linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c, branch v3.10

powerpc: Use PTR_RET instead of IS_ERR/PTR_ERR

2013-04-18T03:03:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: Adrian-Leonard Radu 
Acked-by: Geoff Levand 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

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

2013-02-20T03:05:45+00:00

Pull timer changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

   - ntp: Add CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC: a generic RTC driver facility
     complementing the existing CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS, which uses NTP to
     keep the hardware clock updated.

   - posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on
     success.  This is changing the ABI, but no breakage was expected
     and found - caution is warranted nevertheless.

   - platform persistent clock improvements/cleanups.

   - clockevents: refactor timer broadcast handling to be more generic
     and less duplicated with matching architecture code (mostly ARM
     motivated.)

   - various fixes and cleanups"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timers/x86/hpet: Use HPET_COUNTER to specify the hpet counter in vread_hpet()
  posix-cpu-timers: Fix nanosleep task_struct leak
  clockevents: Fix generic broadcast for FEAT_C3STOP
  time, Fix setting of hardware clock in NTP code
  hrtimer: Prevent hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram race
  clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function
  clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast receiver
  timekeeping: Switch HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK to ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK
  x86/time/rtc: Don't print extended CMOS year when reading RTC
  x86: Select HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK on x86
  timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK option
  rtc: Skip the suspend/resume handling if persistent clock exist
  timekeeping: Add persistent_clock_exist flag
  posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on success
  Round the calculated scale factor in set_cyc2ns_scale()
  NTP: Add a CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC configuration
  MAINTAINERS: Update John Stultz's email
  time: create __getnstimeofday for WARNless calls

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

2013-02-20T02:19:48+00:00

Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

   - scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed
     and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
     cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic
     Weisbecker.

   - Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams

   - select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith:

        " 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:

          pre   15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
          post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs "

  - sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change.  We think this detail is not
    used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it
    under observation.

  - misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  sched/rt: Add  header to 
  cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers
  sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure
  cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64
  sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file
  sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice
  sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header
  sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
  sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
  sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task()
  sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt()
  cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs
  kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks
  cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats
  cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting
  cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting
  cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file
  cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions
  cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling
  context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime
  ...

Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.

Merge branch 'fortglx/3.9/time' of git://git.linaro.org/people/jstultz/linux into timers/core

2013-02-04T10:03:03+00:00

Trivial conflict in arch/x86/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

powerpc: Max next_tb to prevent from replaying timer interrupt

2013-01-28T23:18:16+00:00

With lazy interrupt, we always call __check_irq_replaysome with
decrementers_next_tb to check if we need to replay timer interrupt.
So in hotplug case we also need to set decrementers_next_tb as MAX
to make sure __check_irq_replay don't replay timer interrupt
when return as we expect, otherwise we'll trap here infinitely.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks

2013-01-27T19:35:40+00:00

Do some ground preparatory work before adding guest_enter()
and guest_exit() context tracking callbacks. Those will
be later used to read the guest cputime safely when we
run in full dynticks mode.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Gleb Natapov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner

cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting

2013-01-27T18:23:27+00:00

If we want to stop the tick further idle, we need to be
able to account the cputime without using the tick.

Virtual based cputime accounting solves that problem by
hooking into kernel/user boundaries.

However implementing CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING require
low level hooks and involves more overhead. But we already
have a generic context tracking subsystem that is required
for RCU needs by archs which plan to shut down the tick
outside idle.

This patch implements a generic virtual based cputime
accounting that relies on these generic kernel/user hooks.

There are some upsides of doing this:

- This requires no arch code to implement CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
if context tracking is already built (already necessary for RCU in full
tickless mode).

- We can rely on the generic context tracking subsystem to dynamically
(de)activate the hooks, so that we can switch anytime between virtual
and tick based accounting. This way we don't have the overhead
of the virtual accounting when the tick is running periodically.

And one downside:

- There is probably more overhead than a native virtual based cputime
accounting. But this relies on hooks that are already set anyway.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner

NTP: Add a CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC configuration

2013-01-16T02:16:06+00:00

The purpose of this option is to allow ARM/etc systems that rely on the
class RTC subsystem to have the same kind of automatic NTP based
synchronization that we have on PC platforms. Today ARM does not
implement update_persistent_clock and makes extensive use of the class
RTC system.

When enabled CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC will provide a generic
rtc_update_persistent_clock that stores the current time in the RTC and
is intended complement the existing CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS option that loads
the RTC at boot.

Like with RTC_HCTOSYS the platform's update_persistent_clock is used
first, if it works. Platforms with mixed class RTC and non-RTC drivers
need to return ENODEV when class RTC should be used. Such an update for
PPC is included in this patch.

Long term, implementations of update_persistent_clock should migrate to
proper class RTC drivers and use CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC instead.

Tested on ARM kirkwood and PPC405

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe 
Signed-off-by: John Stultz

powerpc/vdso: Remove redundant locking in update_vsyscall_tz()

2013-01-03T05:45:51+00:00

The locking in update_vsyscall_tz() is not only unnecessary because the vdso
code copies the data unproteced in __kernel_gettimeofday() but also
introduces a hard to reproduce race condition between update_vsyscall()
and update_vsyscall_tz(), which causes user space process to loop
forever in vdso code.

The following patch removes the locking from update_vsyscall_tz().

Locking is not only unnecessary because the vdso code copies the data
unprotected in __kernel_gettimeofday() but also erroneous because updating
the tb_update_count is not atomic and introduces a hard to reproduce race
condition between update_vsyscall() and update_vsyscall_tz(), which further
causes user space process to loop forever in vdso code.

The below scenario describes the race condition,
x==0	Boot CPU			other CPU
	proc_P: x==0
	    timer interrupt
		update_vsyscall
x==1		    x++;sync		settimeofday
					    update_vsyscall_tz
x==2						x++;sync
x==3		    sync;x++
						sync;x++
	proc_P: x==3 (loops until x becomes even)

Because the ++ operator would be implemented as three instructions and not
atomic on powerpc.

A similar change was made for x86 in commit 6c260d58634
("x86: vdso: Remove bogus locking in update_vsyscall_tz")

Signed-off-by: Shan Hai 
CC: 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

vtime: Warn if irqs aren't disabled on system time accounting APIs

2012-11-20T14:42:51+00:00

System time accounting APIs such as vtime_account_system() and
vtime_account_idle() need to be irqsafe. Current callers include
irq entry, exit and kvm, all of which have been checked against that
requirement. Now it's better to grow that with an automatic check
in case we have further callers or we missed something.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens