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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/time/timekeeping.c, branch imx-android-r10.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into timers/core</title>
<updated>2010-05-10T12:20:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-10T09:59:37+00:00</published>
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Reason: Further posix_cpu_timer patches depend on mainline changes

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Reason: Further posix_cpu_timer patches depend on mainline changes

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>time: Remove xtime_cache</title>
<updated>2010-04-13T10:43:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>johnstul@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-06T21:30:51+00:00</published>
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With the earlier logarithmic time accumulation patch, xtime will now
always be within one "tick" of the current time, instead of possibly
half a second off.

This removes the need for the xtime_cache value, which always stored the
time at the last interrupt, so this patch cleans that up removing the
xtime_cache related code.

This patch also addresses an issue with an earlier version of this change,
where xtime_cache was normalizing xtime, which could in some cases be
not valid (ie: tv_nsec == NSEC_PER_SEC). This is fixed by handling
the edge case in update_wall_time().

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Titěra &lt;P.Titera@century.cz&gt;
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With the earlier logarithmic time accumulation patch, xtime will now
always be within one "tick" of the current time, instead of possibly
half a second off.

This removes the need for the xtime_cache value, which always stored the
time at the last interrupt, so this patch cleans that up removing the
xtime_cache related code.

This patch also addresses an issue with an earlier version of this change,
where xtime_cache was normalizing xtime, which could in some cases be
not valid (ie: tv_nsec == NSEC_PER_SEC). This is fixed by handling
the edge case in update_wall_time().

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Titěra &lt;P.Titera@century.cz&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1270589451-30773-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>time: Fix accumulation bug triggered by long delay.</title>
<updated>2010-03-23T15:41:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>johnstul@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-18T21:47:30+00:00</published>
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The logarithmic accumulation done in the timekeeping has some overflow
protection that limits the max shift value. That means it will take
more then shift loops to accumulate all of the cycles. This causes
the shift decrement to underflow, which causes the loop to never exit.

The simplest fix would be simply to do a:
	if (shift)
		shift--;

However that is not optimal, as we know the cycle offset is larger
then the interval &lt;&lt; shift, the above would make shift drop to zero,
then we would be spinning for quite awhile accumulating at interval
chunks at a time.

Instead, this patch only decreases shift if the offset is smaller
then cycle_interval &lt;&lt; shift.  This makes sure we accumulate using
the largest chunks possible without overflowing tick_length, and limits
the number of iterations through the loop.

This issue was found and reported by Sonic Zhang, who also tested the fix.
Many thanks your explanation and testing!

Reported-by: Sonic Zhang &lt;sonic.adi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sonic Zhang &lt;sonic.adi@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1268948850-5225-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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The logarithmic accumulation done in the timekeeping has some overflow
protection that limits the max shift value. That means it will take
more then shift loops to accumulate all of the cycles. This causes
the shift decrement to underflow, which causes the loop to never exit.

The simplest fix would be simply to do a:
	if (shift)
		shift--;

However that is not optimal, as we know the cycle offset is larger
then the interval &lt;&lt; shift, the above would make shift drop to zero,
then we would be spinning for quite awhile accumulating at interval
chunks at a time.

Instead, this patch only decreases shift if the offset is smaller
then cycle_interval &lt;&lt; shift.  This makes sure we accumulate using
the largest chunks possible without overflowing tick_length, and limits
the number of iterations through the loop.

This issue was found and reported by Sonic Zhang, who also tested the fix.
Many thanks your explanation and testing!

Reported-by: Sonic Zhang &lt;sonic.adi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sonic Zhang &lt;sonic.adi@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1268948850-5225-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-03-01T16:48:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-01T16:48:25+00:00</published>
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* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  posix-timers.c: Don't export local functions
  clocksource: start CMT at clocksource resume
  clocksource: add suspend callback
  clocksource: add argument to resume callback
  ntp: Cleanup xtime references in ntp.c
  ntp: Make time_esterror and time_maxerror static
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* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  posix-timers.c: Don't export local functions
  clocksource: start CMT at clocksource resume
  clocksource: add suspend callback
  clocksource: add argument to resume callback
  ntp: Cleanup xtime references in ntp.c
  ntp: Make time_esterror and time_maxerror static
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<entry>
<title>Export the symbol of getboottime and mmonotonic_to_bootbased</title>
<updated>2010-02-09T17:20:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-27T11:13:40+00:00</published>
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Export getboottime and monotonic_to_bootbased in order to let them
could be used by following patch.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
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Export getboottime and monotonic_to_bootbased in order to let them
could be used by following patch.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>clocksource: add suspend callback</title>
<updated>2010-02-05T13:54:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Magnus Damm</name>
<email>damm@opensource.se</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-02T22:41:41+00:00</published>
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Add a clocksource suspend callback.  This callback can be used by the
clocksource driver to shutdown and perform any kind of late suspend
activities even though the clocksource driver itself is a non-sysdev
driver.

