From 58d4e21e50ff3cc57910a8abc20d7e14375d2f61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Luck Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:43:01 -0700 Subject: tracing: Fix wraparound problems in "uptime" trace clock The "uptime" trace clock added in: commit 8aacf017b065a805d27467843490c976835eb4a5 tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies has wraparound problems when the system has been up more than 1 hour 11 minutes and 34 seconds. It converts jiffies to nanoseconds using: (u64)jiffies_to_usecs(jiffy) * 1000ULL but since jiffies_to_usecs() only returns a 32-bit value, it truncates at 2^32 microseconds. An additional problem on 32-bit systems is that the argument is "unsigned long", so fixing the return value only helps until 2^32 jiffies (49.7 days on a HZ=1000 system). Avoid these problems by using jiffies_64 as our basis, and not converting to nanoseconds (we do convert to clock_t because user facing API must not be dependent on internal kernel HZ values). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/99d63c5bfe9b320a3b428d773825a37095bf6a51.1405708254.git.tony.luck@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+ Fixes: 8aacf017b065 "tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies" Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace_clock.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace_clock.c') diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c b/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c index 26dc348332b7..57b67b1f24d1 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c @@ -59,13 +59,14 @@ u64 notrace trace_clock(void) /* * trace_jiffy_clock(): Simply use jiffies as a clock counter. + * Note that this use of jiffies_64 is not completely safe on + * 32-bit systems. But the window is tiny, and the effect if + * we are affected is that we will have an obviously bogus + * timestamp on a trace event - i.e. not life threatening. */ u64 notrace trace_clock_jiffies(void) { - u64 jiffy = jiffies - INITIAL_JIFFIES; - - /* Return nsecs */ - return (u64)jiffies_to_usecs(jiffy) * 1000ULL; + return jiffies_64_to_clock_t(jiffies_64 - INITIAL_JIFFIES); } /* -- cgit v1.2.3