[PATCH 06/15] sched, net: Fixup busy_loop_us_clock()

[Peter Zijlstra]

The only valid use of preempt_enable_no_resched() is if the very next
line is schedule() or if we know preemption cannot actually be enabled
by that statement due to known more preempt_count 'refs'.

This busy_poll stuff looks to be completely and utterly broken,
sched_clock() can return utter garbage with interrupts enabled (rare
but still) and it can drift unbounded between CPUs.

This means that if you get preempted/migrated and your new CPU is
years behind on the previous CPU we get to busy spin for a _very_ long
time.

There is a _REASON_ sched_clock() warns about preemptability -
papering over it with a preempt_disable()/preempt_enable_no_resched()
is just terminal brain damage on so many levels.

Replace sched_clock() usage with local_clock() which has a bounded
drift between CPUs (<2 jiffies).

There is a further problem with the entire busy wait poll thing in
that the spin time is additive to the syscall timeout, not inclusive.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: hpa@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: lenb@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/net/busy_poll.h |   19 +------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-)

--- a/include/net/busy_poll.h
+++ b/include/net/busy_poll.h
@@ -42,27 +42,10 @@ static inline bool net_busy_loop_on(void
 	return sysctl_net_busy_poll;
 }
 
-/* a wrapper to make debug_smp_processor_id() happy
- * we can use sched_clock() because we don't care much about precision
- * we only care that the average is bounded
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
 static inline u64 busy_loop_us_clock(void)
 {
-	u64 rc;
-
-	preempt_disable_notrace();
-	rc = sched_clock();
-	preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
-
-	return rc >> 10;
-}
-#else /* CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT */
-static inline u64 busy_loop_us_clock(void)
-{
-	return sched_clock() >> 10;
+	return local_clock() >> 10;
 }
-#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT */
 
 static inline unsigned long sk_busy_loop_end_time(struct sock *sk)
 {


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