timekeeping: Add a fast and NMI safe boot clock
authorJoel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:35:22 +0000 (14:35 -0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:02:59 +0000 (18:02 +0100)
commit948a5312f41658f7b76a598a139ef1f4dea09ca9
tree18913a15606a2c42f4b0f2c041cf224df9578ef6
parentec4101e8903e318b9fd4e3bbf72b1eaba53c64e1
timekeeping: Add a fast and NMI safe boot clock

This boot clock can be used as a tracing clock and will account for
suspend time.

To keep it NMI safe since we're accessing from tracing, we're not using a
separate timekeeper with updates to monotonic clock and boot offset
protected with seqlocks. This has the following minor side effects:

(1) Its possible that a timestamp be taken after the boot offset is updated
but before the timekeeper is updated. If this happens, the new boot offset
is added to the old timekeeping making the clock appear to update slightly
earlier:
   CPU 0                                        CPU 1
   timekeeping_inject_sleeptime64()
   __timekeeping_inject_sleeptime(tk, delta);
                                                timestamp();
   timekeeping_update(tk, TK_CLEAR_NTP...);

(2) On 32-bit systems, the 64-bit boot offset (tk->offs_boot) may be
partially updated.  Since the tk->offs_boot update is a rare event, this
should be a rare occurrence which postprocessing should be able to handle.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480372524-15181-6-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
include/linux/timekeeping.h
kernel/time/timekeeping.c