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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2008-01-30 07:30:02 -0500
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2008-04-17 06:22:31 -0400
commit6993fc5bbc5d63ccd55985b39c34417e430e75e9 (patch)
tree6a1ea13d3f27a8063a9375689b729479c4e63e22
parent3833eecc183ce052e9ac96b39b45121a2d11ac16 (diff)
clocksource: make clocksource watchdog cycle through online CPUs
This way it checks if the clocks are synchronized between CPUs too. This might be able to detect slowly drifting TSCs which only go wrong over longer time. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/clocksource.c18
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index 7f60097d443a..912156dd6005 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -141,8 +141,16 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data)
141 } 141 }
142 142
143 if (!list_empty(&watchdog_list)) { 143 if (!list_empty(&watchdog_list)) {
144 __mod_timer(&watchdog_timer, 144 /*
145 watchdog_timer.expires + WATCHDOG_INTERVAL); 145 * Cycle through CPUs to check if the CPUs stay
146 * synchronized to each other.
147 */
148 int next_cpu = next_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_map);
149
150 if (next_cpu >= NR_CPUS)
151 next_cpu = first_cpu(cpu_online_map);
152 watchdog_timer.expires += WATCHDOG_INTERVAL;
153 add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer, next_cpu);
146 } 154 }
147 spin_unlock(&watchdog_lock); 155 spin_unlock(&watchdog_lock);
148} 156}
@@ -164,7 +172,8 @@ static void clocksource_check_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs)
164 if (!started && watchdog) { 172 if (!started && watchdog) {
165 watchdog_last = watchdog->read(); 173 watchdog_last = watchdog->read();
166 watchdog_timer.expires = jiffies + WATCHDOG_INTERVAL; 174 watchdog_timer.expires = jiffies + WATCHDOG_INTERVAL;
167 add_timer(&watchdog_timer); 175 add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer,
176 first_cpu(cpu_online_map));
168 } 177 }
169 } else { 178 } else {
170 if (cs->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS) 179 if (cs->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS)
@@ -185,7 +194,8 @@ static void clocksource_check_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs)
185 watchdog_last = watchdog->read(); 194 watchdog_last = watchdog->read();
186 watchdog_timer.expires = 195 watchdog_timer.expires =
187 jiffies + WATCHDOG_INTERVAL; 196 jiffies + WATCHDOG_INTERVAL;
188 add_timer(&watchdog_timer); 197 add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer,
198 first_cpu(cpu_online_map));
189 } 199 }
190 } 200 }
191 } 201 }