One example where this is useful is to fix the sh_cmt.c platform driver
that today suspends using the platform bus and shuts down the clocksource
too early.

With this callback in place the sh_cmt driver will suspend using the
clocksource and clockevent hooks and leave the platform device pm
callbacks unused.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm &lt;damm@opensource.se&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: john stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Add a clocksource suspend callback.  This callback can be used by the
clocksource driver to shutdown and perform any kind of late suspend
activities even though the clocksource driver itself is a non-sysdev
driver.

One example where this is useful is to fix the sh_cmt.c platform driver
that today suspends using the platform bus and shuts down the clocksource
too early.

With this callback in place the sh_cmt driver will suspend using the
clocksource and clockevent hooks and leave the platform device pm
callbacks unused.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm &lt;damm@opensource.se&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: john stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "time: Remove xtime_cache"</title>
<updated>2009-12-22T22:10:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-22T22:10:37+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 7bc7d637452383d56ba4368d4336b0dde1bb476d, as
requested by John Stultz. Quoting John:

 "Petr Titěra reported an issue where he saw odd atime regressions with
  2.6.33 where there were a full second worth of nanoseconds in the
  nanoseconds field.

  He also reviewed the time code and narrowed down the problem: unhandled
  overflow of the nanosecond field caused by rounding up the
  sub-nanosecond accumulated time.

  Details:

   * At the end of update_wall_time(), we currently round up the
  sub-nanosecond portion of accumulated time when storing it into xtime.
  This was added to avoid time inconsistencies caused when the
  sub-nanosecond portion was truncated when storing into xtime.
  Unfortunately we don't handle the possible second overflow caused by
  that rounding.

   * Previously the xtime_cache code hid this overflow by normalizing the
  xtime value when storing into the xtime_cache.

   * We could try to handle the second overflow after the rounding up, but
  since this affects the timekeeping's internal state, this would further
  complicate the next accumulation cycle, causing small errors in ntp
  steering. As much as I'd like to get rid of it, the xtime_cache code is
  known to work.

   * The correct fix is really to include the sub-nanosecond portion in the
  timekeeping accessor function, so we don't need to round up at during
  accumulation. This would greatly simplify the accumulation code.
  Unfortunately, we can't do this safely until the last three
  non-GENERIC_TIME arches (sparc32, arm, cris) are converted  (those
  patches are in -mm) and we kill off the spots where arches set xtime
  directly. This is all 2.6.34 material, so I think reverting the
  xtime_cache change is the best approach for now.

  Many thanks to Petr for both reporting and finding the issue!"

Reported-by: Petr Titěra &lt;P.Titera@century.cz&gt;
Requested-by: john stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 7bc7d637452383d56ba4368d4336b0dde1bb476d, as
requested by John Stultz. Quoting John:

 "Petr Titěra reported an issue where he saw odd atime regressions with
  2.6.33 where there were a full second worth of nanoseconds in the
  nanoseconds field.

  He also reviewed the time code and narrowed down the problem: unhandled
  overflow of the nanosecond field caused by rounding up the
  sub-nanosecond accumulated time.

  Details:

   * At the end of update_wall_time(), we currently round up the
  sub-nanosecond portion of accumulated time when storing it into xtime.
  This was added to avoid time inconsistencies caused when the
  sub-nanosecond portion was truncated when storing into xtime.
  Unfortunately we don't handle the possible second overflow caused by
  that rounding.

   * Previously the xtime_cache code hid this overflow by normalizing the
  xtime value when storing into the xtime_cache.

