linux/kernel, branch v3.4.7

ntp: Fix STA_INS/DEL clearing bug

2012-07-29T15:04:18Z

commit 6b1859dba01c7d512b72d77e3fd7da8354235189 upstream. In commit 6b43ae8a619d17c4935c3320d2ef9e92bdeed05d, I introduced a bug that kept the STA_INS or STA_DEL bit from being cleared from time_status via adjtimex() without forcing STA_PLL first. Usually once the STA_INS is set, it isn't cleared until the leap second is applied, so its unlikely this affected anyone. However during testing I noticed it took some effort to cancel a leap second once STA_INS was set. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Prarit Bhargava Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342156917-25092-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timekeeping: Add missing update call in timekeeping_resume()

2012-07-19T15:59:00Z

This is a backport of 3e997130bd2e8c6f5aaa49d6e3161d4d29b43ab0 The leap second rework unearthed another issue of inconsistent data. On timekeeping_resume() the timekeeper data is updated, but nothing calls timekeeping_update(), so now the update code in the timer interrupt sees stale values. This has been the case before those changes, but then the timer interrupt was using stale data as well so this went unnoticed for quite some time. Add the missing update call, so all the data is consistent everywhere. Reported-by: Andreas Schwab Reported-and-tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Steigerwald Cc: John Stultz Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Cc: Prarit Bhargava Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hrtimer: Update hrtimer base offsets each hrtimer_interrupt

2012-07-19T15:59:00Z

This is a backport of 5baefd6d84163443215f4a99f6a20f054ef11236 The update of the hrtimer base offsets on all cpus cannot be made atomically from the timekeeper.lock held and interrupt disabled region as smp function calls are not allowed there. clock_was_set(), which enforces the update on all cpus, is called either from preemptible process context in case of do_settimeofday() or from the softirq context when the offset modification happened in the timer interrupt itself due to a leap second. In both cases there is a race window for an hrtimer interrupt between dropping timekeeper lock, enabling interrupts and clock_was_set() issuing the updates. Any interrupt which arrives in that window will see the new time but operate on stale offsets. So we need to make sure that an hrtimer interrupt always sees a consistent state of time and offsets. ktime_get_update_offsets() allows us to get the current monotonic time and update the per cpu hrtimer base offsets from hrtimer_interrupt() to capture a consistent state of monotonic time and the offsets. The function replaces the existing ktime_get() calls in hrtimer_interrupt(). The overhead of the new function vs. ktime_get() is minimal as it just adds two store operations. This ensures that any changes to realtime or boottime offsets are noticed and stored into the per-cpu hrtimer base structures, prior to any hrtimer expiration and guarantees that timers are not expired early. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-8-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timekeeping: Provide hrtimer update function

2012-07-19T15:59:00Z

This is a backport of f6c06abfb3972ad4914cef57d8348fcb2932bc3b To finally fix the infamous leap second issue and other race windows caused by functions which change the offsets between the various time bases (CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME) we need a function which atomically gets the current monotonic time and updates the offsets of CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME with minimalistic overhead. The previous patch which provides ktime_t offsets allows us to make this function almost as cheap as ktime_get() which is going to be replaced in hrtimer_interrupt(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava Signed-off-by: John Stultz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-7-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hrtimers: Move lock held region in hrtimer_interrupt()

2012-07-19T15:58:59Z

This is a backport of 196951e91262fccda81147d2bcf7fdab08668b40 We need to update the base offsets from this code and we need to do that under base->lock. Move the lock held region around the ktime_get() calls. The ktime_get() calls are going to be replaced with a function which gets the time and the offsets atomically. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava Signed-off-by: John Stultz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-6-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timekeeping: Maintain ktime_t based offsets for hrtimers

2012-07-19T15:58:59Z

This is a backport of 5b9fe759a678e05be4937ddf03d50e950207c1c0 We need to update the hrtimer clock offsets from the hrtimer interrupt context. To avoid conversions from timespec to ktime_t maintain a ktime_t based representation of those offsets in the timekeeper. This puts the conversion overhead into the code which updates the underlying offsets and provides fast accessible values in the hrtimer interrupt. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-4-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timekeeping: Fix leapsecond triggered load spike issue

2012-07-19T15:58:59Z

This is a backport of 4873fa070ae84a4115f0b3c9dfabc224f1bc7c51 The timekeeping code misses an update of the hrtimer subsystem after a leap second happened. Due to that timers based on CLOCK_REALTIME are either expiring a second early or late depending on whether a leap second has been inserted or deleted until an operation is initiated which causes that update. Unless the update happens by some other means this discrepancy between the timekeeping and the hrtimer data stays forever and timers are expired either early or late. The reported immediate workaround - $ data -s "`date`" - is causing a call to clock_was_set() which updates the hrtimer data structures. See: http://www.sheeri.com/content/mysql-and-leap-second-high-cpu-and-fix Add the missing clock_was_set() call to update_wall_time() in case of a leap second event. The actual update is deferred to softirq context as the necessary smp function call cannot be invoked from hard interrupt context. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-3-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hrtimer: Provide clock_was_set_delayed()

2012-07-19T15:58:59Z

This is a backport of f55a6faa384304c89cfef162768e88374d3312cb clock_was_set() cannot be called from hard interrupt context because it calls on_each_cpu(). For fixing the widely reported leap seconds issue it is necessary to call it from hard interrupt context, i.e. the timer tick code, which does the timekeeping updates. Provide a new function which denotes it in the hrtimer cpu base structure of the cpu on which it is called and raise the hrtimer softirq. We then execute the clock_was_set() notificiation from softirq context in run_hrtimer_softirq(). The hrtimer softirq is rarely used, so polling the flag there is not a performance issue. [ tglx: Made it depend on CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS. We really should get rid of all this ifdeffery ASAP ] Signed-off-by: John Stultz Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-2-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again

2012-07-19T15:58:56Z

commit 5167e8d5417bf5c322a703d2927daec727ea40dd upstream. Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code: - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a negative bias because we can negate our own sample. - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias because we push the sample to a known active period. So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding copious documentation to the code. Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins [ minor edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses

2012-07-16T16:04:42Z

commit 047fe3605235888f3ebcda0c728cb31937eadfe6 upstream. Dave Jones reported a kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3474! triggered by splice_shrink_spd() called from vmsplice_to_pipe() commit 35f3d14dbbc5 (pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes) added capability to adjust pipe->buffers. Problem is some paths don't hold pipe mutex and assume pipe->buffers doesn't change for their duration. Fix this by adding nr_pages_max field in struct splice_pipe_desc, and use it in place of pipe->buffers where appropriate. splice_shrink_spd() loses its struct pipe_inode_info argument. Reported-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Tom Herbert Tested-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context in vmsplice_to_pipe() - Update one more call to splice_shrink_spd(), from skb_splice_bits()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman