timekeeping: Add debugging checks to warn if we see delays

Recently there's been requests for better sanity
checking in the time code, so that it's more clear
when something is going wrong, since timekeeping issues
could manifest in a large number of strange ways in
various subsystems.

Thus, this patch adds some extra infrastructure to
add a check to update_wall_time() to print two new
warnings:

 1) if we see the call delayed beyond the 'max_cycles'
    overflow point,

 2) or if we see the call delayed beyond the clocksource's
    'max_idle_ns' value, which is currently 50% of the
    overflow point.

This extra infrastructure is conditional on
a new CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING option, also
added in this patch - default off.

Tested this a bit by halting qemu for specified
lengths of time to trigger the warnings.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
[ Improved the changelog and the messages a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index c5cefb3c009c..36b6fa88ce5b 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -865,6 +865,19 @@ config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
           data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
           is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
 
+config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
+        bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
+        help
+          This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
+          which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
+          problems are suspected.
+
+          This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
+          option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
+          workloads.
+
+          If unsure, say N.
+
 config TIMER_STATS
         bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS