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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel/time/tick-sched.c, branch linux-rolling-lts</title>
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<entry>
<title>tick/sched: Fix TOCTOU in nohz idle time fetch</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:15:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-08T13:16:33+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 86db4084b4b5d1a074bcc66c108a4c9d266812d4 ]

When the nohz idle time is fetched, the current clock timestamp is taken
outside the seqcount, which can result in a race as reported by Sashiko:

    get_cpu_sleep_time_us()                 tick_nohz_start_idle()
    -----------------------                 ---------------------
    now = ktime_get()
                                            write_seqcount_begin(idle_sleeptime_seq);
                                            idle_entrytime = ktime_get()
                                            tick_sched_flag_set(ts, TS_FLAG_IDLE_ACTIVE);
                                            write_seqcount_end(&amp;ts-&gt;idle_sleeptime_seq);
    read_seqcount_begin(idle_sleeptime_seq)
    delta = now - idle_entrytime);
    //!! But now &lt; idle_entrytime
    idle = *sleeptime +  delta;
    read_seqcount_retry(&amp;ts-&gt;idle_sleeptime_seq, seq)

Here the read side fetches the timestamp before the write side and its
update. As a result the time delta computed on the read side is negative
(ktime_t is signed) and breaks the cputime monotonicity guarantee.

This could possibly be fixed with reading the current clock timestamp
inside the seqcount but the reader overhead might then increase. Also
simply checking that the current timestamp is above the idle entry time
is enough to prevent any issue of the like.

Fixes: 620a30fa0bd1 ("timers/nohz: Protect idle/iowait sleep time under seqcount")
Reported-by: Sashiko
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508131647.43868-2-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 86db4084b4b5d1a074bcc66c108a4c9d266812d4 ]

When the nohz idle time is fetched, the current clock timestamp is taken
outside the seqcount, which can result in a race as reported by Sashiko:

    get_cpu_sleep_time_us()                 tick_nohz_start_idle()
    -----------------------                 ---------------------
    now = ktime_get()
                                            write_seqcount_begin(idle_sleeptime_seq);
                                            idle_entrytime = ktime_get()
                                            tick_sched_flag_set(ts, TS_FLAG_IDLE_ACTIVE);
                                            write_seqcount_end(&amp;ts-&gt;idle_sleeptime_seq);
    read_seqcount_begin(idle_sleeptime_seq)
    delta = now - idle_entrytime);
    //!! But now &lt; idle_entrytime
    idle = *sleeptime +  delta;
    read_seqcount_retry(&amp;ts-&gt;idle_sleeptime_seq, seq)

Here the read side fetches the timestamp before the write side and its
update. As a result the time delta computed on the read side is negative
(ktime_t is signed) and breaks the cputime monotonicity guarantee.

This could possibly be fixed with reading the current clock timestamp
inside the seqcount but the reader overhead might then increase. Also
simply checking that the current timestamp is above the idle entry time
is enough to prevent any issue of the like.

Fixes: 620a30fa0bd1 ("timers/nohz: Protect idle/iowait sleep time under seqcount")
Reported-by: Sashiko
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508131647.43868-2-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tick/sched: Fix bogus condition in report_idle_softirq()</title>
<updated>2025-11-19T18:30:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wen Yang</name>
<email>wen.yang@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-19T17:45:25+00:00</published>
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In commit 0345691b24c0 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle") the
new function report_idle_softirq() was created by breaking code out of the
existing can_stop_idle_tick() for kernels v5.18 and newer.

In doing so, the code essentially went from this form:

	if (A) {
		static int ratelimit;
		if (ratelimit &lt; 10 &amp;&amp; !C &amp;&amp; A&amp;D) {
                       pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: ...");
		       ratelimit++;
		}
		return false;
	}

to a new function:

static bool report_idle_softirq(void)
{
       static int ratelimit;

       if (likely(!A))
               return false;

       if (ratelimit &lt; 10)
               return false;
...
       pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #%02x!!!\n",
               pending);
       ratelimit++;

       return true;
}

commit a7e282c77785 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition") realized
ratelimit was essentially set to zero instead of ten, and hence *no*
softirq pending messages would ever be issued, but "fixed" it as:

-       if (ratelimit &lt; 10)
+       if (ratelimit &gt;= 10)
                return false;

However, this fix introduced another issue:

When ratelimit is greater than or equal 10, even if A is true, it will
directly return false. While ratelimit in the original code was only used
to control printing and will not affect the return value.

Restore the original logic and restrict ratelimit to control the printk and
not the return value.

Fixes: 0345691b24c0 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle")
Fixes: a7e282c77785 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition")
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119174525.29470-1-wen.yang@linux.dev
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In commit 0345691b24c0 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle") the
new function report_idle_softirq() was created by breaking code out of the
existing can_stop_idle_tick() for kernels v5.18 and newer.

In doing so, the code essentially went from this form:

	if (A) {
		static int ratelimit;
		if (ratelimit &lt; 10 &amp;&amp; !C &amp;&amp; A&amp;D) {
                       pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: ...");
		       ratelimit++;
		}
		return false;
	}

to a new function:

static bool report_idle_softirq(void)
{
       static int ratelimit;

       if (likely(!A))
               return false;

       if (ratelimit &lt; 10)
               return false;
...
       pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #%02x!!!\n",
               pending);
       ratelimit++;

       return true;
}

commit a7e282c77785 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition") realized
ratelimit was essentially set to zero instead of ten, and hence *no*
softirq pending messages would ever be issued, but "fixed" it as:

-       if (ratelimit &lt; 10)
+       if (ratelimit &gt;= 10)
                return false;

However, this fix introduced another issue:

When ratelimit is greater than or equal 10, even if A is true, it will
directly return false. While ratelimit in the original code was only used
to control printing and will not affect the return value.

Restore the original logic and restrict ratelimit to control the printk and
not the return value.

Fixes: 0345691b24c0 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle")
Fixes: a7e282c77785 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition")
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119174525.29470-1-wen.yang@linux.dev
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Switch to hrtimer_setup()</title>
<updated>2025-02-18T09:32:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nam Cao</name>
<email>namcao@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-05T10:39:04+00:00</published>
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hrtimer_setup() takes the callback function pointer as argument and
initializes the timer completely.

Replace hrtimer_init() and the open coded initialization of
hrtimer::function with the new setup mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/170bb691a0d59917c8268a98c80b607128fc9f7f.1738746821.git.namcao@linutronix.de

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hrtimer_setup() takes the callback function pointer as argument and
initializes the timer completely.

Replace hrtimer_init() and the open coded initialization of
hrtimer::function with the new setup mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/170bb691a0d59917c8268a98c80b607128fc9f7f.1738746821.git.namcao@linutronix.de

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T00:35:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T00:35:06+00:00</published>
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather large update for timekeeping and timers:

   - The final step to get rid of auto-rearming posix-timers

     posix-timers are currently auto-rearmed by the kernel when the
     signal of the timer is ignored so that the timer signal can be
     delivered once the corresponding signal is unignored.

     This requires to throttle the timer to prevent a DoS by small
     intervals and keeps the system pointlessly out of low power states
     for no value. This is a long standing non-trivial problem due to
     the lock order of posix-timer lock and the sighand lock along with
     life time issues as the timer and the sigqueue have different life
     time rules.

     Cure this by:

       - Embedding the sigqueue into the timer struct to have the same
         life time rules. Aside of that this also avoids the lookup of
         the timer in the signal delivery and rearm path as it's just a
         always valid container_of() now.

       - Queuing ignored timer signals onto a seperate ignored list.

       - Moving queued timer signals onto the ignored list when the
         signal is switched to SIG_IGN before it could be delivered.

       - Walking the ignored list when SIG_IGN is lifted and requeue the
         signals to the actual signal lists. This allows the signal
         delivery code to rearm the timer.

     This also required to consolidate the signal delivery rules so they
     are consistent across all situations. With that all self test
     scenarios finally succeed.

   - Core infrastructure for VFS multigrain timestamping

     This is required to allow the kernel to use coarse grained time
     stamps by default and switch to fine grained time stamps when inode
     attributes are actively observed via getattr().

     These changes have been provided to the VFS tree as well, so that
     the VFS specific infrastructure could be built on top.

   - Cleanup and consolidation of the sleep() infrastructure

       - Move all sleep and timeout functions into one file

       - Rework udelay() and ndelay() into proper documented inline
         functions and replace the hardcoded magic numbers by proper
         defines.

       - Rework the fsleep() implementation to take the reality of the
         timer wheel granularity on different HZ values into account.
         Right now the boundaries are hard coded time ranges which fail
         to provide the requested accuracy on different HZ settings.

       - Update documentation for all sleep/timeout related functions
         and fix up stale documentation links all over the place

       - Fixup a few usage sites

   - Rework of timekeeping and adjtimex(2) to prepare for multiple PTP
     clocks

     A system can have multiple PTP clocks which are participating in
     seperate and independent PTP clock domains. So far the kernel only
     considers the PTP clock which is based on CLOCK TAI relevant as
     that's the clock which drives the timekeeping adjustments via the
     various user space daemons through adjtimex(2).

     The non TAI based clock domains are accessible via the file
     descriptor based posix clocks, but their usability is very limited.
     They can't be accessed fast as they always go all the way out to
     the hardware and they cannot be utilized in the kernel itself.

     As Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) gains traction it is required to
     provide fast user and kernel space access to these clocks.

     The approach taken is to utilize the timekeeping and adjtimex(2)
     infrastructure to provide this access in a similar way how the
     kernel provides access to clock MONOTONIC, REALTIME etc.

     Instead of creating a duplicated infrastructure this rework
     converts timekeeping and adjtimex(2) into generic functionality
     which operates on pointers to data structures instead of using
     static variables.

     This allows to provide time accessors and adjtimex(2) functionality
     for the independent PTP clocks in a subsequent step.

   - Consolidate hrtimer initialization

     hrtimers are set up by initializing the data structure and then
     seperately setting the callback function for historical reasons.

     That's an extra unnecessary step and makes Rust support less
     straight forward than it should be.

     Provide a new set of hrtimer_setup*() functions and convert the
     core code and a few usage sites of the less frequently used
     interfaces over.

     The bulk of the htimer_init() to hrtimer_setup() conversion is
     already prepared and scheduled for the next merge window.

   - Drivers:

       - Ensure that the global timekeeping clocksource is utilizing the
         cluster 0 timer on MIPS multi-cluster systems.

         Otherwise CPUs on different clusters use their cluster specific
         clocksource which is not guaranteed to be synchronized with
         other clusters.

       - Mostly boring cleanups, fixes, improvements and code movement"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (140 commits)
  posix-timers: Fix spurious warning on double enqueue versus do_exit()
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
  clocksource/drivers/gpx: Remove redundant casts
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix child node refcount handling
  dt-bindings: timer: actions,owl-timer: convert to YAML
  clocksource/drivers/ralink: Add Ralink System Tick Counter driver
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Always use cluster 0 counter as clocksource
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Don't fail probe if int not found
  clocksource/drivers:sp804: Make user selectable
  clocksource/drivers/dw_apb: Remove unused dw_apb_clockevent functions
  hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_on_stack()
  alarmtimer: Switch to use hrtimer_setup() and hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  io_uring: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  sched/idle: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack()
  wait: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  timers: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  net: pktgen: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  futex: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  fs/aio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  ...
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather large update for timekeeping and timers:

   - The final step to get rid of auto-rearming posix-timers

     posix-timers are currently auto-rearmed by the kernel when the
     signal of the timer is ignored so that the timer signal can be
     delivered once the corresponding signal is unignored.

     This requires to throttle the timer to prevent a DoS by small
     intervals and keeps the system pointlessly out of low power states
     for no value. This is a long standing non-trivial problem due to
     the lock order of posix-timer lock and the sighand lock along with
     life time issues as the timer and the sigqueue have different life
     time rules.

     Cure this by:

       - Embedding the sigqueue into the timer struct to have the same
         life time rules. Aside of that this also avoids the lookup of
         the timer in the signal delivery and rearm path as it's just a
         always valid container_of() now.

       - Queuing ignored timer signals onto a seperate ignored list.

       - Moving queued timer signals onto the ignored list when the
         signal is switched to SIG_IGN before it could be delivered.

