On 11/14/2012 10:06 AM, Deepthi Dharwar wrote:
> On 11/14/2012 03:22 AM, Julius Werner wrote:
>> Many cpuidle drivers measure their time spent in an idle state by
>> reading the wallclock time before and after idling and calculating the
>> difference. This leads to erroneous results when the wallclock time gets
>> updated by another processor in the meantime, adding that clock
>> adjustment to the idle state's time counter.
>>
>> If the clock adjustment was negative, the result is even worse due to an
>> erroneous cast from int to unsigned long long of the last_residency
>> variable. The negative 32 bit integer will zero-extend and result in a
>> forward time jump of roughly four billion milliseconds or 1.3 hours on
>> the idle state residency counter.
>>
>> This patch changes all affected cpuidle drivers to use the monotonic
>> clock for their measurements instead. It also removes the erroneous
>> cast, making sure that negative residency values are applied correctly
>> even though they should not appear anymore.
>
> Currently tegra/cpuidle uses ktime_get(). Good to have it for all
> the other arch idle residency time logging too.
Actually it is used by all arm cpuidle drivers through the wrapper
"cpuidle_wrap_enter" and the en_core_tk_irqen flag.
> Tested patch on pseries.
>
> Reviewed-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deep...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Cheers,
> Deepthi
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwer...@chromium.org>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c | 4 ++--
>> drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 12 ++++++------
>> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 3 +--
>> drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 13 ++++---------
>> 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c
>> b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c
>> index 45d00e5..4d806b4 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c
>> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static struct cpuidle_state *cpuidle_state_table;
>> static inline void idle_loop_prolog(unsigned long *in_purr, ktime_t
>> *kt_before)
>> {
>>
>> - *kt_before = ktime_get_real();
>> + *kt_before = ktime_get();
>> *in_purr = mfspr(SPRN_PURR);
>> /*
>> * Indicate to the HV that we are idle. Now would be
>> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static inline s64 idle_loop_epilog(unsigned long in_purr,
>> ktime_t kt_before)
>> get_lppaca()->wait_state_cycles += mfspr(SPRN_PURR) - in_purr;
>> get_lppaca()->idle = 0;
>>
>> - return ktime_to_us(ktime_sub(ktime_get_real(), kt_before));
>> + return ktime_to_us(ktime_sub(ktime_get(), kt_before));
>> }
>>
>> static int snooze_loop(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
>> index e8086c7..8c98d73 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
>> @@ -751,9 +751,9 @@ static int acpi_idle_enter_c1(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>>
>>
>> lapic_timer_state_broadcast(pr, cx, 1);
>> - kt1 = ktime_get_real();
>> + kt1 = ktime_get();
>> acpi_idle_do_entry(cx);
>> - kt2 = ktime_get_real();
>> + kt2 = ktime_get();
>> idle_time = ktime_to_us(ktime_sub(kt2, kt1));
>>
>> /* Update device last_residency*/
>> @@ -843,11 +843,11 @@ static int acpi_idle_enter_simple(struct
>> cpuidle_device *dev,
>> if (cx->type == ACPI_STATE_C3)
>> ACPI_FLUSH_CPU_CACHE();
>>
>> - kt1 = ktime_get_real();
>> + kt1 = ktime_get();
>> /* Tell the scheduler that we are going deep-idle: */
>> sched_clock_idle_sleep_event();
>> acpi_idle_do_entry(cx);
>> - kt2 = ktime_get_real();
>> + kt2 = ktime_get();
>> idle_time_ns = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(kt2, kt1));
>> idle_time = idle_time_ns;
>> do_div(idle_time, NSEC_PER_USEC);
>> @@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ static int acpi_idle_enter_bm(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>> */
>> lapic_timer_state_broadcast(pr, cx, 1);
>>
>> - kt1 = ktime_get_real();
>> + kt1 = ktime_get();
>> /*
>> * disable bus master
>> * bm_check implies we need ARB_DIS
>> @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ static int acpi_idle_enter_bm(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>> c3_cpu_count--;
>> raw_spin_unlock(&c3_lock);
>> }
>> - kt2 = ktime_get_real();
>> + kt2 = ktime_get();
>> idle_time_ns = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(kt2, kt1));
>> idle_time = idle_time_ns;
>> do_div(idle_time, NSEC_PER_USEC);
>> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>> index 7f15b85..1536edd 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>> @@ -109,8 +109,7 @@ int cpuidle_enter_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>> struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
>> /* This can be moved to within driver enter routine
>> * but that results in multiple copies of same code.
>> */
>> - dev->states_usage[entered_state].time +=
>> - (unsigned long long)dev->last_residency;
>> + dev->states_usage[entered_state].time += dev->last_residency;
>> dev->states_usage[entered_state].usage++;
>> } else {
>> dev->last_residency = 0;
>> diff --git a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
>> index b0f6b4c..6329a97 100644
>> --- a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
>> +++ b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
>> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
>> #include <linux/kernel.h>
>> #include <linux/cpuidle.h>
>> #include <linux/clockchips.h>
>> -#include <linux/hrtimer.h> /* ktime_get_real() */
>> +#include <linux/hrtimer.h> /* ktime_get() */
>> #include <trace/events/power.h>
>> #include <linux/sched.h>
>> #include <linux/notifier.h>
>> @@ -281,8 +281,7 @@ static int intel_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>> struct cpuidle_state_usage *state_usage = &dev->states_usage[index];
>> unsigned long eax = (unsigned long)cpuidle_get_statedata(state_usage);
>> unsigned int cstate;
>> - ktime_t kt_before, kt_after;
>> - s64 usec_delta;
>> + ktime_t kt_before;
>> int cpu = smp_processor_id();
>>
>> cstate = (((eax) >> MWAIT_SUBSTATE_SIZE) & MWAIT_CSTATE_MASK) + 1;
>> @@ -297,7 +296,7 @@ static int intel_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>> if (!(lapic_timer_reliable_states & (1 << (cstate))))
>> clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER, &cpu);
>>
>> - kt_before = ktime_get_real();
>> + kt_before = ktime_get();
>>
>> stop_critical_timings();
>> if (!need_resched()) {
>> @@ -310,17 +309,13 @@ static int intel_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>>
>> start_critical_timings();
>>
>> - kt_after = ktime_get_real();
>> - usec_delta = ktime_to_us(ktime_sub(kt_after, kt_before));
>> + dev->last_residency = ktime_to_us(ktime_sub(ktime_get(), kt_before));
>>
>> local_irq_enable();
>>
>> if (!(lapic_timer_reliable_states & (1 << (cstate))))
>> clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_EXIT, &cpu);
>>
>> - /* Update cpuidle counters */
>> - dev->last_residency = (int)usec_delta;
>> -
>> return index;
>> }
>>
>
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