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David Miller
b9f8fcd55b sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
Relax stable-sched-clock architectures to not save/disable/restore
hardirqs in cpu_clock().

The background is that I was trying to resolve a sparc64 perf
issue when I discovered this problem.

On sparc64 I implement pseudo NMIs by simply running the kernel
at IRQ level 14 when local_irq_disable() is called, this allows
performance counter events to still come in at IRQ level 15.

This doesn't work if any code in an NMI handler does
local_irq_save() or local_irq_disable() since the "disable" will
kick us back to cpu IRQ level 14 thus letting NMIs back in and
we recurse.

The only path which that does that in the perf event IRQ
handling path is the code supporting frequency based events.  It
uses cpu_clock().

cpu_clock() simply invokes sched_clock() with IRQs disabled.

And that's a fundamental bug all on it's own, particularly for
the HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK case.  NMIs can thus get into the
sched_clock() code interrupting the local IRQ disable code
sections of it.

Furthermore, for the not-HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK case, the IRQ
disabling done by cpu_clock() is just pure overhead and
completely unnecessary.

So the core problem is that sched_clock() is not NMI safe, but
we are invoking it from NMI contexts in the perf events code
(via cpu_clock()).

A less important issue is the overhead of IRQ disabling when it
isn't necessary in cpu_clock().

CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK architectures are not
affected by this patch.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091213.182502.215092085.davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-15 09:04:36 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
152f9d0710 sched_clock: Fix atomicity/continuity bug by using cmpxchg64()
Commit def0a9b257 (sched_clock: Make it NMI safe) assumed
cmpxchg() of 64bit values was available on X86_32.

That is not so - and causes some subtle scheduler misbehavior due
to incorrect timestamps off to up by ~4 seconds.

Two symptoms are known right now:

 - interactivity problems seen by Arjan: up to 600 msecs
   latencies instead of the expected 20-40 msecs. These
   latencies are very visible on the desktop.

 - incorrect CPU stats: occasionally too high percentages in 'top',
   and crazy CPU usage stats.

Reported-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090930170754.0886ff2e@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-30 22:56:10 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
def0a9b257 sched_clock: Make it NMI safe
Arjan complained about the suckyness of TSC on modern machines, and
asked if we could do something about that for PERF_SAMPLE_TIME.

Make cpu_clock() NMI safe by removing the spinlock and using
cmpxchg. This also makes it smaller and more robust.

Affects architectures that use HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK, i.e. IA64
and x86.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 20:47:30 +02:00
Ron
92d23f703c sched: Fix fallback sched_clock()'s offset when using jiffies
Account for the initial offset to the jiffy count.

[ Impact: fix printk timestamps on architectures using fallback sched_clock() ]

Signed-off-by: Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-09 10:08:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8302294f43 Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus
Conflicts:
	include/linux/slub_def.h
	lib/Kconfig.debug
	mm/slob.c
	mm/slub.c
2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1b49061d40 Merge branch 'sched/clock' into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	kernel/sched_clock.c
2009-02-27 08:35:19 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
8325d9c09d sched_clock: cleanups
- remove superfluous checks in __update_sched_clock()
- skip sched_clock_tick() for sched_clock_stable
- reinstate the simple !HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK code to please the bloatwatch

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 21:56:07 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b342501cd3 sched: allow architectures to specify sched_clock_stable
Allow CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK architectures to still specify
that their sched_clock() implementation is reliable.

This will be used by x86 to switch on a faster sched_clock_cpu()
implementation on certain CPU types.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 21:20:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6409c4da28 sched: sched_clock() improvement: use in_nmi()
make sure we dont execute more complex sched_clock() code in NMI context.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 18:44:05 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
1c5745aa38 sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards, take #2
Redo:

  5b7dba4: sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards

which had to be reverted due to s2ram hangs:

  ca7e716: Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards"

... this time with resume restoring GTOD later in the sequence
taken into account as well.

The "timekeeping_suspended" flag is not very nice but we cannot call into
GTOD before it has been properly resumed and the scheduler will run very
early in the resume sequence.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-31 09:53:21 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
ca7e716c78 Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards"
This reverts commit 5b7dba4ff8, which
caused a regression in hibernate, reported by and bisected by Fabio
Comolli.

This revert fixes

 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12155
 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12149

Bisected-by: Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@gmail.com>
Requested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-14 16:23:17 -08:00
Dave Kleikamp
5b7dba4ff8 sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards
When sched_clock_cpu() couples the clocks between two cpus, it may
increment scd->clock beyond the GTOD tick window that __update_sched_clock()
uses to clamp the clock.  A later call to __update_sched_clock() may move
the clock back to scd->tick_gtod + TICK_NSEC, violating the clock's
monotonic property.

This patch ensures that scd->clock will not be set backward.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-10 11:17:04 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
354879bb97 sched_clock: fix cpu_clock()
This patch fixes 3 issues:

a) it removes the dependency on jiffies, because jiffies are incremented
   by a single CPU, and the tick is not synchronized between CPUs. Therefore
   relying on it to calculate a window to clip whacky TSC values doesn't work
   as it can drift around.

   So instead use [GTOD, GTOD+TICK_NSEC) as the window.

b) __update_sched_clock() did (roughly speaking):

   delta = sched_clock() - scd->tick_raw;
   clock += delta;

   Which gives exponential growth, instead of linear.

c) allows the sched_clock_cpu() value to warp the u64 without breaking.

the results are more reliable sched_clock() deltas:

           before       after   sched_clock

cpu_clock: 15750        51312   51488
cpu_clock: 59719        51052   50947
cpu_clock: 15879        51249   51061
cpu_clock: 1            50933   51198
cpu_clock: 1            50931   51039
cpu_clock: 1            51093   50981
cpu_clock: 1            51043   51040
cpu_clock: 1            50959   50938
cpu_clock: 1            50981   51011
cpu_clock: 1            51364   51212
cpu_clock: 1            51219   51273
cpu_clock: 1            51389   51048
cpu_clock: 1            51285   51611
cpu_clock: 1            50964   51137
cpu_clock: 1            50973   50968
cpu_clock: 1            50967   50972
cpu_clock: 1            58910   58485
cpu_clock: 1            51082   51025
cpu_clock: 1            50957   50958
cpu_clock: 1            50958   50957
cpu_clock: 1006128      51128   50971
cpu_clock: 1            51107   51155
cpu_clock: 1            51371   51081
cpu_clock: 1            51104   51365
cpu_clock: 1            51363   51309
cpu_clock: 1            51107   51160
cpu_clock: 1            51139   51100
cpu_clock: 1            51216   51136
cpu_clock: 1            51207   51215
cpu_clock: 1            51087   51263
cpu_clock: 1            51249   51177
cpu_clock: 1            51519   51412
cpu_clock: 1            51416   51255
cpu_clock: 1            51591   51594
cpu_clock: 1            50966   51374
cpu_clock: 1            50966   50966
cpu_clock: 1            51291   50948
cpu_clock: 1            50973   50867
cpu_clock: 1            50970   50970
cpu_clock: 998306       50970   50971
cpu_clock: 1            50971   50970
cpu_clock: 1            50970   50970
cpu_clock: 1            50971   50971
cpu_clock: 1            50970   50970
cpu_clock: 1            51351   50970
cpu_clock: 1            50970   51352
cpu_clock: 1            50971   50970
cpu_clock: 1            50970   50970
cpu_clock: 1            51321   50971
cpu_clock: 1            50974   51324

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-25 17:39:57 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c1955a3d47 sched_clock: delay using sched_clock()
Some arch's can't handle sched_clock() being called too early - delay
this until sched_clock_init() has been called.

Reported-by: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
CC: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 08:59:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4a273f209c sched clock: couple local and remote clocks
When taking the time of a remote CPU, use the opportunity to
couple (sync) the clocks to each other. (in a monotonic way)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-31 17:21:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
56b906126d sched clock: simplify __update_sched_clock()
- return the current clock instead of letting callers
  fetch it from scd->clock

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-31 17:20:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
18e4e36c66 sched: eliminate scd->prev_raw
eliminate prev_raw and use tick_raw instead.

It's enough to base the current time on the scheduler tick timestamp
alone - the monotonicity and maximum checks will prevent any damage.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-31 17:20:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
50526968e9 sched clock: clean up sched_clock_cpu()
- simplify the remote clock rebasing

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-31 17:20:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e4e4e534fa sched clock: revert various sched_clock() changes
Found an interactivity problem on a quad core test-system - simple
CPU loops would occasionally delay the system un an unacceptable way.

After much debugging with Peter Zijlstra it turned out that the problem
is caused by the string of sched_clock() changes - they caused the CPU
clock to jump backwards a bit - which confuses the scheduler arithmetics.

(which is unsigned for performance reasons)

So revert:

 # c300ba2: sched_clock: and multiplier for TSC to gtod drift
 # c0c8773: sched_clock: only update deltas with local reads.
 # af52a90: sched_clock: stop maximum check on NO HZ
 # f7cce27: sched_clock: widen the max and min time

This solves the interactivity problems.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-31 17:20:29 +02:00
Hugh Dickins
2c3d103ba9 sched: move sched_clock before first use
Move sched_clock() up to stop warning: weak declaration of `sched_clock'
after first use results in unspecified behavior (if -fno-unit-at-a-time).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 16:35:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
361833efac Merge branch 'sched/clock' into sched/devel 2008-07-14 12:19:13 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
c300ba2528 sched_clock: and multiplier for TSC to gtod drift
The sched_clock code currently tries to keep all CPU clocks of all CPUS
somewhat in sync. At every clock tick it records the gtod clock and
uses that and jiffies and the TSC to calculate a CPU clock that tries to
stay in sync with all the other CPUs.

ftrace depends heavily on this timer and it detects when this timer
"jumps".  One problem is that the TSC and the gtod also drift.
When the TSC is 0.1% faster or slower than the gtod it is very noticeable
in ftrace. To help compensate for this, I've added a multiplier that
tries to keep the CPU clock updating at the same rate as the gtod.

I've tried various ways to get it to be in sync and this ended up being
the most reliable. At every scheduler tick we calculate the new multiplier:

  multi = delta_gtod / delta_TSC

This means we perform a 64 bit divide at the tick (once a HZ). A shift
is used to handle the accuracy.

Other methods that failed due to dynamic HZ are:

(not used)  multi += (gtod - tsc) / delta_gtod
(not used)  multi += (gtod - (last_tsc + delta_tsc)) / delta_gtod

as well as other variants.

This code still allows for a slight drift between TSC and gtod, but
it keeps the damage down to a minimum.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 15:53:28 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
a83bc47c33 sched_clock: record TSC after gtod
To read the gtod we need to grab the xtime lock for read. Reading the gtod
before the TSC can cause a bigger gab if the xtime lock is contended.

This patch simply reverses the order to read the TSC after the gtod.
The locking in the reading of the gtod handles any barriers one might
think is needed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 15:53:27 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
c0c87734f1 sched_clock: only update deltas with local reads.
Reading the CPU clock should try to stay accurate within the CPU.
By reading the CPU clock from another CPU and updating the deltas can
cause unneeded jumps when reading from the local CPU.

This patch changes the code to update the last read TSC only when read
from the local CPU.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 15:53:27 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
2b8a0cf489 sched_clock: fix calculation of other CPU
The algorithm to calculate the 'now' of another CPU is not correct.
At each scheduler tick, each CPU records the last sched_clock and
gtod (tick_raw and tick_gtod respectively). If the TSC is somewhat the
same in speed between two clocks the algorithm would be:

  tick_gtod1 + (now1 - tick_raw1) = tick_gtod2 + (now2 - tick_raw2)

To calculate now2 we would have:

  now2 = (tick_gtod1 - tick_gtod2) + (tick_raw2 - tick_raw1) + now1

Currently the algorithm is:

  now2 = (tick_gtod1 - tick_gtod2) + (tick_raw1 - tick_raw2) + now1

This solves most of the rest of the issues I've had with timestamps in
ftace.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 15:53:26 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
af52a90a14 sched_clock: stop maximum check on NO HZ
Working with ftrace I would get large jumps of 11 millisecs or more with
the clock tracer. This killed the latencing timings of ftrace and also
caused the irqoff self tests to fail.

