user/sven/linux.git/kernel/time/timekeeping.c, branch v4.4.148

time: Fix CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW sub-nanosecond accounting

2018-05-26T06:49:00Z

commit 3d88d56c5873f6eebe23e05c3da701960146b801 upstream. Due to how the MONOTONIC_RAW accumulation logic was handled, there is the potential for a 1ns discontinuity when we do accumulations. This small discontinuity has for the most part gone un-noticed, but since ARM64 enabled CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW in their vDSO clock_gettime implementation, we've seen failures with the inconsistency-check test in kselftest. This patch addresses the issue by using the same sub-ns accumulation handling that CLOCK_MONOTONIC uses, which avoids the issue for in-kernel users. Since the ARM64 vDSO implementation has its own clock_gettime calculation logic, this patch reduces the frequency of errors, but failures are still seen. The ARM64 vDSO will need to be updated to include the sub-nanosecond xtime_nsec values in its calculation for this issue to be completely fixed. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Tested-by: Daniel Mentz Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Stephen Boyd Cc: Will Deacon Cc: "stable #4 . 8+" Cc: Miroslav Lichvar Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496965462-20003-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [fabrizio: cherry-pick to 4.4. Kept cycle_t type for function logarithmic_accumulation local variable "interval". Dropped casting of "interval" variable] Signed-off-by: Fabrizio Castro Signed-off-by: Biju Das Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

time: Fix clock->read(clock) race around clocksource changes

2017-06-29T10:48:51Z

commit ceea5e3771ed2378668455fa21861bead7504df5 upstream. In tests, which excercise switching of clocksources, a NULL pointer dereference can be observed on AMR64 platforms in the clocksource read() function: u64 clocksource_mmio_readl_down(struct clocksource *c) { return ~(u64)readl_relaxed(to_mmio_clksrc(c)->reg) & c->mask; } This is called from the core timekeeping code via: cycle_now = tkr->read(tkr->clock); tkr->read is the cached tkr->clock->read() function pointer. When the clocksource is changed then tkr->clock and tkr->read are updated sequentially. The code above results in a sequential load operation of tkr->read and tkr->clock as well. If the store to tkr->clock hits between the loads of tkr->read and tkr->clock, then the old read() function is called with the new clock pointer. As a consequence the read() function dereferences a different data structure and the resulting 'reg' pointer can point anywhere including NULL. This problem was introduced when the timekeeping code was switched over to use struct tk_read_base. Before that, it was theoretically possible as well when the compiler decided to reload clock in the code sequence: now = tk->clock->read(tk->clock); Add a helper function which avoids the issue by reading tk_read_base->clock once into a local variable clk and then issue the read function via clk->read(clk). This guarantees that the read() function always gets the proper clocksource pointer handed in. Since there is now no use for the tkr.read pointer, this patch also removes it, and to address stopping the fast timekeeper during suspend/resume, it introduces a dummy clocksource to use rather then just a dummy read function. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Stephen Boyd Cc: Miroslav Lichvar Cc: Daniel Mentz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496965462-20003-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timekeeping_Force_unsigned_clocksource_to_nanoseconds_conversion

2017-01-09T07:07:43Z

commit 9c1645727b8fa90d07256fdfcc45bf831242a3ab upstream. The clocksource delta to nanoseconds conversion is using signed math, but the delta is unsigned. This makes the conversion space smaller than necessary and in case of a multiplication overflow the conversion can become negative. The conversion is done with scaled math: s64 nsec_delta = ((s64)clkdelta * clk->mult) >> clk->shift; Shifting a signed integer right obvioulsy preserves the sign, which has interesting consequences: - Time jumps backwards - __iter_div_u64_rem() which is used in one of the calling code pathes will take forever to piecewise calculate the seconds/nanoseconds part. This has been reported by several people with different scenarios: David observed that when stopping a VM with a debugger: "It was essentially the stopped by debugger case. I forget exactly why, but the guest was being explicitly stopped from outside, it wasn't just scheduling lag. I think it was something in the vicinity of 10 minutes stopped." When lifting the stop the machine went dead. The stopped by debugger case is not really interesting, but nevertheless it would be a good thing not to die completely. But this was also observed on a live system by Liav: "When the OS is too overloaded, delta will get a high enough value for the msb of the sum delta * tkr->mult + tkr->xtime_nsec to be set, and so after the shift the nsec variable will gain a value similar to 0xffffffffff000000." Unfortunately this has been reintroduced recently with commit 6bd58f09e1d8 ("time: Add cycles to nanoseconds translation"). It had been fixed a year ago already in commit 35a4933a8959 ("time: Avoid signed overflow in timekeeping_get_ns()"). Though it's not surprising that the issue has been reintroduced because the function itself and the whole call chain uses s64 for the result and the propagation of it. The change in this recent commit is subtle: s64 nsec; - nsec = (d * m + n) >> s: + nsec = d * m + n; + nsec >>= s; d being type of cycle_t adds another level of obfuscation. This wouldn't have happened if the previous change to unsigned computation would have made the 'nsec' variable u64 right away and a follow up patch had cleaned up the whole call chain. There have been patches submitted which basically did a revert of the above patch leaving everything else unchanged as signed. Back to square one. This spawned a admittedly pointless discussion about potential users which rely on the unsigned behaviour until someone pointed out that it had been fixed before. The changelogs of said patches added further confusion as they made finally false claims about the consequences for eventual users which expect signed results. Despite delta being cycle_t, aka. u64, it's very well possible to hand in a signed negative value and the signed computation will happily return the correct result. But nobody actually sat down and analyzed the code which was added as user after the propably unintended signed conversion. Though in sensitive code like this it's better to analyze it proper and make sure that nothing relies on this than hunting the subtle wreckage half a year later. After analyzing all call chains it stands that no caller can hand in a negative value (which actually would work due to the s64 cast) and rely on the signed math to do the right thing. Change the conversion function to unsigned math. The conversion of all call chains is done in a follow up patch. This solves the starvation issue, which was caused by the negative result, but it does not solve the underlying problem. It merily procrastinates it. When the timekeeper update is deferred long enough that the unsigned multiplication overflows, then time going backwards is observable again. It does neither solve the issue of clocksources with a small counter width which will wrap around possibly several times and cause random time stamps to be generated. But those are usually not found on systems used for virtualization, so this is likely a non issue. I took the liberty to claim authorship for this simply because analyzing all callsites and writing the changelog took substantially more time than just making the simple s/s64/u64/ change and ignore the rest. Fixes: 6bd58f09e1d8 ("time: Add cycles to nanoseconds translation") Reported-by: David Gibson Reported-by: Liav Rehana Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: David Gibson Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Parit Bhargava Cc: Laurent Vivier Cc: "Christopher S. Hall" Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: John Stultz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161208204228.688545601@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timekeeping: Fix __ktime_get_fast_ns() regression

2016-10-16T15:36:14Z

commit 58bfea9532552d422bde7afa207e1a0f08dffa7d upstream. In commit 27727df240c7 ("Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"), I changed the logic to open-code the timekeeping_get_ns() function, but I forgot to include the unit conversion from cycles to nanoseconds, breaking the function's output, which impacts users like perf. This results in bogus perf timestamps like: swapper 0 [000] 253.427536: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 254.426573: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 254.426687: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 254.426800: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 254.426905: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 254.427022: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 254.427127: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 254.427239: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 254.427346: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 254.427463: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 255.426572: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) Instead of more reasonable expected timestamps like: swapper 0 [000] 39.953768: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 40.064839: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 40.175956: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 40.287103: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 40.398217: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 40.509324: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 40.620437: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 40.731546: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 40.842654: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 40.953772: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [000] 41.064881: 111111111 cpu-clock: ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) Add the proper use of timekeeping_delta_to_ns() to convert the cycle delta to nanoseconds as needed. Thanks to Brendan and Alexei for finding this quickly after the v4.8 release. Unfortunately the problematic commit has landed in some -stable trees so they'll need this fix as well. Many apologies for this mistake. I'll be looking to add a perf-clock sanity test to the kselftest timers tests soon. Fixes: 27727df240c7 "timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING" Reported-by: Brendan Gregg Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov Tested-and-reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475636148-26539-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

time: Add cycles to nanoseconds translation

2016-10-16T15:36:14Z

commit 6bd58f09e1d8cc6c50a824c00bf0d617919986a1 upstream. The timekeeping code does not currently provide a way to translate externally provided clocksource cycles to system time. The cycle count is always provided by the result clocksource read() method internal to the timekeeping code. The added function timekeeping_cycles_to_ns() calculated a nanosecond value from a cycle count that can be added to tk_read_base.base value yielding the current system time. This allows clocksource cycle values external to the timekeeping code to provide a cycle count that can be transformed to system time. Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: kevin.b.stanton@intel.com Cc: kevin.j.clarke@intel.com Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Christopher S. Hall Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING

2016-09-15T06:27:52Z

commit 27727df240c7cc84f2ba6047c6f18d5addfd25ef upstream. When I added some extra sanity checking in timekeeping_get_ns() under CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING, I missed that the NMI safe __ktime_get_fast_ns() method was using timekeeping_get_ns(). Thus the locking added to the debug checks broke the NMI-safety of __ktime_get_fast_ns(). This patch open-codes the timekeeping_get_ns() logic for __ktime_get_fast_ns(), so can avoid any deadlocks in NMI. Fixes: 4ca22c2648f9 "timekeeping: Add warnings when overflows or underflows are observed" Reported-by: Steven Rostedt Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: John Stultz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471993702-29148-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

time: Verify time values in adjtimex ADJ_SETOFFSET to avoid overflow

2016-09-15T06:27:47Z

[ Upstream commit 37cf4dc3370fbca0344e23bb96446eb2c3548ba7 ] For adjtimex()'s ADJ_SETOFFSET, make sure the tv_usec value is sane. We might multiply them later which can cause an overflow and undefined behavior. This patch introduces new helper functions to simplify the checking code and adds comments to clarify Orginally this patch was by Sasha Levin, but I've basically rewritten it, so he should get credit for finding the issue and I should get the blame for any mistakes made since. Also, credit to Richard Cochran for the phrasing used in the comment for what is considered valid here. Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Thomas Gleixner Reported-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

time: Avoid signed overflow in timekeeping_get_ns()

2016-03-03T23:07:16Z

commit 35a4933a895927990772ae96fdcfd2f806929ee2 upstream. 1e75fa8 "time: Condense timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec" replaced a call to clocksource_cyc2ns() from timekeeping_get_ns() with an open-coded version of the same logic to avoid keeping a semi-redundant struct timespec in struct timekeeper. However, the commit also introduced a subtle semantic change - where clocksource_cyc2ns() uses purely unsigned math, the new version introduces a signed temporary, meaning that if (delta * tk->mult) has a 63-bit overflow the following shift will still give a negative result. The choice of 'maxsec' in __clocksource_updatefreq_scale() means this will generally happen if there's a ~10 minute pause in examining the clocksource. This can be triggered on a powerpc KVM guest by stopping it from qemu for a bit over 10 minutes. After resuming time has jumped backwards several minutes causing numerous problems (jiffies does not advance, msleep()s can be extended by minutes..). It doesn't happen on x86 KVM guests, because the guest TSC is effectively frozen while the guest is stopped, which is not the case for the powerpc timebase. Obviously an unsigned (64 bit) overflow will only take twice as long as a signed, 63-bit overflow. I don't know the time code well enough to know if that will still cause incorrect calculations, or if a 64-bit overflow is avoided elsewhere. Still, an incorrect forwards clock adjustment will cause less trouble than time going backwards. So, this patch removes the potential for intermediate signed overflow. Suggested-by: Laurent Vivier Tested-by: Laurent Vivier Signed-off-by: David Gibson Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

remove abs64()

2015-11-09T23:11:24Z

Switch everything to the new and more capable implementation of abs(). Mainly to give the new abs() a bit of a workout. Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: John Stultz Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2015-11-03T22:13:41Z

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "The timer departement provides: - More y2038 work in the area of ntp and pps. - Optimization of posix cpu timers - New time related selftests - Some new clocksource drivers - The usual pile of fixes, cleanups and improvements" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits) timeconst: Update path in comment timers/x86/hpet: Type adjustments clocksource/drivers/armada-370-xp: Implement ARM delay timer clocksource/drivers/tango_xtal: Add new timer for Tango SoCs clocksource/drivers/imx: Allow timer irq affinity change clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Use container_of() instead of this_cpu_ptr() clocksource/drivers/h8300_*: Remove unneeded memset()s clocksource/drivers/sh_cmt: Remove unneeded memset() in sh_cmt_setup() clocksource/drivers/em_sti: Remove unneeded memset()s clocksource/drivers/mediatek: Use GPT as sched clock source clockevents/drivers/mtk: Fix spurious interrupt leading to crash posix_cpu_timer: Reduce unnecessary sighand lock contention posix_cpu_timer: Convert cputimer->running to bool posix_cpu_timer: Check thread timers only when there are active thread timers posix_cpu_timer: Optimize fastpath_timer_check() timers, kselftest: Add 'adjtick' test to validate adjtimex() tick adjustments timers: Use __fls in apply_slack() clocksource: Remove return statement from void functions net: sfc: avoid using timespec ntp/pps: use y2038 safe types in pps_event_time ...