If the clock becomes unstable while we're reading it, we need to
bail. We can do this by simply moving the check into the seqcount
loop.
Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
---
Marcelo, how's this?
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
index 8602f06c759f..1a50e09c945b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -126,23 +126,23 @@ static notrace cycle_t vread_pvclock(int *mode)
*
* On Xen, we don't appear to have that guarantee, but Xen still
* supplies a valid seqlock using the version field.
-
+ *
* We only do pvclock vdso timing at all if
* PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT is set, and we interpret that bit to
* mean that all vCPUs have matching pvti and that the TSC is
* synced, so we can just look at vCPU 0's pvti.
*/
- if (unlikely(!(pvti->flags & PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT))) {
- *mode = VCLOCK_NONE;
- return 0;
- }
-
do {
version = pvti->version;
smp_rmb();
+ if (unlikely(!(pvti->flags & PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT))) {
+ *mode = VCLOCK_NONE;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
tsc = rdtsc_ordered();
pvti_tsc_to_system_mul = pvti->tsc_to_system_mul;
pvti_tsc_shift = pvti->tsc_shift;
--
2.4.3
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