History log of /linux-master/include/linux/time.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 77f6c0b8 23-Sep-2020 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

timekeeping: remove arch_gettimeoffset

With Arm EBSA110 gone, nothing uses it any more, so the corresponding
code and the Kconfig option can be removed.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


# 0cd39f46 06-Aug-2020 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

locking/seqlock, headers: Untangle the spaghetti monster

By using lockdep_assert_*() from seqlock.h, the spaghetti monster
attacked.

Attack back by reducing seqlock.h dependencies from two key high level headers:

- <linux/seqlock.h>: -Remove <linux/ww_mutex.h>
- <linux/time.h>: -Remove <linux/seqlock.h>
- <linux/sched.h>: +Add <linux/seqlock.h>

The price was to add it to sched.h ...

Core header fallout, we add direct header dependencies instead of gaining them
parasitically from higher level headers:

- <linux/dynamic_queue_limits.h>: +Add <asm/bug.h>
- <linux/hrtimer.h>: +Add <linux/seqlock.h>
- <linux/ktime.h>: +Add <asm/bug.h>
- <linux/lockdep.h>: +Add <linux/smp.h>
- <linux/sched.h>: +Add <linux/seqlock.h>
- <linux/videodev2.h>: +Add <linux/kernel.h>

Arch headers fallout:

- PARISC: <asm/timex.h>: +Add <asm/special_insns.h>
- SH: <asm/io.h>: +Add <asm/page.h>
- SPARC: <asm/timer_64.h>: +Add <uapi/asm/asi.h>
- SPARC: <asm/vvar.h>: +Add <asm/processor.h>, <asm/barrier.h>
-Remove <linux/seqlock.h>
- X86: <asm/fixmap.h>: +Add <asm/pgtable_types.h>
-Remove <asm/acpi.h>

There's also a bunch of parasitic header dependency fallout in .c files, not listed
separately.

[ mingo: Extended the changelog, split up & fixed the original patch. ]

Co-developed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200804133438.GK2674@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net


# 639fff1c 20-Mar-2020 Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>

linux/time.h: Extract common header for vDSO

The vDSO library should only include the necessary headers required for
a userspace library (UAPI and a minimal set of kernel headers). To make
this possible it is necessary to isolate from the kernel headers the
common parts that are strictly necessary to build the library.

Split time.h into linux and common headers to make the latter suitable
for inclusion in the vDSO library.

Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200320145351.32292-11-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com


# 660fd04f 11-Nov-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

lib/vdso: Prepare for time namespace support

To support time namespaces in the vdso with a minimal impact on regular non
time namespace affected tasks, the namespace handling needs to be hidden in
a slow path.

The most obvious place is vdso_seq_begin(). If a task belongs to a time
namespace then the VVAR page which contains the system wide vdso data is
replaced with a namespace specific page which has the same layout as the
VVAR page. That page has vdso_data->seq set to 1 to enforce the slow path
and vdso_data->clock_mode set to VCLOCK_TIMENS to enforce the time
namespace handling path.

The extra check in the case that vdso_data->seq is odd, e.g. a concurrent
update of the vdso data is in progress, is not really affecting regular
tasks which are not part of a time namespace as the task is spin waiting
for the update to finish and vdso_data->seq to become even again.

If a time namespace task hits that code path, it invokes the corresponding
time getter function which retrieves the real VVAR page, reads host time
and then adds the offset for the requested clock which is stored in the
special VVAR page.

If VDSO time namespace support is disabled the whole magic is compiled out.

Initial testing shows that the disabled case is almost identical to the
host case which does not take the slow timens path. With the special timens
page installed the performance hit is constant time and in the range of
5-7%.

For the vdso functions which are not using the sequence count an
unconditional check for vdso_data->clock_mode is added which switches to
the real vdso when the clock_mode is VCLOCK_TIMENS.

[avagin: Make do_hres_timens() work with raw clocks too: choose vdso_data
pointer by CS_RAW offset.]

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-21-dima@arista.com


# 04d26e7b 05-Dec-2019 Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>

tcp: fix rejected syncookies due to stale timestamps

If no synflood happens for a long enough period of time, then the
synflood timestamp isn't refreshed and jiffies can advance so much
that time_after32() can't accurately compare them any more.

Therefore, we can end up in a situation where time_after32(now,
last_overflow + HZ) returns false, just because these two values are
too far apart. In that case, the synflood timestamp isn't updated as
it should be, which can trick tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() into
rejecting valid syncookies.

For example, let's consider the following scenario on a system
with HZ=1000:

* The synflood timestamp is 0, either because that's the timestamp
of the last synflood or, more commonly, because we're working with
a freshly created socket.

* We receive a new SYN, which triggers synflood protection. Let's say
that this happens when jiffies == 2147484649 (that is,
'synflood timestamp' + HZ + 2^31 + 1).

* Then tcp_synq_overflow() doesn't update the synflood timestamp,
because time_after32(2147484649, 1000) returns false.
With:
- 2147484649: the value of jiffies, aka. 'now'.
- 1000: the value of 'last_overflow' + HZ.

* A bit later, we receive the ACK completing the 3WHS. But
cookie_v[46]_check() rejects it because tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow()
says that we're not under synflood. That's because
time_after32(2147484649, 120000) returns false.
With:
- 2147484649: the value of jiffies, aka. 'now'.
- 120000: the value of 'last_overflow' + TCP_SYNCOOKIE_VALID.

Of course, in reality jiffies would have increased a bit, but this
condition will last for the next 119 seconds, which is far enough
to accommodate for jiffie's growth.

Fix this by updating the overflow timestamp whenever jiffies isn't
within the [last_overflow, last_overflow + HZ] range. That shouldn't
have any performance impact since the update still happens at most once
per second.

Now we're guaranteed to have fresh timestamps while under synflood, so
tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() can safely use it with time_after32() in
such situations.

Stale timestamps can still make tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() return
the wrong verdict when not under synflood. This will be handled in the
next patch.

For 64 bits architectures, the problem was introduced with the
conversion of ->tw_ts_recent_stamp to 32 bits integer by commit
cca9bab1b72c ("tcp: use monotonic timestamps for PAWS").
The problem has always been there on 32 bits architectures.

Fixes: cca9bab1b72c ("tcp: use monotonic timestamps for PAWS")
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# ddbc7d06 25-Oct-2019 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

y2038: move itimer reset into itimer.c

Preparing for a change to the itimer internals, stop using the
do_setitimer() symbol and instead use a new higher-level interface.

The do_getitimer()/do_setitimer functions can now be made static,
allowing the compiler to potentially produce better object code.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


# d0dd63a8 16-Jun-2018 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

time: Introduce struct __kernel_itimerspec

struct itimerspec is not y2038-safe.

Introduce a new struct __kernel_itimerspec based on the kernel internal
y2038-safe struct itimerspec64.

The definition of struct __kernel_itimerspec includes two struct
__kernel_timespec.

Since struct __kernel_timespec has the same representation in native and
compat modes, so does struct __kernel_itimerspec. This helps have a common
entry point for syscalls using struct __kernel_itimerspec.

New y2038-safe syscalls will use this new type. Since most of the new
syscalls are just an update to the native syscalls with the type update,
place the new definition under CONFIG_64BIT_TIME. This helps architectures
that do not support the above config to keep using the old definition of
struct itimerspec.

Also change the get/put_itimerspec64 to use struct__kernel_itimerspec.
This will help 32 bit architectures to use the new syscalls when
architectures select CONFIG_64BIT_TIME.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180617051144.29756-2-deepa.kernel@gmail.com


# ea2ce8f3 13-Mar-2018 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

time: Fix get_timespec64() for y2038 safe compat interfaces

get/put_timespec64() interfaces will eventually be used for
conversions between the new y2038 safe struct __kernel_timespec
and struct timespec64.

The new y2038 safe syscalls have a common entry for native
and compat interfaces.
On compat interfaces, the high order bits of nanoseconds
should be zeroed out. This is because the application code
or the libc do not guarantee zeroing of these. If used without
zeroing, kernel might be at risk of using timespec values
incorrectly.

Note that clearing of bits is dependent on CONFIG_64BIT_TIME
for now. This is until COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME has been handled
correctly. x86 will be the first architecture that will use the
CONFIG_64BIT_TIME.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 5dbf2012 19-Oct-2017 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

time: Move time_t based interfaces to time32.h

Interfaces based on 'struct timespec' or 'struct timeval' should no
longer be used for new code, which can use either ktime_t or 'struct
timespec64' instead.

To make this a little clearer, this moves the various helpers into a new
time32.h header. For the moment, this gets included by the normal time.h,
but we may be able to separate it entirely when most users of time32.h
are gone.

Individual helpers in the new file can get removed once they become unused
in the future.

Since the contents of time32.h look a lot like what's in time64.h, I'm
reordering them during the move to make them more similar, and to allow
a follow-up patch to redirect the 'timespec' based functions to thei
'timespec64' based counterparts on 64-bit architectures later.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[jstultz: Whitespace & checkpatch fixups]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 85bf19e7 19-Oct-2017 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

time: Remove unused functions

The (slow but) ongoing work on conversion from timespec to timespec64
has led some timespec based helper functions to become unused.

No new code should use them, so we can remove the functions entirely.
I'm planning to obsolete additional interfaces next and remove
more of these.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# e0956dcc 19-Oct-2017 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

timekeeping: Consolidate timekeeping_inject_offset code

The code to check the adjtimex() or clock_adjtime() arguments is spread
out across multiple files for presumably only historic reasons. As a
preparatation for a rework to get rid of the use of 'struct timeval'
and 'struct timespec' in there, this moves all the portions into
kernel/time/timekeeping.c and marks them as 'static'.

The warp_clock() function here is not as closely related as the others,
but I feel it still makes sense to move it here in order to consolidate
all callers of timekeeping_inject_offset().

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[jstultz: Whitespace fixup]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# aaed2dd8 02-Aug-2017 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

utimes: Make utimes y2038 safe

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.
Replace timespec with y2038 safe struct timespec64.

Note that the patch only changes the internals without
modifying the syscall interfaces. This will be part
of a separate series.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b5f51573 31-Aug-2017 Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>

ext4: avoid Y2038 overflow in recently_deleted()

Avoid a 32-bit time overflow in recently_deleted() since i_dtime
(inode deletion time) is stored only as a 32-bit value on disk.
Since i_dtime isn't used for much beyond a boolean value in e2fsck
and is otherwise only used in this function in the kernel, there is
no benefit to use more space in the inode for this field on disk.

Instead, compare only the relative deletion time with the low
32 bits of the time using the newly-added time_before32() helper,
which is similar to time_before() and time_after() for jiffies.

Increase RECENTCY_DIRTY to 300s based on Ted's comments about
usage experience at Google.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


# d5b7ffbf 24-Jun-2017 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

time: introduce {get,put}_itimerspec64

As we change the user space type for the timerfd and posix timer
functions to newer data types, we need some form of conversion
helpers to avoid duplicating that logic.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# f59dd9c8 24-Jun-2017 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

time: add get_timespec64 and put_timespec64

Add helper functions to convert between struct timespec64 and
struct timespec at userspace boundaries.

This is a preparatory patch to use timespec64 as the basic type
internally in the kernel as timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit systems.
The patch helps the cause by containing all data conversions at the
userspace boundaries within these functions.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ca2406ed 31-May-2017 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

times(2): move compat to native

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# bfe1c566 08-May-2017 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

time: delete CURRENT_TIME_SEC and CURRENT_TIME

All uses of CURRENT_TIME_SEC and CURRENT_TIME macros have been replaced
by other time functions. These macros are also not y2038 safe. And,
all their use cases can be fulfilled by y2038 safe ktime_get_* variants.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491613030-11599-12-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 93b5a9a7 05-Feb-2017 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched/headers, timekeeping: Move the timer tick function prototypes to <linux/timekeeping.h>

Move the update_process_times() and xtime_update() prototypes to <linux/timekeeping.h>.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 63cc9d6f 02-Feb-2017 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched/headers, time/timekeeping: Move the xtime_update() prototype from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/time.h>

This was in <linux/sched.h> only for hysterical raisins.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 74ba181e 10-Nov-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

timer: Move sys_alarm from timer.c to itimer.c

Move the only user of alarm_setitimer to itimer.c where it is defined.
This allows for making alarm_setitimer static, and dropping it from the
build when __ARCH_WANT_SYS_ALARM is not defined.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478841010-28605-5-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# e6c2682a 08-Jun-2016 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

time: Add time64_to_tm()

time_to_tm() takes time_t as an argument.
time_t is not y2038 safe.
Add time64_to_tm() that takes time64_t as an argument
which is y2038 safe.
The plan is to eventually replace all calls to time_to_tm()
by time64_to_tm().

Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 37cf4dc3 03-Dec-2015 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

time: Verify time values in adjtimex ADJ_SETOFFSET to avoid overflow

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 <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 6ada1fc0 03-Dec-2014 Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>

time: settimeofday: Validate the values of tv from user

An unvalidated user input is multiplied by a constant, which can result in
an undefined behaviour for large values. While this is validated later,
we should avoid triggering undefined behaviour.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
[jstultz: include trivial milisecond->microsecond correction noticed
by Andy]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 90b6ce9c 18-Nov-2014 pang.xunlei <pang.xunlei@linaro.org>

time: Provide y2038 safe mktime() replacement

As part of addressing "y2038 problem" for in-kernel uses, this
patch adds safe mktime64() using time64_t.

After this patch, mktime() is deprecated and all its call sites
will be fixed using mktime64(), after that it can be removed.

Signed-off-by: pang.xunlei <pang.xunlei@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 8b094cd0 16-Jul-2014 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

time: Consolidate the time accessor prototypes

Right now we have time related prototypes in 3 different header
files. Move it to a single timekeeping header file and move the core
internal stuff into a core private header.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 361a3bf0 16-Jul-2014 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

time64: Add time64.h header and define struct timespec64

Define the timespec64 structure and standard helper functions.

[ tglx: Make it 32bit only. 64bit really can map timespec to timespec64 ]

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 24e4a8c3 16-Jul-2014 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

ktime: Kill non-scalar ktime_t implementation for 2038

The non-scalar ktime_t implementation is basically a timespec
which has to be changed to support dates past 2038 on 32bit
systems.

This patch removes the non-scalar ktime_t implementation, forcing
the scalar s64 nanosecond version on all architectures.

This may have additional performance overhead on some 32bit
systems when converting between ktime_t and timespec structures,
however the majority of 32bit systems (arm and i386) were already
using scalar ktime_t, so no performance regressions will be seen
on those platforms.

On affected platforms, I'm open to finding optimizations, including
avoiding converting to timespecs where possible.

