Re: [PATCH] clocksource: Print clocksource name when clocksource is tested unstable

From: Feng Tang
Date: Thu Nov 17 2022 - 01:50:38 EST


On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 04:22:21PM +0800, Yunying Sun wrote:
> Some "TSC fall back to HPET" cases are seen on systems that have more
> than 2 numa nodes. When this happens, in kernel log it has:

Hi Yunying,

If the system's physical sockests number <= 2, I would suggest you to
try the patch https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221021062131.1826810-1-feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx/,
which is still under review and discussion.

Thanks,
Feng

> clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU168: hpet read-back delay of 4296200ns, attempt 4, marking unstable
>
> The "hpet" here is misleading since it prints only the name of watchdog,
> where actually it's measuring the delay of 3 reads: wd-clocksource-wd.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yunying Sun <yunying.sun@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/time/clocksource.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> index 8058bec87ace..fac8c0d90e61 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> @@ -257,8 +257,8 @@ static enum wd_read_status cs_watchdog_read(struct clocksource *cs, u64 *csnow,
> goto skip_test;
> }
>
> - pr_warn("timekeeping watchdog on CPU%d: %s read-back delay of %lldns, attempt %d, marking unstable\n",
> - smp_processor_id(), watchdog->name, wd_delay, nretries);
> + pr_warn("timekeeping watchdog on CPU%d: wd-%s-wd read-back delay of %lldns, attempt %d, marking unstable\n",
> + smp_processor_id(), cs->name, wd_delay, nretries);
> return WD_READ_UNSTABLE;
>
> skip_test:
> --
> 2.17.0
>