From 152f9d0710a62708710161bce1b29fa8292c8c11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:36:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: John Stultz Cc: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <20090930170754.0886ff2e@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed