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<title>Merge tag 'io_uring-6.13-20242901' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux</title>
<updated>2024-11-30T23:43:02+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2024-11-30T23:43:02+00:00</published>
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Pull more io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Remove a leftover struct from when the cqwait registered waiting was
   transitioned to regions.

 - Fix for an issue introduced in this merge window, where nop-&gt;fd might
   be used uninitialized. Ensure it's always set.

 - Add capping of the task_work run in local task_work mode, to prevent
   bursty and long chains from adding too much latency.

 - Work around xa_store() leaving -&gt;head non-NULL if it encounters an
   allocation error during storing. Just a debug trigger, and can go
   away once xa_store() behaves in a more expected way for this
   condition. Not a major thing as it basically requires fault injection
   to trigger it.

 - Fix a few mapping corner cases

 - Fix KCSAN complaint on reading the table size post unlock. Again not
   a "real" issue, but it's easy to silence by just keeping the reading
   inside the lock that protects it.

* tag 'io_uring-6.13-20242901' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux:
  io_uring/tctx: work around xa_store() allocation error issue
  io_uring: fix corner case forgetting to vunmap
  io_uring: fix task_work cap overshooting
  io_uring: check for overflows in io_pin_pages
  io_uring/nop: ensure nop-&gt;fd is always initialized
  io_uring: limit local tw done
  io_uring: add io_local_work_pending()
  io_uring/region: return negative -E2BIG in io_create_region()
  io_uring: protect register tracing
  io_uring: remove io_uring_cqwait_reg_arg
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Pull more io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Remove a leftover struct from when the cqwait registered waiting was
   transitioned to regions.

 - Fix for an issue introduced in this merge window, where nop-&gt;fd might
   be used uninitialized. Ensure it's always set.

 - Add capping of the task_work run in local task_work mode, to prevent
   bursty and long chains from adding too much latency.

 - Work around xa_store() leaving -&gt;head non-NULL if it encounters an
   allocation error during storing. Just a debug trigger, and can go
   away once xa_store() behaves in a more expected way for this
   condition. Not a major thing as it basically requires fault injection
   to trigger it.

 - Fix a few mapping corner cases

 - Fix KCSAN complaint on reading the table size post unlock. Again not
   a "real" issue, but it's easy to silence by just keeping the reading
   inside the lock that protects it.

* tag 'io_uring-6.13-20242901' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux:
  io_uring/tctx: work around xa_store() allocation error issue
  io_uring: fix corner case forgetting to vunmap
  io_uring: fix task_work cap overshooting
  io_uring: check for overflows in io_pin_pages
  io_uring/nop: ensure nop-&gt;fd is always initialized
  io_uring: limit local tw done
  io_uring: add io_local_work_pending()
  io_uring/region: return negative -E2BIG in io_create_region()
  io_uring: protect register tracing
  io_uring: remove io_uring_cqwait_reg_arg
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<title>io_uring/tctx: work around xa_store() allocation error issue</title>
<updated>2024-11-29T14:20:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2024-11-29T14:20:28+00:00</published>
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syzbot triggered the following WARN_ON:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at io_uring/tctx.c:51 __io_uring_free+0xfa/0x140 io_uring/tctx.c:51

which is the

WARN_ON_ONCE(!xa_empty(&amp;tctx-&gt;xa));

sanity check in __io_uring_free() when a io_uring_task is going through
its final put. The syzbot test case includes injecting memory allocation
failures, and it very much looks like xa_store() can fail one of its
memory allocations and end up with -&gt;head being non-NULL even though no
entries exist in the xarray.

Until this issue gets sorted out, work around it by attempting to
iterate entries in our xarray, and WARN_ON_ONCE() if one is found.

Reported-by: syzbot+cc36d44ec9f368e443d3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/673c1643.050a0220.87769.0066.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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syzbot triggered the following WARN_ON:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at io_uring/tctx.c:51 __io_uring_free+0xfa/0x140 io_uring/tctx.c:51

which is the

WARN_ON_ONCE(!xa_empty(&amp;tctx-&gt;xa));

sanity check in __io_uring_free() when a io_uring_task is going through
its final put. The syzbot test case includes injecting memory allocation
failures, and it very much looks like xa_store() can fail one of its
memory allocations and end up with -&gt;head being non-NULL even though no
entries exist in the xarray.

Until this issue gets sorted out, work around it by attempting to
iterate entries in our xarray, and WARN_ON_ONCE() if one is found.

Reported-by: syzbot+cc36d44ec9f368e443d3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/673c1643.050a0220.87769.0066.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>io_uring: fix corner case forgetting to vunmap</title>
<updated>2024-11-27T22:00:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-25T23:10:31+00:00</published>
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io_pages_unmap() is a bit tricky in trying to figure whether the pages
were previously vmap'ed or not. In particular If there is juts one page
it belives there is no need to vunmap. Paired io_pages_map(), however,
could've failed io_mem_alloc_compound() and attempted to
io_mem_alloc_single(), which does vmap, and that leads to unpaired vmap.

The solution is to fail if io_mem_alloc_compound() can't allocate a
single page. That's the easiest way to deal with it, and those two
functions are getting removed soon, so no need to overcomplicate it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3ab1db3c6039e ("io_uring: get rid of remap_pfn_range() for mapping rings/sqes")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/477e75a3907a2fe83249e49c0a92cd480b2c60e0.1732569842.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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io_pages_unmap() is a bit tricky in trying to figure whether the pages
were previously vmap'ed or not. In particular If there is juts one page
it belives there is no need to vunmap. Paired io_pages_map(), however,
could've failed io_mem_alloc_compound() and attempted to
io_mem_alloc_single(), which does vmap, and that leads to unpaired vmap.

The solution is to fail if io_mem_alloc_compound() can't allocate a
single page. That's the easiest way to deal with it, and those two
functions are getting removed soon, so no need to overcomplicate it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3ab1db3c6039e ("io_uring: get rid of remap_pfn_range() for mapping rings/sqes")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/477e75a3907a2fe83249e49c0a92cd480b2c60e0.1732569842.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>io_uring: fix task_work cap overshooting</title>
<updated>2024-11-26T20:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-26T20:42:27+00:00</published>
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A previous commit fixed task_work overrunning by a lot more than what
the user asked for, by adding a retry list. However, it didn't cap the
overall count, hence for multiple task_work runs inside the same wait
loop, it'd still overshoot the target by potentially a large amount.

Cap it generally inside the wait path. Note that this will still
overshoot the default limit of 20, but should overshoot by no more than
limit-1 in addition to the limit. That still provides a ceiling over how
much task_work will be run, rather than still having gaps where it was
uncapped essentially.

Fixes: f46b9cdb22f7 ("io_uring: limit local tw done")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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A previous commit fixed task_work overrunning by a lot more than what
the user asked for, by adding a retry list. However, it didn't cap the
overall count, hence for multiple task_work runs inside the same wait
loop, it'd still overshoot the target by potentially a large amount.

Cap it generally inside the wait path. Note that this will still
overshoot the default limit of 20, but should overshoot by no more than
limit-1 in addition to the limit. That still provides a ceiling over how
much task_work will be run, rather than still having gaps where it was
uncapped essentially.

Fixes: f46b9cdb22f7 ("io_uring: limit local tw done")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>io_uring: check for overflows in io_pin_pages</title>
<updated>2024-11-26T14:59:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-26T00:34:18+00:00</published>
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5834 at io_uring/memmap.c:144 io_pin_pages+0x149/0x180 io_uring/memmap.c:144
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5834 Comm: syz-executor825 Not tainted 6.12.0-next-20241118-syzkaller #0
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 __io_uaddr_map+0xfb/0x2d0 io_uring/memmap.c:183
 io_rings_map io_uring/io_uring.c:2611 [inline]
 io_allocate_scq_urings+0x1c0/0x650 io_uring/io_uring.c:3470
 io_uring_create+0x5b5/0xc00 io_uring/io_uring.c:3692
 io_uring_setup io_uring/io_uring.c:3781 [inline]
 ...
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

io_pin_pages()'s uaddr parameter came directly from the user and can be
garbage. Don't just add size to it as it can overflow.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+2159cbb522b02847c053@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1b7520ddb168e1d537d64be47414a0629d0d8f8f.1732581026.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5834 at io_uring/memmap.c:144 io_pin_pages+0x149/0x180 io_uring/memmap.c:144
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5834 Comm: syz-executor825 Not tainted 6.12.0-next-20241118-syzkaller #0
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 __io_uaddr_map+0xfb/0x2d0 io_uring/memmap.c:183
 io_rings_map io_uring/io_uring.c:2611 [inline]
 io_allocate_scq_urings+0x1c0/0x650 io_uring/io_uring.c:3470
 io_uring_create+0x5b5/0xc00 io_uring/io_uring.c:3692
 io_uring_setup io_uring/io_uring.c:3781 [inline]
 ...
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

io_pin_pages()'s uaddr parameter came directly from the user and can be
garbage. Don't just add size to it as it can overflow.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+2159cbb522b02847c053@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1b7520ddb168e1d537d64be47414a0629d0d8f8f.1732581026.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>io_uring/nop: ensure nop-&gt;fd is always initialized</title>
<updated>2024-11-21T14:15:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-21T14:12:17+00:00</published>
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A previous commit added file support for nop, but it only initializes
nop-&gt;fd if IORING_NOP_FIXED_FILE is set. That check should be
IORING_NOP_FILE. Fix up the condition in nop preparation, and initialize
it to a sane value even if we're not going to be directly using it.

While in there, do the same thing for the nop-&gt;buffer field.

Reported-by: syzbot+9a8500a45c2cabdf9577@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: a85f31052bce ("io_uring/nop: add support for testing registered files and buffers")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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A previous commit added file support for nop, but it only initializes
nop-&gt;fd if IORING_NOP_FIXED_FILE is set. That check should be
IORING_NOP_FILE. Fix up the condition in nop preparation, and initialize
it to a sane value even if we're not going to be directly using it.

While in there, do the same thing for the nop-&gt;buffer field.

Reported-by: syzbot+9a8500a45c2cabdf9577@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: a85f31052bce ("io_uring/nop: add support for testing registered files and buffers")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>io_uring: limit local tw done</title>
<updated>2024-11-21T14:11:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Wei</name>
<email>dw@davidwei.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T22:14:52+00:00</published>
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Instead of eagerly running all available local tw, limit the amount of
local tw done to the max of IO_LOCAL_TW_DEFAULT_MAX (20) or wait_nr. The
value of 20 is chosen as a reasonable heuristic to allow enough work
batching but also keep latency down.

Add a retry_llist that maintains a list of local tw that couldn't be
done in time. No synchronisation is needed since it is only modified
within the task context.

Signed-off-by: David Wei &lt;dw@davidwei.uk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241120221452.3762588-3-dw@davidwei.uk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Instead of eagerly running all available local tw, limit the amount of
local tw done to the max of IO_LOCAL_TW_DEFAULT_MAX (20) or wait_nr. The
value of 20 is chosen as a reasonable heuristic to allow enough work
batching but also keep latency down.

Add a retry_llist that maintains a list of local tw that couldn't be
done in time. No synchronisation is needed since it is only modified
within the task context.

Signed-off-by: David Wei &lt;dw@davidwei.uk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241120221452.3762588-3-dw@davidwei.uk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>io_uring: add io_local_work_pending()</title>
<updated>2024-11-21T14:11:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Wei</name>
<email>dw@davidwei.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T22:14:51+00:00</published>
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In preparation for adding a new llist of tw to retry due to hitting the
tw limit, add a helper io_local_work_pending(). This function returns
true if there is any local tw pending. For now it only checks
ctx-&gt;work_llist.

Signed-off-by: David Wei &lt;dw@davidwei.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241120221452.3762588-2-dw@davidwei.uk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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In preparation for adding a new llist of tw to retry due to hitting the
tw limit, add a helper io_local_work_pending(). This function returns
true if there is any local tw pending. For now it only checks
ctx-&gt;work_llist.

Signed-off-by: David Wei &lt;dw@davidwei.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241120221452.3762588-2-dw@davidwei.uk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>io_uring/region: return negative -E2BIG in io_create_region()</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T15:01:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T09:15:05+00:00</published>
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This code accidentally returns positivie E2BIG instead of negative
-E2BIG.  The callers treat negatives and positives the same so this
doesn't affect the kernel.  The error code is returned to userspace via
the system call.

Fixes: dfbbfbf19187 ("io_uring: introduce concept of memory regions")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d8ea3bef-74d8-4f77-8223-6d36464dd4dc@stanley.mountain
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This code accidentally returns positivie E2BIG instead of negative
-E2BIG.  The callers treat negatives and positives the same so this
doesn't affect the kernel.  The error code is returned to userspace via
the system call.

Fixes: dfbbfbf19187 ("io_uring: introduce concept of memory regions")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d8ea3bef-74d8-4f77-8223-6d36464dd4dc@stanley.mountain
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T00:35:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T00:35:06+00:00</published>
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather large update for timekeeping and timers:

   - The final step to get rid of auto-rearming posix-timers

     posix-timers are currently auto-rearmed by the kernel when the
     signal of the timer is ignored so that the timer signal can be
     delivered once the corresponding signal is unignored.

     This requires to throttle the timer to prevent a DoS by small
     intervals and keeps the system pointlessly out of low power states
     for no value. This is a long standing non-trivial problem due to
     the lock order of posix-timer lock and the sighand lock along with
     life time issues as the timer and the sigqueue have different life
     time rules.

     Cure this by:

       - Embedding the sigqueue into the timer struct to have the same
         life time rules. Aside of that this also avoids the lookup of
         the timer in the signal delivery and rearm path as it's just a
         always valid container_of() now.

       - Queuing ignored timer signals onto a seperate ignored list.

       - Moving queued timer signals onto the ignored list when the
         signal is switched to SIG_IGN before it could be delivered.

       - Walking the ignored list when SIG_IGN is lifted and requeue the
         signals to the actual signal lists. This allows the signal
         delivery code to rearm the timer.

     This also required to consolidate the signal delivery rules so they
     are consistent across all situations. With that all self test
     scenarios finally succeed.

   - Core infrastructure for VFS multigrain timestamping

     This is required to allow the kernel to use coarse grained time
     stamps by default and switch to fine grained time stamps when inode
     attributes are actively observed via getattr().

     These changes have been provided to the VFS tree as well, so that
     the VFS specific infrastructure could be built on top.

   - Cleanup and consolidation of the sleep() infrastructure

       - Move all sleep and timeout functions into one file

       - Rework udelay() and ndelay() into proper documented inline
         functions and replace the hardcoded magic numbers by proper
         defines.

       - Rework the fsleep() implementation to take the reality of the
         timer wheel granularity on different HZ values into account.
         Right now the boundaries are hard coded time ranges which fail
         to provide the requested accuracy on different HZ settings.

       - Update documentation for all sleep/timeout related functions
         and fix up stale documentation links all over the place

       - Fixup a few usage sites

   - Rework of timekeeping and adjtimex(2) to prepare for multiple PTP
     clocks

     A system can have multiple PTP clocks which are participating in
     seperate and independent PTP clock domains. So far the kernel only
     considers the PTP clock which is based on CLOCK TAI relevant as
     that's the clock which drives the timekeeping adjustments via the
     various user space daemons through adjtimex(2).

     The non TAI based clock domains are accessible via the file
     descriptor based posix clocks, but their usability is very limited.
     They can't be accessed fast as they always go all the way out to
     the hardware and they cannot be utilized in the kernel itself.

     As Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) gains traction it is required to
     provide fast user and kernel space access to these clocks.

     The approach taken is to utilize the timekeeping and adjtimex(2)
     infrastructure to provide this access in a similar way how the
     kernel provides access to clock MONOTONIC, REALTIME etc.

     Instead of creating a duplicated infrastructure this rework
     converts timekeeping and adjtimex(2) into generic functionality
     which operates on pointers to data structures instead of using
     static variables.

     This allows to provide time accessors and adjtimex(2) functionality
     for the independent PTP clocks in a subsequent step.

   - Consolidate hrtimer initialization

     hrtimers are set up by initializing the data structure and then
     seperately setting the callback function for historical reasons.

     That's an extra unnecessary step and makes Rust support less
     straight forward than it should be.

     Provide a new set of hrtimer_setup*() functions and convert the
     core code and a few usage sites of the less frequently used
     interfaces over.

     The bulk of the htimer_init() to hrtimer_setup() conversion is
     already prepared and scheduled for the next merge window.

   - Drivers:

       - Ensure that the global timekeeping clocksource is utilizing the
         cluster 0 timer on MIPS multi-cluster systems.

         Otherwise CPUs on different clusters use their cluster specific
         clocksource which is not guaranteed to be synchronized with
         other clusters.

       - Mostly boring cleanups, fixes, improvements and code movement"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (140 commits)
  posix-timers: Fix spurious warning on double enqueue versus do_exit()
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
  clocksource/drivers/gpx: Remove redundant casts
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix child node refcount handling
  dt-bindings: timer: actions,owl-timer: convert to YAML
  clocksource/drivers/ralink: Add Ralink System Tick Counter driver
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Always use cluster 0 counter as clocksource
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Don't fail probe if int not found
  clocksource/drivers:sp804: Make user selectable
  clocksource/drivers/dw_apb: Remove unused dw_apb_clockevent functions
  hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_on_stack()
  alarmtimer: Switch to use hrtimer_setup() and hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  io_uring: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  sched/idle: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack()
  wait: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  timers: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  net: pktgen: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  futex: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  fs/aio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  ...
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather large update for timekeeping and timers:

   - The final step to get rid of auto-rearming posix-timers

     posix-timers are currently auto-rearmed by the kernel when the
     signal of the timer is ignored so that the timer signal can be
     delivered once the corresponding signal is unignored.

     This requires to throttle the timer to prevent a DoS by small
     intervals and keeps the system pointlessly out of low power states
     for no value. This is a long standing non-trivial problem due to
     the lock order of posix-timer lock and the sighand lock along with
     life time issues as the timer and the sigqueue have different life
     time rules.

     Cure this by:

       - Embedding the sigqueue into the timer struct to have the same
         life time rules. Aside of that this also avoids the lookup of
         the timer in the signal delivery and rearm path as it's just a
         always valid container_of() now.

       - Queuing ignored timer signals onto a seperate ignored list.

       - Moving queued timer signals onto the ignored list when the
         signal is switched to SIG_IGN before it could be delivered.

       - Walking the ignored list when SIG_IGN is lifted and requeue the
         signals to the actual signal lists. This allows the signal
         delivery code to rearm the timer.

     This also required to consolidate the signal delivery rules so they
     are consistent across all situations. With that all self test
     scenarios finally succeed.

   - Core infrastructure for VFS multigrain timestamping

     This is required to allow the kernel to use coarse grained time
     stamps by default and switch to fine grained time stamps when inode
     attributes are actively observed via getattr().

     These changes have been provided to the VFS tree as well, so that
     the VFS specific infrastructure could be built on top.

   - Cleanup and consolidation of the sleep() infrastructure

       - Move all sleep and timeout functions into one file

       - Rework udelay() and ndelay() into proper documented inline
         functions and replace the hardcoded magic numbers by proper
         defines.

       - Rework the fsleep() implementation to take the reality of the
         timer wheel granularity on different HZ values into account.
         Right now the boundaries are hard coded time ranges which fail
         to provide the requested accuracy on different HZ settings.

       - Update documentation for all sleep/timeout related functions
         and fix up stale documentation links all over the place

       - Fixup a few usage sites

   - Rework of timekeeping and adjtimex(2) to prepare for multiple PTP
     clocks

     A system can have multiple PTP clocks which are participating in
     seperate and independent PTP clock domains. So far the kernel only
     considers the PTP clock which is based on CLOCK TAI relevant as
     that's the clock which drives the timekeeping adjustments via the
     various user space daemons through adjtimex(2).

     The non TAI based clock domains are accessible via the file
     descriptor based posix clocks, but their usability is very limited.
     They can't be accessed fast as they always go all the way out to
     the hardware and they cannot be utilized in the kernel itself.

     As Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) gains traction it is required to
     provide fast user and kernel space access to these clocks.

     The approach taken is to utilize the timekeeping and adjtimex(2)
     infrastructure to provide this access in a similar way how the
     kernel provides access to clock MONOTONIC, REALTIME etc.

     Instead of creating a duplicated infrastructure this rework
     converts timekeeping and adjtimex(2) into generic functionality
     which operates on pointers to data structures instead of using
     static variables.

     This allows to provide time accessors and adjtimex(2) functionality
     for the independent PTP clocks in a subsequent step.

   - Consolidate hrtimer initialization

     hrtimers are set up by initializing the data structure and then
     seperately setting the callback function for historical reasons.

     That's an extra unnecessary step and makes Rust support less
     straight forward than it should be.

     Provide a new set of hrtimer_setup*() functions and convert the
     core code and a few usage sites of the less frequently used
     interfaces over.

     The bulk of the htimer_init() to hrtimer_setup() conversion is
     already prepared and scheduled for the next merge window.

   - Drivers:

       - Ensure that the global timekeeping clocksource is utilizing the
         cluster 0 timer on MIPS multi-cluster systems.

         Otherwise CPUs on different clusters use their cluster specific
         clocksource which is not guaranteed to be synchronized with
         other clusters.

       - Mostly boring cleanups, fixes, improvements and code movement"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (140 commits)
  posix-timers: Fix spurious warning on double enqueue versus do_exit()
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
  clocksource/drivers/gpx: Remove redundant casts
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix child node refcount handling
  dt-bindings: timer: actions,owl-timer: convert to YAML
  clocksource/drivers/ralink: Add Ralink System Tick Counter driver
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Always use cluster 0 counter as clocksource
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Don't fail probe if int not found
  clocksource/drivers:sp804: Make user selectable
  clocksource/drivers/dw_apb: Remove unused dw_apb_clockevent functions
  hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_on_stack()
  alarmtimer: Switch to use hrtimer_setup() and hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  io_uring: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  sched/idle: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack()
  wait: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  timers: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  net: pktgen: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  futex: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  fs/aio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  ...
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