linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/RFT patch 0/7] timekeeping: Unify clock MONOTONIC and clock BOOTTIME

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Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:44:57 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
Cc:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>,
        Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Kevin Easton <kevin@...rana.org>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT patch 0/7] timekeeping: Unify clock MONOTONIC and clock
 BOOTTIME

On (04/20/18 06:37), David Herrmann wrote:
>
> I get lots of timer-errors on Arch-Linux booting current master, after
> a suspend/resume cycle. Just a selection of errors I see on resume:

Hello David,
Any chance you can revert the patches in question and test? I'm running
ARCH (4.17.0-rc1-dbg-00042-gaa03ddd9c434) and suspend/resume cycle does
not trigger any errors. Except for this one

	kernel: do_IRQ: 0.55 No irq handler for vector

> systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: Main process exited,
> code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
> rtkit-daemon[742]: The canary thread is apparently starving. Taking action.
> systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Watchdog timeout (limit 3min)!
> systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: Watchdog timeout (limit 3min)!
> kernel: e1000e 0000:00:1f.6: Failed to restore TIMINCA clock rate delta: -22
> 
> Lots of crashes with SIGABRT due to these.
> 
> I did not bisect it, but it sounds related to me. Also, user-space
> uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC for watchdog timers. That is, a process is
> required to respond to a watchdog-request in a given MONOTONIC
> time-frame. If this jumps during suspend/resume, watchdogs will fire
> immediately. I don't see how this can work with the new MONOTONIC
> behavior?

	-ss