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time: Build generic update_vsyscall() only with generic time vDSO

2025-09-04T09:23:50Z

The generic vDSO can be used without the time-related functionality. In that case the generic update_vsyscall() from kernel/time/vsyscall.c should not be built. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250826-vdso-cleanups-v1-5-d9b65750e49f@linutronix.de

tracing: Disable branch profiling in noinstr code

2025-03-22T08:49:26Z

CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING inserts a call to ftrace_likely_update() for each use of likely() or unlikely(). That breaks noinstr rules if the affected function is annotated as noinstr. Disable branch profiling for files with noinstr functions. In addition to some individual files, this also includes the entire arch/x86 subtree, as well as the kernel/entry, drivers/cpuidle, and drivers/idle directories, all of which are noinstr-heavy. Due to the nature of how sched binaries are built by combining multiple .c files into one, branch profiling is disabled more broadly across the sched code than would otherwise be needed. This fixes many warnings like the following: vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_syscall_64+0x40: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __rdgsbase_inactive+0x33: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: handle_bug.isra.0+0x198: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section ... Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fb94fc9303d48a5ed370498f54500cc4c338eb6d.1742586676.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org

timers: Move sleep() and timeout functions into a separate file

2024-10-15T22:36:46Z

All schedule_timeout() and *sleep*() related functions are interfaces on top of timer list timers and hrtimers to add a sleep to the code. As they are built on top of the timer list timers and hrtimers, the [hr]timer interfaces are already used except when queuing the timer in schedule_timeout(). But there exists the appropriate interface add_timer() which does the same job with an extra check for an already pending timer. Split all those functions as they are into a separate file and use add_timer() instead of __mod_timer() in schedule_timeout(). While at it fix minor formatting issues and a multi line printk function call in schedule_timeout(). Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241014-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-flseep-v3-2-dc8b907cb62f@linutronix.de

timers: Implement the hierarchical pull model

2024-02-22T16:52:32Z

Placing timers at enqueue time on a target CPU based on dubious heuristics does not make any sense: 1) Most timer wheel timers are canceled or rearmed before they expire. 2) The heuristics to predict which CPU will be busy when the timer expires are wrong by definition. So placing the timers at enqueue wastes precious cycles. The proper solution to this problem is to always queue the timers on the local CPU and allow the non pinned timers to be pulled onto a busy CPU at expiry time. Therefore split the timer storage into local pinned and global timers: Local pinned timers are always expired on the CPU on which they have been queued. Global timers can be expired on any CPU. As long as a CPU is busy it expires both local and global timers. When a CPU goes idle it arms for the first expiring local timer. If the first expiring pinned (local) timer is before the first expiring movable timer, then no action is required because the CPU will wake up before the first movable timer expires. If the first expiring movable timer is before the first expiring pinned (local) timer, then this timer is queued into an idle timerqueue and eventually expired by another active CPU. To avoid global locking the timerqueues are implemented as a hierarchy. The lowest level of the hierarchy holds the CPUs. The CPUs are associated to groups of 8, which are separated per node. If more than one CPU group exist, then a second level in the hierarchy collects the groups. Depending on the size of the system more than 2 levels are required. Each group has a "migrator" which checks the timerqueue during the tick for remote expirable timers. If the last CPU in a group goes idle it reports the first expiring event in the group up to the next group(s) in the hierarchy. If the last CPU goes idle it arms its timer for the first system wide expiring timer to ensure that no timer event is missed. Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222103710.32582-1-anna-maria@linutronix.de

time: Improve performance of time64_to_tm()

2021-06-24T09:51:59Z

The current implementation of time64_to_tm() contains unnecessary loops, branches and look-up tables. The new one uses an arithmetic-based algorithm appeared in [1] and is approximately 3x faster (YMMV). The drawback is that the new code isn't intuitive and contains many 'magic numbers' (not unusual for this type of algorithm). However, [1] justifies all those numbers and, given this function's history, the code is unlikely to need much maintenance, if any at all. Add a KUnit test for it which checks every day in a 160,000 years interval centered at 1970-01-01 against the expected result. [1] Neri, Schneider, "Euclidean Affine Functions and Applications to Calendar Algorithms". https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06959 Signed-off-by: Cassio Neri Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210622213616.313046-1-cassio.neri@gmail.com

