user/sven/linux.git/kernel/timer.c, branch v3.0.50

timers: Fix endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer()

2012-10-21T16:17:10Z

commit 26cff4e2aa4d666dc6a120ea34336b5057e3e187 upstream. Adding two (or more) timers with large values for "expires" (they have to reside within tv5 in the same list) leads to endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer() in case CONFIG_BASE_SMALL is one and jiffies are crossing the value 1 << 18. The bug was introduced between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 (and survived for quite some time). This patch ensures that when cascade() is called timers within tv5 are not added endlessly to their own list again, instead they are added to the next lower tv level tv4 (as expected). Signed-off-by: Christian Hildner Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/98673C87CB31274881CFFE0B65ECC87B0F5FC1963E@DEFTHW99EA4MSX.ww902.siemens.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timers: Consider slack value in mod_timer()

2011-06-03T13:02:32Z

There is an optimization which does not update the timer if the timer was pending and the expiration time was unchanged. Since commit 3bbb9ec9 ("timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers") this optimization is no longer applied for timers where the expiration time got extended due to the slack value. So we need to check again after the expiration time might have been updated. [ tglx: Made it a single check by applying slack first and sorting out the slack = 0 value (all timeouts < 256 jiffies) early ] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110521105828.GA29442@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-03-16T01:53:35Z

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (62 commits) posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls hrtimer: Remove empty hrtimer_init_hres_timer() hrtimer: Update hrtimer->state documentation hrtimer: Update base[CLOCK_BOOTTIME].offset correctly timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more then 2 clockids ntp: Remove redundant and incorrect parameter check mn10300: Switch do_timer() to xtimer_update() posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks posix-timers: Cleanup namespace posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86 posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning. time: Splitout compat timex accessors ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset posix-timer: Update comment ... Fix up new system-call-related conflicts in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S (name_to_handle_at()/open_by_handle_at() vs clock_adjtime()), and some due to movement of get_jiffies_64() in: kernel/time.c

Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-03-16T01:28:30Z

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: rtmutex: tester: Remove the remaining BKL leftovers lockdep/timers: Explain in detail the locking problems del_timer_sync() may cause rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock rwsem: Remove redundant asmregparm annotation rwsem: Move duplicate function prototypes to linux/rwsem.h rwsem: Unify the duplicate rwsem_is_locked() inlines rwsem: Move duplicate init macros and functions to linux/rwsem.h rwsem: Move duplicate struct rwsem declaration to linux/rwsem.h x86: Cleanup rwsem_count_t typedef rwsem: Cleanup includes locking: Remove deprecated lock initializers cred: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization kthread: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization xtensa: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization um: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization sparc: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization mips: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization cris: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization alpha: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization rtmutex-tester: Remove BKL tests

debugobjects: Add hint for better object identification

2011-03-08T15:10:38Z

In complex subsystems like mac80211 structures can contain several timers and work structs, so identifying a specific instance from the call trace and object type output of debugobjects can be hard. Allow the subsystems which support debugobjects to provide a hint function. This function returns a pointer to a kernel address (preferrably the objects callback function) which is printed along with the debugobjects type. Add hint methods for timer_list, work_struct and hrtimer. [ tglx: Massaged changelog, made it compile ] Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka LKML-Reference: <20110307085809.GA9334@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

lockdep/timers: Explain in detail the locking problems del_timer_sync() may cause

2011-02-16T12:35:08Z

Twice I had to explain the output about why lockdep gives an error with locks in IRQ context and with del_timer_sync(). Might as well write it up and place it in the comments above the code in del_timer_sync(). Perhaps the next time this lockdep dump triggers people will understand the issues. It is a ticky issue and very subtle, explaining it in detail in the code may help others understand the issue when they stumble upon the bug again. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1297186794.23343.19.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Revert "lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation"

2011-02-08T15:18:39Z

Both attempts at trying to allow softirq usage for del_timer_sync() failed (produced bogus warnings), so revert the commit for this release: f266a5110d45: lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation and try again later. Reported-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Yong Zhang Cc: Thomas Gleixner LKML-Reference: <1297174680.13327.107.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation

2011-02-04T09:31:22Z

Calling local_bh_enable() will want to actually start processing softirqs, which isn't a good idea since this can get called with IRQs disabled. Cure this by using _local_bh_enable() which doesn't start processing softirqs, and use raw_local_irq_save() to avoid any softirqs from happening without letting lockdep think IRQs are in fact disabled. Reported-by: Nick Bowler Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang LKML-Reference: <20110203141548.039540914@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: Move do_timer() to kernel/time/timekeeping.c

2011-01-31T13:55:41Z

do_timer() is primary timekeeping related. calc_global_load() is called from do_timer() as well, but that's more for historical reasons. [ tglx: Fixed up the calc_global_load() reject andmassaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com Cc: hch@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <20110127145855.23248.56933.stgit@localhost> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-01-06T18:42:43Z

* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: MAINTAINERS: Update timer related entries timers: Use this_cpu_read timerqueue: Make timerqueue_getnext() static inline hrtimer: fix timerqueue conversion flub hrtimers: Convert hrtimers to use timerlist infrastructure timers: Fixup allmodconfig build issue timers: Rename timerlist infrastructure to timerqueue timers: Introduce timerlist infrastructure. hrtimer: Remove stale comment on curr_timer timer: Warn when del_timer_sync() is called in hardirq context timer: Del_timer_sync() can be used in softirq context timer: Make try_to_del_timer_sync() the same on SMP and UP posix-timers: Annotate lock_timer() timer: Permit statically-declared work with deferrable timers time: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro in timecompare.c timer: Initialize the field slack of timer_list timer_list: Remove alignment padding on 64 bit when CONFIG_TIMER_STATS time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources Fix up trivial conflict in MAINTAINERS