[Vivid][PATCH 1/2] kernel/sched/clock.c: add another clock for use with the soft lockup watchdog

[Chris J Arges]

From: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1427075

When the hypervisor pauses a virtualised kernel the kernel will observe a
jump in timebase, this can cause spurious messages from the softlockup
detector.

Whilst these messages are harmless, they are accompanied with a stack
trace which causes undue concern and more problematically the stack trace
in the guest has nothing to do with the observed problem and can only be
misleading.

Futhermore, on POWER8 this is completely avoidable with the introduction
of the Virtual Time Base (VTB) register.

This patch (of 2):

This permits the use of arch specific clocks for which virtualised kernels
can use their notion of 'running' time, not the elpased wall time which
will include host execution time.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus at redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe at redhat.com>
Cc: chai wen <chaiw.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf at skynet.be>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin at redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Zhang <benzh at chromium.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 545a2bf742fb41f17d03486dd8a8c74ad511dec2)
Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |  1 +
 kernel/sched/clock.c  | 13 +++++++++++++
 kernel/watchdog.c     |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 8db31ef..e400162 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2145,6 +2145,7 @@ extern unsigned long long notrace sched_clock(void);
  */
 extern u64 cpu_clock(int cpu);
 extern u64 local_clock(void);
+extern u64 running_clock(void);
 extern u64 sched_clock_cpu(int cpu);
 
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/clock.c b/kernel/sched/clock.c
index c27e4f8..c0a2051 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/clock.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/clock.c
@@ -420,3 +420,16 @@ u64 local_clock(void)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_clock);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(local_clock);
+
+/*
+ * Running clock - returns the time that has elapsed while a guest has been
+ * running.
+ * On a guest this value should be local_clock minus the time the guest was
+ * suspended by the hypervisor (for any reason).
+ * On bare metal this function should return the same as local_clock.
+ * Architectures and sub-architectures can override this.
+ */
+u64 __weak running_clock(void)
+{
+	return local_clock();
+}
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 70bf118..3174bf8 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static int get_softlockup_thresh(void)
  */
 static unsigned long get_timestamp(void)
 {
-	return local_clock() >> 30LL;  /* 2^30 ~= 10^9 */
+	return running_clock() >> 30LL;  /* 2^30 ~= 10^9 */
 }
 
 static void set_sample_period(void)
-- 
1.9.1