What was happening is with NO_HZ the idle would stop the jiffy counter and
before the jiffy counter was updated the sched_clock would have a bad
delta jiffies to compare with the gtod with the maximum.

The jiffies would stop and the last sched_tick would record the last gtod.
On wakeup, the sched clock update would compare the gtod + delta jiffies
(which would be zero) and compare it to the TSC. The TSC would have
correctly (with a stable TSC) moved forward several jiffies. But because the
jiffies has not been updated yet the clock would be prevented from moving
forward because it would appear that the TSC jumped too far ahead.

The clock would then virtually stop, until the jiffies are updated. Then
the next sched clock update would see that the clock was very much behind
since the delta jiffies is now correct. This would then jump the clock
forward by several jiffies.

This caused ftrace to report several milliseconds of interrupts off
latency at every resume from NO_HZ idle.

This patch adds hooks into the nohz code to disable the checking of the
maximum clock update when nohz is in effect. It resumes the max check
when nohz has updated the jiffies again.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 15:53:26 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
f7cce27f56 sched_clock: widen the max and min time
With keeping the max and min sched time within one jiffy of the gtod clock
was too tight. Just before a schedule tick the max could easily be hit, as
well as just after a schedule_tick the min could be hit. This caused the
clock to jump around by a jiffy.

This patch widens the minimum to
   last gtod + (delta_jiffies ? delta_jiffies - 1 : 0) * TICK_NSECS

and the maximum to
    last gtod + (2 + delta_jiffies) * TICK_NSECS

This keeps the minum to gtod or if one jiffy less than delta jiffies
and the maxim 2 jiffies ahead of gtod. This may cause unstable TSCs to be
a bit more sporadic, but it helps keep a clock with a stable TSC working well.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 15:53:25 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
62c43dd986 sched_clock: record from last tick
The sched_clock code tries to keep within the gtod time by one tick (jiffy).
The current code mistakenly keeps track of the delta jiffies between
updates of the clock, where the the delta is used to compare with the
number of jiffies that have past since an update of the gtod. The gtod is
updated at each schedule tick not each sched_clock update. After one
jiffy passes the clock is updated fine. But the delta is taken from the
last update so if the next update happens before the next tick the delta
jiffies used will be incorrect.

This patch changes the code to check the delta of jiffies between ticks
and not updates to match the comparison of the updates with the gtod.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 15:53:25 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2d452c9b10 sched: sched_clock_cpu() based cpu_clock(), lockdep fix
Vegard Nossum reported:

> WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2738 check_flags+0x142/0x160()

which happens due to:

 unsigned long long cpu_clock(int cpu)
 {
         unsigned long long clock;
         unsigned long flags;

         raw_local_irq_save(flags);

as lower level functions can take locks, we must not do that, use
proper lockdep-annotated irq save/restore.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-29 15:05:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4c9fe8ad81 sched: export cpu_clock
the rcutorture module relies on cpu_clock.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:49:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
76a2a6ee8a sched: sched_clock_cpu() based cpu_clock()
with sched_clock_cpu() being reasonably in sync between cpus (max 1 jiffy
difference) use this to provide cpu_clock().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a381759d6a sched: fix sched_clock_cpu()
Make sched_clock_cpu() return 0 before it has been initialized and avoid
corrupting its state due to doing so.

This fixes the weird printk timestamp jump reported.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-05-29 11:29:19 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
3e51f33fcc sched: add optional support for CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
this replaces the rq->clock stuff (and possibly cpu_clock()).

 - architectures that have an 'imperfect' hardware clock can set
   CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK

 - the 'jiffie' window might be superfulous when we update tick_gtod
   before the __update_sched_clock() call in sched_clock_tick()

 - cpu_clock() might be implemented as:

     sched_clock_cpu(smp_processor_id())

   if the accuracy proves good enough - how far can TSC drift in a
   single jiffie when considering the filtering and idle hooks?

[ mingo@elte.hu: various fixes and cleanups ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-05 23:56:18 +02:00