The conversion of x86 VDSO to the generic clock mode storage broke the paravirt and hyperv clocksource logic. These clock sources have their own internal sequence counter to validate the clocksource at the point of reading it. This is necessary because the hypervisor can invalidate the clocksource asynchronously so a check during the VDSO data update is not sufficient. If the internal check during read invalidates the clocksource the read return U64_MAX. The original code checked this efficiently by testing whether the result (casted to signed) is negative, i.e. bit 63 is set. This was done that way because an extra indicator for the validity had more overhead.
The conversion broke this check because the check was replaced by a check for a valid VDSO clock mode.
The wreckage manifests itself when the paravirt clock is installed as a valid VDSO clock and during runtime invalidated by the hypervisor, e.g. after a host suspend/resume cycle. After the invalidation the read function returns U64_MAX which is used as cycles and makes the clock jump by ~2200 seconds, and become stale until the 2200 seconds have elapsed where it starts to jump again. The period of this effect depends on the shift/mult pair of the clocksource and the jumps and staleness are an artifact of undefined but reproducible behaviour of math overflow.
Implement an x86 version of the new vdso_cycles_ok() inline which adds this check back and a variant of vdso_clocksource_ok() which lets the compiler optimize it out to avoid the extra conditional. That's suboptimal when the system does not have a VDSO capable clocksource, but that's not the case which is optimized for.
Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi miklos@szeredi.hu Fixes: 5d51bee725cc ("clocksource: Add common vdso clock mode storage") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h @@ -271,6 +271,24 @@ static __always_inline const struct vdso return __vdso_data; }
+static inline bool arch_vdso_clocksource_ok(const struct vdso_data *vd) +{ + return true; +} +#define vdso_clocksource_ok arch_vdso_clocksource_ok + +/* + * Clocksource read value validation to handle PV and HyperV clocksources + * which can be invalidated asynchronously and indicate invalidation by + * returning U64_MAX, which can be effectively tested by checking for a + * negative value after casting it to s64. + */ +static inline bool arch_vdso_cycles_ok(u64 cycles) +{ + return (s64)cycles >= 0; +} +#define vdso_cycles_ok arch_vdso_cycles_ok + /* * x86 specific delta calculation. *