[ tglx: We can now cleanup the ktime_t.tv64 mess, but thats a
different issue and we can throw a coccinelle script at it ]

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 76f41088 16-Jul-2014 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

hrtimer: Cleanup hrtimer accessors to the timekepeing state

Rather then having two similar but totally different implementations
that provide timekeeping state to the hrtimer code, try to unify the
two implementations to be more simliar.

Thus this clarifies ktime_get_update_offsets to
ktime_get_update_offsets_now and changes get_xtime... to
ktime_get_update_offsets_tick.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# b4f711ee 24-Apr-2013 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

time: Revert ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK compile time optimizaitons

Kay Sievers noted that the ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK config,
which enables some minor compile time optimization to avoid
uncessary code in mostly the suspend/resume path could cause
problems for userland.

In particular, the dependency for RTC_HCTOSYS on
!ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK, which avoids setting the time
twice and simplifies suspend/resume, has the side effect
of causing the /sys/class/rtc/rtcN/hctosys flag to always be
zero, and this flag is commonly used by udev to setup the
/dev/rtc symlink to /dev/rtcN, which can cause pain for
older applications.

While the udev rules could use some work to be less fragile,
breaking userland should strongly be avoided. Additionally
the compile time optimizations are fairly minor, and the code
being optimized is likely to be reworked in the future, so
lets revert this change.

Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> #3.9
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366828376-18124-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 1ff3c967 03-May-2012 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

timekeeping: Add CLOCK_TAI clockid

This add a CLOCK_TAI clockid and the needed accessors.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# cc244dda 03-May-2012 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

timekeeping: Move TAI managment into timekeeping core from ntp

Currently NTP manages the TAI offset. Since there's plans for a
CLOCK_TAI clockid, push the TAI management into the timekeeping
core.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 84e345e4 08-Feb-2013 Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>

time, Fix setting of hardware clock in NTP code

At init time, if the system time is "warped" forward in warp_clock()
it will differ from the hardware clock by sys_tz.tz_minuteswest. This time
difference is not taken into account when ntp updates the hardware clock,
and this causes the system time to jump forward by this offset every reboot.

The kernel must take this offset into account when writing the system time
to the hardware clock in the ntp code. This patch adds
persistent_clock_is_local which indicates that an offset has been applied
in warp_clock() and accounts for the "warp" before writing the hardware
clock.

x86 does not have this problem as rtc writes are software limited to a
+/-15 minute window relative to the current rtc time. Other arches, such
as powerpc, however do a full synchronization of the system time to the
rtc and will see this problem.

[v2]: generated against tip/timers/core

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 6f16eebe 25-Jan-2013 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

timekeeping: Switch HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK to ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK

Jason pointed out the HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK name isn't
quite accurate for the config, as some systems may have
the persistent_clock in some cases, but not always.

So change the config name to the more clear
ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 05ad717c 15-Jan-2013 Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>

timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK option

Make the persistent clock check a kernel config option, so that some
platform can explicitely select it, also make CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and
RTC_SYSTOHC depend on its non-existence, which could prevent the
persistent clock and RTC code from doing similar thing twice during
system's init/suspend/resume phases.

If the CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK=n, then no change happens for kernel
which still does the persistent clock check in timekeeping_init().

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
[jstultz: Added dependency for RTC_SYSTOHC as well]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 31ade306 15-Jan-2013 Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>

timekeeping: Add persistent_clock_exist flag

In current kernel, there are several places which need to check
whether there is a persistent clock for the platform. Current check
is done by calling the read_persistent_clock() and validating its
return value.

So one optimization is to do the check only once in timekeeping_init(),
and use a flag persistent_clock_exist to record it.

v2: Add a has_persistent_clock() helper function, as suggested by John.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 1e817fb6 19-Nov-2012 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

time: create __getnstimeofday for WARNless calls

The pstore RAM backend can get called during resume, and must be defensive
against a suspended time source. Expose getnstimeofday logic that returns
an error instead of a WARN. This can be detected and the timestamp can
be zeroed out.

Reported-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 7b1f6207 07-Nov-2012 Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>

time: convert arch_gettimeoffset to a pointer

Currently, whenever CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET is enabled, each
arch core provides a single implementation of arch_gettimeoffset(). In
many cases, different sub-architectures, different machines, or
different timer providers exist, and so the arch ends up implementing
arch_gettimeoffset() as a call-through-pointer anyway. Examples are
ARM, Cris, M68K, and it's arguable that the remaining architectures,
M32R and Blackfin, should be doing this anyway.

Modify arch_gettimeoffset so that it itself is a function pointer, which
the arch initializes. This will allow later changes to move the
initialization of this function into individual machine support or timer
drivers. This is particularly useful for code in drivers/clocksource
which should rely on an arch-independant mechanism to register their
implementation of arch_gettimeoffset().

This patch also converts the Cris architecture to set arch_gettimeoffset
directly to the final implementation in time_init(), because Cris already
had separate time_init() functions per sub-architecture. M68K and ARM
are converted to set arch_gettimeoffset to the final implementation in
later patches, because they already have function pointers in place for
this purpose.

Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>


# 607ca46e 13-Oct-2012 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>


# cee58483 31-Aug-2012 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

time: Move ktime_t overflow checking into timespec_valid_strict

Andreas Bombe reported that the added ktime_t overflow checking added to
timespec_valid in commit 4e8b14526ca7 ("time: Improve sanity checking of
timekeeping inputs") was causing problems with X.org because it caused
timeouts larger then KTIME_T to be invalid.

Previously, these large timeouts would be clamped to KTIME_MAX and would
never expire, which is valid.

This patch splits the ktime_t overflow checking into a new
timespec_valid_strict function, and converts the timekeeping codes
internal checking to use this more strict function.

Reported-and-tested-by: Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>
Cc: Zhouping Liu <zliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 4e8b1452 08-Aug-2012 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs

Unexpected behavior could occur if the time is set to a value large
enough to overflow a 64bit ktime_t (which is something larger then the
year 2262).

Also unexpected behavior could occur if large negative offsets are
injected via adjtimex.

So this patch improves the sanity check timekeeping inputs by
improving the timespec_valid() check, and then makes better use of
timespec_valid() to make sure we don't set the time to an invalid
negative value or one that overflows ktime_t.

Note: This does not protect from setting the time close to overflowing
ktime_t and then letting natural accumulation cause the overflow.

Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhouping Liu <zliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344454580-17031-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 8ded2bbc 25-Jul-2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>

posix_types.h: Cleanup stale __NFDBITS and related definitions

Recently, glibc made a change to suppress sign-conversion warnings in
FD_SET (glibc commit ceb9e56b3d1). This uncovered an issue with the
kernel's definition of __NFDBITS if applications #include
<linux/types.h> after including <sys/select.h>. A build failure would
be seen when passing the -Werror=sign-compare and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
flags to gcc.

It was suggested that the kernel should either match the glibc
definition of __NFDBITS or remove that entirely. The current in-kernel
uses of __NFDBITS can be replaced with BITS_PER_LONG, and there are no
uses of the related __FDELT and __FDMASK defines. Given that, we'll
continue the cleanup that was started with commit 8b3d1cda4f5f
("posix_types: Remove fd_set macros") and drop the remaining unused
macros.

Additionally, linux/time.h has similar macros defined that expand to
nothing so we'll remove those at the same time.

Reported-by: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
[ .. and fix up whitespace as per akpm ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 190d3b6b 18-May-2012 Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>

time: remove obsolete declaration

The function, timekeeping_leap_insert, was removed in commit
6b43ae8a619d17c4935c3320d2ef9e92bdeed05d

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 335dd858 11-Feb-2012 Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>

time: remove no_sync_cmos_clock

Commit 9863c90f682fba34cdc26c3437e8c00da6c83fa4 (x86, vmware: Remove
deprecated VMI kernel support) removed the only place which set
no_sync_cmos_clock. Since that commit, this variable is never set.

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# cf420048 16-Feb-2012 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Delete the __FD_*() funcs for operating on fd_set from linux/time.h

Delete the __FD_*() functions for operating on fd_set structs from
linux/time.h as they're no longer used within the kernel with the preceding
patch and are not exported to userspace.

Whilst linux/time.h *does* export the FD_*() equivalents as wrappers around
__FD_*(), userspace provides its own definition of __FD_*().

Note that the definition of FD_ZERO() in linux/time.h may not be used with the
fd_sets associated with struct fdtable as the fd_set may have been allocated in
a truncated fashion.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120216175006.23314.18984.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8b3d1cda 07-Feb-2012 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

posix_types: Remove fd_set macros

<asm/posix_types.h> includes a set of macros that operate on file
descriptors. Way long ago those were exported to user space, but
nowadays they are #ifdef __KERNEL__.

However, they are nothing but standard (nonatomic) bit operations, and
we already have optimized versions of bit operations in the kernel.
We can't include <linux/bitops.h> in <asm/posix_types.h> but we can
move the definitions to <linux/time.h> and define them there in terms
of standard kernel bitops.

[ v2: folds the following fixes in:

a) Stray space in __FD_SET(), reported by Andrew Morton
b) #include <linux/string.h> needed for memset(), reported by Tony Luck ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328677745-20121-22-git-send-email-hpa@zytor.com
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# 9ec26907 20-May-2011 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

timerfd: Manage cancelable timers in timerfd

Peter is concerned about the extra scan of CLOCK_REALTIME_COS in the
timer interrupt. Yes, I did not think about it, because the solution
was so elegant. I didn't like the extra list in timerfd when it was
proposed some time ago, but with a rcu based list the list walk it's
less horrible than the original global lock, which was held over the
list iteration.

Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>


# 99ee5315 27-Apr-2011 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when clock was set

Some applications must be aware of clock realtime being set
backward. A simple example is a clock applet which arms a timer for
the next minute display. If clock realtime is set backward then the
applet displays a stale time for the amount of time which the clock
was set backwards. Due to that applications poll the time because we
don't have an interface.

Extend the timerfd interface by adding a flag which puts the timer
onto a different internal realtime clock. All timers on this clock are
expired whenever the clock was set.

The timerfd core records the monotonic offset when the timer is
created. When the timer is armed, then the current offset is compared
to the previous recorded offset. When it has changed, then
timerfd_settime returns -ECANCELED. When a timer is read the offset is
compared and if it changed -ECANCELED returned to user space. Periodic
timers are not rearmed in the cancelation case.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
Tested-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Calpine.LFD.2.02.1104271359580.3323%40ionos%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 9a7adcf5 11-Jan-2011 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

timers: Posix interface for alarm-timers

This patch exposes alarm-timers to userland via the posix clock
and timers interface, using two new clockids: CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM
and CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM. Both clockids behave identically to
CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME, respectively, but timers
set against the _ALARM suffixed clockids will wake the system if
it is suspended.

Some background can be found here:
https://lwn.net/Articles/429925/

The concept for Alarm-timers was inspired by the Android Alarm
driver (by Arve Hjønnevåg) found in the Android kernel tree.

See: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=blob;f=drivers/rtc/alarm.c;h=1250edfbdf3302f5e4ea6194847c6ef4bb7beb1c;hb=android-2.6.36

While the in-kernel interface is pretty similar between
alarm-timers and Android alarm driver, the user-space interface
for the Android alarm driver is via ioctls to a new char device.
As mentioned above, I've instead chosen to export this functionality
via the posix interface, as it seemed a little simpler and avoids
creating duplicate interfaces to things like CLOCK_REALTIME and
CLOCK_MONOTONIC under alternate names (ie:ANDROID_ALARM_RTC and
ANDROID_ALARM_SYSTEMTIME).

The semantics of the Android alarm driver are different from what
this posix interface provides. For instance, threads other then
the thread waiting on the Android alarm driver are able to modify
the alarm being waited on. Also this interface does not allow
the same wakelock semantics that the Android driver provides
(ie: kernel takes a wakelock on RTC alarm-interupt, and holds it
through process wakeup, and while the process runs, until the
process either closes the char device or calls back in to wait
on a new alarm).

One potential way to implement similar semantics may be via
the timerfd infrastructure, but this needs more research.

There may also need to be some sort of sysfs system level policy
hooks that allow alarm timers to be disabled to keep them
from firing at inappropriate times (ie: laptop in a well insulated
bag, mid-flight).

CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 304529b1 01-Apr-2011 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

time: Add timekeeping_inject_sleeptime

Some platforms cannot implement read_persistent_clock, as
their RTC devices are only accessible when interrupts are enabled.
This keeps them from being used by the timekeeping code on resume
to measure the time in suspend.

The RTC layer tries to work around this, by calling do_settimeofday
on resume after irqs are reenabled to set the time properly. However,
this only corrects CLOCK_REALTIME, and does not properly adjust
the sleep time value. This causes btime in /proc/stat to be incorrect
as well as making the new CLOCK_BOTTTIME inaccurate.

This patch resolves the issue by introducing a new timekeeping hook
to allow the RTC layer to inject the sleep time on resume.

The code also checks to make sure that read_persistent_clock is
nonfunctional before setting the sleep time, so that should the RTC's
HCTOSYS option be configured in on a system that does support
read_persistent_clock we will not increase the total_sleep_time twice.

CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 70a08cca 15-Feb-2011 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base

CLOCK_MONOTONIC stops while the system is in suspend. This is because
to applications system suspend is invisible. However, there is a
growing set of applications that are wanting to be suspend-aware,
but do not want to deal with the complications of CLOCK_REALTIME
(which might jump around if settimeofday is called).

For these applications, I propose a new clockid: CLOCK_BOOTTIME.
CLOCK_BOOTTIME is idential to CLOCK_MONOTONIC, except it also
includes any time spent in suspend.

This patch add hrtimer base for CLOCK_BOOTTIME, using
get_monotonic_boottime/ktime_get_boottime, to allow
in kernel users to set timers against.

CC: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 314ac371 14-Feb-2011 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep

Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset to
get_xtime_and_monotonic_and_sleep_offset().

CC: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# abb3a4ea 14-Feb-2011 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime

This adds new functions that return the monotonic time since boot
(in other words, CLOCK_MONOTONIC + suspend time).

CC: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# c528f7c6 01-Feb-2011 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset

This adds a kernel-internal timekeeping interface to add or subtract
a fixed amount from CLOCK_REALTIME. This makes it so kernel users or
interfaces trying to do so do not have to read the time, then add an
offset and then call settimeofday(), which adds some extra error in
comparision to just simply adding the offset in the kernel timekeeping
core.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.584311693@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 1e6d7679 01-Feb-2011 Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>

time: Correct the *settime* parameters

Both settimeofday() and clock_settime() promise with a 'const'
attribute not to alter the arguments passed in. This patch adds the
missing 'const' attribute into the various kernel functions
implementing these calls.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134417.545698637@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# e2830b5c 27-Jan-2011 Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>

time: Make do_timer() and xtime_lock local to kernel/time/

All callers of do_timer() are converted to xtime_update(). The only
users of xtime_lock are in kernel/time/. Make both local to
kernel/time/ and remove them from the global header files.

[ tglx: Reuse tick-internal.h instead of creating another local header
file. Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 79ecaf0d 31-Jan-2011 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

time: Remove unused __get_wall_to_monotonic()

No users left. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 48cf76f7 27-Jan-2011 Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>

time: Provide get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset()

The hrtimer code accesses timekeeping variables under
xtime_lock. Provide a sensible accessor function and use it.

[ tglx: Removed the conditionals, unused variable, fixed codingstyle
and massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <20110127145905.23248.30458.stgit@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 871cf1e5 27-Jan-2011 Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>

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

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 <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>


# e2c18e49 12-Jan-2011 Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>

pps: capture MONOTONIC_RAW timestamps as well

MONOTONIC_RAW clock timestamps are ideally suited for frequency
calculation and also fit well into the original NTP hardpps design. Now
phase and frequency can be adjusted separately: the former based on
REALTIME clock and the latter based on MONOTONIC_RAW clock.

A new function getnstime_raw_and_real is added to timekeeping subsystem to
capture both timestamps at the same time and atomically.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c7887325 11-Aug-2010 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const

Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't. The list includes:

(*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
syscalls and some mount syscalls.

(*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.

(*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 4936a3b9 09-Aug-2010 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

x86/hpet: Use the FSEC_PER_SEC constant for femto-second periods

The current computation, introduced with f12a15be63, of FSEC_PER_SEC using
the multiplication of (FSEC_PER_NSEC * NSEC_PER_SEC) is performed only
with 32bit integers on small machines, resulting in an overflow and a
*very* short intervals being programmed. An interrupt storm follows.

Note that we also have to specify FSEC_PER_SEC as being long long to
overcome the same limitations.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0fb86b06 13-Jul-2010 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

timekeeping: Make xtime and wall_to_monotonic static

This patch makes xtime and wall_to_monotonic static, as planned in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. This will allow for
further cleanups to the timekeeping core.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-10-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 8ab4351a 13-Jul-2010 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

hrtimer: Cleanup direct access to wall_to_monotonic

Provides an accessor function to replace hrtimer.c's
direct access of wall_to_monotonic.

This will allow wall_to_monotonic to be made static as
planned in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-9-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# ce3bf7ab 13-Jul-2010 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

time: Implement timespec_add

After accidentally misusing timespec_add_safe, I wanted to make sure
we don't accidently trip over that issue again, so I created a simple
timespec_add() function which we can use to replace the instances
of timespec_add_safe() that don't want the overflow detection.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-3-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 6a867a39 06-Apr-2010 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

time: Remove xtime_cache

With the earlier logarithmic time accumulation patch, xtime will now
always be within one "tick" of the current time, instead of possibly
half a second off.

This removes the need for the xtime_cache value, which always stored the
time at the last interrupt, so this patch cleans that up removing the
xtime_cache related code.

This patch also addresses an issue with an earlier version of this change,
where xtime_cache was normalizing xtime, which could in some cases be
not valid (ie: tv_nsec == NSEC_PER_SEC). This is fixed by handling
the edge case in update_wall_time().

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Petr Titěra <P.Titera@century.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1270589451-30773-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 98962465 17-Aug-2009 Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>

nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle

The dynamic tick allows the kernel to sleep for periods longer than a
single tick, but it does not limit the sleep time currently. In the
worst case the kernel could sleep longer than the wrap around time of
the time keeping clock source which would result in losing track of
time.

Prevent this by limiting it to the safe maximum sleep time of the
current time keeping clock source. The value is calculated when the
clock source is registered.

[ tglx: simplified the code a bit and massaged the commit msg ]

Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-2-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 57f1f087 23-Sep-2009 Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>

time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universal use

There are many similar code in kernel for one object: convert time between
calendar time and broken-down time.

Here is some source I found:
fs/ncpfs/dir.c
fs/smbfs/proc.c
fs/fat/misc.c
fs/udf/udftime.c
fs/cifs/netmisc.c
net/netfilter/xt_time.c
drivers/scsi/ips.c
drivers/input/misc/hp_sdc_rtc.c
drivers/rtc/rtc-lib.c
arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c
arch/m68k/mac/misc.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
arch/parisc/include/asm/rtc.h
...

We can make a common function for this type of conversion, At least we
can get following benefit:

1: Make kernel simple and unify
2: Easy to fix bug in converting code
3: Reduce clone of code in future
For example, I'm trying to make ftrace display walltime,
this patch will make me easy.

This code is based on code from glibc-2.6

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 12e09337 14-Sep-2009 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

time: Prevent 32 bit overflow with set_normalized_timespec()

set_normalized_timespec() nsec argument is of type long. The recent
timekeeping changes of ktime_get_ts() feed

ts->tv_nsec + tomono.tv_nsec + nsecs

to set_normalized_timespec(). On 32 bit machines that sum can be
larger than (1 << 31) and therefor result in a negative value which
screws up the result completely.

Make the nsec argument of set_normalized_timespec() s64 to fix the
problem at hand. This also prevents similar problems for future users
of set_normalized_timespec().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Carsten Emde <carsten.emde@osadl.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>


# da15cfda 19-Aug-2009 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE

After talking with some application writers who want very fast, but not
fine-grained timestamps, I decided to try to implement new clock_ids
to clock_gettime(): CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE
which returns the time at the last tick. This is very fast as we don't
have to access any hardware (which can be very painful if you're using
something like the acpi_pm clocksource), and we can even use the vdso
clock_gettime() method to avoid the syscall. The only trade off is you
only get low-res tick grained time resolution.

This isn't a new idea, I know Ingo has a patch in the -rt tree that made
the vsyscall gettimeofday() return coarse grained time when the
vsyscall64 sysctrl was set to 2. However this affects all applications
on a system.

With this method, applications can choose the proper speed/granularity
trade-off for themselves.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: nikolag@ca.ibm.com
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org
Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org
LKML-Reference: <1250734414.6897.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 23970e38 14-Aug-2009 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

timekeeping: Introduce read_boot_clock

Add the new function read_boot_clock to get the exact time the system
has been started. For architectures without support for exact boot
time a new weak function is added that returns 0. Use the exact boot
time to initialize wall_to_monotonic, or xtime if the read_boot_clock
returned 0.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134811.296703241@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# d4f587c6 14-Aug-2009 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock()

The persistent clock of some architectures (e.g. s390) have a
better granularity than seconds. To reduce the delta between the
host clock and the guest clock in a virtualized system change the
read_persistent_clock function to return a struct timespec.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134811.013873340@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 31089c13 14-Aug-2009 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

timekeeping: Introduce timekeeping_leap_insert

Move the adjustment of xtime, wall_to_monotonic and the update of the
vsyscall variables to the timekeeping code.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134807.609730216@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 7d27558c 01-May-2009 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

timekeeping: create arch_gettimeoffset infrastructure

Some arches don't supply their own clocksource. This is mainly the
case in architectures that get their inter-tick times by reading the
counter on their interval timer. Since these timers wrap every tick,
they're not really useful as clocksources. Wrapping them to act like
one is possible but not very efficient. So we provide a callout these
arches can implement for use with the jiffies clocksource to provide
finer then tick granular time.

[ Impact: ease the migration to generic time keeping ]

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 85efde6f 25-Feb-2009 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

make exported headers use strict posix types

A number of standard posix types are used in exported headers, which
is not allowed if __STRICT_KERNEL_NAMES is defined. In order to
get rid of the non-__STRICT_KERNEL_NAMES part and to make sane headers
the default, we have to change them all to safe types.

There are also still some leftovers in reiserfs_fs.h, elfcore.h
and coda.h, but these files have not compiled in user space for
a long time.

This leaves out the various integer types ({u_,u,}int{8,16,32,64}_t),
which we take care of separately.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 1c5745aa 22-Dec-2008 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards, take #2

Redo:

5b7dba4: sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards

which had to be reverted due to s2ram hangs:

ca7e716: Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards"

... this time with resume restoring GTOD later in the sequence
taken into account as well.

The "timekeeping_suspended" flag is not very nice but we cannot call into
GTOD before it has been properly resumed and the scheduler will run very
early in the resume sequence.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# b418da16 15-Oct-2008 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

compat: generic compat get/settimeofday

Nothing arch specific in get/settimeofday. The details of the timeval
conversion varied a little from arch to arch, but all with the same
results.

Also add an extern declaration for sys_tz to linux/time.h because externs
in .c files are fowned upon. I'll kill the externs in various other files
in a sparate patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ sparc bits ]
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# f06febc9 12-Sep-2008 Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>

timers: fix itimer/many thread hang

Overview

This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the
ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling. It was put together
with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code.

The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using
a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads. It appears
that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was
at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse.
Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken
for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at
which point things degrade rather quickly.

This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF."

Code Changes

This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it
run in constant time for a particular machine. (Performance may vary between
one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single-
or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of
running processors.) To do this, at each tick we now update fields in
signal_struct as well as task_struct. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function
uses those fields to make its decisions.

We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and
scheduler times and use these in appropriate places:

struct task_cputime {
cputime_t utime;
cputime_t stime;
unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime;
};

This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new
substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus
multiprocessor kernels. For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as
a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer:

struct thread_group_cputime {
struct task_cputime totals;
};

struct thread_group_cputime {
struct task_cputime *totals;
};

We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to
cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also
replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration
of thread timers). The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide
timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends. In the non-SMP
case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that
simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in
one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than
the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention). For SMP, the
thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated
using alloc_percpu(). The timer functions update only the timer field in
the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr().

We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the
thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP
implementations from the rest of the kernel. The thread_group_cputime_init()
function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task.
The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the
out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill
in the per-cpu structures and fields. The thread_group_cputime_free()
function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures. The
thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls
thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been
allocated. The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime
structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields;
in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal
is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and,
if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU. Finally, the three
functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and
account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the
respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure.

Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further.

The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new
thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal().
It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from
cleanup_signal().

All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from
from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to
snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in
the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated.

Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit.
The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a
slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread
timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting.
With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and
the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away. All
summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the
thread_group_cputime() inline. When process-wide timers are set, the new
task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest
expiration; this is checked in the fast path.

Performance

The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations. It
generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in
which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs
very significantly better (Case 2 below). Overall it's a wash except in those
two cases.

I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system.

Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed
kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system,
all of which was spent in the system. There were twice as many
voluntary context switches with the fix as without it.

Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most
an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in
eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and
had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023
seconds per tick).

Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an
interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had
very nearly the same performance in both cases: 6.3 seconds elapsed
for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel.

With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially
the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus
5.8 seconds). The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds
versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per
tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel.

Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits.

Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer
running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while
it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of
wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was
user time. The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds
of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system
time. Really, though, the results were too close to call. The results
were essentially the same with no itimer running.

Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds
(where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running,
the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified
kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick. Otherwise,
performance was almost indistinguishable. With no itimer running this
test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases.

In times past I did some limited performance testing. those results are below.

On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed
in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s. On
the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but
system time dropped to 0.007 seconds. Performance with eight, four and one
thread were comparable. Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed
more accurate: The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks
for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720
for 0.061 seconds per tick. Both cases were configured for an interval of
0.01 seconds. Again, the other tests were comparable. Each thread in this
test computed the primes up to 25,000,000.

I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is
impossible without the fix. In this case each thread computed the primes only
up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable). System time dominated, at
1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of
629.938s). It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite
accurate. There is obviously no comparable test without the fix.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# df0cc053 31-Aug-2008 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

select: add a timespec_add_safe() function

For the select() rework, it's important to be able to add timespec
structures in an overflow-safe manner.

This patch adds a timespec_add_safe() function for this which is similar in
operation to ktime_add_safe(), but works on a struct timespec.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>


# 2d42244a 20-Aug-2008 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

clocksource: introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW

In talking with Josip Loncaric, and his work on clock synchronization (see
btime.sf.net), he mentioned that for really close synchronization, it is
useful to have access to "hardware time", that is a notion of time that is
not in any way adjusted by the clock slewing done to keep close time sync.

Part of the issue is if we are using the kernel's ntp adjusted
representation of time in order to measure how we should correct time, we
can run into what Paul McKenney aptly described as "Painting a road using
the lines we're painting as the guide".

I had been thinking of a similar problem, and was trying to come up with a
way to give users access to a purely hardware based time representation
that avoided users having to know the underlying frequency and mask values
needed to deal with the wide variety of possible underlying hardware
counters.

My solution is to introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW. This exposes a
nanosecond based time value, that increments starting at bootup and has no
frequency adjustments made to it what so ever.

The time is accessed from userspace via the posix_clock_gettime() syscall,
passing CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW as the clock_id.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 9412e286 12-Jun-2008 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

always_inline timespec_add_ns

timespec_add_ns is used from the x86-64 vdso, which cannot call out to
other kernel code. Make sure that timespec_add_ns is always inlined
(and only uses always_inlined functions) to make sure there are no
unexpected calls.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# f595ec96 12-Jun-2008 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

common implementation of iterative div/mod

We have a few instances of the open-coded iterative div/mod loop, used
when we don't expcet the dividend to be much bigger than the divisor.
Unfortunately modern gcc's have the tendency to strength "reduce" this
into a full mod operation, which isn't necessarily any faster, and
even if it were, doesn't exist if gcc implements it in libgcc.

The workaround is to put a dummy asm statement in the loop to prevent
gcc from performing the transformation.

This patch creates a single implementation of this loop, and uses it
to replace the open-coded versions I know about.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 38332cb9 04-Mar-2008 Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>

time: prevent the loop in timespec_add_ns() from being optimised away

Since some architectures don't support __udivdi3().

Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# cf4fc6cb 08-Feb-2008 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

timekeeping: rename timekeeping_is_continuous to timekeeping_valid_for_hres

Function timekeeping_is_continuous() no longer checks flag
CLOCK_IS_CONTINUOUS, and it checks CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES now. So rename
the function accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 1001d0a9 01-Feb-2008 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

timekeeping: update xtime_cache when time(zone) changes

xtime_cache needs to be updated whenever xtime and or wall_to_monotic
are changed. Otherwise users of xtime_cache might see a stale (and in
the case of timezone changes utterly wrong) value until the next
update happens.

