the update or the read doesn't need something
additional to force a memory access, but as I didn't see anything 
special in Mathieu's implementation, I'm going to guess this is ok.

Mathieu, Let me know if this isn't what you're suggesting.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>

Index: monotonic-cleanup/include/linux/clocksource.h
===================================================================
--- monotonic-cleanup.orig/include/linux/clocksource.h	2008-01-16 12:22:04.000000000 -0800
+++ monotonic-cleanup/include/linux/clocksource.h	2008-01-16 14:41:31.000000000 -0800
@@ -87,9 +87,17 @@
 	 * more than one cache line.
 	 */
 	struct {
-		cycle_t cycle_last, cycle_accumulated, cycle_raw;
-	} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+		cycle_t cycle_last, cycle_accumulated;
 
+		/* base structure provides lock-free read
+		 * access to a virtualized 64bit counter
+		 * Uses RCU-like update.
+		 */
+		struct {
+			cycle_t cycle_base_last, cycle_base;
+		} base[2];
+		int base_num;
+	} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 	u64 xtime_nsec;
 	s64 error;
 
@@ -175,19 +183,21 @@
 }
 
 /**
- * clocksource_get_cycles: - Access the clocksource's accumulated cycle value
+ * clocksource_get_basecycles: - get the clocksource's accumulated cycle value
  * @cs:		pointer to clocksource being read
  * @now:	current cycle value
  *
  * Uses the clocksource to return the current cycle_t value.
  * NOTE!!!: This is different from clocksource_read, because it
- * returns the accumulated cycle value! Must hold xtime lock!
+ * returns a 64bit wide accumulated value.
  */
 static inline cycle_t
-clocksource_get_cycles(struct clocksource *cs, cycle_t now)
+clocksource_get_basecycles(struct clocksource *cs, cycle_t now)
 {
-	cycle_t offset = (now - cs->cycle_last) & cs->mask;
-	offset += cs->cycle_accumulated;
+	int num = cs->base_num;
+	cycle_t offset = (now - cs->base[num].cycle_base_last);
+	offset &= cs->mask;
+	offset += cs->base[num].cycle_base;
 	return offset;
 }
 
@@ -197,14 +207,25 @@
  * @now:	current cycle value
  *
  * Used to avoids clocksource hardware overflow by periodically
- * accumulating the current cycle delta. Must hold xtime write lock!
+ * accumulating the current cycle delta. Uses RCU-like update, but
+ * ***still requires the xtime_lock is held for writing!***
  */
 static inline void clocksource_accumulate(struct clocksource *cs, cycle_t now)
 {
-	cycle_t offset = (now - cs->cycle_last) & cs->mask;
+	/* First update the monotonic base portion.
+	 * The dual array update method allows for lock-free reading.
+	 */
+	int num = !cs->base_num;
+	cycle_t offset = (now - cs->base[!num].cycle_base_last);
+	offset &= cs->mask;
+	cs->base[num].cycle_base = cs->base[!num].cycle_base + offset;
+	cs->base[num].cycle_base_last = now;
+	cs->base_num = num;
+
+	/* Now update the cycle_accumulated portion */
+	offset = (now - cs->cycle_last) & cs->mask;
 	cs->cycle_last = now;
 	cs->cycle_accumulated += offset;
-	cs->cycle_raw += offset;
 }
 
 /**
Index: monotonic-cleanup/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
===================================================================
--- monotonic-cleanup.orig/kernel/time/timekeeping.c	2008-01-16 12:21:46.000000000 -0800
+++ monotonic-cleanup/kernel/time/timekeeping.c	2008-01-16 14:15:31.000000000 -0800
@@ -71,10 +71,12 @@
  */
 static inline s64 __get_nsec_offset(void)
 {
-	cycle_t cycle_delta;
+	cycle_t now, cycle_delta;
 	s64 ns_offset;
 
-	cycle_delta = clocksource_get_cycles(clock, clocksource_read(clock));
+	now = clocksource_read(clock);
+	cycle_delta = (now - clock->cycle_last) & clock->mask;
+	cycle_delta += clock->cycle_accumulated;
 	ns_offset = cyc2ns(clock, cycle_delta);
 
 	return ns_offset;
@@ -105,35 +107,7 @@
 
 cycle_t notrace get_monotonic_cycles(void)
 {
-	cycle_t cycle_now, cycle_delta, cycle_raw, cycle_last;
-
-	do {
-		/*
-		 * cycle_raw and cycle_last can change on
-		 * another CPU and we need the delta calculation
-		 * of cycle_now and cycle_last happen atomic, as well
-		 * as the adding to cycle_raw. We don't need to grab
-		 * any locks, we just keep trying until get all the
-		 * calculations together in one state.
-		 *
-		 * In fact, we __cant__ grab any locks. This
-		 * function is called from the latency_tracer which can
-		 * be called anywhere. To grab any locks (including
-		 * seq_locks) we risk putting ourselves into a deadlock.
-		 */
-		cycle_raw = clock->cycle_raw;
-		cycle_last = clock->cycle_last;
-
-		/* read clocksource: */
-		cycle_now = clocksource_read(clock);
-
-		/* calculate the delta since the last update_wall_time: */
-		cycle_delta = (cycle_now - cycle_last) & clock->mask;
-
-	} while (cycle_raw != clock->cycle_raw ||
-		 cycle_last != clock->cycle_last);
-
-	return cycle_raw + cycle_delta;
+	return clocksource_get_basecycles(clock, clocksource_read(clock));
 }
 
 unsigned long notrace cycles_to_usecs(cycle_t cycles)


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