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clocksource: Check per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Thu, 27 May 2021 19:01:20 +0000 (12:01 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:53:16 +0000 (16:53 +0200)
commit90a5e416f68044729b18feafdcf18f94cb20451f
tree8abaac4ea4ec95b5ecd4ea3768b3dd722a926218
parent3b28250e1aca63e2064d73df491d1de1f8c2213a
clocksource: Check per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable

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 <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-2-paulmck@kernel.org
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
include/linux/clocksource.h
kernel/time/clocksource.c