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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Cochran <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 657414cf2e46..187149be83ea 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -148,6 +148,13 @@ static inline cycle_t timekeeping_get_delta(struct tk_read_base *tkr)
 	/* calculate the delta since the last update_wall_time */
 	delta = clocksource_delta(cycle_now, tkr->cycle_last, tkr->mask);
 
+	/*
+	 * Try to catch underflows by checking if we are seeing small
+	 * mask-relative negative values.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely((~delta & tkr->mask) < (tkr->mask >> 3)))
+		delta = 0;
+
 	/* Cap delta value to the max_cycles values to avoid mult overflows */
 	if (unlikely(delta > tkr->clock->max_cycles))
 		delta = tkr->clock->max_cycles;