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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/time/clocksource.c, branch v3.0.3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>clocksource: Make watchdog robust vs. interruption</title>
<updated>2011-06-16T17:30:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-16T14:22:08+00:00</published>
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The clocksource watchdog code is interruptible and it has been
observed that this can trigger false positives which disable the TSC.

The reason is that an interrupt storm or a long running interrupt
handler between the read of the watchdog source and the read of the
TSC brings the two far enough apart that the delta is larger than the
unstable treshold. Move both reads into a short interrupt disabled
region to avoid that.

Reported-and-tested-by: Vernon Mauery &lt;vernux@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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The clocksource watchdog code is interruptible and it has been
observed that this can trigger false positives which disable the TSC.

The reason is that an interrupt storm or a long running interrupt
handler between the read of the watchdog source and the read of the
TSC brings the two far enough apart that the delta is larger than the
unstable treshold. Move both reads into a short interrupt disabled
region to avoid that.

Reported-and-tested-by: Vernon Mauery &lt;vernux@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>clockevents/source: Use u64 to make 32bit happy</title>
<updated>2011-05-20T08:50:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-20T08:50:52+00:00</published>
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unsigned long is not 64bit on 32bit machine.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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unsigned long is not 64bit on 32bit machine.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-clockevents-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2011-05-20T00:44:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-20T00:44:40+00:00</published>
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* 'timers-clockevents-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: hpet: Cleanup the clockevents init and register code
  x86: Convert PIT to clockevents_config_and_register()
  clockevents: Provide interface to reconfigure an active clock event device
  clockevents: Provide combined configure and register function
  clockevents: Restructure clock_event_device members
  clocksource: Get rid of the hardcoded 5 seconds sleep time limit
  clocksource: Restructure clocksource struct members
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* 'timers-clockevents-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: hpet: Cleanup the clockevents init and register code
  x86: Convert PIT to clockevents_config_and_register()
  clockevents: Provide interface to reconfigure an active clock event device
  clockevents: Provide combined configure and register function
  clockevents: Restructure clock_event_device members
  clocksource: Get rid of the hardcoded 5 seconds sleep time limit
  clocksource: Restructure clocksource struct members
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<entry>
<title>clocksource: Get rid of the hardcoded 5 seconds sleep time limit</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T12:24:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-18T21:33:40+00:00</published>
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Slow clocksources can have a way longer sleep time than 5 seconds and
even fast ones can easily cope with 600 seconds and still maintain
proper accuracy.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.109811585%40linutronix.de%3E
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Slow clocksources can have a way longer sleep time than 5 seconds and
even fast ones can easily cope with 600 seconds and still maintain
proper accuracy.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.109811585%40linutronix.de%3E
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource: Install completely before selecting</title>
<updated>2011-05-05T13:23:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>john stultz</name>
<email>johnstul@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-05T01:16:50+00:00</published>
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Christian Hoffmann reported that the command line clocksource override
with acpi_pm timer fails:

 Kernel command line: &lt;SNIP&gt; clocksource=acpi_pm
 hpet clockevent registered
 Switching to clocksource hpet
 Override clocksource acpi_pm is not HRT compatible.
 Cannot switch while in HRT/NOHZ mode.

The watchdog code is what enables CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES, but we
actually end up selecting the clocksource before we enqueue it into
the watchdog list, so that's why we see the warning and fail to switch
to acpi_pm timer as requested. That's particularly bad when we want to
debug timekeeping related problems in early boot.

Put the selection call last.

Reported-by: Christian Hoffmann &lt;email@christianhoffmann.info&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 32...
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C1304558210.2943.24.camel%40work-vm%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Christian Hoffmann reported that the command line clocksource override
with acpi_pm timer fails:

 Kernel command line: &lt;SNIP&gt; clocksource=acpi_pm
 hpet clockevent registered
 Switching to clocksource hpet
 Override clocksource acpi_pm is not HRT compatible.
 Cannot switch while in HRT/NOHZ mode.

The watchdog code is what enables CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES, but we
actually end up selecting the clocksource before we enqueue it into
the watchdog list, so that's why we see the warning and fail to switch
to acpi_pm timer as requested. That's particularly bad when we want to
debug timekeeping related problems in early boot.

Put the selection call last.

Reported-by: Christian Hoffmann &lt;email@christianhoffmann.info&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 32...
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C1304558210.2943.24.camel%40work-vm%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'x86-fixes-for-linus', 'timers-fixes-for-linus' and 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2011-01-15T20:45:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-15T20:45:00+00:00</published>
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* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings
  rcu: demote SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY from kernel-parameter status
  rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi()

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, olpc: Add missing Kconfig dependencies
  x86, mrst: Set correct APB timer IRQ affinity for secondary cpu
  x86: tsc: Fix calibration refinement conditionals to avoid divide by zero
  x86, ia64, acpi: Clean up x86-ism in drivers/acpi/numa.c

* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timekeeping: Make local variables static
  time: Rename misnamed minsec argument of clocks_calc_mult_shift()

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Remove syscall_exit_fields
  tracing: Only process module tracepoints once
  perf record: Add "nodelay" mode, disabled by default
  perf sched: Fix list of events, dropping unsupported ':r' modifier
  Revert "perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return"
  perf top: Fix annotate segv
  perf evsel: Fix order of event list deletion
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* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings
  rcu: demote SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY from kernel-parameter status
  rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi()

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, olpc: Add missing Kconfig dependencies
  x86, mrst: Set correct APB timer IRQ affinity for secondary cpu
  x86: tsc: Fix calibration refinement conditionals to avoid divide by zero
  x86, ia64, acpi: Clean up x86-ism in drivers/acpi/numa.c

* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timekeeping: Make local variables static
  time: Rename misnamed minsec argument of clocks_calc_mult_shift()

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Remove syscall_exit_fields
  tracing: Only process module tracepoints once
  perf record: Add "nodelay" mode, disabled by default
  perf sched: Fix list of events, dropping unsupported ':r' modifier
  Revert "perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return"
  perf top: Fix annotate segv
  perf evsel: Fix order of event list deletion
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2011-01-13T18:05:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-13T18:05:56+00:00</published>
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* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
  writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -&gt; real-time
  ppc: fix comment typo singal -&gt; signal
  drivers: fix comment typo diable -&gt; disable.
  m68k: fix comment typo diable -&gt; disable.
  wireless: comment typo fix diable -&gt; disable.
  media: comment typo fix diable -&gt; disable.
  remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
  remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
  Fix spelling milisec -&gt; ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
  Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  Revert conflicting V4L changes
  i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
  mm/rmap.c: fix comment
  sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
  hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
  init/Kconfig: fix typo
  anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
  fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
  poll: fix a typo in comment
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
 - fs/ext4/ext4.h

Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
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* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
  writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -&gt; real-time
  ppc: fix comment typo singal -&gt; signal
  drivers: fix comment typo diable -&gt; disable.
  m68k: fix comment typo diable -&gt; disable.
  wireless: comment typo fix diable -&gt; disable.
  media: comment typo fix diable -&gt; disable.
  remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
  remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
  Fix spelling milisec -&gt; ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
  Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  Revert conflicting V4L changes
  i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
  mm/rmap.c: fix comment
  sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
  hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
  init/Kconfig: fix typo
  anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
  fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
  poll: fix a typo in comment
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
 - fs/ext4/ext4.h

Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Rename misnamed minsec argument of clocks_calc_mult_shift()</title>
<updated>2011-01-12T11:23:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nico@fluxnic.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-11T17:18:12+00:00</published>
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The minsec argument to clocks_calc_mult_shift() is misnamed. It is used 
to clamp the magnitude of the mult factor so that a multiplication with 
any value in the given range won't overflow a 64 bit result.  Let's 
rename it to match the actual usage.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;alpine.LFD.2.00.1101111207140.17086@xanadu.home&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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The minsec argument to clocks_calc_mult_shift() is misnamed. It is used 
to clamp the magnitude of the mult factor so that a multiplication with 
any value in the given range won't overflow a 64 bit result.  Let's 
rename it to match the actual usage.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;alpine.LFD.2.00.1101111207140.17086@xanadu.home&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix rounding in clocks_calc_mult_shift()</title>
<updated>2010-12-22T22:44:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>john stultz</name>
<email>johnstul@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-16T19:03:27+00:00</published>
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Russell King reports:
| On the ARM dev boards, we have a 32-bit counter running at 24MHz.  Calling
| clocks_calc_mult_shift(&amp;mult, &amp;shift, 24MHz, NSEC_PER_SEC, 60) gives
| us a multiplier of 2796202666 and a shift of 26.
|
| Over a large counter delta, this produces an error - lets take a count
| from 362976315 to 4280663372:
|
| (4280663372-362976315) * 2796202666 / 2^26 - (4280663372-362976315) * (1000/24)
|  =&gt; -38.91872422891230269990
|
| Can we do better?
|
| (4280663372-362976315) * 2796202667 / 2^26 - (4280663372-362976315) * (1000/24)
| 19.45936211449532822051
|
| which is about twice as good as the 2796202666 multiplier.
|
| Looking at the equivalent divisions obtained, 2796202666 / 2^26 gives
| 41.66666665673255920410ns per tick, whereas 2796202667 / 2^26 gives
| 41.66666667163372039794ns.  The actual value wanted is 1000/24 =
| 41.66666666666666666666ns.

Fix this by ensuring we round to nearest when calculating the
multiplier.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson &lt;mikpe@it.uu.se&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Miao &lt;eric.y.miao@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Tested-by: Jamie Iles &lt;jamie@jamieiles.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Russell King reports:
| On the ARM dev boards, we have a 32-bit counter running at 24MHz.  Calling
| clocks_calc_mult_shift(&amp;mult, &amp;shift, 24MHz, NSEC_PER_SEC, 60) gives
| us a multiplier of 2796202666 and a shift of 26.
|
| Over a large counter delta, this produces an error - lets take a count
| from 362976315 to 4280663372:
|
| (4280663372-362976315) * 2796202666 / 2^26 - (4280663372-362976315) * (1000/24)
|  =&gt; -38.91872422891230269990
|
| Can we do better?
|
| (4280663372-362976315) * 2796202667 / 2^26 - (4280663372-362976315) * (1000/24)
| 19.45936211449532822051
|
| which is about twice as good as the 2796202666 multiplier.
|
| Looking at the equivalent divisions obtained, 2796202666 / 2^26 gives
| 41.66666665673255920410ns per tick, whereas 2796202667 / 2^26 gives
| 41.66666667163372039794ns.  The actual value wanted is 1000/24 =
| 41.66666666666666666666ns.

Fix this by ensuring we round to nearest when calculating the
multiplier.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson &lt;mikpe@it.uu.se&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Miao &lt;eric.y.miao@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Tested-by: Jamie Iles &lt;jamie@jamieiles.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos</title>
<updated>2010-11-01T19:38:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-01T19:38:34+00:00</published>
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"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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