Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] timekeeping: Introduce fast accessor to clock tai

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, Apr 27 2022 at 11:27, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> >             less-5071    [000] d.h2. 498087876.351330: do_raw_spin_trylock <-_raw_spin_lock
>> >             less-5071    [000] d.h4. 498087876.351334: ktime_get_mono_fast_ns <-ktime_get_tai_fast_ns
>> >             less-5071    [000] d.h5. 498087876.351334: ktime_get_mono_fast_ns <-ktime_get_tai_fast_ns
>> >             less-5071    [000] d.h3. 498087876.351334: rcu_read_lock_sched_held <-lock_acquired
>> >             less-5071    [000] d.h5. 498087876.351337: ktime_get_mono_fast_ns <-ktime_get_tai_fast_ns
>> >     kworker/u8:1-45      [003] d.h7. 1651009380.982749: ktime_get_mono_fast_ns <-ktime_get_tai_fast_ns
>> >     kworker/u8:1-45      [003] d.h7. 1651009380.982749: ktime_get_mono_fast_ns <-ktime_get_tai_fast_ns
>> >     kworker/u8:1-45      [003] d.h5. 1651009380.982749: rcu_read_lock_held_common <-rcu_read_lock_sched_held
>> >     kworker/u8:1-45      [003] d.h7. 498087876.375905: ktime_get_mono_fast_ns <-ktime_get_tai_fast_ns
>> >     kworker/u8:1-45      [003] d.h7. 498087876.375905: ktime_get_mono_fast_ns <-ktime_get_tai_fast_ns
>> >     kworker/u8:1-45      [003] d.h5. 498087876.375905: update_cfs_group <-task_tick_fair
>> >     kworker/u8:1-45      [003] d.h7. 498087876.375909: ktime_get_mono_fast_ns <-ktime_get_tai_fast_ns
>> >
>> > The clock seems to be toggling between 1651009380 and 498087876 causing the
>> > ftrace ring buffer to shutdown (it doesn't allow for time to go backwards).
>> >
>> > This is running on a 32 bit x86.  
>> 
>> Hm. The only problem is that the TAI offset may change. That should only
>> happen if the time is set or similar. For the TSN use case I've ran
>> ptp4l and phc2sys. phc2sys in the default configuration sets the offset
>> hard once and uses frequency adjustments from that point on. I didn't
>> observe any time jumps. Nevertheless, my test systems is based on
>> arm64. I'll do some testing on x86.
>
> I'm able to trigger this on x86 64bit too.
>
> One thing I noticed, is that the two numbers I have (from a different
> trace, but very similar to the above)
>
> $ printf "%llx\n" 498151194674148935
> 6e9c9df4afd3647
>
> $ printf "%llx\n" 1651072699280995911
> 16e9c9df4afd3647

TAI offset after boot is somewhere in this region:

It's 16e9d5dca2e7ac57 here. Converted to ctime:

Wed Apr 27 20:58:02 2022

and that does not change after booting on the VM I'm testing. But then
ftrace suddenly throws this warning:

[  456.444350] Delta way too big! 1152921504606861182
   ts=1651087617720667106 before=498166113113805924
   after=498166113113820130 write stamp=498166113113820130

I first set tai as trace clock and then enabled a trace point. It seems
the first hit on this trace point ended up there.

> That is, the last nibble either is 0 or 1, causing the change?
>
> 06e9c9df4afd3647
> 16e9c9df4afd3647

I added debug into ktime_get_tai_fast_ns() to emit a pr_warn() when
either the TAI offset or the result is less than 1 << 60.

That does not trigger, but ftrace still confuses itself....

There is some mumble about timestamps only requiring 59 bits and the
check which triggers the warning has:

      if (unlikely(info->delta > (1ULL << 59))) {

So something cuts off bit 60 somewhere and then the whole thing goes
into confusion mode.

When I set wall time to something before 1985, it works.

ctime(0x06e9c9df4afd3647/1e9) = Mon Oct 14 16:19:54 1985

Haven't found where ftrace loses the upper bit, but it does so
somewhere.

Thanks,

        tglx