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<title>clocksource: Check per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2021-05-27T19:01:20Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7560c02bdffb7c52d1457fa551b9e745d4b9e754 ]

Some sorts of per-CPU clock sources have a history of going out of
synchronization with each other.  However, this problem has purportedy been
solved in the past ten years.  Except that it is all too possible that the
problem has instead simply been made less likely, which might mean that
some of the occasional "Marking clocksource 'tsc' as unstable" messages
might be due to desynchronization.  How would anyone know?

Therefore apply CPU-to-CPU synchronization checking to newly unstable
clocksource that are marked with the new CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU flag.
Lists of desynchronized CPUs are printed, with the caveat that if it
is the reporting CPU that is itself desynchronized, it will appear that
all the other clocks are wrong.  Just like in real life.

Reported-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-2-paulmck@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2021-05-27T19:01:19Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit db3a34e17433de2390eb80d436970edcebd0ca3e ]

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.  Yes, interrupts are disabled
across those two reads, but there are no shortage of things that can delay
interrupts-disabled regions of code ranging from SMI handlers to vCPU
preemption.  It would be good to have some indication as to why the clock
was marked unstable.

Therefore, re-read the watchdog clock on either side of the read from the
clock under test.  If the watchdog clock shows an excessive time delta
between its pair of reads, the reads are retried.

The maximum number of retries is specified by a new kernel boot parameter
clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries, which defaults to three, that is, up to
four reads, one initial and up to three retries.  If more than one retry
was required, a message is printed on the console (the occasional single
retry is expected behavior, especially in guest OSes).  If the maximum
number of retries is exceeded, the clock under test will be marked
unstable.  However, the probability of this happening due to various sorts
of delays is quite small.  In addition, the reason (clock-read delays) for
the unstable marking will be apparent.

Reported-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-1-paulmck@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2021-05-01T17:14:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-01T17:14:08Z</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "This is a large update by KVM standards, including AMD PSP (Platform
  Security Processor, aka "AMD Secure Technology") and ARM CoreSight
  (debug and trace) changes.

  ARM:

   - CoreSight: Add support for ETE and TRBE

   - Stage-2 isolation for the host kernel when running in protected
     mode

   - Guest SVE support when running in nVHE mode

   - Force W^X hypervisor mappings in nVHE mode

   - ITS save/restore for guests using direct injection with GICv4.1

   - nVHE panics now produce readable backtraces

   - Guest support for PTP using the ptp_kvm driver

   - Performance improvements in the S2 fault handler

  x86:

   - AMD PSP driver changes

   - Optimizations and cleanup of nested SVM code

   - AMD: Support for virtual SPEC_CTRL

   - Optimizations of the new MMU code: fast invalidation, zap under
     read lock, enable/disably dirty page logging under read lock

   - /dev/kvm API for AMD SEV live migration (guest API coming soon)

   - support SEV virtual machines sharing the same encryption context

   - support SGX in virtual machines

   - add a few more statistics

   - improved directed yield heuristics

   - Lots and lots of cleanups

  Generic:

   - Rework of MMU notifier interface, simplifying and optimizing the
     architecture-specific code

   - a handful of "Get rid of oprofile leftovers" patches

   - Some selftests improvements"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (379 commits)
  KVM: selftests: Speed up set_memory_region_test
  selftests: kvm: Fix the check of return value
  KVM: x86: Take advantage of kvm_arch_dy_has_pending_interrupt()
  KVM: SVM: Skip SEV cache flush if no ASIDs have been used
  KVM: SVM: Remove an unnecessary prototype declaration of sev_flush_asids()
  KVM: SVM: Drop redundant svm_sev_enabled() helper
  KVM: SVM: Move SEV VMCB tracking allocation to sev.c
  KVM: SVM: Explicitly check max SEV ASID during sev_hardware_setup()
  KVM: SVM: Unconditionally invoke sev_hardware_teardown()
  KVM: SVM: Enable SEV/SEV-ES functionality by default (when supported)
  KVM: SVM: Condition sev_enabled and sev_es_enabled on CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
  KVM: SVM: Append "_enabled" to module-scoped SEV/SEV-ES control variables
  KVM: SEV: Mask CPUID[0x8000001F].eax according to supported features
  KVM: SVM: Move SEV module params/variables to sev.c
  KVM: SVM: Disable SEV/SEV-ES if NPT is disabled
  KVM: SVM: Free sev_asid_bitmap during init if SEV setup fails
  KVM: SVM: Zero out the VMCB array used to track SEV ASID association
  x86/sev: Drop redundant and potentially misleading 'sev_enabled'
  KVM: x86: Move reverse CPUID helpers to separate header file
  KVM: x86: Rename GPR accessors to make mode-aware variants the defaults
  ...
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<title>time: Add mechanism to recognize clocksource in time_get_snapshot</title>
<updated>2021-04-07T15:33:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-09T06:09:27Z</published>
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System time snapshots are not conveying information about the current
clocksource which was used, but callers like the PTP KVM guest
implementation have the requirement to evaluate the clocksource type to
select the appropriate mechanism.

Introduce a clocksource id field in struct clocksource which is by default
set to CSID_GENERIC (0). Clocksource implementations can set that field to
a value which allows to identify the clocksource.

Store the clocksource id of the current clocksource in the
system_time_snapshot so callers can evaluate which clocksource was used to
take the snapshot and act accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu &lt;jianyong.wu@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201209060932.212364-5-jianyong.wu@arm.com
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping, clocksource: Fix various typos in comments</title>
<updated>2021-03-22T22:06:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-22T21:39:03Z</published>
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Fix ~56 single-word typos in timekeeping &amp; clocksource code comments.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: remove arch_gettimeoffset</title>
<updated>2020-10-30T20:57:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-24T10:30:50Z</published>
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With Arm EBSA110 gone, nothing uses it any more, so the corresponding
code and the Kconfig option can be removed.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>clocksource: Remove obsolete ifdef</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T14:36:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-06T21:51:15Z</published>
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CONFIG_GENERIC_VDSO_CLOCK_MODE was a transitional config switch which got
removed after all architectures got converted to the new storage model.

But the removal forgot to remove the #ifdef which guards the
vdso_clock_mode sanity check, which effectively disables the sanity check.

Remove it now.

Fixes: f86fd32db706 ("lib/vdso: Cleanup clock mode storage leftovers")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200606221531.845475036@linutronix.de

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<entry>
<title>clocksource: Add common vdso clock mode storage</title>
<updated>2020-02-17T13:40:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-07T12:38:55Z</published>
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All architectures which use the generic VDSO code have their own storage
for the VDSO clock mode. That's pointless and just requires duplicate code.

Provide generic storage for it. The new Kconfig symbol is intermediate and
will be removed once all architectures are converted over.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207124403.028046322@linutronix.de

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<entry>
<title>clocksource: Prevent double add_timer_on() for watchdog_timer</title>
<updated>2020-02-01T10:07:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-31T16:08:59Z</published>
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Kernel crashes inside QEMU/KVM are observed:

  kernel BUG at kernel/time/timer.c:1154!
  BUG_ON(timer_pending(timer) || !timer-&gt;function) in add_timer_on().

At the same time another cpu got:

  general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI of poinson pointer 0xdead000000000200 in:

  __hlist_del at include/linux/list.h:681
  (inlined by) detach_timer at kernel/time/timer.c:818
  (inlined by) expire_timers at kernel/time/timer.c:1355
  (inlined by) __run_timers at kernel/time/timer.c:1686
  (inlined by) run_timer_softirq at kernel/time/timer.c:1699

Unfortunately kernel logs are badly scrambled, stacktraces are lost.

Printing the timer-&gt;function before the BUG_ON() pointed to
clocksource_watchdog().

The execution of clocksource_watchdog() can race with a sequence of
clocksource_stop_watchdog() .. clocksource_start_watchdog():

expire_timers()
 detach_timer(timer, true);
  timer-&gt;entry.pprev = NULL;
 raw_spin_unlock_irq(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
 call_timer_fn
  clocksource_watchdog()

					clocksource_watchdog_kthread() or
					clocksource_unbind()

					spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;watchdog_lock, flags);
					clocksource_stop_watchdog();
					 del_timer(&amp;watchdog_timer);
					 watchdog_running = 0;
					spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;watchdog_lock, flags);

					spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;watchdog_lock, flags);
					clocksource_start_watchdog();
					 add_timer_on(&amp;watchdog_timer, ...);
					 watchdog_running = 1;
					spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;watchdog_lock, flags);

  spin_lock(&amp;watchdog_lock);
  add_timer_on(&amp;watchdog_timer, ...);
   BUG_ON(timer_pending(timer) || !timer-&gt;function);
    timer_pending() -&gt; true
    BUG()

I.e. inside clocksource_watchdog() watchdog_timer could be already armed.

Check timer_pending() before calling add_timer_on(). This is sufficient as
all operations are synchronized by watchdog_lock.

Fixes: 75c5158f70c0 ("timekeeping: Update clocksource with stop_machine")
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/158048693917.4378.13823603769948933793.stgit@buzz
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<entry>
<title>clocksource: Move inline keyword to the beginning of function declarations</title>
<updated>2019-06-14T15:04:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Malaterre</name>
<email>malat@debian.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-24T10:33:39Z</published>
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The inline keyword was not at the beginning of the function declarations.
Fix the following warnings triggered when using W=1:

  kernel/time/clocksource.c:108:1: warning: 'inline' is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration]
  kernel/time/clocksource.c:113:1: warning: 'inline' is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration]

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190524103339.28787-1-malat@debian.org

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