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Paul E. McKenney dba9cda5aa clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected 
[ Upstream commit db3a34e174 ]

When the clocksource watchdog marks a clock as unstable, this might be due
to that clock being unstable or it might be due to delays that happen to
occur between the reads of the two clocks.  Yes, interrupts are disabled
across those two reads, but there are no shortage of things that can delay
interrupts-disabled regions of code ranging from SMI handlers to vCPU
preemption.  It would be good to have some indication as to why the clock
was marked unstable.

Therefore, re-read the watchdog clock on either side of the read from the
clock under test.  If the watchdog clock shows an excessive time delta
between its pair of reads, the reads are retried.

The maximum number of retries is specified by a new kernel boot parameter
clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries, which defaults to three, that is, up to
four reads, one initial and up to three retries.  If more than one retry
was required, a message is printed on the console (the occasional single
retry is expected behavior, especially in guest OSes).  If the maximum
number of retries is exceeded, the clock under test will be marked
unstable.  However, the probability of this happening due to various sorts
of delays is quite small.  In addition, the reason (clock-read delays) for
the unstable marking will be apparent.

Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-1-paulmck@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-07-14 16:53:18 +02:00
arch KVM: s390: get rid of register asm usage 2021-07-14 16:53:15 +02:00
block block: fix race between adding/removing rq qos and normal IO 2021-07-14 16:53:18 +02:00
certs certs: Move load_system_certificate_list to a common function 2021-06-30 08:47:55 -04:00
crypto crypto: shash - avoid comparing pointers to exported functions under CFI 2021-07-14 16:53:13 +02:00
Documentation clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected 2021-07-14 16:53:18 +02:00
drivers PCI: hv: Add check for hyperv_initialized in init_hv_pci_drv() 2021-07-14 16:53:18 +02:00
fs fs: dlm: fix memory leak when fenced 2021-07-14 16:53:17 +02:00
include random32: Fix implicit truncation warning in prandom_seed_state() 2021-07-14 16:53:17 +02:00
init kbuild: add CONFIG_LD_IS_LLD 2021-06-30 08:47:44 -04:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected 2021-07-14 16:53:18 +02:00
lib lib: vsprintf: Fix handling of number field widths in vsscanf 2021-07-14 16:53:16 +02:00
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sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Apply LED fixup for HP Dragonfly G1, too 2021-07-14 16:52:59 +02:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.