clocksource: Handle negative skews in "skew is too large" messages
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Wed, 7 Jun 2023 18:59:49 +0000 (11:59 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 22:17:09 +0000 (15:17 -0700)
The nanosecond-to-millisecond skew computation uses unsigned arithmetic,
which produces user-unfriendly large positive numbers for negative skews.
Therefore, use signed arithmetic for this computation in order to preserve
the negativity.

Reported-by: Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Fixes: dd029269947a ("clocksource: Improve "skew is too large" messages")
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
kernel/time/clocksource.c

index 88cbc11..c108ed8 100644 (file)
@@ -473,8 +473,8 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(struct timer_list *unused)
                /* Check the deviation from the watchdog clocksource. */
                md = cs->uncertainty_margin + watchdog->uncertainty_margin;
                if (abs(cs_nsec - wd_nsec) > md) {
-                       u64 cs_wd_msec;
-                       u64 wd_msec;
+                       s64 cs_wd_msec;
+                       s64 wd_msec;
                        u32 wd_rem;
 
                        pr_warn("timekeeping watchdog on CPU%d: Marking clocksource '%s' as unstable because the skew is too large:\n",
@@ -483,8 +483,8 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(struct timer_list *unused)
                                watchdog->name, wd_nsec, wdnow, wdlast, watchdog->mask);
                        pr_warn("                      '%s' cs_nsec: %lld cs_now: %llx cs_last: %llx mask: %llx\n",
                                cs->name, cs_nsec, csnow, cslast, cs->mask);
-                       cs_wd_msec = div_u64_rem(cs_nsec - wd_nsec, 1000U * 1000U, &wd_rem);
-                       wd_msec = div_u64_rem(wd_nsec, 1000U * 1000U, &wd_rem);
+                       cs_wd_msec = div_s64_rem(cs_nsec - wd_nsec, 1000 * 1000, &wd_rem);
+                       wd_msec = div_s64_rem(wd_nsec, 1000 * 1000, &wd_rem);
                        pr_warn("                      Clocksource '%s' skewed %lld ns (%lld ms) over watchdog '%s' interval of %lld ns (%lld ms)\n",
                                cs->name, cs_nsec - wd_nsec, cs_wd_msec, watchdog->name, wd_nsec, wd_msec);
                        if (curr_clocksource == cs)