clocksource: Provide kernel module to test clocksource watchdog

2021-06-22T14:53:17Z

When the clocksource watchdog marks a clock as unstable, this might be due to that clock being unstable or it might be due to delays that happen to occur between the reads of the two clocks. It would be good to have a way of testing the clocksource watchdog's ability to distinguish between these two causes of clock skew and instability. Therefore, provide a new clocksource-wdtest module selected by a new TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG Kconfig option. This module has a single module parameter named "holdoff" that provides the number of seconds of delay before testing should start, which defaults to zero when built as a module and to 10 seconds when built directly into the kernel. Very large systems that boot slowly may need to increase the value of this module parameter. This module uses hand-crafted clocksource structures to do its testing, thus avoiding messing up timing for the rest of the kernel and for user applications. This module first verifies that the ->uncertainty_margin field of the clocksource structures are set sanely. It then tests the delay-detection capability of the clocksource watchdog, increasing the number of consecutive delays injected, first provoking console messages complaining about the delays and finally forcing a clock-skew event. Unexpected test results cause at least one WARN_ON_ONCE() console splat. If there are no splats, the test has passed. Finally, it fuzzes the value returned from a clocksource to test the clocksource watchdog's ability to detect time skew. This module checks the state of its clocksource after each test, and uses WARN_ON_ONCE() to emit a console splat if there are any failures. This should enable all types of test frameworks to detect any such failures. This facility is intended for diagnostic use only, and should be avoided on production systems. Reported-by: Chris Mason Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Feng Tang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-5-paulmck@kernel.org

timekeeping: add CONFIG_LEGACY_TIMER_TICK

2020-10-30T20:57:04Z

All platforms that currently do not use generic clockevents roughly call the same set of functions in their timer interrupts: xtime_update(), update_process_times() and profile_tick(), sometimes in a different sequence. Add a helper function that performs all three of them, to make the callers more uniform and simplify the interface. Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

ns: Introduce Time Namespace

2020-01-14T11:20:48Z

Time Namespace isolates clock values. The kernel provides access to several clocks CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_BOOTTIME, etc. CLOCK_REALTIME System-wide clock that measures real (i.e., wall-clock) time. CLOCK_MONOTONIC Clock that cannot be set and represents monotonic time since some unspecified starting point. CLOCK_BOOTTIME Identical to CLOCK_MONOTONIC, except it also includes any time that the system is suspended. For many users, the time namespace means the ability to changes date and time in a container (CLOCK_REALTIME). Providing per namespace notions of CLOCK_REALTIME would be complex with a massive overhead, but has a dubious value. But in the context of checkpoint/restore functionality, monotonic and boottime clocks become interesting. Both clocks are monotonic with unspecified starting points. These clocks are widely used to measure time slices and set timers. After restoring or migrating processes, it has to be guaranteed that they never go backward. In an ideal case, the behavior of these clocks should be the same as for a case when a whole system is suspended. All this means that it is required to set CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME clocks, which can be achieved by adding per-namespace offsets for clocks. A time namespace is similar to a pid namespace in the way how it is created: unshare(CLONE_NEWTIME) system call creates a new time namespace, but doesn't set it to the current process. Then all children of the process will be born in the new time namespace, or a process can use the setns() system call to join a namespace. This scheme allows setting clock offsets for a namespace, before any processes appear in it. All available clone flags have been used, so CLONE_NEWTIME uses the highest bit of CSIGNAL. It means that it can be used only with the unshare() and the clone3() system calls. [ tglx: Adjusted paragraph about clone3() to reality and massaged the changelog a bit. ] Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://criu.org/Time_namespace Link: https://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2018-June/041504.html Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-4-dima@arista.com

timekeeping: Provide a generic update_vsyscall() implementation

2019-06-22T19:21:06Z

The new generic VDSO library allows to unify the update_vsyscall[_tz]() implementations. Provide a generic implementation based on the x86 code and the bindings which need to be implemented in architecture specific code. [ tglx: Moved it into kernel/time where it belongs. Removed the pointless line breaks in the stub functions. Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Shijith Thotton Tested-by: Andre Przywara Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Russell King Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Paul Burton Cc: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Mark Salyzyn Cc: Peter Collingbourne Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Huw Davies Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621095252.32307-4-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman