History log of /linux-master/kernel/time/vsyscall.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 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


# 19d0070a 04-Aug-2020 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

timekeeping/vsyscall: Provide vdso_update_begin/end()

Architectures can have the requirement to add additional architecture
specific data to the VDSO data page which needs to be updated independent
of the timekeeper updates.

To protect these updates vs. concurrent readers and a conflicting update
through timekeeping, provide helper functions to make such updates safe.

vdso_update_begin() takes the timekeeper_lock to protect against a
potential update from timekeeper code and increments the VDSO sequence
count to signal data inconsistency to concurrent readers. vdso_update_end()
makes the sequence count even again to signal data consistency and drops
the timekeeper lock.

[ Sven: Add interrupt disable handling to the functions ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200804150124.41692-3-svens@linux.ibm.com


# c7a18100 07-Feb-2020 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

lib/vdso: Avoid highres update if clocksource is not VDSO capable

If the current clocksource is not VDSO capable there is no point in
updating the high resolution parts of the VDSO data.

Replace the architecture specific check with a check for a VDSO capable
clocksource and skip the update if there is none.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207124403.563379423@linutronix.de


# f86fd32d 07-Feb-2020 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

lib/vdso: Cleanup clock mode storage leftovers

Now that all architectures are converted to use the generic storage the
helpers and conditionals can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207124403.470699892@linutronix.de


# 5d51bee7 07-Feb-2020 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

clocksource: Add common vdso clock mode storage

All architectures which use the generic VDSO code have their own storage
for the VDSO clock mode. That's pointless and just requires duplicate code.

Provide generic storage for it. The new Kconfig symbol is intermediate and
will be removed once all architectures are converted over.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207124403.028046322@linutronix.de


# 9f24c540 14-Jan-2020 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

lib/vdso: Update coarse timekeeper unconditionally

The low resolution parts of the VDSO, i.e.:

clock_gettime(CLOCK_*_COARSE), clock_getres(), time()

can be used even if there is no VDSO capable clocksource.

But if an architecture opts out of the VDSO data update then this
information becomes stale. This affects ARM when there is no architected
timer available. The lack of update causes userspace to use stale data
forever.

Make the update of the low resolution parts unconditional and only skip
the update of the high resolution parts if the architecture requests it.

Fixes: 44f57d788e7d ("timekeeping: Provide a generic update_vsyscall() implementation")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200114185946.765577901@linutronix.de


# 9a6b55ac 14-Jan-2020 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

lib/vdso: Make __arch_update_vdso_data() logic understandable

The function name suggests that this is a boolean checking whether the
architecture asks for an update of the VDSO data, but it works the other
way round. To spare further confusion invert the logic.

Fixes: 44f57d788e7d ("timekeeping: Provide a generic update_vsyscall() implementation")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200114185946.656652824@linutronix.de


# 52338415 23-Oct-2019 Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>

timekeeping/vsyscall: Update VDSO data unconditionally

The update of the VDSO data is depending on __arch_use_vsyscall() returning
True. This is a leftover from the attempt to map the features of various
architectures 1:1 into generic code.

The usage of __arch_use_vsyscall() in the actual vsyscall implementations
got dropped and replaced by the requirement for the architecture code to
return U64_MAX if the global clocksource is not usable in the VDSO.

But the __arch_use_vsyscall() check in the update code stayed which causes
the VDSO data to be stale or invalid when an architecture actually
implements that function and returns False when the current clocksource is
not usable in the VDSO.

As a consequence the VDSO implementations of clock_getres(), time(),
clock_gettime(CLOCK_.*_COARSE) operate on invalid data and return bogus
information.

Remove the __arch_use_vsyscall() check from the VDSO update function and
update the VDSO data unconditionally.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog and removed the now useless implementations in
asm-generic/ARM64/MIPS ]

Fixes: 44f57d788e7deecb50 ("timekeeping: Provide a generic update_vsyscall() implementation")
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571887709-11447-1-git-send-email-chenhc@lemote.com


# b99328a6 22-Aug-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

timekeeping/vsyscall: Prevent math overflow in BOOTTIME update

The VDSO update for CLOCK_BOOTTIME has a overflow issue as it shifts the
nanoseconds based boot time offset left by the clocksource shift. That
overflows once the boot time offset becomes large enough. As a consequence
CLOCK_BOOTTIME in the VDSO becomes a random number causing applications to
misbehave.

Fix it by storing a timespec64 representation of the offset when boot time
is adjusted and add that to the MONOTONIC base time value in the vdso data
page. Using the timespec64 representation avoids a 64bit division in the
update code.

Fixes: 44f57d788e7d ("timekeeping: Provide a generic update_vsyscall() implementation")
Reported-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1908221257580.1983@nanos.tec.linutronix.de


# 0df1c986 10-Jul-2019 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

timekeeping/vsyscall: Use __iter_div_u64_rem()

On 32-bit x86 when building with clang-9, the 'division' loop gets turned
back into an inefficient division that causes a link error:

kernel/time/vsyscall.o: In function `update_vsyscall':
vsyscall.c:(.text+0xe3): undefined reference to `__udivdi3'

Use the existing __iter_div_u64_rem() function which is used to address the
same issue in other places.

Fixes: 44f57d788e7d ("timekeeping: Provide a generic update_vsyscall() implementation")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190710130206.1670830-1-arnd@arndb.de


# 44f57d78 21-Jun-2019 Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>

timekeeping: Provide a generic update_vsyscall() implementation

The new generic VDSO library allows to unify the update_vsyscall[_tz]()
implementations.

Provide a generic implementation based on the x86 code and the bindings
which need to be implemented in architecture specific code.

[ tglx: Moved it into kernel/time where it belongs. Removed the pointless
line breaks in the stub functions. Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Shijith Thotton <sthotton@marvell.com>
Tested-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Huw Davies <huw@codeweavers.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621095252.32307-4-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com