Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 21:16:14 -0500 From: Mike Karels <mike@karels.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aarch64 and kqueue timer events Message-ID: <da434512-64f9-c93b-65d7-ed7c539826b0@karels.net> In-Reply-To: <cc96ff22-ea1c-7e0f-6581-a7565c580b67@shrew.net> References: <03ff40c7-b755-8421-713c-90aa4d8535fe@shrew.net> <cc96ff22-ea1c-7e0f-6581-a7565c580b67@shrew.net>
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On 7/27/21 8:43 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote:
> On 7/24/2021 8:18 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm seeing some strange behavior with kqueue timers on my aarch64
>> host. Here is a simple test program that I've compiled on both amd64
>> and aarch64. It just sets up a simple kqueue timer with a loop that
>> waits for the event to fire every 3 seconds ...
>>
>> #include <err.h>
>> #include <time.h>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <unistd.h>
>> #include <sys/event.h>
>>
>> int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
>> {
>> int kq = kqueue();
>> if( kq < 0 )
>> err( 1, "failed to obtain kqueue handle" );
>>
>> struct kevent ke;
>> EV_SET( &ke, 1, EVFILT_TIMER, EV_ADD | EV_ENABLE, 0, 3000, 0 );
>> if( kevent( kq, &ke, 1, NULL, 0, NULL ) < 0 )
>> err( 1, "failed to add kevent timer filter" );
>>
>> printf( "started at %i\n", (int)time(NULL) );
>>
>> while( true )
>> {
>> int r = kevent( kq, NULL, 0, &ke, 1, NULL );
>> if( r < 0 )
>> err( 1, "failed to read kevent list" );
>>
>> printf( "timer fired %i times at %i\n", r, (int)time(NULL) );
>> }
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> When I compile and run the code on an amd64 host, everything works as
>> expected. The event timer expires once every 3 seconds ...
>>
>> mgrooms@amd64:~/devel$ cc test.cpp -o test && ./test
>> started at 1627175311
>> timer fired 1 times at 1627175314
>> timer fired 1 times at 1627175317
>> timer fired 1 times at 1627175320
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> -Matthew
>>
>>
>>
>> However, when I compile and run the same code on an aarch64 host (
>> rpi4b ), something very different happens. The event timer expires
>> after 3 seconds the first time. But each subsequent expiration is for
>> exactly twice the defined interval, 6 seconds ...
>>
>> mgrooms@aarch64:~/devel$ cc test.cpp -o test && ./test
>> started at 1625789207
>> timer fired 1 times at 1625789210
>> timer fired 1 times at 1625789216
>> timer fired 1 times at 1625789222
>>
>> Any idea what's going on here? Seems like a bug somewhere on the arm
>> side.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Sorry for the cross post. I started by asking this question in
> freebsd-arm but didn't get a response. I figured, since aarch64 is
> Tier1 now, asking wrt stable is fair game. Another user ( José Pérez )
> confirmed that this issue was also present on current but my testing
> was on 13 ...
>
> FreeBSD generic 13.0-STABLE FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE #8
> stable/13-n246015-ade8b810b02-dirty: Tue Jun 15 21:04:38 CDT 202
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Another data point: the program runs correctly on 13.0-RELEASE-p3 on rpi4b.
Mike
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