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<title>hrtimers: Replace hrtimer_clock_to_base_table with switch-case</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T09:13:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-14T13:43:33+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4441b976dfeff0d3579e8da3c0283300c618a553 ]

Clang and GCC complain about overlapped initialisers in the
hrtimer_clock_to_base_table definition. With `make W=1` and CONFIG_WERROR=y
(which is default nowadays) this breaks the build:

  CC      kernel/time/hrtimer.o
kernel/time/hrtimer.c:124:21: error: initializer overrides prior initialization of this subobject [-Werror,-Winitializer-overrides]
  124 |         [CLOCK_REALTIME]        = HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME,

kernel/time/hrtimer.c:122:27: note: previous initialization is here
  122 |         [0 ... MAX_CLOCKS - 1]  = HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES,

(and similar for CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_BOOTTIME, and CLOCK_TAI).

hrtimer_clockid_to_base(), which uses the table, is only used in
__hrtimer_init(), which is not a hotpath.

Therefore replace the table lookup with a switch case in
hrtimer_clockid_to_base() to avoid this warning.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250214134424.3367619-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4441b976dfeff0d3579e8da3c0283300c618a553 ]

Clang and GCC complain about overlapped initialisers in the
hrtimer_clock_to_base_table definition. With `make W=1` and CONFIG_WERROR=y
(which is default nowadays) this breaks the build:

  CC      kernel/time/hrtimer.o
kernel/time/hrtimer.c:124:21: error: initializer overrides prior initialization of this subobject [-Werror,-Winitializer-overrides]
  124 |         [CLOCK_REALTIME]        = HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME,

kernel/time/hrtimer.c:122:27: note: previous initialization is here
  122 |         [0 ... MAX_CLOCKS - 1]  = HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES,

(and similar for CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_BOOTTIME, and CLOCK_TAI).

hrtimer_clockid_to_base(), which uses the table, is only used in
__hrtimer_init(), which is not a hotpath.

Therefore replace the table lookup with a switch case in
hrtimer_clockid_to_base() to avoid this warning.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250214134424.3367619-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>posix-timers: Invoke cond_resched() during exit_itimers()</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T09:13:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Segall</name>
<email>bsegall@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-14T22:12:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f99c5bb396b8d1424ed229d1ffa6f596e3b9c36b ]

exit_itimers() loops through every timer in the process to delete it.  This
requires taking the system-wide hash_lock for each of these timers, and
contends with other processes trying to create or delete timers.

When a process creates hundreds of thousands of timers, and then exits
while other processes contend with it, this can trigger softlockups on
CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.

Add a cond_resched() invocation into the loop to allow the system to make
progress.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/xm2634gg2n23.fsf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f99c5bb396b8d1424ed229d1ffa6f596e3b9c36b ]

exit_itimers() loops through every timer in the process to delete it.  This
requires taking the system-wide hash_lock for each of these timers, and
contends with other processes trying to create or delete timers.

When a process creates hundreds of thousands of timers, and then exits
while other processes contend with it, this can trigger softlockups on
CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.

Add a cond_resched() invocation into the loop to allow the system to make
progress.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/xm2634gg2n23.fsf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timer_list: Don't use %pK through printk()</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T09:12:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-11T09:54:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a52067c24ccf6ee4c85acffa0f155e9714f9adce ]

This reverts commit f590308536db ("timer debug: Hide kernel addresses via
%pK in /proc/timer_list")

The timer list helper SEQ_printf() uses either the real seq_printf() for
procfs output or vprintk() to print to the kernel log, when invoked from
SysRq-q. It uses %pK for printing pointers.

In the past %pK was prefered over %p as it would not leak raw pointer
values into the kernel log. Since commit ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash
addresses printed with %p") the regular %p has been improved to avoid this
issue.

Furthermore, restricted pointers ("%pK") were never meant to be used
through printk(). They can still unintentionally leak raw pointers or
acquire sleeping looks in atomic contexts.

Switch to the regular pointer formatting which is safer, easier to reason
about and sufficient here.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250113171731-dc10e3c1-da64-4af0-b767-7c7070468023@linutronix.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250311-restricted-pointers-timer-v1-1-6626b91e54ab@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a52067c24ccf6ee4c85acffa0f155e9714f9adce ]

This reverts commit f590308536db ("timer debug: Hide kernel addresses via
%pK in /proc/timer_list")

The timer list helper SEQ_printf() uses either the real seq_printf() for
procfs output or vprintk() to print to the kernel log, when invoked from
SysRq-q. It uses %pK for printing pointers.

In the past %pK was prefered over %p as it would not leak raw pointer
values into the kernel log. Since commit ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash
addresses printed with %p") the regular %p has been improved to avoid this
issue.

Furthermore, restricted pointers ("%pK") were never meant to be used
through printk(). They can still unintentionally leak raw pointers or
acquire sleeping looks in atomic contexts.

Switch to the regular pointer formatting which is safer, easier to reason
about and sufficient here.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250113171731-dc10e3c1-da64-4af0-b767-7c7070468023@linutronix.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250311-restricted-pointers-timer-v1-1-6626b91e54ab@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>posix-timers: Ensure that timer initialization is fully visible</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T09:12:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-08T16:48:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2389c6efd3ad8edb3bcce0019b4edcc7d9c7de19 ]

Frederic pointed out that the memory operations to initialize the timer are
not guaranteed to be visible, when __lock_timer() observes timer::it_signal
valid under timer::it_lock:

  T0                                      T1
  ---------                               -----------
  do_timer_create()
      // A
      new_timer-&gt;.... = ....
      spin_lock(current-&gt;sighand)
      // B
      WRITE_ONCE(new_timer-&gt;it_signal, current-&gt;signal)
      spin_unlock(current-&gt;sighand)
					sys_timer_*()
					   t =  __lock_timer()
						  spin_lock(&amp;timr-&gt;it_lock)
						  // observes B
						  if (timr-&gt;it_signal == current-&gt;signal)
						    return timr;
			                   if (!t)
					       return;
					// Is not guaranteed to observe A

Protect the write of timer::it_signal, which makes the timer valid, with
timer::it_lock as well. This guarantees that T1 must observe the
initialization A completely, when it observes the valid signal pointer
under timer::it_lock. sighand::siglock must still be taken to protect the
signal::posix_timers list.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&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/all/20250308155623.507944489@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2389c6efd3ad8edb3bcce0019b4edcc7d9c7de19 ]

Frederic pointed out that the memory operations to initialize the timer are
not guaranteed to be visible, when __lock_timer() observes timer::it_signal
valid under timer::it_lock:

  T0                                      T1
  ---------                               -----------
  do_timer_create()
      // A
      new_timer-&gt;.... = ....
      spin_lock(current-&gt;sighand)
      // B
      WRITE_ONCE(new_timer-&gt;it_signal, current-&gt;signal)
      spin_unlock(current-&gt;sighand)
					sys_timer_*()
					   t =  __lock_timer()
						  spin_lock(&amp;timr-&gt;it_lock)
						  // observes B
						  if (timr-&gt;it_signal == current-&gt;signal)
						    return timr;
			                   if (!t)
					       return;
					// Is not guaranteed to observe A

Protect the write of timer::it_signal, which makes the timer valid, with
timer::it_lock as well. This guarantees that T1 must observe the
initialization A completely, when it observes the valid signal pointer
under timer::it_lock. sighand::siglock must still be taken to protect the
signal::posix_timers list.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&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/all/20250308155623.507944489@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>posix-timers: Add cond_resched() to posix_timer_add() search loop</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T09:12:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-08T16:48:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5f2909c6cd13564a07ae692a95457f52295c4f22 ]

With a large number of POSIX timers the search for a valid ID might cause a
soft lockup on PREEMPT_NONE/VOLUNTARY kernels.

Add cond_resched() to the loop to prevent that.

[ tglx: Split out from Eric's series ]

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&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/all/20250214135911.2037402-2-edumazet@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155623.635612865@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5f2909c6cd13564a07ae692a95457f52295c4f22 ]

With a large number of POSIX timers the search for a valid ID might cause a
soft lockup on PREEMPT_NONE/VOLUNTARY kernels.

Add cond_resched() to the loop to prevent that.

[ tglx: Split out from Eric's series ]

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&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/all/20250214135911.2037402-2-edumazet@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155623.635612865@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Prevent coarse clocks going backwards</title>
<updated>2025-05-18T06:26:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-19T05:46:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b71f9804f66c2592d4c3a2397b7374a4039005a5 ]

Lei Chen raised an issue with CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE seeing time
inconsistencies. Lei tracked down that this was being caused by the
adjustment:

    tk-&gt;tkr_mono.xtime_nsec -= offset;

which is made to compensate for the unaccumulated cycles in offset when the
multiplicator is adjusted forward, so that the non-_COARSE clockids don't
see inconsistencies.

However, the _COARSE clockid getter functions use the adjusted xtime_nsec
value directly and do not compensate the negative offset via the
clocksource delta multiplied with the new multiplicator. In that case the
caller can observe time going backwards in consecutive calls.

By design, this negative adjustment should be fine, because the logic run
from timekeeping_adjust() is done after it accumulated approximately

     multiplicator * interval_cycles

into xtime_nsec.  The accumulated value is always larger then the

     mult_adj * offset

value, which is subtracted from xtime_nsec. Both operations are done
together under the tk_core.lock, so the net change to xtime_nsec is always
always be positive.

However, do_adjtimex() calls into timekeeping_advance() as well, to
apply the NTP frequency adjustment immediately. In this case,
timekeeping_advance() does not return early when the offset is smaller
then interval_cycles. In that case there is no time accumulated into
xtime_nsec. But the subsequent call into timekeeping_adjust(), which
modifies the multiplicator, subtracts from xtime_nsec to correct for the
new multiplicator.

Here because there was no accumulation, xtime_nsec becomes smaller than
before, which opens a window up to the next accumulation, where the
_COARSE clockid getters, which don't compensate for the offset, can
observe the inconsistency.

This has been tried to be fixed by forwarding the timekeeper in the case
that adjtimex() adjusts the multiplier, which resets the offset to zero:

  757b000f7b93 ("timekeeping: Fix possible inconsistencies in _COARSE clockids")

That works correctly, but unfortunately causes a regression on the
adjtimex() side. There are two issues:

   1) The forwarding of the base time moves the update out of the original
      period and establishes a new one.

   2) The clearing of the accumulated NTP error is changing the behaviour as
      well.

User-space expects that multiplier/frequency updates are in effect, when the
syscall returns, so delaying the update to the next tick is not solving the
problem either.

Commit 757b000f7b93 was reverted so that the established expectations of
user space implementations (ntpd, chronyd) are restored, but that obviously
brought the inconsistencies back.

One of the initial approaches to fix this was to establish a separate
storage for the coarse time getter nanoseconds part by calculating it from
the offset. That was dropped on the floor because not having yet another
state to maintain was simpler. But given the result of the above exercise,
this solution turns out to be the right one. Bring it back in a slightly
modified form.

Thus introduce timekeeper::coarse_nsec and store that nanoseconds part in
it, switch the time getter functions and the VDSO update to use that value.
coarse_nsec is set on operations which forward or initialize the timekeeper
and after time was accumulated during a tick. If there is no accumulation
the timestamp is unchanged.

This leaves the adjtimex() behaviour unmodified and prevents coarse time
from going backwards.

