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Subject[RFC] exponential update_wall_time
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Hey Roman,
Just wanted to run this by you for comment. Ingo was finding issues w/
update_wall_clock looping for too long when using dynticks. I also think
this will avoid the bad clocksource caused hangs that have been
occasionally reported (instead of looping forever, time will just
accumulate oddly), which will help point to the issue.

Anyway, just wanted to get your thoughts before I send it to Andrew for
more testing.

thanks
-john

Accumulate time in update_wall_time exponentially.
This avoids long running loops seen with the dynticks patch
as well as the problematic hang" seen on systems with broken
clocksources.

This applies on top of 2.6.18-mm1

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

kernel/timer.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.18/kernel/timer.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18.orig/kernel/timer.c 2006-09-20 16:17:54.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18/kernel/timer.c 2006-09-20 16:17:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -902,6 +902,7 @@ static void clocksource_adjust(struct cl
static void update_wall_time(void)
{
cycle_t offset;
+ int shift = 0;

/* Make sure we're fully resumed: */
if (unlikely(timekeeping_suspended))
@@ -914,28 +915,39 @@ static void update_wall_time(void)
#endif
clock->xtime_nsec += (s64)xtime.tv_nsec << clock->shift;

+ while (offset > clock->cycle_interval << (shift + 1))
+ shift++;
+
/* normally this loop will run just once, however in the
* case of lost or late ticks, it will accumulate correctly.
*/
while (offset >= clock->cycle_interval) {
+ if (offset < (clock->cycle_interval << shift)) {
+ shift--;
+ continue;
+ }
+
/* accumulate one interval */
- clock->xtime_nsec += clock->xtime_interval;
- clock->cycle_last += clock->cycle_interval;
- offset -= clock->cycle_interval;
+ clock->xtime_nsec += clock->xtime_interval << shift;
+ clock->cycle_last += clock->cycle_interval << shift;
+ offset -= clock->cycle_interval << shift;

- if (clock->xtime_nsec >= (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC << clock->shift) {
+ while (clock->xtime_nsec >= (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC << clock->shift) {
clock->xtime_nsec -= (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC << clock->shift;
xtime.tv_sec++;
second_overflow();
}

/* interpolator bits */
- time_interpolator_update(clock->xtime_interval
- >> clock->shift);
+ time_interpolator_update((clock->xtime_interval
+ >> clock->shift)<<shift);

/* accumulate error between NTP and clock interval */
- clock->error += current_tick_length();
- clock->error -= clock->xtime_interval << (TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT - clock->shift);
+ clock->error += current_tick_length() << shift;
+ clock->error -= (clock->xtime_interval
+ << (TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT - clock->shift))<<shift;
+
+ shift--;
}

/* correct the clock when NTP error is too big */

-
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