From 2619d7e9c92d524cb155ec89fd72875321512e5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Stultz Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 16:07:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] time: Fix timekeeping_freqadjust()'s incorrect use of abs() instead of abs64() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The internal clocksteering done for fine-grained error correction uses a logarithmic approximation, so any time adjtimex() adjusts the clock steering, timekeeping_freqadjust() quickly approximates the correct clock frequency over a series of ticks. Unfortunately, the logic in timekeeping_freqadjust(), introduced in commit: dc491596f639 ("timekeeping: Rework frequency adjustments to work better w/ nohz") used the abs() function with a s64 error value to calculate the size of the approximated adjustment to be made. Per include/linux/kernel.h: "abs() should not be used for 64-bit types (s64, u64, long long) - use abs64()". Thus on 32-bit platforms, this resulted in the clocksteering to take a quite dampended random walk trying to converge on the proper frequency, which caused the adjustments to be made much slower then intended (most easily observed when large adjustments are made). This patch fixes the issue by using abs64() instead. Reported-by: Nuno Gonçalves Tested-by: Nuno Goncalves Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: # v3.17+ Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Miroslav Lichvar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441840051-20244-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c index f6ee2e6b6f5d..3739ac6aa473 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c @@ -1614,7 +1614,7 @@ static __always_inline void timekeeping_freqadjust(struct timekeeper *tk, negative = (tick_error < 0); /* Sort out the magnitude of the correction */ - tick_error = abs(tick_error); + tick_error = abs64(tick_error); for (adj = 0; tick_error > interval; adj++) tick_error >>= 1; -- 2.34.1