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clocksource: make clocksource watchdog cycle through online CPUs

This way it checks if the clocks are synchronized between CPUs too.
This might be able to detect slowly drifting TSCs which only
go wrong over longer time.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Andi Kleen 17 years ago
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6993fc5bbc
1 changed files with 14 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 14 4
      kernel/time/clocksource.c

+ 14 - 4
kernel/time/clocksource.c

@@ -141,8 +141,16 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data)
 	}
 
 	if (!list_empty(&watchdog_list)) {
-		__mod_timer(&watchdog_timer,
-			    watchdog_timer.expires + WATCHDOG_INTERVAL);
+		/*
+		 * Cycle through CPUs to check if the CPUs stay
+		 * synchronized to each other.
+		 */
+		int next_cpu = next_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_map);
+
+		if (next_cpu >= NR_CPUS)
+			next_cpu = first_cpu(cpu_online_map);
+		watchdog_timer.expires += WATCHDOG_INTERVAL;
+		add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer, next_cpu);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&watchdog_lock);
 }
@@ -164,7 +172,8 @@ static void clocksource_check_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs)
 		if (!started && watchdog) {
 			watchdog_last = watchdog->read();
 			watchdog_timer.expires = jiffies + WATCHDOG_INTERVAL;
-			add_timer(&watchdog_timer);
+			add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer,
+				     first_cpu(cpu_online_map));
 		}
 	} else {
 		if (cs->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS)
@@ -185,7 +194,8 @@ static void clocksource_check_watchdog(struct clocksource *cs)
 				watchdog_last = watchdog->read();
 				watchdog_timer.expires =
 					jiffies + WATCHDOG_INTERVAL;
-				add_timer(&watchdog_timer);
+				add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer,
+					     first_cpu(cpu_online_map));
 			}
 		}
 	}