Fixup the obvious places, which miss this update.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# ba2a631b 17-Oct-2007 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

kernel/time/timekeeping.c: cleanups

- remove the no longer required __attribute__((weak)) of xtime_lock
- remove the following no longer used EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
- xtime
- xtime_lock

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 17c38b74 24-Jul-2007 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

Cache xtime every call to update_wall_time

This avoids xtime lag seen with dynticks, because while 'xtime' itself
is still not updated often, we keep a 'xtime_cache' variable around that
contains the approximate real-time that _is_ updated each time we do a
'update_wall_time()', and is thus never off by more than one tick.

IOW, this restores the original semantics for 'xtime' users, as long as
you use the proper abstraction functions (ie 'current_kernel_time()' or
'get_seconds()' depending on whether you want a timespec or just the
seconds field).

[ Updated Patch. As penance for my sins I've also yanked another #ifdef
that was added to avoid the xtime lag w/ hrtimers. ]

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 2c6b47de 24-Jul-2007 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

Cleanup non-arch xtime uses, use get_seconds() or current_kernel_time().

This avoids use of the kernel-internal "xtime" variable directly outside
of the actual time-related functions. Instead, use the helper functions
that we already have available to us.

This doesn't actually change any behaviour, but this will allow us to
fix the fact that "xtime" isn't updated very often with CONFIG_NO_HZ
(because much of the realtime information is maintained as separate
offsets to 'xtime'), which has caused interfaces that use xtime directly
to get a time that is out of sync with the real-time clock by up to a
third of a second or so.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 82644459 21-Jul-2007 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

NTP: move the cmos update code into ntp.c

i386 and sparc64 have the identical code to update the cmos clock. Move it
into kernel/time/ntp.c as there are other architectures coming along with the
same requirements.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 5b78cc9a 17-Jul-2007 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>

make timespec_equal() take const arguments

Make arguments of timespec_equal() const struct timespec.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 7c3f1a57 16-Jul-2007 Tomas Janousek <tjanouse@redhat.com>

Introduce boot based time

The commits

411187fb05cd11676b0979d9fbf3291db69dbce2 (GTOD: persistent clock support)
c1d370e167d66b10bca3b602d3740405469383de (i386: use GTOD persistent clock
support)

changed the monotonic time so that it no longer jumps after resume, but it's
not possible to use it for boot time and process start time calculations then.
Also, the uptime no longer increases during suspend.

I add a variable to track the wall_to_monotonic changes, a function to get the
real boot time and a function to get the boot based time from the monotonic
one.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove exports, add comment]
Signed-off-by: Tomas Janousek <tjanouse@redhat.com>
Cc: Tomas Smetana <tsmetana@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 1c710c89 08-May-2007 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>

utimensat implementation

Implement utimensat(2) which is an extension to futimesat(2) in that it

a) supports nano-second resolution for the timestamps
b) allows to selectively ignore the atime/mtime value
c) allows to selectively use the current time for either atime or mtime
d) supports changing the atime/mtime of a symlink itself along the lines
of the BSD lutimes(3) functions

For this change the internally used do_utimes() functions was changed to
accept a timespec time value and an additional flags parameter.

Additionally the sys_utime function was changed to match compat_sys_utime
which already use do_utimes instead of duplicating the work.

Also, the completely missing futimensat() functionality is added. We have
such a function in glibc but we have to resort to using /proc/self/fd/* which
not everybody likes (chroot etc).

Test application (the syscall number will need per-arch editing):

#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <syscall.h>

#define __NR_utimensat 280

#define UTIME_NOW ((1l << 30) - 1l)
#define UTIME_OMIT ((1l << 30) - 2l)

int
main(void)
{
int status = 0;

int fd = open("ttt", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666);
if (fd == -1)
error (1, errno, "failed to create test file \"ttt\"");

struct stat64 st1;
if (fstat64 (fd, &st1) != 0)
error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

struct timespec t[2];
t[0].tv_sec = 0;
t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
t[1].tv_sec = 0;
t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

struct stat64 st2;
if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
{
puts ("atim not reset to zero");
status = 1;
}
if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
{
puts ("mtim not reset to zero");
status = 1;
}
if (status != 0)
goto out;

t[0] = st1.st_atim;
t[1].tv_sec = 0;
t[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != st1.st_atim.tv_sec
|| st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != st1.st_atim.tv_nsec)
{
puts ("atim not set");
status = 1;
}
if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
{
puts ("mtim changed from zero");
status = 1;
}
if (status != 0)
goto out;

t[0].tv_sec = 0;
t[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
t[1] = st1.st_mtim;
if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != st1.st_atim.tv_sec
|| st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != st1.st_atim.tv_nsec)
{
puts ("mtim changed from original time");
status = 1;
}
if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != st1.st_mtim.tv_sec
|| st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != st1.st_mtim.tv_nsec)
{
puts ("mtim not set");
status = 1;
}
if (status != 0)
goto out;

sleep (2);

t[0].tv_sec = 0;
t[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
t[1].tv_sec = 0;
t[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

struct timeval tv;
gettimeofday(&tv,NULL);

if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec <= st1.st_atim.tv_sec
|| st2.st_atim.tv_sec > tv.tv_sec)
{
puts ("atim not set to NOW");
status = 1;
}
if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec <= st1.st_mtim.tv_sec
|| st2.st_mtim.tv_sec > tv.tv_sec)
{
puts ("mtim not set to NOW");
status = 1;
}

if (symlink ("ttt", "tttsym") != 0)
error (1, errno, "cannot create symlink");

t[0].tv_sec = 0;
t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
t[1].tv_sec = 0;
t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "tttsym", t, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) != 0)
error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

if (lstat64 ("tttsym", &st2) != 0)
error (1, errno, "lstat failed");

if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
{
puts ("symlink atim not reset to zero");
status = 1;
}
if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
{
puts ("symlink mtim not reset to zero");
status = 1;
}
if (status != 0)
goto out;

t[0].tv_sec = 1;
t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
t[1].tv_sec = 1;
t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, fd, NULL, t, 0) != 0)
error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 1 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
{
puts ("atim not reset to one");
status = 1;
}
if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 1 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
{
puts ("mtim not reset to one");
status = 1;
}

if (status == 0)
puts ("all OK");

out:
close (fd);
unlink ("ttt");
unlink ("tttsym");

return status;
}

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing i386 syscall table entry]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8524070b 08-May-2007 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

Move timekeeping code to timekeeping.c

Move the timekeeping code out of kernel/timer.c and into
kernel/time/timekeeping.c. I made no cleanups or other changes in transit.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 411187fb 16-Feb-2007 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

[PATCH] GTOD: persistent clock support

Persistent clock support: do proper timekeeping across suspend/resume.

[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 5809f9d4 13-Feb-2007 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

[PATCH] x86-64: get rid of ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK

ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK is used by x86_64 arch . This arch needs to place a
read only copy of xtime_lock into vsyscall page. This read only copy is
named __xtime_lock, and xtime_lock is defined in
arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S as an alias. So the declaration of
xtime_lock in kernel/timer.c was guarded by ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK define,
defined to true on x86_64.

