On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:19:11PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> > wrote: > > > > > > > > But it's always negative, which means HPET is always ahead of > > > > TSC. That excludes pretty much the clocksource watchdog starvation > > > > issue which results in TSC being ahead of HPET due to a HPET > > > > wraparound (which takes ~300s). > > > > > > Still, I'd be more likely to trust the TSC than the HPET on modern > > > machines.. And DaveJ's machine isn't some old one. > > > > Well, that does not explain the softlock watchdog which is solely > > relying on the TSC. > > > > > Of course, there's always BIOS games. Can we read the TSC offset > > > register and check it being constant (modulo sleep events)? > > > > The kernel does not touch it. Here is a untested hack to verify it on > > every local apic timer interrupt. Not nice, but simple :) > > > + pr_err("TSC adjustment on cpu %d changed %llu -> > %llu\n", > > + cpu, > > + (unsigned long long) __this_cpu_read(tsc_adjust), > > + (unsigned long long) adj); > > I just got > > [ 1472.614433] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -26373048906 ns) > > without any sign of the pr_err above.
Bah. Would have been too simple .... Could you please run Ingos time-warp test on that machine for a while? http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/time-warp-test.c Please change: - #define TEST_CLOCK 0 + #define TEST_CLOCK 1 I'll dig further into the time/clocksource whatever related changes post 3.16 Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/