linux-toradex.git/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c, branch v3.10.9

posix_timers: Fix pre-condition to stop the tick on full dynticks

2013-04-22T17:59:25+00:00

The test that checks if a CPU can stop its tick from posix CPU
timers angle was mistakenly inverted.

What we want is to prevent the tick from being stopped as long
as the current CPU's task runs a posix CPU timer.

Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Geoff Levand 
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef 
Cc: Hakan Akkan 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kevin Hilman 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner

posix_timers: New API to prevent from stopping the tick when timers are running

2013-04-19T14:31:40+00:00

Bring a new helper that the full dynticks infrastructure can
call in order to know if it can safely stop the tick from
the posix cpu timers subsystem point of view.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Geoff Levand 
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef 
Cc: Hakan Akkan 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kevin Hilman 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner

posix_timers: Kick full dynticks CPUs when a posix cpu timer is armed

2013-04-19T14:30:13+00:00

Kick the full dynticks CPUs when a posix cpu timer is enqueued by
way of a standard call to posix_cpu_timer_set() or set_process_cpu_timer().
This also include rescheduled firing timers.

This way they can re-evaluate the state of (and possibly restart) their
tick against the new expiry modification.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Geoff Levand 
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef 
Cc: Hakan Akkan 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kevin Hilman 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-02-20T03:05:45+00:00

Pull timer changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

   - ntp: Add CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC: a generic RTC driver facility
     complementing the existing CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS, which uses NTP to
     keep the hardware clock updated.

   - posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on
     success.  This is changing the ABI, but no breakage was expected
     and found - caution is warranted nevertheless.

   - platform persistent clock improvements/cleanups.

   - clockevents: refactor timer broadcast handling to be more generic
     and less duplicated with matching architecture code (mostly ARM
     motivated.)

   - various fixes and cleanups"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timers/x86/hpet: Use HPET_COUNTER to specify the hpet counter in vread_hpet()
  posix-cpu-timers: Fix nanosleep task_struct leak
  clockevents: Fix generic broadcast for FEAT_C3STOP
  time, Fix setting of hardware clock in NTP code
  hrtimer: Prevent hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram race
  clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function
  clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast receiver
  timekeeping: Switch HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK to ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK
  x86/time/rtc: Don't print extended CMOS year when reading RTC
  x86: Select HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK on x86
  timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK option
  rtc: Skip the suspend/resume handling if persistent clock exist
  timekeeping: Add persistent_clock_exist flag
  posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on success
  Round the calculated scale factor in set_cyc2ns_scale()
  NTP: Add a CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC configuration
  MAINTAINERS: Update John Stultz's email
  time: create __getnstimeofday for WARNless calls

posix-cpu-timers: Fix nanosleep task_struct leak

2013-02-15T10:41:56+00:00

The trinity fuzzer triggered a task_struct reference leak via
clock_nanosleep with CPU_TIMERs. do_cpu_nanosleep() calls
posic_cpu_timer_create(), but misses a corresponding
posix_cpu_timer_del() which leads to the task_struct reference leak.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala 
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130215100810.GF4392@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats

2013-01-27T18:23:31+00:00

This is in preparation for the full dynticks feature. While
remotely reading the cputime of a task running in a full
dynticks CPU, we'll need to do some extra-computation. This
way we can account the time it spent tickless in userspace
since its last cputime snapshot.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner

Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

2012-12-20T04:23:37+00:00

Pull random updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A few /dev/random improvements for the v3.8 merge window."

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
  random: Mix cputime from each thread that exits to the pool
  random: prime last_data value per fips requirements
  random: fix debug format strings
  random: make it possible to enable debugging without rebuild

random: Mix cputime from each thread that exits to the pool

2012-12-17T03:18:11+00:00

When a thread exits mix it's cputime (userspace + kernelspace) to the entropy pool.

We don't know how "random" this is, so we use add_device_randomness that doesn't mess
with entropy count.

Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

cputime: Move thread_group_cputime() to sched code

2012-11-28T16:07:38+00:00

thread_group_cputime() is a general cputime API that is not only
used by posix cpu timer. Let's move this helper to sched code.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker

[S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup

2011-12-15T13:56:19+00:00

Make cputime_t and cputime64_t nocast to enable sparse checking to
detect incorrect use of cputime. Drop the cputime macros for simple
scalar operations. The conversion macros are still needed.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky