From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756568Ab3AHXh2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:37:28 -0500 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]:63491 "EHLO mail.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756171Ab3AHXhY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:37:24 -0500 From: Paul Gortmaker To: , CC: Salman Qazi , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Paul Gortmaker Subject: [v2.6.34-stable 38/77] sched, x86: Avoid unnecessary overflow in sched_clock Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:35:17 -0500 Message-ID: <1357688156-25387-39-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.12.1 In-Reply-To: <1357688156-25387-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> References: <1357688156-25387-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Salman Qazi ------------------- This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. ------------------- commit 4cecf6d401a01d054afc1e5f605bcbfe553cb9b9 upstream. (Added the missing signed-off-by line) In hundreds of days, the __cycles_2_ns calculation in sched_clock has an overflow. cyc * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu) exceeds 64 bits, causing the final value to become zero. We can solve this without losing any precision. We can decompose TSC into quotient and remainder of division by the scale factor, and then use this to convert TSC into nanoseconds. Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi Acked-by: John Stultz Reviewed-by: Paul Turner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111115221121.7262.88871.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h index 5469630..b93a9aa 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h @@ -38,6 +38,22 @@ extern int no_timer_check; * (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca) * * -johnstul@us.ibm.com "math is hard, lets go shopping!" + * + * In: + * + * ns = cycles * cyc2ns_scale / SC + * + * Although we may still have enough bits to store the value of ns, + * in some cases, we may not have enough bits to store cycles * cyc2ns_scale, + * leading to an incorrect result. + * + * To avoid this, we can decompose 'cycles' into quotient and remainder + * of division by SC. Then, + * + * ns = (quot * SC + rem) * cyc2ns_scale / SC + * = quot * cyc2ns_scale + (rem * cyc2ns_scale) / SC + * + * - sqazi@google.com */ DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, cyc2ns); @@ -47,9 +63,14 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long long, cyc2ns_offset); static inline unsigned long long __cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc) { + unsigned long long quot; + unsigned long long rem; int cpu = smp_processor_id(); unsigned long long ns = per_cpu(cyc2ns_offset, cpu); - ns += cyc * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu) >> CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR; + quot = (cyc >> CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR); + rem = cyc & ((1ULL << CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR) - 1); + ns += quot * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu) + + ((rem * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu)) >> CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR); return ns; } -- 1.7.12.1