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The tick_periodic() function is used at the beginning part of the
bootup process for time keeping while the other clock sources are
being initialized.
The current code assumes that all the timer interrupts are handled in
a timely manner with no missing ticks. That is not actually true. Some
ticks are missed and there are some discrepancies between the tick time
(jiffies) and the timestamp reported in the kernel log. Some systems,
however, are more prone to missing ticks than the others. In the extreme
case, the discrepancy can actually cause a soft lockup message to be
printed by the watchdog kthread. For example, on a Cavium ThunderX2
Sabre arm64 system:
[ 25.496379] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#14 stuck for 22s!
On that system, the missing ticks are especially prevalent during the
smp_init() phase of the boot process. With an instrumented kernel,
it was found that it took about 24s as reported by the timestamp for
the tick to accumulate 4s of time.
Investigation and bisection done by others seemed to point to the
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| alarmtimer.c | ||
| clockevents.c | ||
| clocksource.c | ||
| hrtimer.c | ||
| itimer.c | ||
| jiffies.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| namespace.c | ||
| ntp_internal.h | ||
| ntp.c | ||
| posix-clock.c | ||
| posix-cpu-timers.c | ||
| posix-stubs.c | ||
| posix-timers.c | ||
| posix-timers.h | ||
| sched_clock.c | ||
| test_udelay.c | ||
| tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c | ||
| tick-broadcast.c | ||
| tick-common.c | ||
| tick-internal.h | ||
| tick-oneshot.c | ||
| tick-sched.c | ||
| tick-sched.h | ||
| time.c | ||
| timeconst.bc | ||
| timeconv.c | ||
| timecounter.c | ||
| timekeeping_debug.c | ||
| timekeeping_internal.h | ||
| timekeeping.c | ||
| timekeeping.h | ||
| timer_list.c | ||
| timer.c | ||
| vsyscall.c | ||