We can get same result with _attribute__((weak)) in the declaration. linker
should do the job.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>


# 77adbfbf 10-Feb-2007 Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>

[PATCH] Add const for time{spec,val}_compare arguments

The arguments are really const. Mark them const to allow these functions
being called from places where the arguments are const without getting
useless compiler warnings.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ca74e92b 14-Jul-2006 Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>

[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: setup

Initialization code related to collection of per-task "delay" statistics which
measure how long it had to wait for cpu, sync block io, swapping etc. The
collection of statistics and the interface are in other patches. This patch
sets up the data structures and allows the statistics collection to be
disabled through a kernel boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 05ebb761 26-Jun-2006 Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>

[PATCH] x86_64: Add useful constants to time.h

In timekeeping code, one often does need to use conversion constants. Naming
these leads to code that's easier to understand, showing the reader between
which units the conversion is made.

Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# cf3c769b 26-Jun-2006 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

[PATCH] Time: Introduce arch generic time accessors

Introduces clocksource switching code and the arch generic time accessor
functions that use the clocksource infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# ad596171 26-Jun-2006 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

[PATCH] Time: Use clocksource infrastructure for update_wall_time

Modify the update_wall_time function so it increments time using the
clocksource abstraction instead of jiffies. Since the only clocksource driver
currently provided is the jiffies clocksource, this should result in no
functional change. Additionally, a timekeeping_init and timekeeping_resume
function has been added to initialize and maintain some of the new timekeping
state.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fixlet]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# df869b63 26-Mar-2006 Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>

[PATCH] hrtimers: remove nsec_t typedef

nsec_t predates ktime_t and has mostly been superseded by it. In the few
places that are left it's better to make it explicit that we're dealing with
64 bit values here.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# c08b8a49 25-Mar-2006 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

[PATCH] sys_alarm() unsigned signed conversion fixup

alarm() calls the kernel with an unsigend int timeout in seconds. The
value is stored in the tv_sec field of a struct timeval to setup the
itimer. The tv_sec field of struct timeval is of type long, which causes
the tv_sec value to be negative on 32 bit machines if seconds > INT_MAX.

Before the hrtimer merge (pre 2.6.16) such a negative value was converted
to the maximum jiffies timeout by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion. It's
not clear whether this was intended or just happened to be done by the
timeval_to_jiffies code.

hrtimers expect a timeval in canonical form and treat a negative timeout as
already expired. This breaks the legitimate usage of alarm() with a
timeout value > INT_MAX seconds.

For 32 bit machines it is therefor necessary to limit the internal seconds
value to avoid API breakage. Instead of doing this in all implementations
of sys_alarm the duplicated sys_alarm code is moved into a common function
in itimer.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 643a6545 11-Feb-2006 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

[PATCH] select: fix returned timeval

With David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

select() presently has a habit of increasing the value of the user's
`timeout' argument on return.

We were writing back a timeout larger than the original. We _deliberately_
round up, since we know we must wait at _least_ as long as the caller asks
us to.

The patch adds a couple of helper functions for magnitude comparison of
timespecs and of timevals, and uses them to prevent the various poll and
select functions from returning a timeout which is larger than the one which
was passed in.

The patch also fixes a bug in compat_sys_pselect7(): it was adding the new
timeout value to the old one and was returning that. It should just return
the new timeout value.

(We have various handy timespec/timeval-to-from-nsec conversion functions in
time.h. But this code open-codes it all).

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# bd3f8f2b 31-Jan-2006 Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>

[PATCH] Make sure to always check upper bits of tv_nsec in timespec_valid.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 5590ff0d 18-Jan-2006 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>

[PATCH] vfs: *at functions: core

Here is a series of patches which introduce in total 13 new system calls
which take a file descriptor/filename pair instead of a single file
name. These functions, openat etc, have been discussed on numerous
occasions. They are needed to implement race-free filesystem traversal,
they are necessary to implement a virtual per-thread current working
directory (think multi-threaded backup software), etc.

We have in glibc today implementations of the interfaces which use the
/proc/self/fd magic. But this code is rather expensive. Here are some
results (similar to what Jim Meyering posted before).

The test creates a deep directory hierarchy on a tmpfs filesystem. Then
rm -fr is used to remove all directories. Without syscall support I get
this:

real 0m31.921s
user 0m0.688s
sys 0m31.234s

With syscall support the results are much better:

real 0m20.699s
user 0m0.536s
sys 0m20.149s

The interfaces are for obvious reasons currently not much used. But they'll
be used. coreutils (and Jeff's posixutils) are already using them.
Furthermore, code like ftw/fts in libc (maybe even glob) will also start using
them. I expect a patch to make follow soon. Every program which is walking
the filesystem tree will benefit.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# d1c0b8f8 09-Jan-2006 Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>

[PATCH] Remove getnstimestamp()

Remove getnstimestamp() in favor of ktime.h's ktime_get_ts()

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# becf8b5d 09-Jan-2006 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

[PATCH] hrtimer: convert posix timers completely

- convert posix-timers.c to use hrtimers

- remove the now obsolete abslist code

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# f8f46da3 09-Jan-2006 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

[PATCH] hrtimer: introduce nsec_t type and conversion functions

- introduce the nsec_t type

- basic nsec conversion routines: timespec_to_ns(), timeval_to_ns(),
ns_to_timespec(), ns_to_timeval().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 5f82b2b7 09-Jan-2006 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

[PATCH] hrtimer: create and use timespec_valid macro

add timespec_valid(ts) [returns false if the timespec is denorm]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 57a55875 09-Jan-2006 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[PATCH] hrtimer: coding style and white space cleanup

style and whitespace cleanup of the rest of time.h.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 1ad106ca 09-Jan-2006 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[PATCH] hrtimer: coding style clean up of clock constants

clean up the CLOCK_ portions of time.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 0c4f6eec 09-Jan-2006 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

[PATCH] hrtimer: remove unused clock constants

remove unused CLOCK_ constants from time.h

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# f4818900 09-Jan-2006 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[PATCH] hrtimer: clean up mktime and make arguments const

add 'const' to mktime arguments, and clean it up a bit

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 753be622 09-Jan-2006 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

[PATCH] hrtimer: deinline mktime and set_normalized_timespec

mktime() and set_normalized_timespec() are large inline functions used in many
places: deinline them.

From: George Anzinger, off-by-1 bugfix

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 64123fd4 12-Dec-2005 Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>

[PATCH] Add getnstimestamp function

There are several functions that might seem appropriate for a timestamp:

get_cycles()
current_kernel_time()
do_gettimeofday()
<read jiffies/jiffies_64>

Each has problems with combinations of SMP-safety, low resolution, and
monotonicity. This patch adds a new function that returns a monotonic SMP-safe
timestamp with nanosecond resolution where available.

Changes:
Split timestamp into separate patch
Moved to kernel/time.c
Renamed to getnstimestamp
Fixed unintended-pointer-arithmetic bug

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 3f39894d 13-Nov-2005 George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>

[PATCH] timespec: normalize off by one errors

It would appear that the timespec normalize code has an off by one error.
Found in three places. Thanks to Ben for spotting.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger<george@mvista.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 373016e9 10-Sep-2005 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

[PATCH] time.h: remove ifdefs

Remove these ifdefs - there's no need to have more than one definition of
these multipliers anywhere.

Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 84f902c0 10-Sep-2005 Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>

[PATCH] include: update jiffies/{m,u}secs conversion functions

Clarify the human-time units to jiffies conversion functions by using the
constants in time.h. This makes many of the subsequent patches direct
copies of the current code.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# f23ef184 06-Sep-2005 Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

[PATCH] Delete unused do_nanosleep declaration

There is no do_nanosleep function so kill it's declaration in <linux/time.h>.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 1da177e4 16-Apr-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!