linux/kernel/time, branch v3.11-rc3

kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files

2013-07-14T23:36:59Z

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include) that don't really have a specific maintainer. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tick: broadcast: Check broadcast mode on CPU hotplug

2013-07-12T10:35:40Z

On ARM systems the dummy clockevent is registered with the cpu hotplug notifier chain before any other per-cpu clockevent. This has the side-effect of causing the dummy clockevent to be registered first in every hotplug sequence. Because the dummy is first, we'll try to turn the broadcast source on but the code in tick_device_uses_broadcast() assumes the broadcast source is in periodic mode and calls tick_broadcast_start_periodic() unconditionally. On boot this isn't a problem because we typically haven't switched into oneshot mode yet (if at all). During hotplug, if the broadcast source isn't in periodic mode we'll replace the broadcast oneshot handler with the broadcast periodic handler and start emulating oneshot mode when we shouldn't. Due to the way the broadcast oneshot handler programs the next_event it's possible for it to contain KTIME_MAX and cause us to hang the system when the periodic handler tries to program the next tick. Fix this by using the appropriate function to start the broadcast source. Reported-by: Stephen Warren Tested-by: Stephen Warren Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Marc Zyngier Cc: ARM kernel mailing list Cc: John Stultz Cc: Joseph Lo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130711140059.GA27430@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'linus' into timers/urgent

2013-07-12T10:34:42Z

Get upstream changes so we can apply fixes against them Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'timers/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/urgent

2013-07-10T08:43:25Z

Pull nohz updates/fixes from Frederic Weisbecker: ' Note that "watchdog: Boot-disable by default on full dynticks" is a temporary solution to solve the issue with the watchdog that prevents the tick from stopping. This is to make sure that 3.11 doesn't have that problem as several people complained about it. A proper and longer term solution has been proposed by Peterz: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130618103632.GO3204@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net ' Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated high-res capability

2013-07-05T09:09:28Z

Up to commit 5d33b883a (clocksource: Always verify highres capability) we had no sanity check when selecting a clocksource, which prevented that a non highres capable clocksource is used when the system already switched to highres/nohz mode. The new sanity check works as Alex and Tim found out. It prevents the TSC from being used. This happens because on x86 the boot process looks like this: tsc_start_freqency_validation(TSC); clocksource_register(HPET); clocksource_done_booting(); clocksource_select() Selects HPET which is valid for high-res switch_to_highres(); clocksource_register(TSC); TSC is not selected, because it is not yet flagged as VALID_HIGH_RES clocksource_watchdog() Validates TSC for highres, but that does not make TSC the current clocksource. Before the sanity check was added, we installed TSC unvalidated which worked most of the time. If the TSC was really detected as unstable, then the unstable logic removed it and installed HPET again. The sanity check is correct and needed. So the watchdog needs to kick a reselection of the clocksource, when it qualifies TSC as a valid high res clocksource. To solve this, we mark the clocksource which got the flag CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES set by the watchdog with an new flag CLOCK_SOURCE_RESELECT and trigger the watchdog thread. The watchdog thread evaluates the flag and invokes clocksource_select() when set. To avoid that the clocksource_done_booting() code, which is about to install the first real clocksource anyway, needs to go through clocksource_select and tick_oneshot_notify() pointlessly, split out the clocksource_watchdog_kthread() list walk code and invoke the select/notify only when called from clocksource_watchdog_kthread(). So clocksource_done_booting() can utilize the same splitout code without the select/notify invocation and the clocksource_mutex unlock/relock dance. Reported-and-tested-by: Alex Shi Cc: Hans Peter Anvin Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Andi Kleen Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: John Stultz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307042239150.11637@ionos.tec.linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'timers/posix-cpu-timers-for-tglx' of

2013-07-04T21:11:22Z

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/core Frederic sayed: "Most of these patches have been hanging around for several month now, in -mmotm for a significant chunk. They already missed a few releases." Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic

2013-07-02T12:26:45Z

The recent implementation of a generic dummy timer resulted in a different registration order of per cpu local timers which made the broadcast control logic go belly up. If the dummy timer is the first clock event device which is registered for a CPU, then it is installed, the broadcast timer is initialized and the CPU is marked as broadcast target. If a real clock event device is installed after that, we can fail to take the CPU out of the broadcast mask. In the worst case we end up with two periodic timer events firing for the same CPU. One from the per cpu hardware device and one from the broadcast. Now the problem is that we have no way to distinguish whether the system is in a state which makes broadcasting necessary or the broadcast bit was set due to the nonfunctional dummy timer installment. To solve this we need to keep track of the system state seperately and provide a more detailed decision logic whether we keep the CPU in broadcast mode or not. The old decision logic only clears the broadcast mode, if the newly installed clock event device is not affected by power states. The new logic clears the broadcast mode if one of the following is true: - The new device is not affected by power states. - The system is not in a power state affected mode - The system has switched to oneshot mode. The oneshot broadcast is controlled from the deep idle state. The CPU is not in idle at this point, so it's safe to remove it from the mask. If we clear the broadcast bit for the CPU when a new device is installed, we also shutdown the broadcast device when this was the last CPU in the broadcast mask. If the broadcast bit is kept, then we leave the new device in shutdown state and rely on the broadcast to deliver the timer interrupts via the broadcast ipis. Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd Cc: John Stultz , Cc: Mark Rutland Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode

2013-07-02T12:26:45Z

When the system switches from periodic to oneshot mode, the broadcast logic causes a possibility that a CPU which has not yet switched to oneshot mode puts its own clock event device into oneshot mode without updating the state and the timer handler. CPU0 CPU1 per cpu tickdev is in periodic mode and switched to broadcast Switch to oneshot mode tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot() cpumask_copy(tick_oneshot_broacast_mask, tick_broadcast_mask); broadcast device mode = oneshot Timer interrupt irq_enter() tick_check_oneshot_broadcast() dev->set_mode(ONESHOT); tick_handle_periodic() if (dev->mode == ONESHOT) dev->next_event += period; FAIL. We fail, because dev->next_event contains KTIME_MAX, if the device was in periodic mode before the uncontrolled switch to oneshot happened. We must copy the broadcast bits over to the oneshot mask, because otherwise a CPU which relies on the broadcast would not been woken up anymore after the broadcast device switched to oneshot mode. So we need to verify in tick_check_oneshot_broadcast() whether the CPU has already switched to oneshot mode. If not, leave the device untouched and let the CPU switch controlled into oneshot mode. This is a long standing bug, which was never noticed, because the main user of the broadcast x86 cannot run into that scenario, AFAICT. The nonarchitected timer mess of ARM creates a gazillion of differently broken abominations which trigger the shortcomings of that broadcast code, which better had never been necessary in the first place. Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd Cc: John Stultz , Cc: Mark Rutland Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining

2013-07-02T12:26:44Z

In periodic mode we remove offline cpus from the broadcast propagation mask. In oneshot mode we fail to do so. This was not a problem so far, but the recent changes to the broadcast propagation introduced a constellation which can result in a NULL pointer dereference. What happens is: CPU0 CPU1 idle() arch_idle() tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(OFF); set cpu1 in tick_broadcast_force_mask if (cpu_offline()) arch_cpu_dead() cpu_dead_cleanup(cpu1) cpu1 tickdevice pointer = NULL broadcast interrupt dereference cpu1 tickdevice pointer -> OOPS We dereference the pointer because cpu1 is still set in tick_broadcast_force_mask and tick_do_broadcast() expects a valid cpumask and therefor lacks any further checks. Remove the cpu from the tick_broadcast_force_mask before we set the tick device pointer to NULL. Also add a sanity check to the oneshot broadcast function, so we can detect such issues w/o crashing the machine. Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava Cc: athorlton@sgi.com Cc: CAI Qian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1306261303260.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timekeeping: Indicate that clock was set in the pvclock gtod notifier

2013-06-28T21:15:06Z

If the clock was set (stepped), set the action parameter to functions in the pvclock gtod notifier chain to non-zero. This allows the callee to only do work if the clock was stepped. This will be used on Xen as the synchronization of the Xen wallclock to the control domain's (dom0) system time will be done with this notifier and updating on every timer tick is unnecessary and too expensive. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: John Stultz Cc: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372329348-20841-4-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner