sched: Support current clocksource handling in fallback sched_clock().

Commit Message

Paul Mundt May 28, 2009, 1:20 p.m. UTC

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 02:59:30PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 21:42 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> 
> >  unsigned long long __attribute__((weak)) sched_clock(void)
> >  {
> > -	return (unsigned long long)(jiffies - INITIAL_JIFFIES)
> > -					* (NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ);
> > +	struct clocksource *clock = ACCESS_ONCE(sched_clocksource);
> > +
> > +	return cyc2ns(clock, clocksource_read(clock));
> >  }
> >  
> 
> > @@ -440,7 +444,17 @@ void clocksource_unregister(struct clocksource *cs)
> >  	list_del(&cs->list);
> >  	if (clocksource_override == cs)
> >  		clocksource_override = NULL;
> > +
> >  	next_clocksource = select_clocksource();
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * If select_clocksource() fails to find another suitable
> > +	 * clocksource for sched_clocksource and we are unregistering
> > +	 * it, switch back to jiffies.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (sched_clocksource == cs)
> > +		sched_clocksource = &clocksource_jiffies;
> > +
> >  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clocksource_lock, flags);
> >  }
> 
> 
> CPU0                           CPU1
> 
> clock = ACCESS_ONCE(sched_clocksource);
> 
>                                unload module
>                                  clocksource_unregister()
>                                    sched_clocksource = jiffies
>                                  unmap data/text
> 
> cyc2ns(clock, clocksource_read(clock)) <--- fireworks
> 

Right, lets try that again..

--

 include/linux/clocksource.h |    4 +++-
 kernel/sched_clock.c        |   13 +++++++++++--
 kernel/time/clocksource.c   |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/time/jiffies.c       |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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Patch

diff --git a/include/linux/clocksource.h b/include/linux/clocksource.h
index c56457c..2109940 100644
--- a/include/linux/clocksource.h
+++ b/include/linux/clocksource.h
@@ -202,7 +202,8 @@  struct clocksource {
 #endif
 };
 
-extern struct clocksource *clock;	/* current clocksource */
+extern struct clocksource *clock;		/* current clocksource */
+extern struct clocksource *sched_clocksource;	/* sched_clock() clocksource */
 
 /*
  * Clock source flags bits::
@@ -212,6 +213,7 @@  extern struct clocksource *clock;	/* current clocksource */
 
 #define CLOCK_SOURCE_WATCHDOG			0x10
 #define CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES		0x20
+#define CLOCK_SOURCE_USE_FOR_SCHED_CLOCK	0x40
 
 /* simplify initialization of mask field */
 #define CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(bits) (cycle_t)((bits) < 64 ? ((1ULL<<(bits))-1) : -1)
diff --git a/kernel/sched_clock.c b/kernel/sched_clock.c
index e1d16c9..b51d48d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_clock.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_clock.c
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ 
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/ktime.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/clocksource.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 
 /*
  * Scheduler clock - returns current time in nanosec units.
@@ -38,8 +40,15 @@ 
  */
 unsigned long long __attribute__((weak)) sched_clock(void)
 {
-	return (unsigned long long)(jiffies - INITIAL_JIFFIES)
-					* (NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ);
+	unsigned long long time;
+	struct clocksource *clock;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	clock = rcu_dereference(sched_clocksource);
+	time = cyc2ns(clock, clocksource_read(clock));
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return time;
 }
 
 static __read_mostly int sched_clock_running;
diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index 80189f6..3795954 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ 
  */
 
 #include <linux/clocksource.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/sysdev.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
@@ -109,6 +110,7 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL(timecounter_cyc2time);
 
 /* XXX - Would like a better way for initializing curr_clocksource */
 extern struct clocksource clocksource_jiffies;
+struct clocksource *sched_clocksource = &clocksource_jiffies;
 
 /*[Clocksource internal variables]---------
  * curr_clocksource:
@@ -362,6 +364,9 @@  static struct clocksource *select_clocksource(void)
 	if (next == curr_clocksource)
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (next->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_USE_FOR_SCHED_CLOCK)
+		sched_clocksource = next;
+
 	return next;
 }
 
@@ -440,7 +445,21 @@  void clocksource_unregister(struct clocksource *cs)
 	list_del(&cs->list);
 	if (clocksource_override == cs)
 		clocksource_override = NULL;
+
 	next_clocksource = select_clocksource();
+
+	/*
+	 * If select_clocksource() fails to find another suitable
+	 * clocksource for sched_clocksource and we are unregistering
+	 * it, switch back to jiffies.
+	 */
+	if (sched_clocksource == cs) {
+		rcu_assign_pointer(sched_clocksource, &clocksource_jiffies);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clocksource_lock, flags);
+		synchronize_rcu();
+		return;
+	}
+
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clocksource_lock, flags);
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/time/jiffies.c b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
index c3f6c30..727d881 100644
--- a/kernel/time/jiffies.c
+++ b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ 
 
 static cycle_t jiffies_read(struct clocksource *cs)
 {
-	return (cycle_t) jiffies;
+	return (cycle_t) (jiffies - INITIAL_JIFFIES);
 }
 
 struct clocksource clocksource_jiffies = {