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Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:46:40 -0400
From:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
To:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] Fixes for leapsecond expiring early ABS_TIME CLOCK_REALTIME
 timers



On 06/15/2015 09:10 AM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/11/2015 06:54 PM, John Stultz wrote:
>> So this is a second round at trying to address the issue, trying
>> to integrate feedback from Ingo and Thomas, trying to simplify
>> what I can. I've also split out the changes so each can be
>> more easily reviewed. Its still not tiny, but its simpler.
>>
>> This series is against tip/timers/core, and the first patch isn't
>> strictly related but is a fix that is needed in tip/timers/core.
>>
>> As Prarit reported here:
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/27/458
>>
>> Since the leapsecond is applied at timer tick time, and not
>> the actual second edge, ABS_TIME CLOCK_REALTIME timers set for
>> right after the leapsecond could fire a second early, since
>> some timers may be expired before we trigger the timekeeping
>> timer, which then applies the leapsecond.
>>
>> Thus this patch series tries to address this issue, including
>> extending the leap-a-day test to catch this problem, as well
>> as other relevant fixups I found while working on the code.
>>
>> This series has only had limited testing, so I wanted to send
>> it out for initial review and comment. Folks can grab this tree
>> via git for testing here:
>> https://git.linaro.org/people/john.stultz/linux.git dev/early-leap-timer
>>
> 
> I'm testing this on a few more large CPU count systems.  So far, so good ...
> 

John, unfortunately I'm seeing failures across a lot of the large systems
dev/early-leap-timer as of this AM

[root@...el-chiefriver-04 ~]# systemctl status chronyd
chronyd.service - NTP client/server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service; enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2015-06-15 09:25:33 EDT; 5s ago
  Process: 731 ExecStartPost=/usr/libexec/chrony-helper add-dhclient-servers
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 713 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/chronyd -u chrony $OPTIONS (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 724 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/chronyd.service

Jun 15 09:25:06 intel-chiefriver-04.khw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com chronyd[724]: ...
Jun 15 09:25:06 intel-chiefriver-04.khw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com chronyd[724]: ...
Jun 15 09:25:06 intel-chiefriver-04.khw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com chronyd[724]: ...
Jun 15 09:25:06 intel-chiefriver-04.khw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com chronyd[724]: ...
Jun 15 09:25:06 intel-chiefriver-04.khw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com systemd[1]: St...
Jun 15 09:25:19 intel-chiefriver-04.khw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com chronyd[724]: ...
Jun 15 09:25:19 intel-chiefriver-04.khw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com chronyd[724]: ...
Jun 15 09:25:33 intel-chiefriver-04.khw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com systemd[1]: St...
Jun 15 09:25:33 intel-chiefriver-04.khw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com chronyd[724]: ...
Jun 15 09:25:33 intel-chiefriver-04.khw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com systemd[1]: St...
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
[root@...el-chiefriver-04 ~]# ./leap-a-day -s
Setting time to speed up testing
This runs continuously. Press ctrl-c to stop

Setting time to Mon Jun 15 19:59:50 2015
Scheduling leap second for Mon Jun 15 20:00:00 2015
Setting timer for Mon Jun 15 20:00:00 2015
Mon Jun 15 19:59:57 2015 +  18177 us (0)        TIME_INS
Mon Jun 15 19:59:57 2015 + 526181 us (0)        TIME_INS
Mon Jun 15 19:59:58 2015 +  37418 us (0)        TIME_INS
Mon Jun 15 19:59:58 2015 + 546474 us (0)        TIME_INS
Mon Jun 15 19:59:59 2015 +  55724 us (0)        TIME_INS
Mon Jun 15 19:59:59 2015 + 566970 us (0)        TIME_INS
Mon Jun 15 19:59:59 2015 +   6013 us (1)        TIME_OOP - TIMER FIRED
Error: Early timer expiration!
Error: Incorrect NTP state?
Mon Jun 15 19:59:59 2015 +   6040 us (1)        TIME_OOP
Mon Jun 15 19:59:59 2015 + 517240 us (1)        TIME_OOP
Mon Jun 15 20:00:00 2015 +  28504 us (1)        TIME_WAIT
Mon Jun 15 20:00:00 2015 + 539745 us (1)        TIME_WAIT
Mon Jun 15 20:00:01 2015 +  50978 us (1)        TIME_WAIT
Mon Jun 15 20:00:01 2015 + 560360 us (1)        TIME_WAIT
Mon Jun 15 20:00:02 2015 +  69952 us (1)        TIME_WAIT
ERROR: hrtimer early expiration failure observed.
Leap complete
Errors observed

P.
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