   * We could try to handle the second overflow after the rounding up, but
  since this affects the timekeeping's internal state, this would further
  complicate the next accumulation cycle, causing small errors in ntp
  steering. As much as I'd like to get rid of it, the xtime_cache code is
  known to work.

   * The correct fix is really to include the sub-nanosecond portion in the
  timekeeping accessor function, so we don't need to round up at during
  accumulation. This would greatly simplify the accumulation code.
  Unfortunately, we can't do this safely until the last three
  non-GENERIC_TIME arches (sparc32, arm, cris) are converted  (those
  patches are in -mm) and we kill off the spots where arches set xtime
  directly. This is all 2.6.34 material, so I think reverting the
  xtime_cache change is the best approach for now.

  Many thanks to Petr for both reporting and finding the issue!"

Reported-by: Petr Titěra &lt;P.Titera@century.cz&gt;
Requested-by: john stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2009-12-09T03:28:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-09T03:28:09+00:00</published>
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* 'timers-for-linus-urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  hrtimer: Fix /proc/timer_list regression
  itimers: Fix racy writes to cpu_itimer fields
  timekeeping: Fix clock_gettime vsyscall time warp
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* 'timers-for-linus-urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  hrtimer: Fix /proc/timer_list regression
  itimers: Fix racy writes to cpu_itimer fields
  timekeeping: Fix clock_gettime vsyscall time warp
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2009-12-09T03:27:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-09T03:27:08+00:00</published>
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* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers, init: Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootup messages
  posix-cpu-timers: optimize and document timer_create callback
  clockevents: Add missing include to pacify sparse
  x86: vmiclock: Fix printk format
  x86: Fix printk format due to variable type change
  sparc: fix printk for change of variable type
  clocksource/events: Fix fallout of generic code changes
  nohz: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds
  nohz: Track last do_timer() cpu
  nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle
  nohz: Type cast printk argument
  mips: Use generic mult/shift factor calculation for clocks
  clocksource: Provide a generic mult/shift factor calculation
  clockevents: Use u32 for mult and shift factors
  nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu
  nohz: Reuse ktime in sub-functions of tick_check_idle.
  time: Remove xtime_cache
  time: Implement logarithmic time accumulation
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* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers, init: Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootup messages
  posix-cpu-timers: optimize and document timer_create callback
  clockevents: Add missing include to pacify sparse
  x86: vmiclock: Fix printk format
  x86: Fix printk format due to variable type change
  sparc: fix printk for change of variable type
  clocksource/events: Fix fallout of generic code changes
  nohz: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds
  nohz: Track last do_timer() cpu
  nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle
  nohz: Type cast printk argument
  mips: Use generic mult/shift factor calculation for clocks
  clocksource: Provide a generic mult/shift factor calculation
  clockevents: Use u32 for mult and shift factors
  nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu
  nohz: Reuse ktime in sub-functions of tick_check_idle.
  time: Remove xtime_cache
  time: Implement logarithmic time accumulation
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Fix clock_gettime vsyscall time warp</title>
<updated>2009-11-17T10:52:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lin Ming</name>
<email>ming.m.lin@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-17T05:49:50+00:00</published>
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Since commit 0a544198 "timekeeping: Move NTP adjusted clock multiplier
to struct timekeeper" the clock multiplier of vsyscall is updated with
the unmodified clock multiplier of the clock source and not with the
NTP adjusted multiplier of the timekeeper.

This causes user space observerable time warps:
new CLOCK-warp maximum: 120 nsecs,  00000025c337c537 -&gt; 00000025c337c4bf

Add a new argument "mult" to update_vsyscall() and hand in the
timekeeping internal NTP adjusted multiplier.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming &lt;ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Zhang Yanmin" &lt;yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1258436990.17765.83.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Since commit 0a544198 "timekeeping: Move NTP adjusted clock multiplier
to struct timekeeper" the clock multiplier of vsyscall is updated with
the unmodified clock multiplier of the clock source and not with the
NTP adjusted multiplier of the timekeeper.

This causes user space observerable time warps:
new CLOCK-warp maximum: 120 nsecs,  00000025c337c537 -&gt; 00000025c337c4bf

Add a new argument "mult" to update_vsyscall() and hand in the
timekeeping internal NTP adjusted multiplier.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming &lt;ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Zhang Yanmin" &lt;yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1258436990.17765.83.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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