Hi Vincent,
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 9:16 AM Vincent Guittot
<vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A deadlock has been seen when swicthing clocksources which use PM runtime.
> The call path is:
> change_clocksource
> ...
> write_seqcount_begin
> ...
> timekeeping_update
> ...
> sh_cmt_clocksource_enable
> ...
> rpm_resume
> pm_runtime_mark_last_busy
> ktime_get
> do
> read_seqcount_begin
> while read_seqcount_retry
> ....
> write_seqcount_end
>
> Although we should be safe because we haven't yet changed the clocksource
> at that time, we can't because of seqcount protection.
>
> Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns instead which is lock safe for such case
>
> Fixes: 8234f6734c5d ("PM-runtime: Switch autosuspend over to using hrtimers")
> Reported-by: Biju Das <biju.das@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for your patch!
/**
* ktime_get_mono_fast_ns - Fast NMI safe access to clock monotonic
*
* This timestamp is not guaranteed to be monotonic across an update.
* The timestamp is calculated by:
*
* now = base_mono + clock_delta * slope
*
* So if the update lowers the slope, readers who are forced to the
* not yet updated second array are still using the old steeper slope.
*
* tmono
* ^
* | o n
* | o n
* | u
* | o
* |o
* |12345678---> reader order
*
* o = old slope
* u = update
* n = new slope
*
* So reader 6 will observe time going backwards versus reader 5.
*
* While other CPUs are likely to be able observe that, the only way
* for a CPU local observation is when an NMI hits in the middle of
* the update. Timestamps taken from that NMI context might be ahead
* of the following timestamps. Callers need to be aware of that and
* deal with it.
*/
As this function is not guaranteed to be monotonic, have you checked how
the Runtime PM code behaves if time goes backwards? Does it just make
a suboptimal decision or does it crash?
Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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