[ jstultz: Simplified the coarse_nsec calculation and kept behavior so
  	   coarse clockids aren't adjusted on each inter-tick adjtimex
  	   call, slightly reworked the comments and commit message ]

Fixes: da15cfdae033 ("time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE")
Reported-by: Lei Chen &lt;lei.chen@smartx.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250419054706.2319105-1-jstultz@google.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250310030004.3705801-1-lei.chen@smartx.com/
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b71f9804f66c2592d4c3a2397b7374a4039005a5 ]

Lei Chen raised an issue with CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE seeing time
inconsistencies. Lei tracked down that this was being caused by the
adjustment:

    tk-&gt;tkr_mono.xtime_nsec -= offset;

which is made to compensate for the unaccumulated cycles in offset when the
multiplicator is adjusted forward, so that the non-_COARSE clockids don't
see inconsistencies.

However, the _COARSE clockid getter functions use the adjusted xtime_nsec
value directly and do not compensate the negative offset via the
clocksource delta multiplied with the new multiplicator. In that case the
caller can observe time going backwards in consecutive calls.

By design, this negative adjustment should be fine, because the logic run
from timekeeping_adjust() is done after it accumulated approximately

     multiplicator * interval_cycles

into xtime_nsec.  The accumulated value is always larger then the

     mult_adj * offset

value, which is subtracted from xtime_nsec. Both operations are done
together under the tk_core.lock, so the net change to xtime_nsec is always
always be positive.

However, do_adjtimex() calls into timekeeping_advance() as well, to
apply the NTP frequency adjustment immediately. In this case,
timekeeping_advance() does not return early when the offset is smaller
then interval_cycles. In that case there is no time accumulated into
xtime_nsec. But the subsequent call into timekeeping_adjust(), which
modifies the multiplicator, subtracts from xtime_nsec to correct for the
new multiplicator.

Here because there was no accumulation, xtime_nsec becomes smaller than
before, which opens a window up to the next accumulation, where the
_COARSE clockid getters, which don't compensate for the offset, can
observe the inconsistency.

This has been tried to be fixed by forwarding the timekeeper in the case
that adjtimex() adjusts the multiplier, which resets the offset to zero:

  757b000f7b93 ("timekeeping: Fix possible inconsistencies in _COARSE clockids")

That works correctly, but unfortunately causes a regression on the
adjtimex() side. There are two issues:

   1) The forwarding of the base time moves the update out of the original
      period and establishes a new one.

   2) The clearing of the accumulated NTP error is changing the behaviour as
      well.

User-space expects that multiplier/frequency updates are in effect, when the
syscall returns, so delaying the update to the next tick is not solving the
problem either.

Commit 757b000f7b93 was reverted so that the established expectations of
user space implementations (ntpd, chronyd) are restored, but that obviously
brought the inconsistencies back.

One of the initial approaches to fix this was to establish a separate
storage for the coarse time getter nanoseconds part by calculating it from
the offset. That was dropped on the floor because not having yet another
state to maintain was simpler. But given the result of the above exercise,
this solution turns out to be the right one. Bring it back in a slightly
modified form.

Thus introduce timekeeper::coarse_nsec and store that nanoseconds part in
it, switch the time getter functions and the VDSO update to use that value.
coarse_nsec is set on operations which forward or initialize the timekeeper
and after time was accumulated during a tick. If there is no accumulation
the timestamp is unchanged.

This leaves the adjtimex() behaviour unmodified and prevents coarse time
from going backwards.

