From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 01/11] timekeeping: move multigrain timestamp floor handling into timekeeper
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:16:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878qv90x6w.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b300fec8b6f611662195e0339f290d473a41607c.camel@kernel.org>
On Mon, Sep 16 2024 at 06:57, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-09-16 at 12:32 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> > 'Something has changed' is a truly understandable technical
>> > explanation.
>>
>> old = mg_floor
>> mono = T1;
>> mg_floor = mono
>> preemption
>>
>> do {
>> mono = T2;
>> }
>>
>> cmpxchg fails and the function returns a value based on T1
>>
>> No?
>>
>>
>
> Packing for LPC, so I can't respond to all of these just now, but I
> will later. You're correct, but either outcome is OK.
>
> The requirement is that we don't hand out any values that were below
> the floor at the time that the task entered the kernel. Since the time
> changed while the task was already inside the kernel, either T1 or T2
> would be valid timestamps.
That really needs to be documented. A similar scenario exists
vs. ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64_mg().
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-30 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-14 17:07 [PATCH v8 00/11] fs: multigrain timestamp redux Jeff Layton
2024-09-14 17:07 ` [PATCH v8 01/11] timekeeping: move multigrain timestamp floor handling into timekeeper Jeff Layton
2024-09-14 20:10 ` John Stultz
2024-09-14 23:14 ` Jeff Layton
2024-09-16 10:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-09-16 10:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-09-16 10:57 ` Jeff Layton
2024-09-30 19:16 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2024-09-30 19:37 ` Jeff Layton
2024-09-30 20:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-09-30 20:53 ` Jeff Layton
2024-09-30 21:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-10-01 9:45 ` Jeff Layton
2024-10-01 12:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-10-02 12:41 ` Jeff Layton
2024-09-19 16:50 ` Jeff Layton
2024-09-30 19:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-09-30 20:12 ` Jeff Layton
2024-09-30 19:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-09-30 19:27 ` Jeff Layton
2024-09-30 20:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-09-14 17:07 ` [PATCH v8 02/11] fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps Jeff Layton
2024-09-14 17:07 ` [PATCH v8 03/11] fs: have setattr_copy handle multigrain timestamps appropriately Jeff Layton
2024-09-14 17:07 ` [PATCH v8 04/11] fs: handle delegated timestamps in setattr_copy_mgtime Jeff Layton
2024-09-14 17:07 ` [PATCH v8 05/11] fs: tracepoints around multigrain timestamp events Jeff Layton
2024-09-15 8:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-09-14 17:07 ` [PATCH v8 06/11] fs: add percpu counters for significant " Jeff Layton
2024-09-16 10:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-09-17 8:10 ` kernel test robot
2024-09-14 17:07 ` [PATCH v8 07/11] Documentation: add a new file documenting multigrain timestamps Jeff Layton
2024-09-16 1:01 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2024-09-19 16:53 ` Jeff Layton
2024-09-14 17:07 ` [PATCH v8 08/11] xfs: switch to " Jeff Layton
2024-09-14 17:07 ` [PATCH v8 09/11] ext4: " Jeff Layton
2024-09-14 17:07 ` [PATCH v8 10/11] btrfs: convert " Jeff Layton
2024-09-14 17:07 ` [PATCH v8 11/11] tmpfs: add support for " Jeff Layton
2024-09-26 16:59 ` [PATCH v8 00/11] fs: multigrain timestamp redux Randy Dunlap
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