From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>,
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>,
Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/28] kernel: Define gettimeofday vdso common code
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:05:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190213170543.GF6346@brain-police> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190213170544.S64jzP1tAg2nSa4t6u7_HqS47jUPTZpvt2wXY_nwKS8@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1902081950260.1662@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Hi Thomas,
On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 08:28:07PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2019, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 05:53:21PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > Anyway, moving the counter read into the protected region is a little fiddly
> > > because the memory barriers we have in there won't give us the ordering we
> > > need. We'll instead need to do something nasty, like create a dependency
> > > from the counter read to the read of the seqlock:
> > >
> > > Maybe the untested crufty hack below, although this will be a nightmare to
> > > implement in C.
> >
> > We discussed this in person this week, but you couldn't recall the details
> > off the top of your head so I'm replying here. Please could you clarify what
> > your concern was with the existing code, and whether or not I've got the
> > wrong end of the stick?
>
> If you just collect the variables under the seqcount protection and have
> the readout of the timer outside of it then you are not guaranteeing
> consistent state.
>
> The problem is:
>
> do {
> seq = read_seqcount_begin(d->seq);
> last = d->cycle_last;
> mult = d->mult;
> shift = d->shift;
> ns = d->ns_base;
> while (read_seqcount_retry(d->seq, seq));
>
> ns += ((read_clock() - last) * mult);
> ns >>= shift;
>
> So on the first glance this looks consistent because you collect all data
> and then do the read and calc outside the loop.
>
> But if 'd->mult' gets updated _before_ read_clock() then you can run into a
> situation where time goes backwards with the next read.
>
> Here is the flow you need for that:
>
> t1 = gettime()
> {
> collect_data()
>
> ---> Interrupt, updates mult (mult becomes smaller)
>
> This can expand over a very long time when the task is scheduled
> out here and there are multiple updates in between. The farther
> out the read is delayed, the more likely the problem is going to
> observable.
>
> read_clock_and_calc()
> }
>
> t2 = gettime()
> {
> collect_data()
> read_clock_and_calc()
> }
>
> This second read uses updated data, i.e. the smaller mult. So depending on
> the distance of the two reads and the difference of the mult, the caller
> can observe t2 < t1, which is a NONO. You can observe it on a single
> CPU. No virt, SMP, migration needed at all.
Thank you for this explanation, I agree that we have a bug here (and have
done since day 1 on arm64!). I've replied separately on ktime_get().
Will
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Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-29 17:05 [PATCH v2 00/28] Unify vDSOs across more architectures Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 01/28] kernel: Standardize vdso_datapage Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 22:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-29 22:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-12-11 13:22 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-12-11 13:22 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 02/28] kernel: Add Monotonic boot time support Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 03/28] kernel: Add International Atomic Time support Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 04/28] kernel: Add masks support for Raw and NTP time Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 22:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-29 22:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-12-11 13:24 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-12-11 13:24 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 05/28] kernel: Add clock_mode support Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 06/28] kernel: Define gettimeofday vdso common code Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 20:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-29 20:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-12-11 13:39 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-12-11 13:39 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-12-11 21:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-12-11 21:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-12-13 9:46 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-12-13 9:46 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 22:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-29 22:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-30 14:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-30 14:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-12-11 14:02 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-12-11 14:02 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-12-07 17:53 ` Will Deacon
2018-12-07 17:53 ` Will Deacon
2019-02-08 17:35 ` Will Deacon
2019-02-08 17:35 ` Will Deacon
2019-02-08 19:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-08 19:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-08 19:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-08 19:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-13 17:04 ` Will Deacon
2019-02-13 17:04 ` Will Deacon
2019-02-13 19:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-13 19:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-13 17:05 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2019-02-13 17:05 ` Will Deacon
2018-12-11 13:54 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-12-11 13:54 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 07/28] arm64: Build vDSO with -ffixed-x18 Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 08/28] arm64: Substitute gettimeofday with C implementation Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 09/28] arm64: compat: Alloc separate pages for vectors and sigpage Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 10/28] arm64: compat: Split kuser32 Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 11/28] arm64: compat: Refactor aarch32_alloc_vdso_pages() Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 12/28] arm64: compat: Add KUSER_HELPERS config option Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 13/28] arm64: compat: Add missing syscall numbers Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 14/28] arm64: compat: Expose signal related structures Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 15/28] arm64: compat: Generate asm offsets for signals Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 16/28] lib: vdso: Add compat support Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 17/28] arm64: compat: Add vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 18/28] arm64: Refactor vDSO code Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 19/28] arm64: compat: vDSO setup for compat layer Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 20/28] arm64: elf: vDSO code page discovery Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 21/28] arm64: compat: Get sigreturn trampolines from vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 22/28] arm64: Add vDSO compat support Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 23/28] arm64: Enable compat vDSO support Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 24/28] arm: Add support for generic vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-12-10 22:13 ` Mark Salyzyn
2018-12-10 22:13 ` Mark Salyzyn
2018-12-11 14:15 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-12-11 14:15 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 25/28] mips: Introduce vdso_direct Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 26/28] clock: csrc-4k: Add support for vdso_direct Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 27/28] clock: gic-timer: " Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 28/28] mips: Add support for generic vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2018-11-29 17:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
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