Fix: work-around upstream Linux timekeeping bug
Linux commit
27727df240c7 ("Avoid taking lock in NMI path with
CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"), changed the logic to open-code
the timekeeping_get_ns() function, but forgot to include
the unit conversion from cycles to nanoseconds, breaking the
function's output, which impacts LTTng.
The following kernel versions are affected: 4.8, 4.7.4+, 4.4.20+,
4.1.32+
We expect that the upstream fix will reach the master and stable
branches timely before the next releases, so we use 4.8.1, 4.7.7,
4.4.24, and 4.1.34 as upper bounds (exclusive).
Fall-back to the non-NMI-safe trace clock for those kernel versions.
We simply discard events from NMI context with a in_nmi() check,
as we did before Linux 3.17.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475636148-26539-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>