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    Subject[PATCH v10 clocksource 0/7] Do not mark clocks unstable due to delays for v5.13
    Hello!

    If there is a sufficient delay between reading the watchdog clock and the
    clock under test, the clock under test will be marked unstable through no
    fault of its own. This series checks for this, doing limited retries
    to get a good set of clock reads. If the clock is marked unstable
    and is marked as being per-CPU, cross-CPU synchronization is checked.
    This series also provides delay injection, which may be enabled via
    kernel boot parameters to test the checking for delays.

    Note that "sufficient delay" can be provided by SMIs, NMIs, and of course
    vCPU preemption.

    1. Provide module parameters to inject delays in watchdog.

    2. Retry clock read if long delays detected.

    3. Check per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable.

    4. Provide a module parameter to fuzz per-CPU clock checking.

    5. Limit number of CPUs checked for clock synchronization.

    6. Forgive tsc_early pre-calibration drift.

    7. Reduce the clock-skew limit to 200us and the maximum permissible
    clock read delay to 50us.

    Changes since v9:

    o Forgive tsc_early drift, based on feedback from Feng Tang; Xing,
    Zhengjun; and Thomas Gleixner.

    o Improve CPU selection for clock-synchronization checking.

    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210419045155.GA596058@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1/

    Changes since v8, based on Thomas Gleixner feedback:

    o Reduced clock-skew threshold to 200us and delay limit to 50us.

    o Split out a cs_watchdog_read() function.

    o Removed the pointless CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU from kvm_clock.

    o Initialized cs_nsec_max and cs_nsec_min to avoid firsttime checks.

    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210414043435.GA2812539@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1/

    Changes since v7, based on Thomas Gleixner feedback:

    o Fix embarrassing git-format-patch operator error.

    o Merge pairwise clock-desynchronization checking into the checking
    of per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable.

    o Do selective per-CPU checking rather than blindly checking all
    CPUs. Provide a clocksource.verify_n_cpus kernel boot parameter
    to control this behavior, with the value -1 choosing the old
    check-all-CPUs behavior. The default is to randomly check 8 CPUs.

    o Fix the clock-desynchronization checking to avoid a potential
    use-after-free error for dynamically allocated clocksource
    structures.

    o Remove redundance "wdagain_nsec < 0" from clocksource_watchdog()
    clocksource skew checking.

    o Update commit logs and do code-style updates.

    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210106004013.GA11179@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/

    Changes since v5:

    o Rebased to v5.12-rc5.

    Changes since v4:

    o Rebased to v5.12-rc1.

    Changes since v3:

    o Rebased to v5.11.

    o Apply Randy Dunlap feedback.

    Changes since v2:

    o Rebased to v5.11-rc6.

    o Updated Cc: list.

    Changes since v1:

    o Applied feedback from Rik van Riel.

    o Rebased to v5.11-rc3.

    o Stripped "RFC" from the subject lines.

    Thanx, Paul

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 32 +++
    b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 +
    b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 3
    b/include/linux/clocksource.h | 2
    b/kernel/time/clocksource.c | 23 ++
    kernel/time/clocksource.c | 201 ++++++++++++++++++++--
    6 files changed, 263 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

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