Sharvil noticed with the posix timer_settime interface, using the
CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM or CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM clockid, if the users
tried to specify a relative time timer, it would incorrectly be
treated as absolute regardless of the state of the flags argument.

This patch corrects this, properly checking the absolute/relative flag,
as well as adds further error checking that no invalid flag bits are set.

Reported-by: Sharvil Nanavati <sharvil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati <sharvil@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> #3.0+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404767171-6902-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few fixes for 3.16.  Cc'ed to stable so they'll get there somehow.

 - various misc fixes and cleanups

 - most of the ocfs2 queue.  Review is slow...

 - most of MM.  The MM queue is pretty huge this time, but not much in
   the way of feature work.

 - some tweaks under kernel/

 - printk maintenance work

 - updates to lib/

 - checkpatch updates

 - tweaks to init/

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (276 commits)
  fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c: add __init to autofs_dev_ioctl_init
  fs/ncpfs/getopt.c: replace simple_strtoul by kstrtoul
  init/main.c: remove an ifdef
  kthreads: kill CLONE_KERNEL, change kernel_thread(kernel_init) to avoid CLONE_SIGHAND
  init/main.c: add initcall_blacklist kernel parameter
  init/main.c: don't use pr_debug()
  fs/binfmt_flat.c: make old_reloc() static
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix bool assignements
  fs/efs: convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug
  fs/efs: add pr_fmt / use __func__
  fs/efs: convert printk to pr_foo()
  scripts/checkpatch.pl: device_initcall is not the only __initcall substitute
  checkpatch: check stable email address
  checkpatch: warn on unnecessary void function return statements
  checkpatch: prefer kstrto<foo> to sscanf(buf, "%<lhuidx>", &bar);
  checkpatch: add warning for kmalloc/kzalloc with multiply
  checkpatch: warn on #defines ending in semicolon
  checkpatch: make --strict a default for files in drivers/net and net/
  checkpatch: always warn on missing blank line after variable declaration block
  checkpatch: fix wildcard DT compatible string checking
  ...

Jiri Bohac pointed out that there are rare but potential deadlock
possibilities when calling printk while holding the timekeeping
seqlock.

This is due to printk() triggering console sem wakeup, which can
cause scheduling code to trigger hrtimers which may try to read
the time.

Specifically, as Jiri pointed out, that path is:
  printk
    vprintk_emit
      console_unlock
        up(&console_sem)
          __up
	    wake_up_process
	      try_to_wake_up
	        ttwu_do_activate
		  ttwu_activate
		    activate_task
		      enqueue_task
		        enqueue_task_fair
			  hrtick_update
			    hrtick_start_fair
			      hrtick_start_fair
			        get_time
				  ktime_get
				    --> endless loop on
				    read_seqcount_retry(&timekeeper_seq, ...)

This patch tries to avoid this issue by using printk_deferred (previously
named printk_sched) which should defer printing via a irq_work_queue.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

is_error_status() is an inline function always called with the
global time_status as an argument, so there's zero functional
difference with this change, but the non-CONFIG_NTP_PPS version
uses the passed-in argument, while the CONFIG_NTP_PPS one ignores
its argument and uses the global.

Looks like is_error_status was refactored out, but someone forgot
to change the logic to check the local argument value.

Thus this patch makes it use the argument always; shorter variable
names are good.

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
[jstultz: Tweaked commit message]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

Replace obsolete function simple_strtol w/ kstrtol

Inspired-By: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
[jstultz: Tweak commit message]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

Remove the 32-bit only setup_sched_clock() API now that all users
have been converted to the 64-bit friendly sched_clock_register().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

Since commit d689fe222 (NOHZ: Check for nohz active instead of nohz
enabled) the tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() function returns because it
checks for the tick_nohz_active flag. This can't be set, because the
function itself sets it.

Undo the change in tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz().

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arvind.Chauhan@arm.com
Cc: linaro-networking@linaro.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/40939c05f2d65d781b92b20302b02243d0654224.1397537987.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

In tick_do_update_jiffies64() we are processing ticks only if delta is
greater than tick_period. This is what we are supposed to do here and
it broke a bit with this patch:

commit 47a1b796 (tick/timekeeping: Call update_wall_time outside the
jiffies lock)

With above patch, we might end up calling update_wall_time() even if
delta is found to be smaller that tick_period. Fix this by returning
when the delta is less than tick period.

[ tglx: Made it a 3 liner and massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arvind.Chauhan@arm.com
Cc: linaro-networking@linaro.org
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.14+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/80afb18a494b0bd9710975bcc4de134ae323c74f.1397537987.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

tick_check_replacement() returns if a replacement of clock_event_device is
possible or not. It does this as the first check:

	if (tick_check_percpu(curdev, newdev, smp_processor_id()))
		return false;

Thats wrong. tick_check_percpu() returns true when the device is
useable. Check for false instead.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.11+
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arvind.Chauhan@arm.com
Cc: linaro-networking@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/486a02efe0246635aaba786e24b42d316438bf3b.1397537987.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

To increase compiler portability there is <linux/compiler.h> which
provides convenience macros for various gcc constructs.  Eg: __weak for
__attribute__((weak)).  I've replaced all instances of gcc attributes
with the right macro in the kernel subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza <gidisrael@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>