[ jstultz: Simplified the coarse_nsec calculation and kept behavior so
  	   coarse clockids aren't adjusted on each inter-tick adjtimex
  	   call, slightly reworked the comments and commit message ]

Fixes: da15cfdae033 ("time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE")
Reported-by: Lei Chen &lt;lei.chen@smartx.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250419054706.2319105-1-jstultz@google.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250310030004.3705801-1-lei.chen@smartx.com/
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Add a lockdep override in tick_freeze()</title>
<updated>2025-05-02T06:02:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
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<published>2025-04-04T13:34:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 92e250c624ea37fde64bfd624fd2556f0d846f18 ]

tick_freeze() acquires a raw spinlock (tick_freeze_lock). Later in the
callchain (timekeeping_suspend() -&gt; mc146818_avoid_UIP()) the RTC driver
acquires a spinlock which becomes a sleeping lock on PREEMPT_RT.  Lockdep
complains about this lock nesting.

Add a lockdep override for this special case and a comment explaining
why it is okay.

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reported-by: Chris Bainbridge &lt;chris.bainbridge@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250404133429.pnAzf-eF@linutronix.de
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250330113202.GAZ-krsjAnurOlTcp-@fat_crate.local/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAP-bSRZ0CWyZZsMtx046YV8L28LhY0fson2g4EqcwRAVN1Jk+Q@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 92e250c624ea37fde64bfd624fd2556f0d846f18 ]

tick_freeze() acquires a raw spinlock (tick_freeze_lock). Later in the
callchain (timekeeping_suspend() -&gt; mc146818_avoid_UIP()) the RTC driver
acquires a spinlock which becomes a sleeping lock on PREEMPT_RT.  Lockdep
complains about this lock nesting.

Add a lockdep override for this special case and a comment explaining
why it is okay.

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reported-by: Chris Bainbridge &lt;chris.bainbridge@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250404133429.pnAzf-eF@linutronix.de
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250330113202.GAZ-krsjAnurOlTcp-@fat_crate.local/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAP-bSRZ0CWyZZsMtx046YV8L28LhY0fson2g4EqcwRAVN1Jk+Q@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Disable branch profiling in noinstr code</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:22:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-21T19:53:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2cbb20b008dba39893f0e296dc8ca312f40a9a0e ]

CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING inserts a call to ftrace_likely_update()
for each use of likely() or unlikely().  That breaks noinstr rules if
the affected function is annotated as noinstr.

Disable branch profiling for files with noinstr functions.  In addition
to some individual files, this also includes the entire arch/x86
subtree, as well as the kernel/entry, drivers/cpuidle, and drivers/idle
directories, all of which are noinstr-heavy.

Due to the nature of how sched binaries are built by combining multiple
.c files into one, branch profiling is disabled more broadly across the
sched code than would otherwise be needed.

This fixes many warnings like the following:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_syscall_64+0x40: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section
  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __rdgsbase_inactive+0x33: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section
  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: handle_bug.isra.0+0x198: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section
  ...

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fb94fc9303d48a5ed370498f54500cc4c338eb6d.1742586676.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2cbb20b008dba39893f0e296dc8ca312f40a9a0e ]

CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING inserts a call to ftrace_likely_update()
for each use of likely() or unlikely().  That breaks noinstr rules if
the affected function is annotated as noinstr.

Disable branch profiling for files with noinstr functions.  In addition
to some individual files, this also includes the entire arch/x86
subtree, as well as the kernel/entry, drivers/cpuidle, and drivers/idle
directories, all of which are noinstr-heavy.

Due to the nature of how sched binaries are built by combining multiple
.c files into one, branch profiling is disabled more broadly across the
sched code than would otherwise be needed.

This fixes many warnings like the following:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_syscall_64+0x40: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section
  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __rdgsbase_inactive+0x33: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section
  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: handle_bug.isra.0+0x198: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section
  ...

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fb94fc9303d48a5ed370498f54500cc4c338eb6d.1742586676.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2025-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-02-08T19:55:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-08T19:55:03+00:00</published>
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Pull timer fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix a PREEMPT_RT bug in the clocksource verification code that caused
  false positive warnings.

  Also fix a timer migration setup bug when new CPUs are added"

* tag 'timers-urgent-2025-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timers/migration: Fix off-by-one root mis-connection
  clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context
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Pull timer fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix a PREEMPT_RT bug in the clocksource verification code that caused
  false positive warnings.

  Also fix a timer migration setup bug when new CPUs are added"

* tag 'timers-urgent-2025-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timers/migration: Fix off-by-one root mis-connection
  clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context
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<entry>
<title>timers/migration: Fix off-by-one root mis-connection</title>
<updated>2025-02-07T08:02:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-05T16:02:20+00:00</published>
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Before attaching a new root to the old root, the children counter of the
new root is checked to verify that only the upcoming CPU's top group have
been connected to it. However since the recently added commit b729cc1ec21a
("timers/migration: Fix another race between hotplug and idle entry/exit")
this check is not valid anymore because the old root is pre-accounted
as a child to the new root. Therefore after connecting the upcoming
CPU's top group to the new root, the children count to be expected must
be 2 and not 1 anymore.

This omission results in the old root to not be connected to the new
root. Then eventually the system may run with more than one top level,
which defeats the purpose of a single idle migrator.

Also the old root is pre-accounted but not connected upon the new root
creation. But it can be connected to the new root later on. Therefore
the old root may be accounted twice to the new root. The propagation of
such overcommit can end up creating a double final top-level root with a
groupmask incorrectly initialized. Although harmless given that the final
top level roots will never have a parent to walk up to, this oddity
opportunistically reported the core issue:

  WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 0 at kernel/time/timer_migration.c:543 tmigr_requires_handle_remote
  CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8
  RIP: 0010:tmigr_requires_handle_remote
  Call Trace:
   &lt;IRQ&gt;
   ? tmigr_requires_handle_remote
   ? hrtimer_run_queues
   update_process_times
   tick_periodic
   tick_handle_periodic
   __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
   sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
  &lt;/IRQ&gt;

Fix the problem by taking the old root into account in the children count
of the new root so the connection is not omitted.

Also warn when more than one top level group exists to better detect
similar issues in the future.

Fixes: b729cc1ec21a ("timers/migration: Fix another race between hotplug and idle entry/exit")
Reported-by: Matt Fleming &lt;mfleming@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250205160220.39467-1-frederic@kernel.org
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Before attaching a new root to the old root, the children counter of the
new root is checked to verify that only the upcoming CPU's top group have
been connected to it. However since the recently added commit b729cc1ec21a
("timers/migration: Fix another race between hotplug and idle entry/exit")
this check is not valid anymore because the old root is pre-accounted
as a child to the new root. Therefore after connecting the upcoming
CPU's top group to the new root, the children count to be expected must
be 2 and not 1 anymore.

This omission results in the old root to not be connected to the new
root. Then eventually the system may run with more than one top level,
which defeats the purpose of a single idle migrator.

Also the old root is pre-accounted but not connected upon the new root
creation. But it can be connected to the new root later on. Therefore
the old root may be accounted twice to the new root. The propagation of
such overcommit can end up creating a double final top-level root with a
groupmask incorrectly initialized. Although harmless given that the final
top level roots will never have a parent to walk up to, this oddity
opportunistically reported the core issue:

  WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 0 at kernel/time/timer_migration.c:543 tmigr_requires_handle_remote
  CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8
  RIP: 0010:tmigr_requires_handle_remote
  Call Trace:
   &lt;IRQ&gt;
   ? tmigr_requires_handle_remote
   ? hrtimer_run_queues
   update_process_times
   tick_periodic
   tick_handle_periodic
   __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
   sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
  &lt;/IRQ&gt;

Fix the problem by taking the old root into account in the children count
of the new root so the connection is not omitted.

Also warn when more than one top level group exists to better detect
similar issues in the future.

Fixes: b729cc1ec21a ("timers/migration: Fix another race between hotplug and idle entry/exit")
Reported-by: Matt Fleming &lt;mfleming@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250205160220.39467-1-frederic@kernel.org
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