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2026-08-23Merge tag 's390-7.3-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik: - Add a cpuidle driver with polling and enabled wait states using the existing CPU idle infrastructure and idle governor to improve latency for frequent sleep/wakeup cycles. Remove the obsolete tick delay heuristic and generic arch_needs_cpu() hook. Add the corresponding driver entry to MAINTAINERS - Add kCFI support using the generic support provided by Clang - Enable Clang CONTEXT_ANALYSIS for various architecture code and for char, PCI, CIO and virtio drivers. Add required lock annotations, exclude unsupported mm helpers and remove conditional PCI locking - Fix secure storage access exception handling and reintroduce DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS previously removed as a workaround - Fix cpum_cf perf crashes when CPUs are brought online while per-task events are active. Allocate and remove per-CPU counter data from CPU hotplug callbacks - Fix a deadlock when an s390dbf debug area is unregistered while one of its debugfs files is being written to - Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with binutils older than 2.39, where an assembler macro silently omitted an instruction needed to repair interrupted operations after CPU migration - Remove/replace cond_resched() calls which are no-ops with the supported s390 preemption models - Fix AP queue depth and maximum message length decoding according to the architecture. Current hardware is not affected, but future hardware could report values which were handled incorrectly - Reflect the configured CPU state in cpu_enabled_mask so deconfigured CPUs are not presented as available for onlining - Restore the vDSO GNU_EH_FRAME program header which was lost when the build switched to direct linker invocation, and mark it read-only - Add SCLP action qualifiers used by Spyre for card initialization, recoverable error and telemetry reporting - Move KMSAN interrupt flag helpers out of line to fix -Wstatic-in-inline build warnings - Use level-specific page table entry accessors for hugetlb entries and ptep_get() when accessing crashed kernel memory in kdump - Make forced AP bus rescans killable so that a user process blocked behind an ongoing scan can still be terminated with SIGKILL - Rework pkey ioctl error paths to remove duplicated cleanup code and avoid freeing error pointers - Allow the protected guest SWIOTLB buffer to be allocated outside the first 2GB. Also enable dynamic SWIOTLB growth and the coherent atomic pool fallback to improve I/O behavior when the initial pool is exhausted - Add program check statistics and spinlock contention tracepoints. Increase the lockdep chain capacity to keep lockdep enabled for complex code paths such as btrfs - Simplify IPL, trap and syscall code and remove the obsolete unistd_32.h generation entry * tag 's390-7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (59 commits) s390/percpu: Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with older binutils s390/debug: Fix deadlock during unregister s390/cpum_cf: Handle CPU hotplug via prepare/dead callbacks s390: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS for various directories s390/mm: Add __context_unsafe() attribute to gmap helper functions s390/mm: Add __context_unsafe() attribute to do_secure_storage_access() s390/sysinfo: Add context analysis attributes s390/irqflags: Add out-of-line definitions of arch_local_irq_*() for KMSAN s390/virtio: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS s390/cio: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS s390/vfio_ccw: Add __must_hold() attribute to vfio_ccw_sch_quiesce() s390/pci: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS s390/pci: Rework __zpci_event_availability() to remove conditional locking s390/pci: Rework __zpci_event_error() to remove conditional locking s390/char: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS s390/con3215: Add __must_hold() attribute to raw3215_make_room() s390/ap: Fix MAPML computation s390/cio: Remove cond_resched() calls s390: Remove cond_resched() calls KVM: s390: Remove cond_resched() calls ...
2026-08-22Merge tags 'core-urgent-2026-08-22' and 'timers-urgent-2026-08-22' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer fixes from Ingo Molnar: - Fix timer debugobjects state corruption on CPU offlining (Thomas Gleixner) - Fix ARM get_cycles() regression causing boot hangs on certain ARM configs (Nathan Chancellor) * tag 'core-urgent-2026-08-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: timer: Keep debugobjects state consistent in migrate_timer_list() * tag 'timers-urgent-2026-08-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: ARM: Fix get_cycles() after delay_read_timer() conversion
2026-08-20Merge tag 'sysctl-7.03-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados: - Fix kernel-doc warnings by adjusting in file documentation - Consolidate do_proc_* function into do_proc_vec Consolidate three slightly different implementations of applying a converter on all elements of a vector. Fixes to this function now propagate to the three types. - Replace CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL with CONFIG_SYSCTL (they were the same) and restrict cad_pid modifications to global root (GLOBAL_ROOT_UID) * tag 'sysctl-7.03-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: sysctl: remove CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, it just mirrors CONFIG_SYSCTL sysctl: move the "cad_pid" entry from pid_table[] to kern_reboot_table[] sysctl: repair some kernel-doc comments sysctl: add Returns: kernel-doc for all functions sysctl: Update API function documentation sysctl: Rename proc_doulongvec_minmax_conv to proc_doulongvec_conv sysctl: Group proc_handler declarations and document sysctl: Replace do_proc_do{int,ulong,uint}vec with do_proc_vec sysctl: Add negp parameter to douintvec converter functions sysctl: Move default converter assignment out of do_proc_dointvec
2026-08-18Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2026-08-17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Consolidate the VDSO datastore further and provide support for mlock_all() and prefaulting. - Provide 32-bit legacy time related functionality only if CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME is enabled. The config switch exists, but architecture code still exposes the legacy functionality even disabled. Clean this up by adding the missing guards and validating at build time that the VDSO is legacy free if disabled. - Consolidate the VDSO related config options in core and drivers, which removes some non-sensical dependencies and quite an amount of #ifdeffery. - Clean up the PAGE_SIZE definition maze * tag 'timers-vdso-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits) random: vDSO: Drop custom PAGE_SIZE definitions LoongArch: Remove CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY ifdeffery clocksource/drivers/timer-riscv: Remove CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY ifdeffery clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Remove CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY ifdeffery clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Remove CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY ifdeffery MIPS: csrc-r4k: Remove CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY ifdeffery vDSO: Make clockmode constants available without CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY kbuild: Support generated asm-headers in subdirectories vdso: Rename HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO to VDSO_DATASTORE vdso: Drop HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO from architecture kconfig files vdso: Automatically select HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO if necessary MIPS: vdso: Stop using CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO vdso: Remove the dependency on HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO from ARCH_HAS_VDSO_ARCH_DATA futex: Remove dependency on HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO from FUTEX_ROBUST_UNLOCK vdso/gettimeofday: Verify COMPAT_32BIT_TIME interactions sparc: vdso: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME MIPS: VDSO: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME powerpc/vdso: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME ARM: VDSO: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME arm64: vdso32: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME ...
2026-08-18Merge tag 'timers-core-2026-08-17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer and timekeeping core updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Fix a subtly inconsistency in the timekeeping code, which fails to account for the monotonicity adjustment in ntp_error. For small changes of the clocksource multiplicator (+/-1) which are typically used by the NTP PLL this is hard to observe. But for larger adjustments, e.g. caused by a direct frequency setting through adjtimex() the one-time uncompensated offset is significant. Cure this by adjusting ntp_error with the resulting offset so that the discrepancy is smoothed away over time - Make tick length calculations correct in NTP. The timekeeping core takes the quantisation of the clocksource into account when calculating the tick length to compensate for the deviation of the nominal NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH. While timekeeping gets this right, NTP is not aware of that, which means it operates on the nominal value and not on the actual value which is determined by the clock source frequency. The rounding of a coarse clocksource like the ACPI PM timer results in a +127 PPM deviation. Cure this by exposing the deviation to the NTP code so that it can operate on the same data as the timekeeping core. This is purely kernel internal. User space still sees the nominal tick lenght via adjtimex(). - The accuracy of the NTP adjustments is fairly approximate as the code assumes that the invocations are precisely in NTP interval frequency ticks and the final adjustment can over and under-run. Cure this by adjusting ntp_error by the intended skew on each tick to achieve the desired rate. - Handle the two competing skews of time offset and time adjustment correctly by calculating the conflict portion between the skews and adjusting both accordingly. - A set of updates and improvements for the selftests - The usual small fixes and improvements all over the place * tag 'timers-core-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits) selftests: timers: nsleep-lat: Check all calls to clock_nanosleep() and clock_gettime() selftests: timers: nsleep-lat: Reuse kselftest error numbers selftests: timers: nsleep-lat: Explicitly list the tested clocks selftests: timers: nsleep-lat: Use NSEC_PER_MSEC define for unreasonable latency selftests: timers: nanosleep: Report each test separately selftests: timers: nanosleep: Explicitly handle timer_delete() failure selftests: timers: nanosleep: Move all single clock tests out of the loop in main() selftests: timers: nanosleep: Reuse kselftest error numbers selftests: timers: nanosleep: Explicitly list the tested clocks selftests: timers: nanosleep: Drop output alignment selftests: timers: Use clock_name() and constants from clock-helpers.h selftests: Add clock-helpers.h timer_list: Use ktime_t over nanoseconds timer_list: Use standard 'long long' format placeholders hrtimer: Add a lockdep assertion to hrtimer_update_base() timekeeping: Use u32 for clock_was_set_seq timekeeping: Rename clockid_aux_valid() to clockid_is_aux_clock() hrtimer: Account nr_retries on recovered interrupt retries timers/itimer: Zero-init old itimerval before copy to userspace nohz: Replace dead select with choice default ...
2026-08-18timer: Keep debugobjects state consistent in migrate_timer_list()Thomas Gleixner
When timers are migrated away from an offline CPU the debugobjects state gets corrupted. The timer is accounted as inactive on deletion, but the enqueue on the alive CPU lacks the activation call. That used to work, but got broken when the trace point and the debug objects call got separated. That change missed to fixup migrate_timer_list(). Add the missing debug_timer_activate() invocation to fix it. Fixes: dc1e7dc5ac62 ("timer: Move trace point to get proper index") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87bjb0l7ha.ffs@fw13
2026-08-11timer_list: Use ktime_t over nanosecondsThomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
hrtimers use ktime_t in their implementation and API. The timer list performs a lot of unnecessary conversion to nanoseconds which make the code harder to read and are also wrong in case the values ever become negative. Remove the conversions. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803-auxclock-nanosleep-prep-v2-5-910cbd485390@linutronix.de
2026-08-11timer_list: Use standard 'long long' format placeholdersThomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
'%Ld' and '%Lu' are GNU extensions. While they do work for kernel code, checkpatch complains about them all the time. Replace them with the standard placeholders for 'long long' types, namely '%lld' and '%llu'. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803-auxclock-nanosleep-prep-v2-4-910cbd485390@linutronix.de
2026-08-11hrtimer: Add a lockdep assertion to hrtimer_update_base()Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
Document and verify that the hrtimer_cpu_base::lock is held at this point. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803-auxclock-nanosleep-prep-v2-3-910cbd485390@linutronix.de
2026-08-11timekeeping: Use u32 for clock_was_set_seqThomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
Use an explicitly sized type to make the code a bit more consistent with other fields of the datastructure and other sequence counters. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803-auxclock-nanosleep-prep-v2-2-910cbd485390@linutronix.de
2026-08-11timekeeping: Rename clockid_aux_valid() to clockid_is_aux_clock()Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
The current name is not clear about its behavior. Rename it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803-auxclock-nanosleep-prep-v2-1-910cbd485390@linutronix.de
2026-08-11hrtimer: Account nr_retries on recovered interrupt retriesLiang Hao
Re-arranging hrtimer_interrupt() switched the retry path to a local counter and dropped the update of cpu_base->nr_retries, leaving the field exported via /proc/timer_list stuck at zero. Increment nr_retries only when another pass through the expiry loop is started; the third attempt that falls through to hang handling is still accounted by nr_hangs alone. Fixes: 288924384856 ("hrtimer: Re-arrange hrtimer_interrupt()") Signed-off-by: Liang Hao <haohlliang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731150408.19554-1-haohlliang@gmail.com
2026-08-11timers/itimer: Zero-init old itimerval before copy to userspaceJérémy Jean
On native sparc64, struct __kernel_old_timeval contains a four-byte hole after tv_usec because tv_sec is 64-bit while __kernel_suseconds_t is 32-bit. put_itimerval() fills only the named fields in a stack-allocated __kernel_old_itimerval and copies the entire object to userspace, so getitimer() can expose the two padding holes. Zero-initialize the aggregate before assigning the fields so implicit padding is deterministic before it crosses the user/kernel boundary. Signed-off-by: Jérémy Jean <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260809190428.1523014-1-Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr
2026-08-11nohz: Replace dead select with choice defaultJulian Braha
'select' does not work on config options in a 'choice', so currently the 'select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN' for NO_HZ_FULL is dead, with the choice option VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN only being enabled when NO_HZ_FULL=y because the other choice members depend on NO_HZ_FULL=n. Remove the dead select, and encode this relationship as a default of the choice, instead. This dead select was found by kconfirm, a static analysis tool for Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801160140.2391000-1-julianbraha@gmail.com
2026-08-11timekeeping: Remove the unused ktime_get_clock_ts64()Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
The last user was removed in commit a6d799608e6a ("ptp: Switch to ktime_get_snapshot_id() for pre/post timestamps"). Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731-timekeeping-aux-must-check-v1-1-11ae93068497@linutronix.de
2026-08-10timekeeping: Check the return value of tk_get_aux_ts64 in __do_adjtimex()Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
If the auxiliary clock is disabled during tk_get_aux_ts64() but is enabled before tks->clock_valid is checked, then uninitialized stackdata will be used in the calculations and indirectly leaked to userspace. The same race window also exists after this change and also for the core timekeeper. But in these cases the only effect would be incorrect adjustments and this is userspace's responsibility to avoid this. Fixes: 4eca49d0b621 ("timekeeping: Prepare do_adtimex() for auxiliary clocks") Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731-timekeeping-aux-adjtimex-return-v1-1-b7fea4692886@linutronix.de
2026-08-10timekeeping: Use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE() for xtime_sec to prevent tearingDennis Moshegov
The timekeeper update path uses a bulk memcpy() to synchronize the timekeeper structure, which is not guaranteed to be atomic. This allows for torn reads in ktime_get_real_seconds() on 64-bit systems, where the sequence counter protection is bypassed for performance. To prevent reading a torn 64-bit xtime_sec value, enforce atomic-like access by using WRITE_ONCE() for the critical field before the bulk memcpy() in timekeeping_update_from_shadow(). Correspondingly, use READ_ONCE() in ktime_get_real_seconds() to ensure a fresh, consistent load from memory. [ tglx: Format changelog and add comment ] Reported-by: syzbot+72789cd1697965e714ca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Dennis Moshegov <dennis@xzync.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260724154405.70-1-dennis@xzync.uk Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=72789cd1697965e714ca
2026-08-05sysctl: remove CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, it just mirrors CONFIG_SYSCTLOleg Nesterov
CONFIG_SYSCTL used to make sense as a separate hidden bool before commit 61a47c1ad3a4 ("sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call"); it was selected by both CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL and CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL. Today CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL is the only selector, so the two are always equal. Kill the hidden bool, rename the PROC_SYSCTL prompt to SYSCTL, and s/CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL/CONFIG_SYSCTL/ tree-wide. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-08-05sysctl: Rename proc_doulongvec_minmax_conv to proc_doulongvec_convJoel Granados
Remove "_minmax" from proc_doulongvec_minmax_conv as it does not enforce min/max limits but serves as a generic converter for unsigned long vectors. Update function declaration in sysctl.h, definition in sysctl.c, and caller in jiffies.c accordingly. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-08-05sysctl: Replace do_proc_do{int,ulong,uint}vec with do_proc_vecJoel Granados
Make do_proc_vec static and parametrize by proc_vec_type enum which defines the type being processed and selects which converter is "live". Signed-ness and size are calculated based on proc_vec_type and table->data is now walked as raw bytes and advanced by the element size; the converter still performs the actual typed load/store. Pass converter as a union to avoid a cast from void*. The public proc_do{int,uint,ulong}vec_conv() prototypes and all converter signatures in kernel/, fs/ and the header are therefore unchanged. Remove do_proc_doulongvec_minmax. proc_doulongvec_minmax_conv uses a converter callback passed by the caller instead of conversions based on conv{mul,div}. Create uni and bi-direction converters for milliseconds to jiffies in proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax; which is the only user of proc_doulongvec_minmax_conv. Replace do_proc_douintvec{,_w,_r} functions with a call to do_proc_vec. Disallow vectors for uint by returning -EINVAL when more than one element is detected. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-07-20timers/migration: Fix bad line kernel-doc warning in struct tmigr_cpuBabanpreet Singh
Running kernel-doc on timer_migration.h reports: Warning: kernel/time/timer_migration.h:105 bad line: The empty line separating the @available paragraph from the @idle member documentation in the struct tmigr_cpu kernel-doc block lacks the " *" line prefix that kernel-doc requires on every line inside a block. The header is not scanned by the build-time kernel-doc checks, so the warning only shows up when kernel-doc is invoked on the file directly. Add the missing prefix. The empty line was introduced when the @available documentation was expanded by commit 45a13ba52c82 ("timers/migration: Update stale @online doc to @available"). No functional change. Signed-off-by: Babanpreet Singh <bbnpreetsingh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260717035947.7-1-bbnpreetsingh@gmail.com
2026-07-10ntp: Remove tick_length_base, use tick_length directlyDavid Woodhouse
Now that nothing inflates tick_length beyond tick_length_base (the adjtime path was converted to use time_offset in the previous commit), the two fields are always equal. Remove tick_length_base and keep tick_length as the single field. Remove the per-second reset and the delta update in ntp_update_frequency() since there is no separate base to track. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.6-1m Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-8-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-10timekeeping: Settle competing time_offset and time_adjust skewDavid Woodhouse
time_offset (the exponential PLL phase slew) and time_adjust (the linear adjtime() slew) can be asked to move the clock in opposite directions. second_overflow() folds only their *net* into the per-tick skew_delta, so the cancelling overlap would never be drained from either tracker by the per-tick code — and if they cancel exactly, skew_delta is zero and neither converges at all. Arguably we could just let one of them entirely cancel out the other immediately, but that would be a change in userspace-visible behaviour. Instead, preserve the existing behaviour by calculating the "conflict" portion between the opposing skew each second, and transferring that amount directly from one tracker to the other. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.8 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-7-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-10timekeeping: Drive time_adjust skew via per-tick ntp_error transferDavid Woodhouse
The legacy adjtime() slew (ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT) was the last user of tick_length != tick_length_base: it slewed the clock by inflating tick_length directly, which delivered the correction imprecisely (e.g. delivering only 4997.5µs when asked for a 5ms skew). Deliver it accurately through the same per-tick mechanism that is now used for time_offset, allowing it to contribute to skew_delta and thus drive the delivery through ntp_error and mult selection. To allow for accurate accounting, store the sub-microsecond part of time_adjust is separately, while keeping time_adjust in microseconds as that's the external API. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.8 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-6-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-10timekeeping: Drive time_offset skew via per-tick ntp_error transferDavid Woodhouse
Currently, the phase offset of time_offset and time_adjust is delivered by adjusting tick_length in second_overflow(), and immediately draining time_offset/time_adjust by the amount that the tick_length adjustment is *estimated* to cause. This is fairly approximate, in part because it is not always correct to assume that precisely NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ ticks will occur between one call to second_overflow() and the next. It could also over and under-run in the final second of delivery. Instead of inflating tick_length, transfer the intended skew directly into ntp_error each tick to achieve the desired rate. In second_overflow(), calculate skew_delta which is the per-tick slew rate, in the same units as time_offset: (ns << NTP_SCALE_SHIFT) / HZ. In logarithmic_accumulation(), drain up to 'skew_delta' time units from time_offset into ntp_error to drive the overall effective rate. The new ntp_drain_skew() function returns the amount which is actually 'claimed' by time_offset (and in a future patch, time_adjust). Any overrun which is delivered by the changed 'mult' (as described below) but not claimed by ntp_drain_skew() will remain in ntp_error to be corrected away in subsequent ticks. Simply transferring the precise amount from time_offset to ntp_error would be sufficent to make the time *eventually* converge, however the skew delivered is limited by the choice of { mult, mult+1 } each tick and thus the convergence would be extremely slow. In theory we could inflate ntp_err_mult with the magnitude of ntp_error in the general case — but that would cause overcorrection in a tickless kernel. Instead, in timekeeping_adjust(), take skew_delta into account when calculating 'mult', such that the available {mult, mult+1} choices bracket the overall effective rate *including* the skew, to avoid the delta just building up in ntp_error. The effect is that the inflated 'mult' causes ntp_error to grow because xtime_interval is (e.g.) longer than the true tick_length. But then the same delta is removed again as it's drained from time_offset. This gives behaviour equivalent to the old tick_length += delta approach but with exact per-tick accounting of the time_offset actually imparted to the clock, and no overrun. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.8 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-5-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-10timekeeping: Account for clocksource tick quantisation via NTPDavid Woodhouse
cycle_interval is an integer number of counter cycles per NTP interval, so the real time it represents differs from the nominal NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH by up to half a counter period. For coarse clocksources this is significant: the 3.579545 MHz ACPI PM timer at HZ=1000 rounds 3579.545 cycles up to 3580, making each tick 1.000127 ms (+127 PPM). Commit a386b5af8edd ("time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources") introduced xtime_remainder to compensate for exactly this, citing the same 127 PPM ACPI PM example. The compensation is correct and necessary, but it was applied inside the timekeeping accumulation in timekeeping.c: subtracted in the mult computation in timekeeping_adjust() and folded into the ntp_error update in logarithmic_accumulation(). That keeps the base rate correct and leaves NTP its full symmetric +/-MAXFREQ range rather than +373/-627 PPM, but the NTP code in ntp.c never sees it: tick_length is computed without the correction, so ntp.c's notion of how long a tick is disagrees with the rate timekeeping actually produces. Make the offset an explicit part of the NTP tick_length instead. Add ntp_data::cs_tick_adj, a fixed per-second addend that ntp_update_frequency() includes alongside ntp_tick_adj and time_freq. tk_setup_internals() computes it from the difference between the real cycle_interval duration and the nominal interval, stores it in the timekeeper, and hands it to NTP through a new argument to ntp_clear() -- which already recomputes the frequency and is invoked after every clocksource (re)configuration. timekeeping_init() now uses TK_UPDATE_ALL for this; clearing NTP there is otherwise redundant since ntp_init() has just initialised it. ntp.c now computes the true tick rate, giving a single source of truth. Like ntp_tick_adj, cs_tick_adj stays internal to the kernel: userspace still sees the nominal 1.000000 ms tick via adjtimex and is unaware of the addends. timekeeping_adjust() and logarithmic_accumulation() use ntp_tick / xtime_interval directly, and xtime_remainder is removed. The base-rate arithmetic is unchanged: ntp_tick becomes xtime_interval << ntp_error_shift, so the mult division yields the same base mult and the ntp_error accumulation still nets to zero per tick. Beyond the cleanup of treating all the tick_length contributions (nominal interval, ntp_tick_adj, cs_tick_adj, time_freq) consistently as addends in one place, it also prepares for feed-forward discipline: a future timekeeping_set_reference() will set tick_length to track an absolute external reference such as a vmclock, and that path needs ntp.c to own a tick_length that already reflects the clocksource quantisation, with no hidden correction applied elsewhere. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.8 Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-4-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-08tick: Remove arch_needs_cpuMete Durlu
Remove unused arch_needs_cpu() hook. No architectures use it after s390 removed its use case. Suggested-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mete Durlu <meted@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
