user/sven/linux.git/kernel/time/timer.c, branch v4.14.7

timers: Fix excessive granularity of new timers after a nohz idle

2017-08-24T09:40:18Z

When a timer base is idle, it is forwarded when a new timer is added to ensure that granularity does not become excessive. When not idle, the timer tick is expected to increment the base. However there are several problems: - If an existing timer is modified, the base is forwarded only after the index is calculated. - The base is not forwarded by add_timer_on. - There is a window after a timer is restarted from a nohz idle, after it is marked not-idle and before the timer tick on this CPU, where a timer may be added but the ancient base does not get forwarded. These result in excessive granularity (a 1 jiffy timeout can blow out to 100s of jiffies), which cause the rcu lockup detector to trigger, among other things. Fix this by keeping track of whether the timer base has been idle since it was last run or forwarded, and if so then forward it before adding a new timer. There is still a case where mod_timer optimises the case of a pending timer mod with the same expiry time, where the timer can see excessive granularity relative to the new, shorter interval. A comment is added, but it's not changed because it is an important fastpath for networking. This has been tested and found to fix the RCU softlockup messages. Testing was also done with tracing to measure requested versus achieved wakeup latencies for all non-deferrable timers in an idle system (with no lockup watchdogs running). Wakeup latency relative to absolute latency is calculated (note this suffers from round-up skew at low absolute times) and analysed: max avg std upstream 506.0 1.20 4.68 patched 2.0 1.08 0.15 The bug was noticed due to the lockup detector Kconfig changes dropping it out of people's .configs and resulting in larger base clk skew When the lockup detectors are enabled, no CPU can go idle for longer than 4 seconds, which limits the granularity errors. Sub-optimal timer behaviour is observable on a smaller scale in that case: max avg std upstream 9.0 1.05 0.19 patched 2.0 1.04 0.11 Fixes: Fixes: a683f390b93f ("timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Jonathan Cameron Tested-by: David Miller Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: sfr@canb.auug.org.au Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: Stephen Boyd Cc: linuxarm@huawei.com Cc: abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: John Stultz Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170822084348.21436-1-npiggin@gmail.com

timers: Fix overflow in get_next_timer_interrupt

2017-08-01T12:20:53Z

For e.g. HZ=100, timer being 430 jiffies in the future, and 32 bit unsigned int, there is an overflow on unsigned int right-hand side of the expression which results with wrong values being returned. Type cast the multiplier to 64bit to avoid that issue. Fixes: 46c8f0b077a8 ("timers: Fix get_next_timer_interrupt() computation") Signed-off-by: Matija Glavinic Pecotic Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Alexander Sverdlin Cc: khilman@baylibre.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a7900f04-2a21-c9fd-67be-ab334d459ee5@nokia.com

timers: Make the cpu base lock raw

2017-06-28T22:27:24Z

The timers cpu base lock could not be converted to a raw spinlock becaue the lock held time was non-deterministic due to cascading and long lasting timer wheel traversals. The rework of the timer wheel to the new non-cascading model removed also the wheel traversals and the lock held times are deterministic now. This allows to make the lock raw and thereby unbreaks NOHz* on preempt-RT. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170627161538.30257-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timers: Fix parameter description of try_to_del_timer_sync()

2017-06-20T19:33:55Z

Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald-Stadler Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530194103.7454-1-pmeerw@pmeerw.net Cc: John Stultz Cc: trivial@rustcorp.com.au Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2017-05-03T02:09:35Z

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver() init/main: properly align the multi-line comment init/main: Fix double "the" in comment Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org drivers: Clean up duplicated email address treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -> "-O2 -Wall" selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/ HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/ net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo UBI: Fix typos Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment treewide: Fix typos in printk

timer/sysclt: Restrict timer migration sysctl values to 0 and 1

2017-04-20T12:56:59Z

timer_migration sysctl acts as a boolean switch, so the allowed values should be restricted to 0 and 1. Add the necessary extra fields to the sysctl table entry to enforce that. [ tglx: Rewrote changelog ] Signed-off-by: Myungho Jung Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492640690-3550-1-git-send-email-mhjungk@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml

2017-03-24T14:47:57Z

This patch fix spelling typos found in Documentation/output/xml/driver-api/basics.xml. It is because the xml file was generated from comments in source, so I had to fix the comments. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:34Z

We are going to split out of , which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder file that just maps to to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:34Z

sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from into

2017-03-02T07:42:32Z

Fix up affected files that include this signal functionality via sched.h. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar