Vincent Guittot
15efb47dc5
A deadlock has been seen when swicthing clocksources which use
PM-runtime. The call path is:
change_clocksource
...
write_seqcount_begin
...
timekeeping_update
...
sh_cmt_clocksource_enable
...
rpm_resume
pm_runtime_mark_last_busy
ktime_get
do
read_seqcount_begin
while read_seqcount_retry
....
write_seqcount_end
Although we should be safe because we haven't yet changed the
clocksource at that time, we can't do that because of seqcount
protection.
Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() instead which is lock safe for such
cases.
With ktime_get_mono_fast_ns, the timestamp is not guaranteed to be
monotonic across an update and as a result can goes backward.
According to update_fast_timekeeper() description: "In the worst
case, this can result is a slightly wrong timestamp (a few
nanoseconds)". For PM-runtime autosuspend, this means only that
the suspend decision may be slightly suboptimal.
Fixes: 8234f6734c ("PM-runtime: Switch autosuspend over to using hrtimers")
Reported-by: Biju Das <biju.das@bp.renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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