linux/kernel/time, branch v3.12.10

time: Fix 1ns/tick drift w/ GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD

2013-12-12T06:37:54Z

commit 4be77398ac9d948773116b6be4a3c91b3d6ea18c upstream. Since commit 1e75fa8be9f (time: Condense timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec - merged in v3.6), there has been an problem with the error accounting in the timekeeping code, such that when truncating to nanoseconds, we round up to the next nsec, but the balancing adjustment to the ntp_error value was dropped. This causes 1ns per tick drift forward of the clock. In 3.7, this logic was isolated to only GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD architectures (s390, ia64, powerpc). The fix is simply to balance the accounting and to subtract the added nanosecond from ntp_error. This allows the internal long-term clock steering to keep the clock accurate. While this fix removes the regression added in 1e75fa8be9f, the ideal solution is to move away from GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD and use the new VSYSCALL method, which avoids entirely the nanosecond granular rounding, and the resulting short-term clock adjustment oscillation needed to keep long term accurate time. [ jstultz: Many thanks to Martin for his efforts identifying this subtle bug, and providing the fix. ] Originally-from: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Paul Turner Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385149491-20307-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ntp: Make periodic RTC update more reliable

2013-12-08T15:29:16Z

commit a97ad0c4b447a132a322cedc3a5f7fa4cab4b304 upstream. The current code requires that the scheduled update of the RTC happens in the closest tick to the half of the second. This seems to be difficult to achieve reliably. The scheduled work may be missing the target time by a tick or two and be constantly rescheduled every second. Relax the limit to 10 ticks. As a typical RTC drifts in the 11-minute update interval by several milliseconds, this shouldn't affect the overall accuracy of the RTC much. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist

2013-12-04T19:05:10Z

commit 98d6f4dd84a134d942827584a3c5f67ffd8ec35f upstream. Fedora Ruby maintainer reported latest Ruby doesn't work on Fedora Rawhide on ARM. (http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9008) Because of, commit 1c6b39ad3f (alarmtimers: Return -ENOTSUPP if no RTC device is present) intruduced to return ENOTSUPP when clock_get{time,res} can't find a RTC device. However this is incorrect. First, ENOTSUPP isn't exported to userland (ENOTSUP or EOPNOTSUP are the closest userland equivlents). Second, Posix and Linux man pages agree that clock_gettime and clock_getres should return EINVAL if clk_id argument is invalid. While the arugment that the clockid is valid, but just not supported on this hardware could be made, this is just a technicality that doesn't help userspace applicaitons, and only complicates error handling. Thus, this patch changes the code to use EINVAL. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Reported-by: Vit Ondruch Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro [jstultz: Tweaks to commit message to include full rational] Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

clockevents: Sanitize ticks to nsec conversion

2013-10-23T10:51:21Z

Marc Kleine-Budde pointed out, that commit 77cc982 "clocksource: use clockevents_config_and_register() where possible" caused a regression for some of the converted subarchs. The reason is, that the clockevents core code converts the minimal hardware tick delta to a nanosecond value for core internal usage. This conversion is affected by integer math rounding loss, so the backwards conversion to hardware ticks will likely result in a value which is less than the configured hardware limitation. The affected subarchs used their own workaround (SIGH!) which got lost in the conversion. The solution for the issue at hand is simple: adding evt->mult - 1 to the shifted value before the integer divison in the core conversion function takes care of it. But this only works for the case where for the scaled math mult/shift pair "mult <= 1 << shift" is true. For the case where "mult > 1 << shift" we can apply the rounding add only for the minimum delta value to make sure that the backward conversion is not less than the given hardware limit. For the upper bound we need to omit the rounding add, because the backwards conversion is always larger than the original latch value. That would violate the upper bound of the hardware device. Though looking closer at the details of that function reveals another bogosity: The upper bounds check is broken as well. Checking for a resulting "clc" value greater than KTIME_MAX after the conversion is pointless. The conversion does: u64 clc = (latch << evt->shift) / evt->mult; So there is no sanity check for (latch << evt->shift) exceeding the 64bit boundary. The latch argument is "unsigned long", so on a 64bit arch the handed in argument could easily lead to an unnoticed shift overflow. With the above rounding fix applied the calculation before the divison is: u64 clc = (latch << evt->shift) + evt->mult - 1; So we need to make sure, that neither the shift nor the rounding add is overflowing the u64 boundary. [ukl: move assignment to rnd after eventually changing mult, fix build issue and correct comment with the right math] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde Cc: nicolas.ferre@atmel.com Cc: Marc Pignat Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: kernel@pengutronix.de Cc: Ronald Wahl Cc: LAK Cc: Ludovic Desroches Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380052223-24139-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König

Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-09-18T16:24:49Z

Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar: "An NTP related lockup fix" * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: timekeeping: Fix HRTICK related deadlock from ntp lock changes

timekeeping: Fix HRTICK related deadlock from ntp lock changes

2013-09-12T05:49:51Z

Gerlando Falauto reported that when HRTICK is enabled, it is possible to trigger system deadlocks. These were hard to reproduce, as HRTICK has been broken in the past, but seemed to be connected to the timekeeping_seq lock. Since seqlock/seqcount's aren't supported w/ lockdep, I added some extra spinlock based locking and triggered the following lockdep output: [ 15.849182] ntpd/4062 is trying to acquire lock: [ 15.849765] (&(&pool->lock)->rlock){..-...}, at: [] __queue_work+0x145/0x480 [ 15.850051] [ 15.850051] but task is already holding lock: [ 15.850051] (timekeeper_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [] do_adjtimex+0x7f/0x100 [ 15.850051] Chain exists of: &(&pool->lock)->rlock --> &p->pi_lock --> timekeeper_lock [ 15.850051] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 15.850051] [ 15.850051] CPU0 CPU1 [ 15.850051] ---- ---- [ 15.850051] lock(timekeeper_lock); [ 15.850051] lock(&p->pi_lock); [ 15.850051] lock(timekeeper_lock); [ 15.850051] lock(&(&pool->lock)->rlock); [ 15.850051] [ 15.850051] *** DEADLOCK *** The deadlock was introduced by 06c017fdd4dc48451a ("timekeeping: Hold timekeepering locks in do_adjtimex and hardpps") in 3.10 This patch avoids this deadlock, by moving the call to schedule_delayed_work() outside of the timekeeper lock critical section. Reported-by: Gerlando Falauto Tested-by: Lin Ming Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: stable #3.11, 3.10 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378943457-27314-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-09-04T16:36:54Z

Pull timers/nohz changes from Ingo Molnar: "It mostly contains fixes and full dynticks off-case optimizations, by Frederic Weisbecker" * 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) nohz: Include local CPU in full dynticks global kick nohz: Optimize full dynticks's sched hooks with static keys nohz: Optimize full dynticks state checks with static keys nohz: Rename a few state variables vtime: Always debug check snapshot source _before_ updating it vtime: Always scale generic vtime accounting results vtime: Optimize full dynticks accounting off case with static keys vtime: Describe overriden functions in dedicated arch headers m68k: hardirq_count() only need preempt_mask.h hardirq: Split preempt count mask definitions context_tracking: Split low level state headers vtime: Fix racy cputime delta update vtime: Remove a few unneeded generic vtime state checks context_tracking: User/kernel broundary cross trace events context_tracking: Optimize context switch off case with static keys context_tracking: Optimize guest APIs off case with static key context_tracking: Optimize main APIs off case with static key context_tracking: Ground setup for static key use context_tracking: Remove full dynticks' hacky dependency on wide context tracking nohz: Only enable context tracking on full dynticks CPUs ...

Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu

2013-09-03T05:41:11Z

Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: " * Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/611. * Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/619. * Full-system idle detection. This is for use by Frederic Weisbecker's adaptive-ticks mechanism. Its purpose is to allow the timekeeping CPU to shut off its tick when all other CPUs are idle. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/648. * Improve rcutorture test coverage. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/675. " Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine

2013-08-31T21:43:50Z

This commit adds the state machine that takes the per-CPU idle data as input and produces a full-system-idle indication as output. This state machine is driven out of RCU's quiescent-state-forcing mechanism, which invokes rcu_sysidle_check_cpu() to collect per-CPU idle state and then rcu_sysidle_report() to drive the state machine. The full-system-idle state is sampled using rcu_sys_is_idle(), which also drives the state machine if RCU is idle (and does so by forcing RCU to become non-idle). This function returns true if all but the timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu) are idle and have been idle long enough to avoid memory contention on the full_sysidle_state state variable. The rcu_sysidle_force_exit() may be called externally to reset the state machine back into non-idle state. For large systems the state machine is driven out of RCU's force-quiescent-state logic, which provides good scalability at the price of millisecond-scale latencies on the transition to full-system-idle state. This is not so good for battery-powered systems, which are usually small enough that they don't need to care about scalability, but which do care deeply about energy efficiency. Small systems therefore drive the state machine directly out of the idle-entry code. The number of CPUs in a "small" system is defined by a new NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE_SMALL Kconfig parameter, which defaults to 8. Note that this is a build-time definition. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Lai Jiangshan [ paulmck: Use true and false for boolean constants per Lai Jiangshan. ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett [ paulmck: Simplify logic and provide better comments for memory barriers, based on review comments and questions by Lai Jiangshan. ]

timer_list: correct the iterator for timer_list

2013-08-29T02:26:38Z

Correct an issue with /proc/timer_list reported by Holger. When reading from the proc file with a sufficiently small buffer, 2k so not really that small, there was one could get hung trying to read the file a chunk at a time. The timer_list_start function failed to account for the possibility that the offset was adjusted outside the timer_list_next. Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer Reported-by: Holger Hans Peter Freyther Cc: John Stultz Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Berke Durak Cc: Jeff Layton Tested-by: Al Viro Cc: # 3.10.x Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds