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<title>tick/nohz_full: Don't abuse smp_call_function_single() in tick_setup_device()</title>
<updated>2024-06-10T18:18:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-05-28T12:20:19+00:00</published>
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After the recent commit 5097cbcb38e6 ("sched/isolation: Prevent boot crash
when the boot CPU is nohz_full") the kernel no longer crashes, but there is
another problem.

In this case tick_setup_device() calls tick_take_do_timer_from_boot() to
update tick_do_timer_cpu and this triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE(irqs_disabled)
in smp_call_function_single().

Kill tick_take_do_timer_from_boot() and just use WRITE_ONCE(), the new
comment explains why this is safe (thanks Thomas!).

Fixes: 08ae95f4fd3b ("nohz_full: Allow the boot CPU to be nohz_full")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240528122019.GA28794@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240522151742.GA10400@redhat.com
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After the recent commit 5097cbcb38e6 ("sched/isolation: Prevent boot crash
when the boot CPU is nohz_full") the kernel no longer crashes, but there is
another problem.

In this case tick_setup_device() calls tick_take_do_timer_from_boot() to
update tick_do_timer_cpu and this triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE(irqs_disabled)
in smp_call_function_single().

Kill tick_take_do_timer_from_boot() and just use WRITE_ONCE(), the new
comment explains why this is safe (thanks Thomas!).

Fixes: 08ae95f4fd3b ("nohz_full: Allow the boot CPU to be nohz_full")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240528122019.GA28794@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240522151742.GA10400@redhat.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl</title>
<updated>2024-05-18T00:31:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-18T00:31:24+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:

 - Remove sentinel elements from ctl_table structs in kernel/*

   Removing sentinels in ctl_table arrays reduces the build time size
   and runtime memory consumed by ~64 bytes per array. Removals for
   net/, io_uring/, mm/, ipc/ and security/ are set to go into mainline
   through their respective subsystems making the next release the most
   likely place where the final series that removes the check for
   proc_name == NULL will land.

   This adds to removals already in arch/, drivers/ and fs/.

 - Adjust ctl_table definitions and references to allow constification
     - Remove unused ctl_table function arguments
     - Move non-const elements from ctl_table to ctl_table_header
     - Make ctl_table pointers const in ctl_table_root structure

   Making the static ctl_table structs const will increase safety by
   keeping the pointers to proc_handler functions in .rodata. Though no
   ctl_tables where made const in this PR, the ground work for making
   that possible has started with these changes sent by Thomas
   Weißschuh.

* tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
  sysctl: drop now unnecessary out-of-bounds check
  sysctl: move sysctl type to ctl_table_header
  sysctl: drop sysctl_is_perm_empty_ctl_table
  sysctl: treewide: constify argument ctl_table_root::permissions(table)
  sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
  bpf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  delayacct: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  kprobes: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  printk: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  scheduler: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  seccomp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  timekeeping: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  ftrace: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  umh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  kernel misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
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<pre>
Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:

 - Remove sentinel elements from ctl_table structs in kernel/*

   Removing sentinels in ctl_table arrays reduces the build time size
   and runtime memory consumed by ~64 bytes per array. Removals for
   net/, io_uring/, mm/, ipc/ and security/ are set to go into mainline
   through their respective subsystems making the next release the most
   likely place where the final series that removes the check for
   proc_name == NULL will land.

   This adds to removals already in arch/, drivers/ and fs/.

 - Adjust ctl_table definitions and references to allow constification
     - Remove unused ctl_table function arguments
     - Move non-const elements from ctl_table to ctl_table_header
     - Make ctl_table pointers const in ctl_table_root structure

   Making the static ctl_table structs const will increase safety by
   keeping the pointers to proc_handler functions in .rodata. Though no
   ctl_tables where made const in this PR, the ground work for making
   that possible has started with these changes sent by Thomas
   Weißschuh.

* tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
  sysctl: drop now unnecessary out-of-bounds check
  sysctl: move sysctl type to ctl_table_header
  sysctl: drop sysctl_is_perm_empty_ctl_table
  sysctl: treewide: constify argument ctl_table_root::permissions(table)
  sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
  bpf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  delayacct: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  kprobes: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  printk: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  scheduler: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  seccomp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  timekeeping: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  ftrace: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  umh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  kernel misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-core-2024-05-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-05-14T16:27:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-14T16:27:40+00:00</published>
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Pull timers and timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Core code:

   - Make timekeeping and VDSO time readouts resilent against math
     overflow:

     In guest context the kernel is prone to math overflow when the host
     defers the timer interrupt due to overload, malfunction or malice.

     This can be mitigated by checking the clocksource delta for the
     maximum deferrement which is readily available. If that value is
     exceeded then the code uses a slowpath function which can handle
     the multiplication overflow.

     This functionality is enabled unconditionally in the kernel, but
     made conditional in the VDSO code. The latter is conditional
     because it allows architectures to optimize the check so it is not
     causing performance regressions.

     On X86 this is achieved by reworking the existing check for
     negative TSC deltas as a negative delta obviously exceeds the
     maximum deferrement when it is evaluated as an unsigned value. That
     avoids two conditionals in the hotpath and allows to hide both the
     negative delta and the large delta handling in the same slow path.

   - Add an initial minimal ktime_t abstraction for Rust

   - The usual boring cleanups and enhancements

  Drivers:

   - Boring updates to device trees and trivial enhancements in various
     drivers"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-05-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Mark hisi_161010101_oem_info const
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Remove an unused field in struct dmtimer
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Avoid reprobe after successful early probe
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Allow OSTM driver to reprobe for RZ/V2H(P) SoC
  dt-bindings: timer: renesas: ostm: Document Renesas RZ/V2H(P) SoC
  rust: time: doc: Add missing C header links
  clocksource: Make the int help prompt unit readable in ncurses
  hrtimer: Rename __hrtimer_hres_active() to hrtimer_hres_active()
  timerqueue: Remove never used function timerqueue_node_expires()
  rust: time: Add Ktime
  vdso: Fix powerpc build U64_MAX undeclared error
  clockevents: Convert s[n]printf() to sysfs_emit()
  clocksource: Convert s[n]printf() to sysfs_emit()
  clocksource: Make watchdog and suspend-timing multiplication overflow safe
  timekeeping: Let timekeeping_cycles_to_ns() handle both under and overflow
  timekeeping: Make delta calculation overflow safe
  timekeeping: Prepare timekeeping_cycles_to_ns() for overflow safety
  timekeeping: Fold in timekeeping_delta_to_ns()
  timekeeping: Consolidate timekeeping helpers
  timekeeping: Refactor timekeeping helpers
  ...
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Pull timers and timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Core code:

   - Make timekeeping and VDSO time readouts resilent against math
     overflow:

     In guest context the kernel is prone to math overflow when the host
     defers the timer interrupt due to overload, malfunction or malice.

     This can be mitigated by checking the clocksource delta for the
     maximum deferrement which is readily available. If that value is
     exceeded then the code uses a slowpath function which can handle
     the multiplication overflow.

     This functionality is enabled unconditionally in the kernel, but
     made conditional in the VDSO code. The latter is conditional
     because it allows architectures to optimize the check so it is not
     causing performance regressions.

     On X86 this is achieved by reworking the existing check for
     negative TSC deltas as a negative delta obviously exceeds the
     maximum deferrement when it is evaluated as an unsigned value. That
     avoids two conditionals in the hotpath and allows to hide both the
     negative delta and the large delta handling in the same slow path.

   - Add an initial minimal ktime_t abstraction for Rust

   - The usual boring cleanups and enhancements

  Drivers:

   - Boring updates to device trees and trivial enhancements in various
     drivers"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-05-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Mark hisi_161010101_oem_info const
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Remove an unused field in struct dmtimer
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Avoid reprobe after successful early probe
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Allow OSTM driver to reprobe for RZ/V2H(P) SoC
  dt-bindings: timer: renesas: ostm: Document Renesas RZ/V2H(P) SoC
  rust: time: doc: Add missing C header links
  clocksource: Make the int help prompt unit readable in ncurses
  hrtimer: Rename __hrtimer_hres_active() to hrtimer_hres_active()
  timerqueue: Remove never used function timerqueue_node_expires()
  rust: time: Add Ktime
  vdso: Fix powerpc build U64_MAX undeclared error
  clockevents: Convert s[n]printf() to sysfs_emit()
  clocksource: Convert s[n]printf() to sysfs_emit()
  clocksource: Make watchdog and suspend-timing multiplication overflow safe
  timekeeping: Let timekeeping_cycles_to_ns() handle both under and overflow
  timekeeping: Make delta calculation overflow safe
  timekeeping: Prepare timekeeping_cycles_to_ns() for overflow safety
  timekeeping: Fold in timekeeping_delta_to_ns()
  timekeeping: Consolidate timekeeping helpers
  timekeeping: Refactor timekeeping helpers
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2024-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-05-14T00:18:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-14T00:18:51+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add cpufreq pressure feedback for the scheduler

 - Rework misfit load-balancing wrt affinity restrictions

 - Clean up and simplify the code around ::overutilized and
   ::overload access.

 - Simplify sched_balance_newidle()

 - Bump SCHEDSTAT_VERSION to 16 due to a cleanup of CPU_MAX_IDLE_TYPES
   handling that changed the output.

 - Rework &amp; clean up &lt;asm/vtime.h&gt; interactions wrt arch_vtime_task_switch()

 - Reorganize, clean up and unify most of the higher level
   scheduler balancing function names around the sched_balance_*()
   prefix

 - Simplify the balancing flag code (sched_balance_running)

 - Miscellaneous cleanups &amp; fixes

* tag 'sched-core-2024-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
  sched/pelt: Remove shift of thermal clock
  sched/cpufreq: Rename arch_update_thermal_pressure() =&gt; arch_update_hw_pressure()
  thermal/cpufreq: Remove arch_update_thermal_pressure()
  sched/cpufreq: Take cpufreq feedback into account
  cpufreq: Add a cpufreq pressure feedback for the scheduler
  sched/fair: Fix update of rd-&gt;sg_overutilized
  sched/vtime: Do not include &lt;asm/vtime.h&gt; header
  s390/irq,nmi: Include &lt;asm/vtime.h&gt; header directly
  s390/vtime: Remove unused __ARCH_HAS_VTIME_TASK_SWITCH leftover
  sched/vtime: Get rid of generic vtime_task_switch() implementation
  sched/vtime: Remove confusing arch_vtime_task_switch() declaration
  sched/balancing: Simplify the sg_status bitmask and use separate -&gt;overloaded and -&gt;overutilized flags
  sched/fair: Rename set_rd_overutilized_status() to set_rd_overutilized()
  sched/fair: Rename SG_OVERLOAD to SG_OVERLOADED
  sched/fair: Rename {set|get}_rd_overload() to {set|get}_rd_overloaded()
  sched/fair: Rename root_domain::overload to ::overloaded
  sched/fair: Use helper functions to access root_domain::overload
  sched/fair: Check root_domain::overload value before update
  sched/fair: Combine EAS check with root_domain::overutilized access
  sched/fair: Simplify the continue_balancing logic in sched_balance_newidle()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add cpufreq pressure feedback for the scheduler

 - Rework misfit load-balancing wrt affinity restrictions

 - Clean up and simplify the code around ::overutilized and
   ::overload access.

 - Simplify sched_balance_newidle()

 - Bump SCHEDSTAT_VERSION to 16 due to a cleanup of CPU_MAX_IDLE_TYPES
   handling that changed the output.

 - Rework &amp; clean up &lt;asm/vtime.h&gt; interactions wrt arch_vtime_task_switch()

 - Reorganize, clean up and unify most of the higher level
   scheduler balancing function names around the sched_balance_*()
   prefix

 - Simplify the balancing flag code (sched_balance_running)

 - Miscellaneous cleanups &amp; fixes

* tag 'sched-core-2024-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
  sched/pelt: Remove shift of thermal clock
  sched/cpufreq: Rename arch_update_thermal_pressure() =&gt; arch_update_hw_pressure()
  thermal/cpufreq: Remove arch_update_thermal_pressure()
  sched/cpufreq: Take cpufreq feedback into account
  cpufreq: Add a cpufreq pressure feedback for the scheduler
  sched/fair: Fix update of rd-&gt;sg_overutilized
  sched/vtime: Do not include &lt;asm/vtime.h&gt; header
  s390/irq,nmi: Include &lt;asm/vtime.h&gt; header directly
  s390/vtime: Remove unused __ARCH_HAS_VTIME_TASK_SWITCH leftover
  sched/vtime: Get rid of generic vtime_task_switch() implementation
  sched/vtime: Remove confusing arch_vtime_task_switch() declaration
  sched/balancing: Simplify the sg_status bitmask and use separate -&gt;overloaded and -&gt;overutilized flags
  sched/fair: Rename set_rd_overutilized_status() to set_rd_overutilized()
  sched/fair: Rename SG_OVERLOAD to SG_OVERLOADED
  sched/fair: Rename {set|get}_rd_overload() to {set|get}_rd_overloaded()
  sched/fair: Rename root_domain::overload to ::overloaded
  sched/fair: Use helper functions to access root_domain::overload
  sched/fair: Check root_domain::overload value before update
  sched/fair: Combine EAS check with root_domain::overutilized access
  sched/fair: Simplify the continue_balancing logic in sched_balance_newidle()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>timers/migration: Prevent out of bounds access on failure</title>
<updated>2024-05-08T09:19:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Levi Yun</name>
<email>ppbuk5246@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-06T04:10:59+00:00</published>
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When tmigr_setup_groups() fails the level 0 group allocation, then the
cleanup derefences index -1 of the local stack array.

Prevent this by checking the loop condition first.

Fixes: 7ee988770326 ("timers: Implement the hierarchical pull model")
Signed-off-by: Levi Yun &lt;ppbuk5246@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506041059.86877-1-ppbuk5246@gmail.com
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When tmigr_setup_groups() fails the level 0 group allocation, then the
cleanup derefences index -1 of the local stack array.

Prevent this by checking the loop condition first.

Fixes: 7ee988770326 ("timers: Implement the hierarchical pull model")
Signed-off-by: Levi Yun &lt;ppbuk5246@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506041059.86877-1-ppbuk5246@gmail.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource: Make the int help prompt unit readable in ncurses</title>
<updated>2024-04-29T22:12:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-28T10:21:43+00:00</published>
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When doing

  make menuconfig

and searching for the CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW_US config item, the
help says:

  │ Symbol: CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW_US [=125]
  │ Type  : integer
  │ Range : [50 1000]
  │ Defined at kernel/time/Kconfig:204
  │   Prompt: Clocksource watchdog maximum allowable skew (in   s)
  							      ^^^

  │   Depends on: GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS [=y] &amp;&amp; CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG [=y]

because on some terminals, it cannot display the 'μ' char, unicode
number 0x3bc.

So simply write it out so that there's no trouble.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240428102143.26764-1-bp@kernel.org
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When doing

  make menuconfig

and searching for the CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW_US config item, the
help says:

  │ Symbol: CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW_US [=125]
  │ Type  : integer
  │ Range : [50 1000]
  │ Defined at kernel/time/Kconfig:204
  │   Prompt: Clocksource watchdog maximum allowable skew (in   s)
  							      ^^^

  │   Depends on: GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS [=y] &amp;&amp; CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG [=y]

because on some terminals, it cannot display the 'μ' char, unicode
number 0x3bc.

So simply write it out so that there's no trouble.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240428102143.26764-1-bp@kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array</title>
<updated>2024-04-24T07:43:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-27T13:30:23+00:00</published>
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel element from time_sysctl

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel element from time_sysctl

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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<title>hrtimer: Rename __hrtimer_hres_active() to hrtimer_hres_active()</title>
<updated>2024-04-22T14:13:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiapeng Chong</name>
<email>jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-18T02:30:00+00:00</published>
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The function hrtimer_hres_active() are defined in the hrtimer.c file, but
not called elsewhere, so rename __hrtimer_hres_active() to
hrtimer_hres_active() and remove the old hrtimer_hres_active() function.

kernel/time/hrtimer.c:653:19: warning: unused function 'hrtimer_hres_active'.

