From 3c17ad19f0697ffe5ef7438cdafc2d2b7757d8a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Stultz Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:16:32 -0700 Subject: timekeeping: Add debugging checks to warn if we see delays Recently there's been requests for better sanity checking in the time code, so that it's more clear when something is going wrong, since timekeeping issues could manifest in a large number of strange ways in various subsystems. Thus, this patch adds some extra infrastructure to add a check to update_wall_time() to print two new warnings: 1) if we see the call delayed beyond the 'max_cycles' overflow point, 2) or if we see the call delayed beyond the clocksource's 'max_idle_ns' value, which is currently 50% of the overflow point. This extra infrastructure is conditional on a new CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING option, also added in this patch - default off. Tested this a bit by halting qemu for specified lengths of time to trigger the warnings. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Stephen Boyd Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org [ Improved the changelog and the messages a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug') diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index c5cefb3c009c..36b6fa88ce5b 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -865,6 +865,19 @@ config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. +config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING + bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" + help + This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks + which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping + problems are suspected. + + This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this + option may have a (very small) performance impact to some + workloads. + + If unsure, say N. + config TIMER_STATS bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS -- cgit v1.2.3