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Date:   Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:05:51 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>, Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>,
        Carsten Emde <C.Emde@...dl.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] tracing: Add Hardware Latency detector tracer

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:26:20AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > In any case, for those you could probably use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns().
> 
> Is that safe to call from NMI?

It should be, we were very careful to make it so. Also read the comment
with __ktime_get_fast_ns().

> Looking into the code I see:
> 
> 	now = ktime_to_ns(tkr->base) + timekeeping_get_ns(tkr);
> 
> where timekeeping_get_ns() has:
> 
> 	timekeeping_get_delta()
> 
> which does:
> 
> 	read_seqcount_begin()
> 
> which has (eventually):

That's a bug in CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING, if you look at the
!timekeeping_get_delta() it does no such thing.

John, looks like 4ca22c2648f9 ("timekeeping: Add warnings when overflows
or underflows are observed") buggered things.


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