Fix: work-around upstream Linux timekeeping bug
authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Wed, 5 Oct 2016 11:20:32 +0000 (07:20 -0400)
committerMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Wed, 5 Oct 2016 11:30:21 +0000 (07:30 -0400)
commit95678343cec9739f31cca5fd69e7ede74b2725a4
tree9f160fe601870fce38374a808dbfbe0149e49b7a
parent17e9b7422249cdeae24f4717ad4e198dad76d5a7
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>
wrapper/trace-clock.h
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