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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>time/jiffies: Mark jiffies_64_to_clock_t() notrace</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T08:33:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-07T02:24:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 755a648e78f12574482d4698d877375793867fa1 ]

The trace_clock_jiffies() function that handles the "uptime" clock for
tracing calls jiffies_64_to_clock_t(). This causes the function tracer to
constantly recurse when the tracing clock is set to "uptime". Mark it
notrace to prevent unnecessary recursion when using the "uptime" clock.

Fixes: 58d4e21e50ff3 ("tracing: Fix wraparound problems in "uptime" trace clock")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306212403.72270bb2@robin
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 755a648e78f12574482d4698d877375793867fa1 ]

The trace_clock_jiffies() function that handles the "uptime" clock for
tracing calls jiffies_64_to_clock_t(). This causes the function tracer to
constantly recurse when the tracing clock is set to "uptime". Mark it
notrace to prevent unnecessary recursion when using the "uptime" clock.

Fixes: 58d4e21e50ff3 ("tracing: Fix wraparound problems in "uptime" trace clock")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306212403.72270bb2@robin
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: add kernel-doc in time.c</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T08:33:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-04T05:24:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 67b3f564cb1e769ef8e45835129a4866152fcfdb ]

Add kernel-doc for all APIs that do not already have it.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230704052405.5089-3-rdunlap@infradead.org
Stable-dep-of: 755a648e78f1 ("time/jiffies: Mark jiffies_64_to_clock_t() notrace")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 67b3f564cb1e769ef8e45835129a4866152fcfdb ]

Add kernel-doc for all APIs that do not already have it.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230704052405.5089-3-rdunlap@infradead.org
Stable-dep-of: 755a648e78f1 ("time/jiffies: Mark jiffies_64_to_clock_t() notrace")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Fix references to _msecs_to_jiffies() handling of values</title>
<updated>2024-12-14T18:50:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>ojeda@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-25T11:01:41+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 92b043fd995a63a57aae29ff85a39b6f30cd440c ]

The details about the handling of the "normal" values were moved
to the _msecs_to_jiffies() helpers in commit ca42aaf0c861 ("time:
Refactor msecs_to_jiffies"). However, the same commit still mentioned
__msecs_to_jiffies() in the added documentation.

Thus point to _msecs_to_jiffies() instead.

Fixes: ca42aaf0c861 ("time: Refactor msecs_to_jiffies")
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241025110141.157205-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 92b043fd995a63a57aae29ff85a39b6f30cd440c ]

The details about the handling of the "normal" values were moved
to the _msecs_to_jiffies() helpers in commit ca42aaf0c861 ("time:
Refactor msecs_to_jiffies"). However, the same commit still mentioned
__msecs_to_jiffies() in the added documentation.

Thus point to _msecs_to_jiffies() instead.

Fixes: ca42aaf0c861 ("time: Refactor msecs_to_jiffies")
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241025110141.157205-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timekeeping, clocksource: Fix various typos in comments</title>
<updated>2021-03-22T22:06:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-22T21:39:03+00:00</published>
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Fix ~56 single-word typos in timekeeping &amp; clocksource code comments.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Fix ~56 single-word typos in timekeeping &amp; clocksource code comments.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>y2038: remove unused time32 interfaces</title>
<updated>2020-02-21T19:22:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-21T04:03:54+00:00</published>
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No users remain, so kill these off before we grow new ones.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110154232.4104492-3-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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No users remain, so kill these off before we grow new ones.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110154232.4104492-3-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>y2038: remove obsolete jiffies conversion functions</title>
<updated>2019-12-18T17:07:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-24T20:53:19+00:00</published>
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Now that the last user of timespec_to_jiffies() is gone, these
can just be removed, everything else is using ktime_t or timespec64
already.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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Now that the last user of timespec_to_jiffies() is gone, these
can just be removed, everything else is using ktime_t or timespec64
already.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-12-03T20:20:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-03T20:20:25+00:00</published>
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Pull timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in the timer code in this cycle were:

   - Clockevent updates:

      - timer-of framework cleanups. (Geert Uytterhoeven)

      - Use timer-of for the renesas-ostm and the device name to prevent
        name collision in case of multiple timers. (Geert Uytterhoeven)

      - Check if there is an error after calling of_clk_get in asm9260
        (Chuhong Yuan)

   - ABI fix: Zero out high order bits of nanoseconds on compat
     syscalls. This got broken a year ago, with apparently no side
     effects so far.

     Since the kernel would use random data otherwise I don't think we'd
     have other options but to fix the bug, even if there was a side
     effect to applications (Dmitry Safonov)

   - Optimize ns_to_timespec64() on 32-bit systems: move away from
     div_s64_rem() which can be slow, to div_u64_rem() which is faster
     (Arnd Bergmann)

   - Annotate KCSAN-reported false positive data races in
     hrtimer_is_queued() users by moving timer-&gt;state handling over to
     the READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() APIs. This documents these accesses
     (Eric Dumazet)

   - Misc cleanups and small fixes"

[ I undid the "ABI fix" and updated the comments instead. The reason
  there were apparently no side effects is that the fix was a no-op.

