In the dynamic tick code, "max_delta_ns" (member of the "clock_event_device" structure) represents the maximum sleep time that can occur between timer events in nanoseconds. The variable, "max_delta_ns", is defined as an unsigned long which is a 32-bit integer for 32-bit machines and a 64-bit integer for 64-bit machines (if -m64 option is used for gcc). The value of max_delta_ns is set by calling the function "clockevent_delta2ns()" which returns a maximum value of LONG_MAX. For a 32-bit machine LONG_MAX is equal to 0x7fffffff and in nanoseconds this equates to ~2.15 seconds. Hence, the maximum sleep time for a 32-bit machine is ~2.15 seconds, where as for a 64-bit machine it will be many years. This patch changes the type of max_delta_ns to be "u64" instead of "unsigned long" so that this variable is a 64-bit type for both 32-bit and 64-bit machines. It also changes the maximum value returned by clockevent_delta2ns() to KTIME_MAX. Hence this allows a 32-bit machine to sleep for longer than ~2.15 seconds. Please note that this patch also changes "min_delta_ns" to be "u64" too and although this is unnecessary, it makes the patch simpler as it avoids to fixup all callers of clockevent_delta2ns(). [ tglx: changed "unsigned long long" to u64 as we use this data type through out the time code ] Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-3-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hrtimer: Remove overly verbose "switch to high res mode" message
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hrtimer: Eliminate needless reprogramming of clock events device
On big systems, printing <number of CPUs> copies of
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU nnn
clutters up the kernel log for minimal gain. Just get rid of them.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
LKML-Reference: <ada1vlw126s.fsf_-_@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers timers: Add tracepoints for timer_list timers cputime: Optimize jiffies_to_cputime(1) itimers: Simplify arm_timer() code a bit itimers: Fix periodic tics precision itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF Trivial header file include conflicts in kernel/fork.c
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (34 commits) time: Prevent 32 bit overflow with set_normalized_timespec() clocksource: Delay clocksource down rating to late boot clocksource: clocksource_select must be called with mutex locked clocksource: Resolve cpu hotplug dead lock with TSC unstable, fix crash timers: Drop a function prototype clocksource: Resolve cpu hotplug dead lock with TSC unstable timer.c: Fix S/390 comments timekeeping: Fix invalid getboottime() value timekeeping: Fix up read_persistent_clock() breakage on sh timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock(), build fix time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE x86: Do not unregister PIT clocksource on PIT oneshot setup/shutdown clocksource: Avoid clocksource watchdog circular locking dependency clocksource: Protect the watchdog rating changes with clocksource_mutex clocksource: Call clocksource_change_rating() outside of watchdog_lock timekeeping: Introduce read_boot_clock timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock() timekeeping: Update clocksource with stop_machine timekeeping: Add timekeeper read_clock helper functions timekeeping: Move NTP adjusted clock multiplier to struct timekeeper ... Fix trivial conflict due to MIPS lemote -> loongson renaming.
On NOHZ systems the following timers, - tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick (tick_sched_timer) - hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer) are reprogramming the clock events device far more often than needed. No specific test case was required to observe this effect. This occurres because there was no check to see if the currently removed or restarted hrtimer was: 1) the one which previously armed the clock events device. 2) going to be replaced by another timer which has the same expiry time. Avoid the reprogramming in hrtimer_force_reprogram when the new expiry value which is evaluated from the clock bases is equal to cpu_base->expires_next. This results in faster application startup time by ~4%. [ tglx: simplified initial solution ] Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinc@quicinc.com> LKML-Reference: <4AA00165.90609@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add tracepoints which cover the life cycle of a hrtimer. The tracepoints are integrated with the already existing debug_object debug points as far as possible. [ tglx: Fixed comments, made output conistent, easier to read and parse. Fixed output for 32bit archs which do not use the scalar representation of ktime_t. Hand current time to trace_hrtimer_expiry_entry instead of calling get_time() inside of the trace assignment. ] Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A7F8B2B.5020908@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This changes how the pktgen thread spins/waits between packets if delay is configured. It uses a high res timer to wait for time to arrive. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reason: Martin's timekeeping cleanup series depends on both timers/core and mainline changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>