From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:36:19 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: sched_clock: Fix atomicity/continuity bug by using cmpxchg64()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc3~57^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=152f9d0710a62708710161bce1b29fa8292c8c11;p=pandora-kernel.git

sched_clock: Fix atomicity/continuity bug by using cmpxchg64()

Commit def0a9b2573 (sched_clock: Make it NMI safe) assumed
cmpxchg() of 64bit values was available on X86_32.

That is not so - and causes some subtle scheduler misbehavior due
to incorrect timestamps off to up by ~4 seconds.

Two symptoms are known right now:

 - interactivity problems seen by Arjan: up to 600 msecs
   latencies instead of the expected 20-40 msecs. These
   latencies are very visible on the desktop.

 - incorrect CPU stats: occasionally too high percentages in 'top',
   and crazy CPU usage stats.

Reported-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090930170754.0886ff2e@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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