sched_clock: Fix atomicity/continuity bug by using cmpxchg64()
Commit def0a9b2573 (sched_clock: Make it NMI safe) assumed
cmpxchg() of 64bit values was available on X86_32.
That is not so - and causes some subtle scheduler misbehavior due
to incorrect timestamps off to up by ~4 seconds.
Two symptoms are known right now:
- interactivity problems seen by Arjan: up to 600 msecs
latencies instead of the expected 20-40 msecs. These
latencies are very visible on the desktop.
- incorrect CPU stats: occasionally too high percentages in 'top',
and crazy CPU usage stats.
Reported-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090930170754.0886ff2e@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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