       - Walking the ignored list when SIG_IGN is lifted and requeue the
         signals to the actual signal lists. This allows the signal
         delivery code to rearm the timer.

     This also required to consolidate the signal delivery rules so they
     are consistent across all situations. With that all self test
     scenarios finally succeed.

   - Core infrastructure for VFS multigrain timestamping

     This is required to allow the kernel to use coarse grained time
     stamps by default and switch to fine grained time stamps when inode
     attributes are actively observed via getattr().

     These changes have been provided to the VFS tree as well, so that
     the VFS specific infrastructure could be built on top.

   - Cleanup and consolidation of the sleep() infrastructure

       - Move all sleep and timeout functions into one file

       - Rework udelay() and ndelay() into proper documented inline
         functions and replace the hardcoded magic numbers by proper
         defines.

       - Rework the fsleep() implementation to take the reality of the
         timer wheel granularity on different HZ values into account.
         Right now the boundaries are hard coded time ranges which fail
         to provide the requested accuracy on different HZ settings.

       - Update documentation for all sleep/timeout related functions
         and fix up stale documentation links all over the place

       - Fixup a few usage sites

   - Rework of timekeeping and adjtimex(2) to prepare for multiple PTP
     clocks

     A system can have multiple PTP clocks which are participating in
     seperate and independent PTP clock domains. So far the kernel only
     considers the PTP clock which is based on CLOCK TAI relevant as
     that's the clock which drives the timekeeping adjustments via the
     various user space daemons through adjtimex(2).

     The non TAI based clock domains are accessible via the file
     descriptor based posix clocks, but their usability is very limited.
     They can't be accessed fast as they always go all the way out to
     the hardware and they cannot be utilized in the kernel itself.

     As Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) gains traction it is required to
     provide fast user and kernel space access to these clocks.

     The approach taken is to utilize the timekeeping and adjtimex(2)
     infrastructure to provide this access in a similar way how the
     kernel provides access to clock MONOTONIC, REALTIME etc.

     Instead of creating a duplicated infrastructure this rework
     converts timekeeping and adjtimex(2) into generic functionality
     which operates on pointers to data structures instead of using
     static variables.

     This allows to provide time accessors and adjtimex(2) functionality
     for the independent PTP clocks in a subsequent step.

   - Consolidate hrtimer initialization

     hrtimers are set up by initializing the data structure and then
     seperately setting the callback function for historical reasons.

     That's an extra unnecessary step and makes Rust support less
     straight forward than it should be.

     Provide a new set of hrtimer_setup*() functions and convert the
     core code and a few usage sites of the less frequently used
     interfaces over.

     The bulk of the htimer_init() to hrtimer_setup() conversion is
     already prepared and scheduled for the next merge window.

   - Drivers:

       - Ensure that the global timekeeping clocksource is utilizing the
         cluster 0 timer on MIPS multi-cluster systems.

         Otherwise CPUs on different clusters use their cluster specific
         clocksource which is not guaranteed to be synchronized with
         other clusters.

       - Mostly boring cleanups, fixes, improvements and code movement"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (140 commits)
  posix-timers: Fix spurious warning on double enqueue versus do_exit()
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
  clocksource/drivers/gpx: Remove redundant casts
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix child node refcount handling
  dt-bindings: timer: actions,owl-timer: convert to YAML
  clocksource/drivers/ralink: Add Ralink System Tick Counter driver
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Always use cluster 0 counter as clocksource
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Don't fail probe if int not found
  clocksource/drivers:sp804: Make user selectable
  clocksource/drivers/dw_apb: Remove unused dw_apb_clockevent functions
  hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_on_stack()
  alarmtimer: Switch to use hrtimer_setup() and hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  io_uring: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  sched/idle: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack()
  wait: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  timers: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  net: pktgen: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  futex: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  fs/aio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'irq-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-11-19T23:54:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-19T23:54:19+00:00</published>
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Pull interrupt subsystem updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Tree wide:

   - Make nr_irqs static to the core code and provide accessor functions
     to remove existing and prevent future aliasing problems with local
     variables or function arguments of the same name.

  Core code:

   - Prevent freeing an interrupt in the devres code which is not
     managed by devres in the first place.

   - Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values output in
     /proc/interrupts which increases performance significantly as it
     avoids parsing the format strings over and over.

   - Optimize raising the timer and hrtimer soft interrupts by using the
     'set bit only' variants instead of the combined version which
     checks whether ksoftirqd should be woken up. The latter is a
     pointless exercise as both soft interrupts are raised in the
     context of the timer interrupt and therefore never wake up
     ksoftirqd.

   - Delegate timer/hrtimer soft interrupt processing to a dedicated
     thread on RT.

     Timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are always processed in ksoftirqd
     on RT enabled kernels. This can lead to high latencies when other
     soft interrupts are delegated to ksoftirqd as well.

     The separate thread allows to run them seperately under a RT
     scheduling policy to reduce the latency overhead.

  Drivers:

   - New drivers or extensions of existing drivers to support Renesas
     RZ/V2H(P), Aspeed AST27XX, T-HEAD C900 and ATMEL sam9x7 interrupt
     chips

   - Support for multi-cluster GICs on MIPS.

     MIPS CPUs can come with multiple CPU clusters, where each CPU
     cluster has its own GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller). This
     requires to access the GIC of a remote cluster through a redirect
     register block.

     This is encapsulated into a set of helper functions to keep the
     complexity out of the actual code paths which handle the GIC
     details.

   - Support for encrypted guests in the ARM GICV3 ITS driver

     The ITS page needs to be shared with the hypervisor and therefore
     must be decrypted.

   - Small cleanups and fixes all over the place"

* tag 'irq-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
  irqchip/riscv-aplic: Prevent crash when MSI domain is missing
  genirq/proc: Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values
  softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.
  timers: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq.
  hrtimer: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq
  riscv: defconfig: Enable T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI drivers
  irqchip: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI driver
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI device
  irqchip/stm32mp-exti: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
  irqchip/mips-gic: Fix selection of GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK
  irqchip/mips-gic: Prevent indirect access to clusters without CPU cores
  irqchip/mips-gic: Multi-cluster support
  irqchip/mips-gic: Setup defaults in each cluster
  irqchip/mips-gic: Support multi-cluster in for_each_online_cpu_gic()
  irqchip/mips-gic: Replace open coded online CPU iterations
  genirq/irqdesc: Use str_enabled_disabled() helper in wakeup_show()
  genirq/devres: Don't free interrupt which is not managed by devres
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix over allocation in itt_alloc_pool()
  irqchip/aspeed-intc: Add AST27XX INTC support
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add support for ASPEED AST27XX INTC
  ...
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Pull interrupt subsystem updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Tree wide:

   - Make nr_irqs static to the core code and provide accessor functions
     to remove existing and prevent future aliasing problems with local
     variables or function arguments of the same name.

  Core code:

   - Prevent freeing an interrupt in the devres code which is not
     managed by devres in the first place.

   - Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values output in
     /proc/interrupts which increases performance significantly as it
     avoids parsing the format strings over and over.

   - Optimize raising the timer and hrtimer soft interrupts by using the
     'set bit only' variants instead of the combined version which
     checks whether ksoftirqd should be woken up. The latter is a
     pointless exercise as both soft interrupts are raised in the
     context of the timer interrupt and therefore never wake up
     ksoftirqd.

   - Delegate timer/hrtimer soft interrupt processing to a dedicated
     thread on RT.

     Timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are always processed in ksoftirqd
     on RT enabled kernels. This can lead to high latencies when other
     soft interrupts are delegated to ksoftirqd as well.

     The separate thread allows to run them seperately under a RT
     scheduling policy to reduce the latency overhead.

  Drivers:

   - New drivers or extensions of existing drivers to support Renesas
     RZ/V2H(P), Aspeed AST27XX, T-HEAD C900 and ATMEL sam9x7 interrupt
     chips

   - Support for multi-cluster GICs on MIPS.

     MIPS CPUs can come with multiple CPU clusters, where each CPU
     cluster has its own GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller). This
     requires to access the GIC of a remote cluster through a redirect
     register block.

     This is encapsulated into a set of helper functions to keep the
     complexity out of the actual code paths which handle the GIC
     details.

