timekeeping: Try to catch clocksource delta underflows
authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:16:34 +0000 (21:16 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:07:05 +0000 (08:07 +0100)
commit057b87e3161d1194a095718f9918c01b2c389e74
tree8f6b79b5f9d6c12b8a53148e04961081eb9f3243
parenta558cd021d83b65c47ee5b9bec1fcfe5298a769f
timekeeping: Try to catch clocksource delta underflows

In the case where there is a broken clocksource
where there are multiple actual clocks that
aren't perfectly aligned, we may see small "negative"
deltas when we subtract 'now' from 'cycle_last'.

The values are actually negative with respect to the
clocksource mask value, not necessarily negative
if cast to a s64, but we can check by checking the
delta to see if it is a small (relative to the mask)
negative value (again negative relative to the mask).

If so, we assume we jumped backwards somehow and
instead use zero for our delta.

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/1426133800-29329-7-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/time/timekeeping.c