linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:08:21 -0700
From:   John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING

When I added some extra sanity checking in timekeeping_get_ns() under
CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING, I missed that the NMI safe __ktime_get_fast_ns()
method was using timekeeping_get_ns().

Thus the locking added to the debug checks broke the NMI-safety of
__ktime_get_fast_ns().

This patch open-codes the timekeeping_get_ns() logic for
__ktime_get_fast_ns(), so can avoid any deadlocks in NMI.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: stable <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.1+
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
---
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 3b65746..e07fb09 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -401,7 +401,10 @@ static __always_inline u64 __ktime_get_fast_ns(struct tk_fast *tkf)
 	do {
 		seq = raw_read_seqcount_latch(&tkf->seq);
 		tkr = tkf->base + (seq & 0x01);
-		now = ktime_to_ns(tkr->base) + timekeeping_get_ns(tkr);
+		now = ktime_to_ns(tkr->base);
+
+		now += clocksource_delta(tkr->read(tkr->clock),
+					 tkr->cycle_last, tkr->mask);
 	} while (read_seqcount_retry(&tkf->seq, seq));
 
 	return now;
-- 
1.9.1