Fixes: 82ccdf062a64 ("hrtimer: Remove unused function")
Reported-by: Abaci Robot &lt;abaci@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong &lt;jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240418023000.130324-1-jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com
Closes: https://bugzilla.openanolis.cn/show_bug.cgi?id=8778
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The function hrtimer_hres_active() are defined in the hrtimer.c file, but
not called elsewhere, so rename __hrtimer_hres_active() to
hrtimer_hres_active() and remove the old hrtimer_hres_active() function.

kernel/time/hrtimer.c:653:19: warning: unused function 'hrtimer_hres_active'.

Fixes: 82ccdf062a64 ("hrtimer: Remove unused function")
Reported-by: Abaci Robot &lt;abaci@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong &lt;jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240418023000.130324-1-jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com
Closes: https://bugzilla.openanolis.cn/show_bug.cgi?id=8778
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Use READ/WRITE_ONCE() for tick_do_timer_cpu</title>
<updated>2024-04-10T08:13:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-09T10:29:12+00:00</published>
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tick_do_timer_cpu is used lockless to check which CPU needs to take care
of the per tick timekeeping duty. This is done to avoid a thundering
herd problem on jiffies_lock.

The read and writes are not annotated so KCSAN complains about data races:

  BUG: KCSAN: data-race in tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick / tick_nohz_next_event

  write to 0xffffffff8a2bda30 of 4 bytes by task 0 on cpu 26:
   tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick+0x3b1/0x4a0
   do_idle+0x1e3/0x250

  read to 0xffffffff8a2bda30 of 4 bytes by task 0 on cpu 16:
   tick_nohz_next_event+0xe7/0x1e0
   tick_nohz_get_sleep_length+0xa7/0xe0
   menu_select+0x82/0xb90
   cpuidle_select+0x44/0x60
   do_idle+0x1c2/0x250

  value changed: 0x0000001a -&gt; 0xffffffff

Annotate them with READ/WRITE_ONCE() to document the intentional data race.

Reported-by: Mirsad Todorovac &lt;mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sean Anderson &lt;sean.anderson@seco.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87cyqy7rt3.ffs@tglx
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tick_do_timer_cpu is used lockless to check which CPU needs to take care
of the per tick timekeeping duty. This is done to avoid a thundering
herd problem on jiffies_lock.

The read and writes are not annotated so KCSAN complains about data races:

  BUG: KCSAN: data-race in tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick / tick_nohz_next_event

  write to 0xffffffff8a2bda30 of 4 bytes by task 0 on cpu 26:
   tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick+0x3b1/0x4a0
   do_idle+0x1e3/0x250

  read to 0xffffffff8a2bda30 of 4 bytes by task 0 on cpu 16:
   tick_nohz_next_event+0xe7/0x1e0
   tick_nohz_get_sleep_length+0xa7/0xe0
   menu_select+0x82/0xb90
   cpuidle_select+0x44/0x60
   do_idle+0x1c2/0x250

  value changed: 0x0000001a -&gt; 0xffffffff

Annotate them with READ/WRITE_ONCE() to document the intentional data race.

Reported-by: Mirsad Todorovac &lt;mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sean Anderson &lt;sean.anderson@seco.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87cyqy7rt3.ffs@tglx
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<entry>
<title>clockevents: Convert s[n]printf() to sysfs_emit()</title>
<updated>2024-04-09T10:32:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zhijian</name>
<email>lizhijian@fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-14T10:04:02+00:00</published>
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Per filesystems/sysfs.rst, show() should only use sysfs_emit() or
sysfs_emit_at() when formatting the value to be returned to user space.

coccinelle complains that there are still a couple of functions that use
snprintf(). Convert them to sysfs_emit().

Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian &lt;lizhijian@fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240314100402.1326582-2-lizhijian@fujitsu.com
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Per filesystems/sysfs.rst, show() should only use sysfs_emit() or
sysfs_emit_at() when formatting the value to be returned to user space.

coccinelle complains that there are still a couple of functions that use
snprintf(). Convert them to sysfs_emit().

Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian &lt;lizhijian@fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240314100402.1326582-2-lizhijian@fujitsu.com
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