History log of /linux-master/kernel/time/jiffies.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# d25a0252 12-Aug-2021 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

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

The clocksource watchdog test sets a local JIFFIES_SHIFT macro and assumes
that HZ is >= 100. For smaller HZ values this shift value is too large and
causes undefined behaviour.

Move the HZ-based definitions of JIFFIES_SHIFT from kernel/time/jiffies.c
to kernel/time/tick-internal.h so the clocksource watchdog test can utilize
them, which makes it work correctly with all HZ values.

[ tglx: Resolved conflicts and massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210812000133.GA402890@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1/


# 2e27e793 27-May-2021 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

clocksource: Reduce clocksource-skew threshold

Currently, WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD is set to detect a 62.5-millisecond skew in
a 500-millisecond WATCHDOG_INTERVAL. This requires that clocks be skewed
by more than 12.5% in order to be marked unstable. Except that a clock
that is skewed by that much is probably destroying unsuspecting software
right and left. And given that there are now checks for false-positive
skews due to delays between reading the two clocks, it should be possible
to greatly decrease WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD, at least for fine-grained clocks
such as TSC.

Therefore, add a new uncertainty_margin field to the clocksource structure
that contains the maximum uncertainty in nanoseconds for the corresponding
clock. This field may be initialized manually, as it is for
clocksource_tsc_early and clocksource_jiffies, which is copied to
refined_jiffies. If the field is not initialized manually, it will be
computed at clock-registry time as the period of the clock in question
based on the scale and freq parameters to __clocksource_update_freq_scale()
function. If either of those two parameters are zero, the
tens-of-milliseconds WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD is used as a cowardly alternative
to dividing by zero. No matter how the uncertainty_margin field is
calculated, it is bounded below by twice WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW, that is, by 100
microseconds.

Note that manually initialized uncertainty_margin fields are not adjusted,
but there is a WARN_ON_ONCE() that triggers if any such field is less than
twice WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW. This WARN_ON_ONCE() is intended to discourage
production use of the one-nanosecond uncertainty_margin values that are
used to test the clock-skew code itself.

The actual clock-skew check uses the sum of the uncertainty_margin fields
of the two clocksource structures being compared. Integer overflow is
avoided because the largest computed value of the uncertainty_margin
fields is one billion (10^9), and double that value fits into an
unsigned int. However, if someone manually specifies (say) UINT_MAX,
they will get what they deserve.

Note that the refined_jiffies uncertainty_margin field is initialized to
TICK_NSEC, which means that skew checks involving this clocksource will
be sufficently forgiving. In a similar vein, the clocksource_tsc_early
uncertainty_margin field is initialized to 32*NSEC_PER_MSEC, which
replicates the current behavior and allows custom setting if needed
in order to address the rare skews detected for this clocksource in
current mainline.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-4-paulmck@kernel.org


# 4bf07f65 22-Mar-2021 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

timekeeping, clocksource: Fix various typos in comments

Fix ~56 single-word typos in timekeeping & clocksource code comments.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org


# 1a2b85f1 21-Oct-2020 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>

timekeeping: Convert jiffies_seq to seqcount_raw_spinlock_t

Use the new api and associate the seqcounter to the jiffies_lock enabling
lockdep support - although for this particular case the write-side locking
and non-preemptibility are quite obvious.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201021190749.19363-1-dave@stgolabs.net


# e5d4d175 20-Mar-2020 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

timekeeping: Split jiffies seqlock

seqlock consists of a sequence counter and a spinlock_t which is used to
serialize the writers. spinlock_t is substituted by a "sleeping" spinlock
on PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels which breaks the usage in the timekeeping
code as the writers are executed in hard interrupt and therefore
non-preemptible context even on PREEMPT_RT.

The spinlock in seqlock cannot be unconditionally replaced by a
raw_spinlock_t as many seqlock users have nesting spinlock sections or
other code which is not suitable to run in truly atomic context on RT.

Instead of providing a raw_seqlock API for a single use case, open code the
seqlock for the jiffies use case and implement it with a raw_spinlock_t and
a sequence counter.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.120587764@linutronix.de


# e1e41b6c 18-Mar-2019 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

timekeeping: Consistently use unsigned int for seqcount snapshot

The timekeeping code uses a random mix of "unsigned long" and "unsigned
int" for the seqcount snapshots (ratio 14:12). Since the seqlock.h API is
entirely based on unsigned int, use that throughout.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190318195557.20773-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk


# e8750053 12-Mar-2019 Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>

time/jiffies: Make refined_jiffies static

sparse complains:

CHECK kernel/time/jiffies.c
kernel/time/jiffies.c:92:20: warning: symbol 'refined_jiffies' was not
declared. Should it be static?

Its only used in file scope. Make it static.

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/32342.1552379915@turing-police


# 6c7811c6 31-Oct-2018 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

time: Remove license boilerplate

The SPDX identifier defines the license of the files already. No need for
the boilerplates.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: David Riley <davidriley@chromium.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181031182253.132458951@linutronix.de


# 35728b82 31-Oct-2018 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

time: Add SPDX license identifiers

Update the time(r) core files files with the correct SPDX license
identifier based on the license text in the file itself. The SPDX
identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the
full boiler plate text.

This work is based on a script and data from Philippe Ombredanne, Kate
Stewart and myself. The data has been created with two independent license
scanners and manual inspection.

The following files do not contain any direct license information and have
been omitted from the big initial SPDX changes:

timeconst.bc: The .bc files were not touched
time.c, timer.c, timekeeping.c: Licence was deduced from EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

As those files do not contain direct license references they fall under the
project license, i.e. GPL V2 only.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: David Riley <davidriley@chromium.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181031182252.879109557@linutronix.de


# 58c5fc2b 31-Oct-2018 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

time: Remove useless filenames in top level comments

Remove the pointless filenames in the top level comments. They have no
value at all and just occupy space. While at it tidy up some of the
comments and remove a stale one.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Riley <davidriley@chromium.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181031182252.794898238@linutronix.de


# fa3aa7a5 07-Mar-2017 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

jiffies: Revert bogus conversion of NSEC_PER_SEC to TICK_NSEC

commit 93825f2ec736 converted NSEC_PER_SEC to TICK_NSEC because the author
confused NSEC_PER_JIFFY with NSEC_PER_SEC.

As a result, the calculation of refined jiffies got broken, triggering
lockups.

Fixes: 93825f2ec736 ("jiffies: Reuse TICK_NSEC instead of NSEC_PER_JIFFY")
Reported-and-tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488880534-3777-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 93825f2e 30-Jan-2017 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

jiffies: Reuse TICK_NSEC instead of NSEC_PER_JIFFY

NSEC_PER_JIFFY is an ad-hoc redefinition of TICK_NSEC. Let's rather
use a unique and well maintained version.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# a5a1d1c2 21-Dec-2016 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t

There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is
unambiguous.

Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script:

@rem@
@@
-typedef u64 cycle_t;

@fix@
typedef cycle_t;
@@
-cycle_t
+u64

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


# 232d2637 26-Feb-2016 Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>

jiffies: Use CLOCKSOURCE_MASK instead of constant

The CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32) macro expands to the same value, but
makes code more readable.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456542854-22104-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# bfb83b27 25-Mar-2015 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

tick: Move clocksource related stuff to timekeeping.h

Move clocksource related stuff to timekeeping.h and remove the
pointless include from ntp.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ rjw: Subject ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2714218.nM5AEfAHj0@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# f8935983 11-Mar-2015 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

clocksource: Mostly kill clocksource_register()

A long running project has been to clean up remaining uses
of clocksource_register(), replacing it with the simpler
clocksource_register_khz/hz() functions.

However, there are a few cases where we need to self-define
our mult/shift values, so switch the function to a more
obviously internal __clocksource_register() name, and
consolidate much of the internal logic so we don't have
duplication.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-10-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
[ Minor cleanups. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 3c17ad19 11-Mar-2015 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

timekeeping: Add debugging checks to warn if we see delays

Recently there's been requests for better sanity
checking in the time code, so that it's more clear
when something is going wrong, since timekeeping issues
could manifest in a large number of strange ways in
various subsystems.

Thus, this patch adds some extra infrastructure to
add a check to update_wall_time() to print two new
warnings:

1) if we see the call delayed beyond the 'max_cycles'
overflow point,

2) or if we see the call delayed beyond the clocksource's
'max_idle_ns' value, which is currently 50% of the
overflow point.

This extra infrastructure is conditional on
a new CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING option, also
added in this patch - default off.

Tested this a bit by halting qemu for specified
lengths of time to trigger the warnings.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
[ Improved the changelog and the messages a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 80d767d7 24-Jan-2014 Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

time: Fix overflow when HZ is smaller than 60

When compiling for the IA-64 ski emulator, HZ is set to 32 because the
emulation is slow and we don't want to waste too many cycles processing
timers. Alpha also has an option to set HZ to 32.

This causes integer underflow in
kernel/time/jiffies.c:
kernel/time/jiffies.c:66:2: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type [-Woverflow]
.mult = NSEC_PER_JIFFY << JIFFIES_SHIFT, /* details above */
^

This patch reduces the JIFFIES_SHIFT value to avoid the overflow.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.1401241639100.23871@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# d6ad4187 28-Feb-2012 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

time: Kill xtime_lock, replacing it with jiffies_lock

Now that timekeeping is protected by its own locks, rename
the xtime_lock to jifffies_lock to better describe what it
protects.

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>


# f95a9857 18-Oct-2012 Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>

time/jiffies: Make clocksource_jiffies static

Commit f1b8274 ("clocksource: Cleanup clocksource selection") removed all
external references to clocksource_jiffies so there is no need to have the
symbol globally visible.

Fixes the following sparse warning:
CHECK kernel/time/jiffies.c kernel/time/jiffies.c:61:20: warning: symbol 'clocksource_jiffies' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# b3c869d3 03-Sep-2012 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

jiffies: Remove compile time assumptions about CLOCK_TICK_RATE

CLOCK_TICK_RATE is used to accurately caclulate exactly how
a tick will be at a given HZ.

This is useful, because while we'd expect NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ,
the underlying hardware will have some granularity limit,
so we won't be able to have exactly HZ ticks per second.

This slight error can cause timekeeping quality problems
when using the jiffies or other jiffies driven clocksources.
Thus we currently use compile time CLOCK_TICK_RATE value to
generate SHIFTED_HZ and NSEC_PER_JIFFIES, which we then use
to adjust the jiffies clocksource to correct this error.

Unfortunately though, since CLOCK_TICK_RATE is a compile
time value, and the jiffies clocksource is registered very
early during boot, there are a number of cases where there
are different possible hardware timers that have different
tick rates. This causes problems in cases like ARM where
there are numerous different types of hardware, each having
their own compile-time CLOCK_TICK_RATE, making it hard to
accurately support different hardware with a single kernel.

For the most part, this doesn't matter all that much, as not
too many systems actually utilize the jiffies or jiffies driven
clocksource. Usually there are other highres clocksources
who's granularity error is negligable.

Even so, we have some complicated calcualtions that we do
everywhere to handle these edge cases.

This patch removes the compile time SHIFTED_HZ value, and
introduces a register_refined_jiffies() function. This results
in the default jiffies clock as being assumed a perfect HZ
freq, and allows archtectures that care about jiffies accuracy
to call register_refined_jiffies() with the tick rate, specified
dynamically at boot.

This allows us, where necessary, to not have a compile time
CLOCK_TICK_RATE constant, simplifies the jiffies code, and
still provides a way to have an accurate jiffies clock.

NOTE: Since this patch does not add register_refinied_jiffies()
calls for every arch, it may cause time quality regressions
in some cases. Its likely these will not be noticable, but
if they are an issue, adding the following to the end of
setup_arch() should resolve the regression:
register_refinied_jiffies(CLOCK_TICK_RATE)

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>


# 02ab20ae 27-Jul-2012 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

time/jiffies: Rename ACTHZ to SHIFTED_HZ

Ingo noted that ACTHZ is a confusing name, and requested it
be renamed, so this patch renames ACTHZ to SHIFTED_HZ to
better describe it.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343414893-45779-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 25985edc 30-Mar-2011 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>

Fix common misspellings

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>


# 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>


# fbad1ea9 27-Jan-2011 Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>

time: Move get_jiffies_64 to kernel/time/jiffies.c

Move the jiffies access functions to the jiffies clocksource code.

[ tglx: Add missing include ]

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: <20110127145900.23248.73352.stgit@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# f1b82746 14-Aug-2009 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

clocksource: Cleanup clocksource selection

If a non high-resolution clocksource is first set as override clock
and then registered it becomes active even if the system is in one-shot
mode. Move the override check from sysfs_override_clocksource to the
clocksource selection. That fixes the bug and simplifies the code. The
check in clocksource_register for double registration of the same
clocksource is removed without replacement.

To find the initial clocksource a new weak function in jiffies.c is
defined that returns the jiffies clocksource. The architecture code
can then override the weak function with a more suitable clocksource,
e.g. the TOD clock on s390.

[ tglx: Folded in a fix from John Stultz ]

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 8e19608e 21-Apr-2009 Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>

clocksource: pass clocksource to read() callback

Pass clocksource pointer to the read() callback for clocksources. This
allows us to share the callback between multiple instances.

[hugh@veritas.com: fix powerpc build of clocksource pass clocksource mods]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 025dfdaf 16-Oct-2008 Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>

trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation

- (better, more, bigger ...) then -> (...) than

Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>


# 1aa5dfb7 20-Aug-2008 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

clocksource: keep track of original clocksource frequency

The clocksource frequency is represented by
clocksource->mult/2^(clocksource->shift). Currently, when NTP makes
adjustments to the clock frequency, they are made directly to the mult
value.

This has the drawback that once changed, we cannot know what the orignal
mult value was, or how much adjustment has been applied.

This property causes problems in calculating proper ntp intervals when
switching back and forth between clocksources.

This patch separates the current mult value into a mult and mult_orig
pair. The mult_orig value stays constant, while the ntp clocksource
adjustments are done only to the mult value.

This allows for correct ntp interval calculation and additionally lays the
groundwork for a new notion of time, what I'm calling the monotonic-raw
time, which is introduced in a following patch.

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>


# 98de9e3b 04-Apr-2007 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

[PATCH] fix jiffies clocksource inittime

In debugging a problem w/ the -rt tree, I noticed that on systems that mark
the tsc as unstable before it is registered, the TSC would still be
selected and used for a short period of time. Digging in it looks to be a
result of the mix of the clocksource list changes and my clocksource
initialization changes.

With the -rt tree, using a bad TSC, even for a short period of time can
results in a hang at boot. I was not able to reproduce this hang w/
mainline, but I'm not completely certain that someone won't trip on it.

This patch resolves the issue by initializing the jiffies clocksource
earlier so a bad TSC won't get selected just because nothing else is yet
registered.

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


# 73b08d2a 16-Feb-2007 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

[PATCH] clocksource: replace is_continuous by a flag field

Using a flag filed allows to encode more than one information into a variable.
Preparatory patch for the generic clocksource verification.

[mingo@elte.hu: convert vmitime.c to the new clocksource flag]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>


# 3f4a0b91 17-Oct-2006 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

[PATCH] i386 Time: Avoid PIT SMP lockups

Avoid possible PIT livelock issues seen on SMP systems (and reported by
Andi), by not allowing it as a clocksource on SMP boxes.

However, since the PIT may no longer be present, we have to properly handle
the cases where SMP systems have TSC skew and fall back from the TSC.
Since the PIT isn't there, it would "fall back" to the TSC again. So this
changes the jiffies rating to 1, and the TSC-bad rating value to 0.

Thus you will get the following behavior priority on i386 systems:

tsc [if present & stable]
hpet [if present]
cyclone [if present]
acpi_pm [if present]
pit [if UP]
jiffies

Rather then the current more complicated:
tsc [if present & stable]
hpet [if present]
cyclone [if present]
acpi_pm [if present]
pit [if cpus < 4]
tsc [if present & unstable]
jiffies

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# a2752549 26-Jun-2006 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

[PATCH] time: rename clocksource functions

As suggested by Roman Zippel, change clocksource functions to use
clocksource_xyz rather then xyz_clocksource to avoid polluting the
namespace.

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


# 734efb46 26-Jun-2006 John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

[PATCH] Time: Clocksource Infrastructure

This introduces the clocksource management infrastructure. A clocksource is a
driver-like architecture generic abstraction of a free-running counter. This
code defines the clocksource structure, and provides management code for
registering, selecting, accessing and scaling clocksources.

Additionally, this includes the trivial jiffies clocksource, a lowest common
denominator clocksource, provided mainly for use as an example.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: Don't enable IRQ too early]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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>