linux-stable.git/kernel/time/time.c, branch v6.1.172

time/jiffies: Mark jiffies_64_to_clock_t() notrace

2026-03-25T10:03:08+00:00

[ 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) 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306212403.72270bb2@robin
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

time: add kernel-doc in time.c

2026-03-25T10:03:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit 67b3f564cb1e769ef8e45835129a4866152fcfdb ]

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

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
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

time: Fix references to _msecs_to_jiffies() handling of values

2024-12-14T18:53:19+00:00

[ 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 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241025110141.157205-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

time: Correct the prototype of ns_to_kernel_old_timeval and ns_to_timespec64

2022-08-09T18:02:13+00:00

In ns_to_kernel_old_timeval() definition, the function argument is defined
with const identifier in kernel/time/time.c, but the prototype in
include/linux/time32.h looks different.

- The function is defined in kernel/time/time.c as below:
  struct __kernel_old_timeval ns_to_kernel_old_timeval(const s64 nsec)

- The function is decalared in include/linux/time32.h as below:
  extern struct __kernel_old_timeval ns_to_kernel_old_timeval(s64 nsec);

Because the variable of arithmethic types isn't modified in the calling scope,
there's no need to mark arguments as const, which was already mentioned during 
review (Link[1) of the original patch.

Likewise remove the "const" keyword in both definition and declaration of
ns_to_timespec64() as requested by Arnd (Link[2]).

Fixes: a84d1169164b ("y2038: Introduce struct __kernel_old_timeval")
Signed-off-by: Youngmin Nam 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220712094715.2918823-1-youngmin.nam@samsung.com
Link[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20180310081123.thin6wphgk7tongy@gmail.com/
Link[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAK8P3a3nknJgEDESGdJH91jMj6R_xydFqWASd8r5BbesdvMBgA@mail.gmail.com/

timekeeping, clocksource: Fix various typos in comments

2021-03-22T22:06:48+00:00

Fix ~56 single-word typos in timekeeping & clocksource code comments.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: Daniel Lezcano 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

y2038: remove unused time32 interfaces

2020-02-21T19:22:15+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Deepa Dinamani 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

y2038: remove obsolete jiffies conversion functions

2019-12-18T17:07:33+00:00

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

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2019-12-03T20:20:25+00:00

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->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->real_start_time to ->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->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

Merge branch 'timers/urgent' into timers/core, to pick up fix

2019-11-25T14:43:15+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

time: Zero the upper 32-bits in __kernel_timespec on 32-bit

2019-11-21T00:17:58+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191121000303.126523-1-dima@arista.com