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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/xen, branch v3.11.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.11-rc6-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2013-08-21T23:38:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-21T23:38:33+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen bug-fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - On ARM did not have balanced calls to get/put_cpu.
 - Fix to make tboot + Xen + Linux correctly.
 - Fix events VCPU binding issues.
 - Fix a vCPU online race where IPIs are sent to not-yet-online vCPU.

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.11-rc6-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/smp: initialize IPI vectors before marking CPU online
  xen/events: mask events when changing their VCPU binding
  xen/events: initialize local per-cpu mask for all possible events
  x86/xen: do not identity map UNUSABLE regions in the machine E820
  xen/arm: missing put_cpu in xen_percpu_init
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Pull Xen bug-fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - On ARM did not have balanced calls to get/put_cpu.
 - Fix to make tboot + Xen + Linux correctly.
 - Fix events VCPU binding issues.
 - Fix a vCPU online race where IPIs are sent to not-yet-online vCPU.

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.11-rc6-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/smp: initialize IPI vectors before marking CPU online
  xen/events: mask events when changing their VCPU binding
  xen/events: initialize local per-cpu mask for all possible events
  x86/xen: do not identity map UNUSABLE regions in the machine E820
  xen/arm: missing put_cpu in xen_percpu_init
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<entry>
<title>xen/smp: initialize IPI vectors before marking CPU online</title>
<updated>2013-08-20T14:13:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chuck Anderson</name>
<email>chuck.anderson@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-06T22:12:19+00:00</published>
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An older PVHVM guest (v3.0 based) crashed during vCPU hot-plug with:

	kernel BUG at drivers/xen/events.c:1328!

RCU has detected that a CPU has not entered a quiescent state within the
grace period.  It needs to send the CPU a reschedule IPI if it is not
offline.  rcu_implicit_offline_qs() does this check:

	/*
	 * If the CPU is offline, it is in a quiescent state.  We can
	 * trust its state not to change because interrupts are disabled.
	 */
	if (cpu_is_offline(rdp-&gt;cpu)) {
		rdp-&gt;offline_fqs++;
		return 1;
	}

	Else the CPU is online.  Send it a reschedule IPI.

The CPU is in the middle of being hot-plugged and has been marked online
(!cpu_is_offline()).  See start_secondary():

	set_cpu_online(smp_processor_id(), true);
	...
	per_cpu(cpu_state, smp_processor_id()) = CPU_ONLINE;

start_secondary() then waits for the CPU bringing up the hot-plugged CPU to
mark it as active:

	/*
	 * Wait until the cpu which brought this one up marked it
	 * online before enabling interrupts. If we don't do that then
	 * we can end up waking up the softirq thread before this cpu
	 * reached the active state, which makes the scheduler unhappy
	 * and schedule the softirq thread on the wrong cpu. This is
	 * only observable with forced threaded interrupts, but in
	 * theory it could also happen w/o them. It's just way harder
	 * to achieve.
	 */
	while (!cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), cpu_active_mask))
		cpu_relax();

	/* enable local interrupts */
	local_irq_enable();

The CPU being hot-plugged will be marked active after it has been fully
initialized by the CPU managing the hot-plug.  In the Xen PVHVM case
xen_smp_intr_init() is called to set up the hot-plugged vCPU's
XEN_RESCHEDULE_VECTOR.

The hot-plugging CPU is marked online, not marked active and does not have
its IPI vectors set up.  rcu_implicit_offline_qs() sees the hot-plugging
cpu is !cpu_is_offline() and tries to send it a reschedule IPI:
This will lead to:

	kernel BUG at drivers/xen/events.c:1328!

	xen_send_IPI_one()
	xen_smp_send_reschedule()
	rcu_implicit_offline_qs()
	rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs()
	force_qs_rnp()
	force_quiescent_state()
	__rcu_process_callbacks()
	rcu_process_callbacks()
	__do_softirq()
	call_softirq()
	do_softirq()
	irq_exit()
	xen_evtchn_do_upcall()

because xen_send_IPI_one() will attempt to use an uninitialized IRQ for
the XEN_RESCHEDULE_VECTOR.

There is at least one other place that has caused the same crash:

	xen_smp_send_reschedule()
	wake_up_idle_cpu()
	add_timer_on()
	clocksource_watchdog()
	call_timer_fn()
	run_timer_softirq()
	__do_softirq()
	call_softirq()
	do_softirq()
	irq_exit()
	xen_evtchn_do_upcall()
	xen_hvm_callback_vector()

clocksource_watchdog() uses cpu_online_mask to pick the next CPU to handle
a watchdog timer:

	/*
	 * Cycle through CPUs to check if the CPUs stay synchronized
	 * to each other.
	 */
	next_cpu = cpumask_next(raw_smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_mask);
	if (next_cpu &gt;= nr_cpu_ids)
		next_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask);
	watchdog_timer.expires += WATCHDOG_INTERVAL;
	add_timer_on(&amp;watchdog_timer, next_cpu);

This resulted in an attempt to send an IPI to a hot-plugging CPU that
had not initialized its reschedule vector. One option would be to make
the RCU code check to not check for CPU offline but for CPU active.
As becoming active is done after a CPU is online (in older kernels).

But Srivatsa pointed out that "the cpu_active vs cpu_online ordering has been
completely reworked - in the online path, cpu_active is set *before* cpu_online,
and also, in the cpu offline path, the cpu_active bit is reset in the CPU_DYING
notification instead of CPU_DOWN_PREPARE." Drilling in this the bring-up
path: "[brought up CPU].. send out a CPU_STARTING notification, and in response
to that, the scheduler sets the CPU in the cpu_active_mask. Again, this mask
is better left to the scheduler alone, since it has the intelligence to use it
judiciously."

The conclusion was that:
"
1. At the IPI sender side:

   It is incorrect to send an IPI to an offline CPU (cpu not present in
   the cpu_online_mask). There are numerous places where we check this
   and warn/complain.

2. At the IPI receiver side:

   It is incorrect to let the world know of our presence (by setting
   ourselves in global bitmasks) until our initialization steps are complete
   to such an extent that we can handle the consequences (such as
   receiving interrupts without crashing the sender etc.)
" (from Srivatsa)

As the native code enables the interrupts at some point we need to be
able to service them. In other words a CPU must have valid IPI vectors
if it has been marked online.

It doesn't need to handle the IPI (interrupts may be disabled) but needs
to have valid IPI vectors because another CPU may find it in cpu_online_mask
and attempt to send it an IPI.

This patch will change the order of the Xen vCPU bring-up functions so that
Xen vectors have been set up before start_secondary() is called.
It also will not continue to bring up a Xen vCPU if xen_smp_intr_init() fails
to initialize it.

Orabug 13823853
Signed-off-by Chuck Anderson &lt;chuck.anderson@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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An older PVHVM guest (v3.0 based) crashed during vCPU hot-plug with:

	kernel BUG at drivers/xen/events.c:1328!

RCU has detected that a CPU has not entered a quiescent state within the
grace period.  It needs to send the CPU a reschedule IPI if it is not
offline.  rcu_implicit_offline_qs() does this check:

	/*
	 * If the CPU is offline, it is in a quiescent state.  We can
	 * trust its state not to change because interrupts are disabled.
	 */
	if (cpu_is_offline(rdp-&gt;cpu)) {
		rdp-&gt;offline_fqs++;
		return 1;
	}

	Else the CPU is online.  Send it a reschedule IPI.

The CPU is in the middle of being hot-plugged and has been marked online
(!cpu_is_offline()).  See start_secondary():

	set_cpu_online(smp_processor_id(), true);
	...
	per_cpu(cpu_state, smp_processor_id()) = CPU_ONLINE;

start_secondary() then waits for the CPU bringing up the hot-plugged CPU to
mark it as active:

	/*
	 * Wait until the cpu which brought this one up marked it
	 * online before enabling interrupts. If we don't do that then
	 * we can end up waking up the softirq thread before this cpu
	 * reached the active state, which makes the scheduler unhappy
	 * and schedule the softirq thread on the wrong cpu. This is
	 * only observable with forced threaded interrupts, but in
	 * theory it could also happen w/o them. It's just way harder
	 * to achieve.
	 */
	while (!cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), cpu_active_mask))
		cpu_relax();

	/* enable local interrupts */
	local_irq_enable();

The CPU being hot-plugged will be marked active after it has been fully
initialized by the CPU managing the hot-plug.  In the Xen PVHVM case
xen_smp_intr_init() is called to set up the hot-plugged vCPU's
XEN_RESCHEDULE_VECTOR.

The hot-plugging CPU is marked online, not marked active and does not have
its IPI vectors set up.  rcu_implicit_offline_qs() sees the hot-plugging
cpu is !cpu_is_offline() and tries to send it a reschedule IPI:
This will lead to:

	kernel BUG at drivers/xen/events.c:1328!

	xen_send_IPI_one()
	xen_smp_send_reschedule()
	rcu_implicit_offline_qs()
	rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs()
	force_qs_rnp()
	force_quiescent_state()
	__rcu_process_callbacks()
	rcu_process_callbacks()
	__do_softirq()
	call_softirq()
	do_softirq()
	irq_exit()
	xen_evtchn_do_upcall()

because xen_send_IPI_one() will attempt to use an uninitialized IRQ for
the XEN_RESCHEDULE_VECTOR.

There is at least one other place that has caused the same crash:

	xen_smp_send_reschedule()
	wake_up_idle_cpu()
	add_timer_on()
	clocksource_watchdog()
	call_timer_fn()
	run_timer_softirq()
	__do_softirq()
	call_softirq()
	do_softirq()
	irq_exit()
	xen_evtchn_do_upcall()
	xen_hvm_callback_vector()

clocksource_watchdog() uses cpu_online_mask to pick the next CPU to handle
a watchdog timer:

	/*
	 * Cycle through CPUs to check if the CPUs stay synchronized
	 * to each other.
	 */
	next_cpu = cpumask_next(raw_smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_mask);
	if (next_cpu &gt;= nr_cpu_ids)
		next_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask);
	watchdog_timer.expires += WATCHDOG_INTERVAL;
	add_timer_on(&amp;watchdog_timer, next_cpu);

This resulted in an attempt to send an IPI to a hot-plugging CPU that
had not initialized its reschedule vector. One option would be to make
the RCU code check to not check for CPU offline but for CPU active.
As becoming active is done after a CPU is online (in older kernels).

But Srivatsa pointed out that "the cpu_active vs cpu_online ordering has been
completely reworked - in the online path, cpu_active is set *before* cpu_online,
and also, in the cpu offline path, the cpu_active bit is reset in the CPU_DYING
notification instead of CPU_DOWN_PREPARE." Drilling in this the bring-up
path: "[brought up CPU].. send out a CPU_STARTING notification, and in response
to that, the scheduler sets the CPU in the cpu_active_mask. Again, this mask
is better left to the scheduler alone, since it has the intelligence to use it
judiciously."

The conclusion was that:
"
1. At the IPI sender side:

   It is incorrect to send an IPI to an offline CPU (cpu not present in
   the cpu_online_mask). There are numerous places where we check this
   and warn/complain.

2. At the IPI receiver side:

   It is incorrect to let the world know of our presence (by setting
   ourselves in global bitmasks) until our initialization steps are complete
   to such an extent that we can handle the consequences (such as
   receiving interrupts without crashing the sender etc.)
" (from Srivatsa)

As the native code enables the interrupts at some point we need to be
able to service them. In other words a CPU must have valid IPI vectors
if it has been marked online.

It doesn't need to handle the IPI (interrupts may be disabled) but needs
to have valid IPI vectors because another CPU may find it in cpu_online_mask
and attempt to send it an IPI.

This patch will change the order of the Xen vCPU bring-up functions so that
Xen vectors have been set up before start_secondary() is called.
It also will not continue to bring up a Xen vCPU if xen_smp_intr_init() fails
to initialize it.

Orabug 13823853
Signed-off-by Chuck Anderson &lt;chuck.anderson@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/xen: do not identity map UNUSABLE regions in the machine E820</title>
<updated>2013-08-20T13:46:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-16T14:42:55+00:00</published>
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If there are UNUSABLE regions in the machine memory map, dom0 will
attempt to map them 1:1 which is not permitted by Xen and the kernel
will crash.

There isn't anything interesting in the UNUSABLE region that the dom0
kernel needs access to so we can avoid making the 1:1 mapping and
treat it as RAM.

We only do this for dom0, as that is where tboot case shows up.
A PV domU could have an UNUSABLE region in its pseudo-physical map
and would need to be handled in another patch.

This fixes a boot failure on hosts with tboot.

tboot marks a region in the e820 map as unusable and the dom0 kernel
would attempt to map this region and Xen does not permit unusable
regions to be mapped by guests.

  (XEN)  0000000000000000 - 0000000000060000 (usable)
  (XEN)  0000000000060000 - 0000000000068000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  0000000000068000 - 000000000009e000 (usable)
  (XEN)  0000000000100000 - 0000000000800000 (usable)
  (XEN)  0000000000800000 - 0000000000972000 (unusable)

tboot marked this region as unusable.

  (XEN)  0000000000972000 - 00000000cf200000 (usable)
  (XEN)  00000000cf200000 - 00000000cf38f000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  00000000cf38f000 - 00000000cf3ce000 (ACPI data)
  (XEN)  00000000cf3ce000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  00000000fe000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  0000000100000000 - 0000000630000000 (usable)

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
[v1: Altered the patch and description with domU's with UNUSABLE regions]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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If there are UNUSABLE regions in the machine memory map, dom0 will
attempt to map them 1:1 which is not permitted by Xen and the kernel
will crash.

There isn't anything interesting in the UNUSABLE region that the dom0
kernel needs access to so we can avoid making the 1:1 mapping and
treat it as RAM.

We only do this for dom0, as that is where tboot case shows up.
A PV domU could have an UNUSABLE region in its pseudo-physical map
and would need to be handled in another patch.

This fixes a boot failure on hosts with tboot.

tboot marks a region in the e820 map as unusable and the dom0 kernel
would attempt to map this region and Xen does not permit unusable
regions to be mapped by guests.

  (XEN)  0000000000000000 - 0000000000060000 (usable)
  (XEN)  0000000000060000 - 0000000000068000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  0000000000068000 - 000000000009e000 (usable)
  (XEN)  0000000000100000 - 0000000000800000 (usable)
  (XEN)  0000000000800000 - 0000000000972000 (unusable)

tboot marked this region as unusable.

  (XEN)  0000000000972000 - 00000000cf200000 (usable)
  (XEN)  00000000cf200000 - 00000000cf38f000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  00000000cf38f000 - 00000000cf3ce000 (ACPI data)
  (XEN)  00000000cf3ce000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  00000000fe000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  0000000100000000 - 0000000630000000 (usable)

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
[v1: Altered the patch and description with domU's with UNUSABLE regions]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T23:36:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-18T22:23:59+00:00</published>
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/x86 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files.  x86 only had the one __CPUINIT used in assembly files,
and it wasn't paired off with a .previous or a __FINIT, so we can
delete it directly w/o any corresponding additional change there.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/x86 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files.  x86 only had the one __CPUINIT used in assembly files,
and it wasn't paired off with a .previous or a __FINIT, so we can
delete it directly w/o any corresponding additional change there.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-07-06T21:09:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-06T21:09:38+00:00</published>
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Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The timer changes contain:

   - posix timer code consolidation and fixes for odd corner cases

   - sched_clock implementation moved from ARM to core code to avoid
     duplication by other architectures

   - alarm timer updates

   - clocksource and clockevents unregistration facilities

   - clocksource/events support for new hardware

   - precise nanoseconds RTC readout (Xen feature)

   - generic support for Xen suspend/resume oddities

   - the usual lot of fixes and cleanups all over the place

  The parts which touch other areas (ARM/XEN) have been coordinated with
  the relevant maintainers.  Though this results in an handful of
  trivial to solve merge conflicts, which we preferred over nasty cross
  tree merge dependencies.

  The patches which have been committed in the last few days are bug
  fixes plus the posix timer lot.  The latter was in akpms queue and
  next for quite some time; they just got forgotten and Frederic
  collected them last minute."

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (59 commits)
  hrtimer: Remove unused variable
  hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context
  clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated high-res capability
  posix-cpu-timers: don't account cpu timer after stopped thread runtime accounting
  posix_timers: fix racy timer delta caching on task exit
  posix-timers: correctly get dying task time sample in posix_cpu_timer_schedule()
  selftests: add basic posix timers selftests
  posix_cpu_timers: consolidate expired timers check
  posix_cpu_timers: consolidate timer list cleanups
  posix_cpu_timer: consolidate expiry time type
  tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic
  tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode
  tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining
  x86: xen: Sync the CMOS RTC as well as the Xen wallclock
  x86: xen: Sync the wallclock when the system time is set
  timekeeping: Indicate that clock was set in the pvclock gtod notifier
  timekeeping: Pass flags instead of multiple bools to timekeeping_update()
  xen: Remove clock_was_set() call in the resume path
  hrtimers: Support resuming with two or more CPUs online (but stopped)
  timer: Fix jiffies wrap behavior of round_jiffies_common()
  ...
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Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The timer changes contain:

   - posix timer code consolidation and fixes for odd corner cases

   - sched_clock implementation moved from ARM to core code to avoid
     duplication by other architectures

   - alarm timer updates

   - clocksource and clockevents unregistration facilities

   - clocksource/events support for new hardware

   - precise nanoseconds RTC readout (Xen feature)

   - generic support for Xen suspend/resume oddities

   - the usual lot of fixes and cleanups all over the place

  The parts which touch other areas (ARM/XEN) have been coordinated with
  the relevant maintainers.  Though this results in an handful of
  trivial to solve merge conflicts, which we preferred over nasty cross
  tree merge dependencies.

  The patches which have been committed in the last few days are bug
  fixes plus the posix timer lot.  The latter was in akpms queue and
  next for quite some time; they just got forgotten and Frederic
  collected them last minute."

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (59 commits)
  hrtimer: Remove unused variable
  hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context
  clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated high-res capability
  posix-cpu-timers: don't account cpu timer after stopped thread runtime accounting
  posix_timers: fix racy timer delta caching on task exit
  posix-timers: correctly get dying task time sample in posix_cpu_timer_schedule()
  selftests: add basic posix timers selftests
  posix_cpu_timers: consolidate expired timers check
  posix_cpu_timers: consolidate timer list cleanups
  posix_cpu_timer: consolidate expiry time type
  tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic
  tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode
  tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining
  x86: xen: Sync the CMOS RTC as well as the Xen wallclock
  x86: xen: Sync the wallclock when the system time is set
  timekeeping: Indicate that clock was set in the pvclock gtod notifier
  timekeeping: Pass flags instead of multiple bools to timekeeping_update()
  xen: Remove clock_was_set() call in the resume path
  hrtimers: Support resuming with two or more CPUs online (but stopped)
  timer: Fix jiffies wrap behavior of round_jiffies_common()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers/posix-cpu-timers-for-tglx' of</title>
<updated>2013-07-04T21:11:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-04T21:11:22+00:00</published>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/core

Frederic sayed: "Most of these patches have been hanging around for
several month now, in -mmotm for a significant chunk. They already
missed a few releases."

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/core

Frederic sayed: "Most of these patches have been hanging around for
several month now, in -mmotm for a significant chunk. They already
missed a few releases."

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.11-rc0-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T20:12:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T20:12:42+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - Fix memory leak when CPU hotplugging.
 - Compile bugs with various #ifdefs
 - Fix state changes in Xen PCI front not dealing well with new
   toolstack.
 - Cleanups in code (use pr_*, fix 80 characters splits, etc)
 - Long standing bug in double-reporting the steal time

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.11-rc0-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/time: remove blocked time accounting from xen "clockchip"
  xen: Convert printks to pr_&lt;level&gt;
  xen: ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS xen_*_suspend
  xen/pcifront: Deal with toolstack missing 'XenbusStateClosing' state.
  xen/time: Free onlined per-cpu data structure if we want to online it again.
  xen/time: Check that the per_cpu data structure has data before freeing.
  xen/time: Don't leak interrupt name when offlining.
  xen/time: Encapsulate the struct clock_event_device in another structure.
  xen/spinlock: Don't leak interrupt name when offlining.
  xen/smp: Don't leak interrupt name when offlining.
  xen/smp: Set the per-cpu IRQ number to a valid default.
  xen/smp: Introduce a common structure to contain the IRQ name and interrupt line.
  xen/smp: Coalesce the free_irq calls in one function.
  xen-pciback: fix error return code in pcistub_irq_handler_switch()
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - Fix memory leak when CPU hotplugging.
 - Compile bugs with various #ifdefs
 - Fix state changes in Xen PCI front not dealing well with new
   toolstack.
 - Cleanups in code (use pr_*, fix 80 characters splits, etc)
 - Long standing bug in double-reporting the steal time

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.11-rc0-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/time: remove blocked time accounting from xen "clockchip"
  xen: Convert printks to pr_&lt;level&gt;
  xen: ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS xen_*_suspend
  xen/pcifront: Deal with toolstack missing 'XenbusStateClosing' state.
  xen/time: Free onlined per-cpu data structure if we want to online it again.
  xen/time: Check that the per_cpu data structure has data before freeing.
  xen/time: Don't leak interrupt name when offlining.
  xen/time: Encapsulate the struct clock_event_device in another structure.
  xen/spinlock: Don't leak interrupt name when offlining.
  xen/smp: Don't leak interrupt name when offlining.
  xen/smp: Set the per-cpu IRQ number to a valid default.
  xen/smp: Introduce a common structure to contain the IRQ name and interrupt line.
  xen/smp: Coalesce the free_irq calls in one function.
  xen-pciback: fix error return code in pcistub_irq_handler_switch()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T23:26:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T23:26:44+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 FPU changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "There are two bigger changes in this tree:

   - Add an [early-use-]safe static_cpu_has() variant and other
     robustness improvements, including the new X86_DEBUG_STATIC_CPU_HAS
     configurable debugging facility, motivated by recent obscure FPU
     code bugs, by Borislav Petkov

   - Reimplement FPU detection code in C and drop the old asm code, by
     Peter Anvin."

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, fpu: Use static_cpu_has_safe before alternatives
  x86: Add a static_cpu_has_safe variant
  x86: Sanity-check static_cpu_has usage
  x86, cpu: Add a synthetic, always true, cpu feature
  x86: Get rid of -&gt;hard_math and all the FPU asm fu
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Pull x86 FPU changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "There are two bigger changes in this tree:

   - Add an [early-use-]safe static_cpu_has() variant and other
     robustness improvements, including the new X86_DEBUG_STATIC_CPU_HAS
     configurable debugging facility, motivated by recent obscure FPU
     code bugs, by Borislav Petkov

   - Reimplement FPU detection code in C and drop the old asm code, by
     Peter Anvin."

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, fpu: Use static_cpu_has_safe before alternatives
  x86: Add a static_cpu_has_safe variant
  x86: Sanity-check static_cpu_has usage
  x86, cpu: Add a synthetic, always true, cpu feature
  x86: Get rid of -&gt;hard_math and all the FPU asm fu
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: xen: Sync the CMOS RTC as well as the Xen wallclock</title>
<updated>2013-06-28T21:15:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-27T10:35:48+00:00</published>
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Adjustments to Xen's persistent clock via update_persistent_clock()
don't actually persist, as the Xen wallclock is a software only clock
and modifications to it do not modify the underlying CMOS RTC.

The x86_platform.set_wallclock hook is there to keep the hardware RTC
synchronized. On a guest this is pointless.

On Dom0 we can use the native implementaion which actually updates the
hardware RTC, but we still need to keep the software emulation of RTC
for the guests up to date. The subscription to the pvclock_notifier
allows us to emulate this easily. The notifier is called at every tick
and when the clock was set.

Right now we only use that notifier when the clock was set, but due to
the fact that it is called periodically from the timekeeping update
code, we can utilize it to emulate the NTP driven drift compensation
of update_persistant_clock() for the Xen wall (software) clock.

Add a 11 minutes periodic update to the pvclock_gtod notifier callback
to achieve that. The static variable 'next' which maintains that 11
minutes update cycle is protected by the core code serialization so
there is no need to add a Xen specific serialization mechanism.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog and added a few comments ]

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372329348-20841-6-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Adjustments to Xen's persistent clock via update_persistent_clock()
don't actually persist, as the Xen wallclock is a software only clock
and modifications to it do not modify the underlying CMOS RTC.

The x86_platform.set_wallclock hook is there to keep the hardware RTC
synchronized. On a guest this is pointless.

On Dom0 we can use the native implementaion which actually updates the
hardware RTC, but we still need to keep the software emulation of RTC
for the guests up to date. The subscription to the pvclock_notifier
allows us to emulate this easily. The notifier is called at every tick
and when the clock was set.

Right now we only use that notifier when the clock was set, but due to
the fact that it is called periodically from the timekeeping update
code, we can utilize it to emulate the NTP driven drift compensation
of update_persistant_clock() for the Xen wall (software) clock.

Add a 11 minutes periodic update to the pvclock_gtod notifier callback
to achieve that. The static variable 'next' which maintains that 11
minutes update cycle is protected by the core code serialization so
there is no need to add a Xen specific serialization mechanism.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog and added a few comments ]

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372329348-20841-6-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: xen: Sync the wallclock when the system time is set</title>
<updated>2013-06-28T21:15:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-27T10:35:47+00:00</published>
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Currently the Xen wallclock is only updated every 11 minutes if NTP is
synchronized to its clock source (using the sync_cmos_clock() work).
If a guest is started before NTP is synchronized it may see an
incorrect wallclock time.

Use the pvclock_gtod notifier chain to receive a notification when the
system time has changed and update the wallclock to match.

This chain is called on every timer tick and we want to avoid an extra
(expensive) hypercall on every tick.  Because dom0 has historically
never provided a very accurate wallclock and guests do not expect one,
we can do this simply: the wallclock is only updated if the clock was
set.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372329348-20841-5-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Currently the Xen wallclock is only updated every 11 minutes if NTP is
synchronized to its clock source (using the sync_cmos_clock() work).
If a guest is started before NTP is synchronized it may see an
incorrect wallclock time.

Use the pvclock_gtod notifier chain to receive a notification when the
system time has changed and update the wallclock to match.

This chain is called on every timer tick and we want to avoid an extra
(expensive) hypercall on every tick.  Because dom0 has historically
never provided a very accurate wallclock and guests do not expect one,
we can do this simply: the wallclock is only updated if the clock was
set.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372329348-20841-5-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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