  The updated comment is to say _why_ it was a no-op.    - Linus ]

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Zero the upper 32-bits in __kernel_timespec on 32-bit
  time: Rename tsk-&gt;real_start_time to -&gt;start_boottime
  hrtimer: Remove the comment about not used HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ
  time: Fix spelling mistake in comment
  time: Optimize ns_to_timespec64()
  hrtimer: Annotate lockless access to timer-&gt;state
  clocksource/drivers/asm9260: Add a check for of_clk_get
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Use unique device name instead of ostm
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Convert to timer_of
  clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Use unique device name instead of timer
  clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Convert last full_name to %pOF
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Pull timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in the timer code in this cycle were:

   - Clockevent updates:

      - timer-of framework cleanups. (Geert Uytterhoeven)

      - Use timer-of for the renesas-ostm and the device name to prevent
        name collision in case of multiple timers. (Geert Uytterhoeven)

      - Check if there is an error after calling of_clk_get in asm9260
        (Chuhong Yuan)

   - ABI fix: Zero out high order bits of nanoseconds on compat
     syscalls. This got broken a year ago, with apparently no side
     effects so far.

     Since the kernel would use random data otherwise I don't think we'd
     have other options but to fix the bug, even if there was a side
     effect to applications (Dmitry Safonov)

   - Optimize ns_to_timespec64() on 32-bit systems: move away from
     div_s64_rem() which can be slow, to div_u64_rem() which is faster
     (Arnd Bergmann)

   - Annotate KCSAN-reported false positive data races in
     hrtimer_is_queued() users by moving timer-&gt;state handling over to
     the READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() APIs. This documents these accesses
     (Eric Dumazet)

   - Misc cleanups and small fixes"

[ I undid the "ABI fix" and updated the comments instead. The reason
  there were apparently no side effects is that the fix was a no-op.

  The updated comment is to say _why_ it was a no-op.    - Linus ]

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Zero the upper 32-bits in __kernel_timespec on 32-bit
  time: Rename tsk-&gt;real_start_time to -&gt;start_boottime
  hrtimer: Remove the comment about not used HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ
  time: Fix spelling mistake in comment
  time: Optimize ns_to_timespec64()
  hrtimer: Annotate lockless access to timer-&gt;state
  clocksource/drivers/asm9260: Add a check for of_clk_get
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Use unique device name instead of ostm
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Convert to timer_of
  clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Use unique device name instead of timer
  clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Convert last full_name to %pOF
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers/urgent' into timers/core, to pick up fix</title>
<updated>2019-11-25T14:43:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-25T14:43:15+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Zero the upper 32-bits in __kernel_timespec on 32-bit</title>
<updated>2019-11-21T00:17:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-21T00:03:03+00:00</published>
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On compat interfaces, the high order bits of nanoseconds should be zeroed
out. This is because the application code or the libc do not guarantee
zeroing of these. If used without zeroing, kernel might be at risk of using
timespec values incorrectly.

Originally it was handled correctly, but lost during is_compat_syscall()
cleanup. Revert the condition back to check CONFIG_64BIT.

Fixes: 98f76206b335 ("compat: Cleanup in_compat_syscall() callers")
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191121000303.126523-1-dima@arista.com
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On compat interfaces, the high order bits of nanoseconds should be zeroed
out. This is because the application code or the libc do not guarantee
zeroing of these. If used without zeroing, kernel might be at risk of using
timespec values incorrectly.

Originally it was handled correctly, but lost during is_compat_syscall()
cleanup. Revert the condition back to check CONFIG_64BIT.

Fixes: 98f76206b335 ("compat: Cleanup in_compat_syscall() callers")
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191121000303.126523-1-dima@arista.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>y2038: time: avoid timespec usage in settimeofday()</title>
<updated>2019-11-15T13:38:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-15T18:04:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5e0fb1b57bea8d11fe77da2bc80f4c9a67e28318'/>
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<content type='text'>
The compat_get_timeval() and timeval_valid() interfaces are deprecated
and getting removed along with the definition of struct timeval itself.

Change the two implementations of the settimeofday() system call to
open-code these helpers and completely avoid references to timeval.

The timeval_valid() call is not needed any more here, only a check to
avoid overflowing tv_nsec during the multiplication, as there is another
range check in do_sys_settimeofday64().

Tested-by: syzbot+dccce9b26ba09ca49966@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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The compat_get_timeval() and timeval_valid() interfaces are deprecated
and getting removed along with the definition of struct timeval itself.

Change the two implementations of the settimeofday() system call to
open-code these helpers and completely avoid references to timeval.

The timeval_valid() call is not needed any more here, only a check to
avoid overflowing tv_nsec during the multiplication, as there is another
range check in do_sys_settimeofday64().

Tested-by: syzbot+dccce9b26ba09ca49966@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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