On 29.12.2015 10:44, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2015, Helge Deller wrote:
>> I see a strange behavior on the parisc platform, for which I'm not sure if
>> it's intended or if there is a bug somewhere.
>
>> The program calls timerfd_settime() and sets a timer (e.g. sec=0, nsec=100000000).
>> Directly after setting the timer it calls timerfd_gettime() and receives
>> (sec=0, nsec=103914413).
>> The second nsec is higher than the initial nsec value which was set.
>>
>> Does timerfd_settime() maybe tries to add the initial time it takes to start
>> the timer?
>>
>> Any idea or hint?
>
> Yes. This is a fallout from the power aware batching magic. Interesting that
> nobody noticed this within 7 years.
>
> Does the patch below fix your issue?
No, the patch below doesn't help.
I still see:
[ 644.916000] timerfd_settime: interval (sec=0, nsec=100000000) it_value (sec=0, nsec=100000000)
[ 645.024000] timerfd_gettime: interval (sec=0, nsec=100000000) it_value (sec=0, nsec=103029949)
Helge
> diff --git a/include/linux/hrtimer.h b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
> index 76dd4f0da5ca..0f4a3e8734f1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hrtimer.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
> @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static inline s64 hrtimer_get_expires_ns(const struct hrtimer *timer)
>
> static inline ktime_t hrtimer_expires_remaining(const struct hrtimer *timer)
> {
> - return ktime_sub(timer->node.expires, timer->base->get_time());
> + return ktime_sub(timer->_softexpires, timer->base->get_time());
> }
>
> static inline ktime_t hrtimer_cb_get_time(struct hrtimer *timer)
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