linux-toradex.git/kernel/time, branch v4.9.95

time: Change posix clocks ops interfaces to use timespec64

2018-03-24T10:00:09+00:00

[ Upstream commit d340266e19ddb70dbd608f9deedcfb35fdb9d419 ]

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.

The posix clocks apis use struct timespec directly and through struct
itimerspec.

Replace the posix clock interfaces to use struct timespec64 and struct
itimerspec64 instead.  Also fix up their implementations accordingly.

Note that the clock_getres() interface has also been changed to use
timespec64 even though this particular interface is not affected by the
y2038 problem. This helps verification for internal kernel code for y2038
readiness by getting rid of time_t/ timeval/ timespec.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Richard Cochran 
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-3-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysrq: Reset the watchdog timers while displaying high-resolution timers

2018-03-22T08:17:42+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0107042768658fea9f5f5a9c00b1c90f5dab6a06 ]

On systems with a large number of CPUs, running sysrq- can cause
watchdog timeouts.  There are two slow sections of code in the sysrq-
path in timer_list.c.

1. print_active_timers() - This function is called by print_cpu() and
   contains a slow goto loop.  On a machine with hundreds of CPUs, this
   loop took approximately 100ms for the first CPU in a NUMA node.
   (Subsequent CPUs in the same node ran much quicker.)  The total time
   to print all of the CPUs is ultimately long enough to trigger the
   soft lockup watchdog.

2. print_tickdevice() - This function outputs a large amount of textual
   information.  This function also took approximately 100ms per CPU.

Since sysrq- is not a performance critical path, there should be no
harm in touching the nmi watchdog in both slow sections above.  Touching
it in just one location was insufficient on systems with hundreds of
CPUs as occasional timeouts were still observed during testing.

This issue was observed on an Oracle T7 machine with 128 CPUs, but I
anticipate it may affect other systems with similarly large numbers of
CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Tom Hromatka 
Reviewed-by: Rob Gardner 
Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timers, sched_clock: Update timeout for clock wrap

2018-03-22T08:17:42+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1b8955bc5ac575009835e371ae55e7f3af2197a9 ]

The scheduler clock framework may not use the correct timeout for the clock
wrap. This happens when a new clock driver calls sched_clock_register()
after the kernel called sched_clock_postinit(). In this case the clock wrap
timeout is too long thus sched_clock_poll() is called too late and the clock
already wrapped.

On my ARM system the scheduler was no longer scheduling any other task than
the idle task because the sched_clock() wrapped.

Signed-off-by: David Engraf 
Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timers: Forward timer base before migrating timers

2018-03-11T15:21:28+00:00

commit c52232a49e203a65a6e1a670cd5262f59e9364a0 upstream.

On CPU hotunplug the enqueued timers of the unplugged CPU are migrated to a
live CPU. This happens from the control thread which initiated the unplug.

If the CPU on which the control thread runs came out from a longer idle
period then the base clock of that CPU might be stale because the control
thread runs prior to any event which forwards the clock.

In such a case the timers from the unplugged CPU are queued on the live CPU
based on the stale clock which can cause large delays due to increased
granularity of the outer timer wheels which are far away from base:;clock.

But there is a worse problem than that. The following sequence of events
illustrates it:

 - CPU0 timer1 is queued expires = 59969 and base->clk = 59131.

   The timer is queued at wheel level 2, with resulting expiry time = 60032
   (due to level granularity).

 - CPU1 enters idle @60007, with next timer expiry @60020.

 - CPU0 is hotplugged at @60009

 - CPU1 exits idle and runs the control thread which migrates the
   timers from CPU0

   timer1 is now queued in level 0 for immediate handling in the next
   softirq because the requested expiry time 59969 is before CPU1 base->clk
   60007

 - CPU1 runs code which forwards the base clock which succeeds because the
   next expiring timer. which was collected at idle entry time is still set
   to 60020.

   So it forwards beyond 60007 and therefore misses to expire the migrated
   timer1. That timer gets expired when the wheel wraps around again, which
   takes between 63 and 630ms depending on the HZ setting.

Address both problems by invoking forward_timer_base() for the control CPUs
timer base. All other places, which might run into a similar problem
(mod_timer()/add_timer_on()) already invoke forward_timer_base() to avoid
that.

[ tglx: Massaged comment and changelog ]

Fixes: a683f390b93f ("timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible")
Co-developed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay 
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay 
Signed-off-by: Lingutla Chandrasekhar 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner 
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180118115022.6368-1-clingutla@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hrtimer: Ensure POSIX compliance (relative CLOCK_REALTIME hrtimers)

2018-03-03T09:23:20+00:00

commit 48d0c9becc7f3c66874c100c126459a9da0fdced upstream.

The POSIX specification defines that relative CLOCK_REALTIME timers are not
affected by clock modifications. Those timers have to use CLOCK_MONOTONIC
to ensure POSIX compliance.

The introduction of the additional HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED mode broke this
requirement for pinned timers.

There is no user space visible impact because user space timers are not
using pinned mode, but for consistency reasons this needs to be fixed.

Check whether the mode has the HRTIMER_MODE_REL bit set instead of
comparing with HRTIMER_MODE_ABS.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: keescook@chromium.org
Fixes: 597d0275736d ("timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171221104205.7269-7-anna-maria@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

posix-timer: Properly check sigevent->sigev_notify

2018-02-17T12:21:13+00:00

commit cef31d9af908243421258f1df35a4a644604efbe upstream.

timer_create() specifies via sigevent->sigev_notify the signal delivery for
the new timer. The valid modes are SIGEV_NONE, SIGEV_SIGNAL, SIGEV_THREAD
and (SIGEV_SIGNAL | SIGEV_THREAD_ID).

The sanity check in good_sigevent() is only checking the valid combination
for the SIGEV_THREAD_ID bit, i.e. SIGEV_SIGNAL, but if SIGEV_THREAD_ID is
not set it accepts any random value.

This has no real effects on the posix timer and signal delivery code, but
it affects show_timer() which handles the output of /proc/$PID/timers. That
function uses a string array to pretty print sigev_notify. The access to
that array has no bound checks, so random sigev_notify cause access beyond
the array bounds.

Add proper checks for the valid notify modes and remove the SIGEV_THREAD_ID
masking from various code pathes as SIGEV_NONE can never be set in
combination with SIGEV_THREAD_ID.

Reported-by: Eric Biggers 
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hrtimer: Reset hrtimer cpu base proper on CPU hotplug

2018-01-31T11:55:56+00:00

commit d5421ea43d30701e03cadc56a38854c36a8b4433 upstream.

The hrtimer interrupt code contains a hang detection and mitigation
mechanism, which prevents that a long delayed hrtimer interrupt causes a
continous retriggering of interrupts which prevent the system from making
progress. If a hang is detected then the timer hardware is programmed with
a certain delay into the future and a flag is set in the hrtimer cpu base
which prevents newly enqueued timers from reprogramming the timer hardware
prior to the chosen delay. The subsequent hrtimer interrupt after the delay
clears the flag and resumes normal operation.

If such a hang happens in the last hrtimer interrupt before a CPU is
unplugged then the hang_detected flag is set and stays that way when the
CPU is plugged in again. At that point the timer hardware is not armed and
it cannot be armed because the hang_detected flag is still active, so
nothing clears that flag. As a consequence the CPU does not receive hrtimer
interrupts and no timers expire on that CPU which results in RCU stalls and
other malfunctions.

Clear the flag along with some other less critical members of the hrtimer
cpu base to ensure starting from a clean state when a CPU is plugged in.

Thanks to Paul, Sebastian and Anna-Maria for their help to get down to the
root cause of that hard to reproduce heisenbug. Once understood it's
trivial and certainly justifies a brown paperbag.

Fixes: 41d2e4949377 ("hrtimer: Tune hrtimer_interrupt hang logic")
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sebastian Sewior 
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801261447590.2067@nanos
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timers: Unconditionally check deferrable base

2018-01-23T18:57:04+00:00

commit ed4bbf7910b28ce3c691aef28d245585eaabda06 upstream.

When the timer base is checked for expired timers then the deferrable base
must be checked as well. This was missed when making the deferrable base
independent of base::nohz_active.

Fixes: ced6d5c11d3e ("timers: Use deferrable base independent of base::nohz_active")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sebastian Siewior 
Cc: Paul McKenney 
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

nohz: Prevent a timer interrupt storm in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()

2018-01-02T19:35:17+00:00

commit 5d62c183f9e9df1deeea0906d099a94e8a43047a upstream.

The conditions in irq_exit() to invoke tick_nohz_irq_exit() which
subsequently invokes tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() are:

  if ((idle_cpu(cpu) && !need_resched()) || tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu))

If need_resched() is not set, but a timer softirq is pending then this is
an indication that the softirq code punted and delegated the execution to
softirqd. need_resched() is not true because the current interrupted task
takes precedence over softirqd.

Invoking tick_nohz_irq_exit() in this case can cause an endless loop of
timer interrupts because the timer wheel contains an expired timer, but
softirqs are not yet executed. So it returns an immediate expiry request,
which causes the timer to fire immediately again. Lather, rinse and
repeat....

Prevent that by adding a check for a pending timer soft interrupt to the
conditions in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() which avoid calling
get_next_timer_interrupt(). That keeps the tick sched timer on the tick and
prevents a repetitive programming of an already expired timer.

Reported-by: Sebastian Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul McKenney 
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner 
Cc: Sebastian Siewior 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1712272156050.2431@nanos
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timers: Reinitialize per cpu bases on hotplug

2018-01-02T19:35:17+00:00

commit 26456f87aca7157c057de65c9414b37f1ab881d1 upstream.

The timer wheel bases are not (re)initialized on CPU hotplug. That leaves
them with a potentially stale clk and next_expiry valuem, which can cause
trouble then the CPU is plugged.

Add a prepare callback which forwards the clock, sets next_expiry to far in
the future and reset the control flags to a known state.

Set base->must_forward_clk so the first timer which is queued will try to
forward the clock to current jiffies.

Fixes: 500462a9de65 ("timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel")
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Sebastian Siewior 
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1712272152200.2431@nanos
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman