user/sven/linux.git/kernel/time/jiffies.c, branch v6.14

clocksource: Make clocksource watchdog test safe for slow-HZ systems

2021-08-28T15:01:32Z

The clocksource watchdog test sets a local JIFFIES_SHIFT macro and assumes that HZ is >= 100. For smaller HZ values this shift value is too large and causes undefined behaviour. Move the HZ-based definitions of JIFFIES_SHIFT from kernel/time/jiffies.c to kernel/time/tick-internal.h so the clocksource watchdog test can utilize them, which makes it work correctly with all HZ values. [ tglx: Resolved conflicts and massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210812000133.GA402890@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1/

clocksource: Reduce clocksource-skew threshold

2021-06-22T14:53:16Z

Currently, WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD is set to detect a 62.5-millisecond skew in a 500-millisecond WATCHDOG_INTERVAL. This requires that clocks be skewed by more than 12.5% in order to be marked unstable. Except that a clock that is skewed by that much is probably destroying unsuspecting software right and left. And given that there are now checks for false-positive skews due to delays between reading the two clocks, it should be possible to greatly decrease WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD, at least for fine-grained clocks such as TSC. Therefore, add a new uncertainty_margin field to the clocksource structure that contains the maximum uncertainty in nanoseconds for the corresponding clock. This field may be initialized manually, as it is for clocksource_tsc_early and clocksource_jiffies, which is copied to refined_jiffies. If the field is not initialized manually, it will be computed at clock-registry time as the period of the clock in question based on the scale and freq parameters to __clocksource_update_freq_scale() function. If either of those two parameters are zero, the tens-of-milliseconds WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD is used as a cowardly alternative to dividing by zero. No matter how the uncertainty_margin field is calculated, it is bounded below by twice WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW, that is, by 100 microseconds. Note that manually initialized uncertainty_margin fields are not adjusted, but there is a WARN_ON_ONCE() that triggers if any such field is less than twice WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW. This WARN_ON_ONCE() is intended to discourage production use of the one-nanosecond uncertainty_margin values that are used to test the clock-skew code itself. The actual clock-skew check uses the sum of the uncertainty_margin fields of the two clocksource structures being compared. Integer overflow is avoided because the largest computed value of the uncertainty_margin fields is one billion (10^9), and double that value fits into an unsigned int. However, if someone manually specifies (say) UINT_MAX, they will get what they deserve. Note that the refined_jiffies uncertainty_margin field is initialized to TICK_NSEC, which means that skew checks involving this clocksource will be sufficently forgiving. In a similar vein, the clocksource_tsc_early uncertainty_margin field is initialized to 32*NSEC_PER_MSEC, which replicates the current behavior and allows custom setting if needed in order to address the rare skews detected for this clocksource in current mainline. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Feng Tang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-4-paulmck@kernel.org

timekeeping, clocksource: Fix various typos in comments

2021-03-22T22:06:48Z

Fix ~56 single-word typos in timekeeping & clocksource code comments. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: John Stultz Cc: Stephen Boyd Cc: Daniel Lezcano Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

timekeeping: Convert jiffies_seq to seqcount_raw_spinlock_t

2020-10-26T10:04:14Z

Use the new api and associate the seqcounter to the jiffies_lock enabling lockdep support - although for this particular case the write-side locking and non-preemptibility are quite obvious. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201021190749.19363-1-dave@stgolabs.net

timekeeping: Split jiffies seqlock

2020-03-21T15:00:23Z

seqlock consists of a sequence counter and a spinlock_t which is used to serialize the writers. spinlock_t is substituted by a "sleeping" spinlock on PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels which breaks the usage in the timekeeping code as the writers are executed in hard interrupt and therefore non-preemptible context even on PREEMPT_RT. The spinlock in seqlock cannot be unconditionally replaced by a raw_spinlock_t as many seqlock users have nesting spinlock sections or other code which is not suitable to run in truly atomic context on RT. Instead of providing a raw_seqlock API for a single use case, open code the seqlock for the jiffies use case and implement it with a raw_spinlock_t and a sequence counter. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.120587764@linutronix.de

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

2019-05-06T21:50:46Z

Pull timer updates from Ingo Molnar: "This cycle had the following changes: - Timer tracing improvements (Anna-Maria Gleixner) - Continued tasklet reduction work: remove the hrtimer_tasklet (Thomas Gleixner) - Fix CPU hotplug remove race in the tick-broadcast mask handling code (Thomas Gleixner) - Force upper bound for setting CLOCK_REALTIME, to fix ABI inconsistencies with handling values that are close to the maximum supported and the vagueness of when uptime related wraparound might occur. Make the consistent maximum the year 2232 across all relevant ABIs and APIs. (Thomas Gleixner) - various cleanups and smaller fixes" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tick: Fix typos in comments tick/broadcast: Fix warning about undefined tick_broadcast_oneshot_offline() timekeeping: Force upper bound for setting CLOCK_REALTIME timer/trace: Improve timer tracing timer/trace: Replace deprecated vsprintf pointer extension %pf by %ps timer: Move trace point to get proper index tick/sched: Update tick_sched struct documentation tick: Remove outgoing CPU from broadcast masks timekeeping: Consistently use unsigned int for seqcount snapshot softirq: Remove tasklet_hrtimer xfrm: Replace hrtimer tasklet with softirq hrtimer mac80211_hwsim: Replace hrtimer tasklet with softirq hrtimer

timekeeping: Consistently use unsigned int for seqcount snapshot

2019-03-23T10:43:56Z

The timekeeping code uses a random mix of "unsigned long" and "unsigned int" for the seqcount snapshots (ratio 14:12). Since the seqlock.h API is entirely based on unsigned int, use that throughout. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: John Stultz Cc: Stephen Boyd Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190318195557.20773-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk

time/jiffies: Make refined_jiffies static

2019-03-22T12:38:26Z

sparse complains: CHECK kernel/time/jiffies.c kernel/time/jiffies.c:92:20: warning: symbol 'refined_jiffies' was not declared. Should it be static? Its only used in file scope. Make it static. Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/32342.1552379915@turing-police

time: Remove license boilerplate

2018-11-23T10:51:21Z

The SPDX identifier defines the license of the files already. No need for the boilerplates. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: John Stultz Acked-by: Corey Minyard Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Kate Stewart Cc: Philippe Ombredanne Cc: Peter Anvin Cc: Russell King Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Nicolas Pitre Cc: David Riley Cc: Colin Cross Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Paul E. McKenney Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181031182253.132458951@linutronix.de

time: Add SPDX license identifiers

2018-11-23T10:51:20Z

Update the time(r) core files files with the correct SPDX license identifier based on the license text in the file itself. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This work is based on a script and data from Philippe Ombredanne, Kate Stewart and myself. The data has been created with two independent license scanners and manual inspection. The following files do not contain any direct license information and have been omitted from the big initial SPDX changes: timeconst.bc: The .bc files were not touched time.c, timer.c, timekeeping.c: Licence was deduced from EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL As those files do not contain direct license references they fall under the project license, i.e. GPL V2 only. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: John Stultz Acked-by: Corey Minyard Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Kate Stewart Cc: Philippe Ombredanne Cc: Russell King Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Nicolas Pitre Cc: David Riley Cc: Colin Cross Cc: Mark Brown Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Paul E. McKenney Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181031182252.879109557@linutronix.de