   - Support for encrypted guests in the ARM GICV3 ITS driver

     The ITS page needs to be shared with the hypervisor and therefore
     must be decrypted.

   - Small cleanups and fixes all over the place"

* tag 'irq-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
  irqchip/riscv-aplic: Prevent crash when MSI domain is missing
  genirq/proc: Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values
  softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.
  timers: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq.
  hrtimer: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq
  riscv: defconfig: Enable T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI drivers
  irqchip: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI driver
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI device
  irqchip/stm32mp-exti: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
  irqchip/mips-gic: Fix selection of GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK
  irqchip/mips-gic: Prevent indirect access to clusters without CPU cores
  irqchip/mips-gic: Multi-cluster support
  irqchip/mips-gic: Setup defaults in each cluster
  irqchip/mips-gic: Support multi-cluster in for_each_online_cpu_gic()
  irqchip/mips-gic: Replace open coded online CPU iterations
  genirq/irqdesc: Use str_enabled_disabled() helper in wakeup_show()
  genirq/devres: Don't free interrupt which is not managed by devres
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix over allocation in itt_alloc_pool()
  irqchip/aspeed-intc: Add AST27XX INTC support
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add support for ASPEED AST27XX INTC
  ...
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<title>softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.</title>
<updated>2024-11-07T01:44:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-06T14:51:39+00:00</published>
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The timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are raised in hard interrupt
context. With threaded interrupts force enabled or on PREEMPT_RT this leads
to waking the ksoftirqd for the processing of the soft interrupt.

ksoftirqd runs as SCHED_OTHER task which means it will compete with other
tasks for CPU resources.  This can introduce long delays for timer
processing on heavy loaded systems and is not desired.

Split the TIMER_SOFTIRQ and HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ processing into a dedicated
timers thread and let it run at the lowest SCHED_FIFO priority.
Wake-ups for RT tasks happen from hardirq context so only timer_list timers
and hrtimers for "regular" tasks are processed here. The higher priority
ensures that wakeups are performed before scheduling SCHED_OTHER tasks.

Using a dedicated variable to store the pending softirq bits values ensure
that the timer are not accidentally picked up by ksoftirqd and other
threaded interrupts.

It shouldn't be picked up by ksoftirqd since it runs at lower priority.
However if ksoftirqd is already running while a timer fires, then ksoftird
will be PI-boosted due to the BH-lock to ktimer's priority.

The timer thread can pick up pending softirqs from ksoftirqd but only
if the softirq load is high. It is not be desired that the picked up
softirqs are processed at SCHED_FIFO priority under high softirq load
but this can already happen by a PI-boost by a force-threaded interrupt.

[ frederic@kernel.org: rcutorture.c fixes, storm fix by introduction of
  local_timers_pending() for tick_nohz_next_event() ]

[ junxiao.chang@intel.com: Ensure ktimersd gets woken up even if a
  softirq is currently served. ]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt; [rcutorture]
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241106150419.2593080-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de

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The timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are raised in hard interrupt
context. With threaded interrupts force enabled or on PREEMPT_RT this leads
to waking the ksoftirqd for the processing of the soft interrupt.

ksoftirqd runs as SCHED_OTHER task which means it will compete with other
tasks for CPU resources.  This can introduce long delays for timer
processing on heavy loaded systems and is not desired.

Split the TIMER_SOFTIRQ and HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ processing into a dedicated
timers thread and let it run at the lowest SCHED_FIFO priority.
Wake-ups for RT tasks happen from hardirq context so only timer_list timers
and hrtimers for "regular" tasks are processed here. The higher priority
ensures that wakeups are performed before scheduling SCHED_OTHER tasks.

Using a dedicated variable to store the pending softirq bits values ensure
that the timer are not accidentally picked up by ksoftirqd and other
threaded interrupts.

It shouldn't be picked up by ksoftirqd since it runs at lower priority.
However if ksoftirqd is already running while a timer fires, then ksoftird
will be PI-boosted due to the BH-lock to ktimer's priority.

The timer thread can pick up pending softirqs from ksoftirqd but only
if the softirq load is high. It is not be desired that the picked up
softirqs are processed at SCHED_FIFO priority under high softirq load
but this can already happen by a PI-boost by a force-threaded interrupt.

[ frederic@kernel.org: rcutorture.c fixes, storm fix by introduction of
  local_timers_pending() for tick_nohz_next_event() ]

[ junxiao.chang@intel.com: Ensure ktimersd gets woken up even if a
  softirq is currently served. ]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt; [rcutorture]
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241106150419.2593080-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de

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<entry>
<title>tick: Remove now unneeded low-res tick stop on CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING</title>
<updated>2024-10-31T09:41:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-29T12:54:44+00:00</published>
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The generic clockevent layer now detaches and stops the underlying
clockevent from the dying CPU, unifying the tick behaviour for both
periodic and oneshot mode on offline CPUs. There is no more need for
the tick layer to care about that.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241029125451.54574-4-frederic@kernel.org

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The generic clockevent layer now detaches and stops the underlying
clockevent from the dying CPU, unifying the tick behaviour for both
periodic and oneshot mode on offline CPUs. There is no more need for
the tick layer to care about that.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241029125451.54574-4-frederic@kernel.org

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix external p-&gt;on_rq users</title>
<updated>2024-10-14T07:14:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-10T09:38:10+00:00</published>
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Sean noted that ever since commit 152e11f6df29 ("sched/fair: Implement
delayed dequeue") KVM's preemption notifiers have started
mis-classifying preemption vs blocking.

Notably p-&gt;on_rq is no longer sufficient to determine if a task is
runnable or blocked -- the aforementioned commit introduces tasks that
remain on the runqueue even through they will not run again, and
should be considered blocked for many cases.

Add the task_is_runnable() helper to classify things and audit all
external users of the p-&gt;on_rq state. Also add a few comments.

Fixes: 152e11f6df29 ("sched/fair: Implement delayed dequeue")
Reported-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241010091843.GK33184@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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Sean noted that ever since commit 152e11f6df29 ("sched/fair: Implement
delayed dequeue") KVM's preemption notifiers have started
mis-classifying preemption vs blocking.

Notably p-&gt;on_rq is no longer sufficient to determine if a task is
runnable or blocked -- the aforementioned commit introduces tasks that
remain on the runqueue even through they will not run again, and
should be considered blocked for many cases.

Add the task_is_runnable() helper to classify things and audit all
external users of the p-&gt;on_rq state. Also add a few comments.

Fixes: 152e11f6df29 ("sched/fair: Implement delayed dequeue")
Reported-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241010091843.GK33184@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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<entry>
<title>tick/sched: Combine WARN_ON_ONCE and print_once</title>
<updated>2024-07-03T19:32:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anna-Maria Behnsen</name>
<email>anna-maria@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-10T10:35:52+00:00</published>
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When the WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers, the printk() of the additional
information related to the warning will not happen in print level
"warn". When reading dmesg with a restriction to level "warn", the
information published by the printk_once() will not show up there.

Transform WARN_ON_ONCE() and printk_once() into a WARN_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240610103552.25252-1-anna-maria@linutronix.de

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When the WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers, the printk() of the additional
information related to the warning will not happen in print level
"warn". When reading dmesg with a restriction to level "warn", the
information published by the printk_once() will not show up there.

Transform WARN_ON_ONCE() and printk_once() into a WARN_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240610103552.25252-1-anna-maria@linutronix.de

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tick: Remove unnused tick_nohz_get_idle_calls()</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T16:10:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Loehle</name>
<email>christian.loehle@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-17T16:16:15+00:00</published>
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The function returns the idle calls counter for the current cpu and
therefore usually isn't what the caller wants. It is unnused since
commit 466a2b42d676 ("cpufreq: schedutil: Use idle_calls counter of the
remote CPU")

Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle &lt;christian.loehle@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240617161615.49309-1-christian.loehle@arm.com

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The function returns the idle calls counter for the current cpu and
therefore usually isn't what the caller wants. It is unnused since
commit 466a2b42d676 ("cpufreq: schedutil: Use idle_calls counter of the
remote CPU")

Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle &lt;christian.loehle@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240617161615.49309-1-christian.loehle@arm.com

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