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    timekeeping: Fix __ktime_get_fast_ns() regression · 58bfea95
    John Stultz authored
    In commit 27727df2 ("Avoid taking lock in NMI path with
    CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"), I changed the logic to open-code
    the timekeeping_get_ns() function, but I forgot to include
    the unit conversion from cycles to nanoseconds, breaking the
    function's output, which impacts users like perf.
    
    This results in bogus perf timestamps like:
     swapper     0 [000]   253.427536:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]   254.426573:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]   254.426687:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]   254.426800:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]   254.426905:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]   254.427022:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]   254.427127:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]   254.427239:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]   254.427346:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]   254.427463:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]   255.426572:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
    
    Instead of more reasonable expected timestamps like:
     swapper     0 [000]    39.953768:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]    40.064839:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]    40.175956:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]    40.287103:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]    40.398217:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]    40.509324:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]    40.620437:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]    40.731546:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]    40.842654:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]    40.953772:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
     swapper     0 [000]    41.064881:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
    
    Add the proper use of timekeeping_delta_to_ns() to convert
    the cycle delta to nanoseconds as needed.
    
    Thanks to Brendan and Alexei for finding this quickly after
    the v4.8 release. Unfortunately the problematic commit has
    landed in some -stable trees so they'll need this fix as
    well.
    
    Many apologies for this mistake. I'll be looking to add a
    perf-clock sanity test to the kselftest timers tests soon.
    
    Fixes: 27727df2
    
     "timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"
    Reported-by: default avatarBrendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
    Tested-and-reviewed-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475636148-26539-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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