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Revision 5ae8aabeaec3fe69c4fb21cbe5b17b72b35b5892 authored by Stephen Boyd on 17 February 2014, 18:45:36 UTC, committed by Thomas Gleixner on 19 February 2014, 16:07:22 UTC
The generic sched_clock registration function was previously
done lockless, due to the fact that it was expected to be called
only once. However, now there are systems that may register
multiple sched_clock sources, for which the lack of locking has
casued problems:

If two sched_clock sources are registered we may end up in a
situation where a call to sched_clock() may be accessing the
epoch cycle count for the old counter and the cycle count for the
new counter. This can lead to confusing results where
sched_clock() values jump and then are reset to 0 (due to the way
the registration function forces the epoch_ns to be 0).

Fix this by reorganizing the registration function to hold the
seqlock for as short a time as possible while we update the
clock_data structure for a new counter. We also put any
accumulated time into epoch_ns instead of resetting the time to
0 so that the clock doesn't reset after each successful
registration.

[jstultz: Added extra context to the commit message]

Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Josh Cartwright <joshc@codeaurora.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392662736-7803-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Tip revision: 5ae8aabeaec3fe69c4fb21cbe5b17b72b35b5892 authored by Stephen Boyd on 17 February 2014, 18:45:36 UTC
sched_clock: Prevent callers from seeing half-updated data
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