3.6.11.4 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Prarit Bhargava [ Upstream commit 8f294b5a139ee4b75e890ad5b443c93d1e558a8b ] The settimeofday01 test in the LTP testsuite effectively does gettimeofday(current time); settimeofday(Jan 1, 1970 + 100 seconds); settimeofday(current time); This test causes a stack trace to be displayed on the console during the setting of timeofday to Jan 1, 1970 + 100 seconds: [ 131.066751] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 131.096448] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c:209 clockevents_program_event+0x135/0x140() [ 131.104935] Hardware name: Dinar [ 131.108150] Modules linked in: sg nfsv3 nfs_acl nfsv4 auth_rpcgss nfs dns_resolver fscache lockd sunrpc nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_broadcast ipt_MASQUERADE ip6table_mangle ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat iptable_mangle ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter ip_tables kvm_amd kvm sp5100_tco bnx2 i2c_piix4 crc32c_intel k10temp fam15h_power ghash_clmulni_intel amd64_edac_mod pcspkr serio_raw edac_mce_amd edac_core microcode xfs libcrc32c sr_mod sd_mod cdrom ata_generic crc_t10dif pata_acpi radeon i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper ttm drm ahci pata_atiixp libahci libata usb_storage i2c_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [ 131.176784] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/28 Not tainted 3.8.0+ #6 [ 131.182248] Call Trace: [ 131.184684] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [ 131.191312] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [ 131.197131] [] clockevents_program_event+0x135/0x140 [ 131.203721] [] tick_program_event+0x24/0x30 [ 131.209534] [] hrtimer_interrupt+0x131/0x230 [ 131.215437] [] ? cpufreq_p4_target+0x130/0x130 [ 131.221509] [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x69/0x99 [ 131.227839] [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 [ 131.233816] [] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xc5/0x120 [ 131.240267] [] ? cpuidle_wrap_enter+0x50/0xa0 [ 131.246252] [] ? cpuidle_wrap_enter+0x49/0xa0 [ 131.252238] [] cpuidle_enter_tk+0x10/0x20 [ 131.257877] [] cpuidle_idle_call+0xa9/0x260 [ 131.263692] [] cpu_idle+0xaf/0x120 [ 131.268727] [] start_secondary+0x255/0x257 [ 131.274449] ---[ end trace 1151a50552231615 ]--- When we change the system time to a low value like this, the value of timekeeper->offs_real will be a negative value. It seems that the WARN occurs because an hrtimer has been started in the time between the releasing of the timekeeper lock and the IPI call (via a call to on_each_cpu) in clock_was_set() in the do_settimeofday() code. The end result is that a REALTIME_CLOCK timer has been added with softexpires = expires = KTIME_MAX. The hrtimer_interrupt() fires/is called and the loop at kernel/hrtimer.c:1289 is executed. In this loop the code subtracts the clock base's offset (which was set to timekeeper->offs_real in do_settimeofday()) from the current hrtimer_cpu_base->expiry value (which was KTIME_MAX): KTIME_MAX - (a negative value) = overflow A simple check for an overflow can resolve this problem. Using KTIME_MAX instead of the overflow value will result in the hrtimer function being run, and the reprogramming of the timer after that. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt [jstultz: Tweaked commit subject] Signed-off-by: John Stultz --- kernel/hrtimer.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c index 532294f..e3999c2 100644 --- a/kernel/hrtimer.c +++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c @@ -1312,6 +1312,8 @@ retry: expires = ktime_sub(hrtimer_get_expires(timer), base->offset); + if (expires.tv64 < 0) + expires.tv64 = KTIME_MAX; if (expires.tv64 < expires_next.tv64) expires_next = expires; break; -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/