Re: 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 17:35 -0700, john stultz wrote:
> 
> Peter/Ingo: Can you take a look at the above and let me know if you find
> it too disagreeable?

+static unsigned long long __cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc)
+{
+       unsigned long long ns = 0;
+       struct x86_sched_clock_data *data;
+       int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+       rcu_read_lock();
+       data = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(cpu_sched_clock_data, cpu));
+
+       if (unlikely(!data))
+               goto out;
+
+       ns = ((cyc - data->base_cycles) * data->mult) >> CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR;
+       ns += data->accumulated_ns;
+out:
+       rcu_read_unlock();
+       return ns;
+}

The way I read that we're still not wrapping properly if freq scaling
'never' happens.

Because then we're wrapping on accumulated_ns + 2^54.

Something like resetting base, and adding ns to accumulated_ns and
returning the latter would make more sense.