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Message-ID: <20200511092200.GF2957@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 11:22:00 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@...el.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
Enrico Weigelt <info@...ux.net>,
"Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@...utronix.de>,
Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>,
"Ben Dooks (Codethink)" <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] arm64: perf_event: Fix time offset prior to epoch
On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 09:55:41PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> This patch set is to fix time offset prior to epoch for Arm arch timer.
> This series is mainly following on suggestions on LKML [1].
>
> To acheive the accurate time offset for a clock source prior to epoch,
> patch 01 adds a new variant sched_clock_register_epoch() which allows to
> output an extra argument for time offset prior to sched clock's
> registration.
>
> Patch 02 is to add handling for time offset in Arm arch timer driver, As
> Will Deacon suggested to "disable the perf userpage if sched_clock
> changes clocksource too" [2], after thinking about this suggestion, the
> race condition doesn't exist between sched_clock's registration and perf
> userpage. The reason is sched_clock's registration is finished in
> system's initialisation phase and at this point it has no chance to use
> any userpage by Perf tool. For this reason let's keep the code simple
> and don't acquire all Perf events' seqlock during sched_clock's
> registration.
>
AFAICT that's still completely buggered. The fact that the clock starts
late is completely irrelevant, and might just be confusing you.
How this?
(_completely_ untested)
---
arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++---------
include/linux/sched_clock.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/time/sched_clock.c | 41 +++++++++++++----------------------------
3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
index 4d7879484cec..81a49a916660 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1165,28 +1165,37 @@ device_initcall(armv8_pmu_driver_init)
void arch_perf_update_userpage(struct perf_event *event,
struct perf_event_mmap_page *userpg, u64 now)
{
- u32 freq;
- u32 shift;
+ struct clock_read_data *rd;
+ unsigned int seq;
/*
* Internal timekeeping for enabled/running/stopped times
* is always computed with the sched_clock.
*/
- freq = arch_timer_get_rate();
userpg->cap_user_time = 1;
+ userpg->cap_user_time_zero = 1;
+
+ do {
+ rd = sched_clock_read_begin(&seq);
+
+ userpg->time_mult = rd->mult;
+ userpg->time_shift = rd->shift;
+ userpg->time_offset = rd->epoch_ns;
+
+ userpg->time_zero -= (rd->epoch_cyc * rd->shift) >> rd->shift;
+
+ } while (sched_clock_read_retry(seq));
+
+ userpg->time_offset = userpf->time_zero - now;
- clocks_calc_mult_shift(&userpg->time_mult, &shift, freq,
- NSEC_PER_SEC, 0);
/*
* time_shift is not expected to be greater than 31 due to
* the original published conversion algorithm shifting a
* 32-bit value (now specifies a 64-bit value) - refer
* perf_event_mmap_page documentation in perf_event.h.
*/
- if (shift == 32) {
- shift = 31;
+ if (userpg->time_shift == 32) {
+ userpg->time_shift = 31;
userpg->time_mult >>= 1;
}
- userpg->time_shift = (u16)shift;
- userpg->time_offset = -now;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/sched_clock.h b/include/linux/sched_clock.h
index 0bb04a96a6d4..939dfbcd3289 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched_clock.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched_clock.h
@@ -6,6 +6,34 @@
#define LINUX_SCHED_CLOCK
#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
+/**
+ * struct clock_read_data - data required to read from sched_clock()
+ *
+ * @epoch_ns: sched_clock() value at last update
+ * @epoch_cyc: Clock cycle value at last update.
+ * @sched_clock_mask: Bitmask for two's complement subtraction of non 64bit
+ * clocks.
+ * @read_sched_clock: Current clock source (or dummy source when suspended).
+ * @mult: Multipler for scaled math conversion.
+ * @shift: Shift value for scaled math conversion.
+ *
+ * Care must be taken when updating this structure; it is read by
+ * some very hot code paths. It occupies <=40 bytes and, when combined
+ * with the seqcount used to synchronize access, comfortably fits into
+ * a 64 byte cache line.
+ */
+struct clock_read_data {
+ u64 epoch_ns;
+ u64 epoch_cyc;
+ u64 sched_clock_mask;
+ u64 (*read_sched_clock)(void);
+ u32 mult;
+ u32 shift;
+};
+
+extern struct clock_read_data *sched_clock_read_begin(unsigned int *seq);
+extern bool sched_clock_read_retry(unsigned int seq);
+
extern void generic_sched_clock_init(void);
extern void sched_clock_register(u64 (*read)(void), int bits,
diff --git a/kernel/time/sched_clock.c b/kernel/time/sched_clock.c
index fa3f800d7d76..c6d63b0d2999 100644
--- a/kernel/time/sched_clock.c
+++ b/kernel/time/sched_clock.c
@@ -19,31 +19,6 @@
#include "timekeeping.h"
-/**
- * struct clock_read_data - data required to read from sched_clock()
- *
- * @epoch_ns: sched_clock() value at last update
- * @epoch_cyc: Clock cycle value at last update.
- * @sched_clock_mask: Bitmask for two's complement subtraction of non 64bit
- * clocks.
- * @read_sched_clock: Current clock source (or dummy source when suspended).
- * @mult: Multipler for scaled math conversion.
- * @shift: Shift value for scaled math conversion.
- *
- * Care must be taken when updating this structure; it is read by
- * some very hot code paths. It occupies <=40 bytes and, when combined
- * with the seqcount used to synchronize access, comfortably fits into
- * a 64 byte cache line.
- */
-struct clock_read_data {
- u64 epoch_ns;
- u64 epoch_cyc;
- u64 sched_clock_mask;
- u64 (*read_sched_clock)(void);
- u32 mult;
- u32 shift;
-};
-
/**
* struct clock_data - all data needed for sched_clock() (including
* registration of a new clock source)
@@ -93,6 +68,17 @@ static inline u64 notrace cyc_to_ns(u64 cyc, u32 mult, u32 shift)
return (cyc * mult) >> shift;
}
+struct clock_read_data *sched_clock_read_begin(unsigned int *seq)
+{
+ *seq = raw_read_seqcount(&cs.seq);
+ return cs.read_data + (seq & 1);
+}
+
+struct bool sched_clock_read_retry(unsigned int seq)
+{
+ return read_seqcount_retry(&cd.seq, seq);
+}
+
unsigned long long notrace sched_clock(void)
{
u64 cyc, res;
@@ -100,13 +86,12 @@ unsigned long long notrace sched_clock(void)
struct clock_read_data *rd;
do {
- seq = raw_read_seqcount(&cd.seq);
- rd = cd.read_data + (seq & 1);
+ rd = sched_clock_read_begin(&seq);
cyc = (rd->read_sched_clock() - rd->epoch_cyc) &
rd->sched_clock_mask;
res = rd->epoch_ns + cyc_to_ns(cyc, rd->mult, rd->shift);
- } while (read_seqcount_retry(&cd.seq, seq));
+ } while (sched_clock_read_retry(seq));
return res;
}
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