2026-07-08timekeeping: Account for monotonicity adjustment in ntp_errorDavid Woodhouse
timekeeping_apply_adjustment() modifies xtime_nsec to ensure monotonicity when mult changes: xtime_nsec -= offset This ensures that the time reported to userspace does not jump when the multiplier is adjusted from one tick to the next. However, the ntp_error accumulator which tracks the difference between intended and actual clock position was not being updated to reflect this additional discrepancy. An earlier attempt at this compensation existed as: ntp_error -= (interval - offset) << ntp_error_shift but was removed in commit c2cda2a5bda9 ("timekeeping/ntp: Don't align NTP frequency adjustments to ticks") because it was a major source of NTP error. That's because (interval - offset) was wrong: the subtraction of "interval" prematurely accounted for the changed xtime_interval of the next tick, which would be correctly accounted in the next accumulation anyway — a double subtraction. What is actually needed is just the "offset" part: ntp_error must be told that xtime_nsec moved by "offset" without a corresponding change in the intended position. For the normal ±1 mult dithering this is negligible (the adjustments cancel over time), but for larger mult changes — such as when an external reference clock sets a new frequency — the one-time uncompensated offset is significant. Fix by adjusting ntp_error by the correct amount: ntp_error += offset << ntp_error_shift This keeps ntp_error consistent with the actual xtime_nsec position after the adjustment, and ensures the discrepancy is correctly smoothed away over time and the clock returns to where it should have been. Fixes: c2cda2a5bda9 ("timekeeping/ntp: Don't align NTP frequency adjustments to ticks") Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.6-1m Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-3-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-07time: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME for old time type functionsThomas Weißschuh
The "old" time types use 32-bit seconds which are not y2038-safe. Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME for functions using those types. time(), stime() and gettimeofday() are disabled completely. settimeofday() is kept as it is required to do the initial timewarping after boot. However the 'tv' argument will be rejected. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e9487ebe-3730-438a-9c23-e45f75986ecc@app.fastmail.com/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702-vdso-compat_32bit_time-v3-1-db9f36d8d432@linutronix.de
2026-07-07vdso/datastore: Explicitly prevent remote access to timens vvar pageThomas Weißschuh
The fault handler for the timens page does not have access to the target task and therefore can not be invoked remotely. Currently the handler relies on the fact that the vvar mapping is marked as VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP for which the mm core always prevents remote access. However the VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP flags are going to be removed. Add an explicit check to prevent remote access to the mapping. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260630-vdso-mlockall-v4-4-6c93708ce723@linutronix.de
2026-07-07timekeeping: Move the vDSO update declarations into a private headerThomas Weißschuh
All architectures are now fully using the generic vDSO infrastructure. They don't need these declarations anymore to implement the functions in architecture-specific code. Move them to the private header. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707-timekeeping-header-cleanup-v1-2-e85ad96409a9@linutronix.de
2026-07-07hrtimer: Explicitly include linux/hrtimer_bases.hThomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
This header uses some definitions from linux/hrtimer_bases.h. Currently this header is included transitively, which will change. Include the header explicitly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702-hrtimer-header-dependencies-v1-5-c50b19bda473@linutronix.de
2026-07-07tick: Explicitly include linux/hrtimer_bases.hThomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
This header uses some definitions from linux/hrtimer_bases.h. Currently this header is included transitively, which will change. Include the header explicitly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702-hrtimer-header-dependencies-v1-4-c50b19bda473@linutronix.de
2026-07-07hrtimer: Move hrtimer_update_function() to hrtimer.cThomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
The usage of the hrtimer base forces hrtimer.h to also expose the base structure definitions. Move the function to hrtimer.c to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702-hrtimer-header-dependencies-v1-3-c50b19bda473@linutronix.de
2026-07-07hrtimer: Don't take cpu_base::lock in hrtimer_get_next_event() when hres_activeUsama Arif
hrtimer_get_next_event() runs on every tick-stop decision via get_next_timer_interrupt() -> cmp_next_hrtimer_event(). When high resolution timers are active it must return KTIME_MAX -- the caller documents and depends on this. The function takes cpu_base->lock, checks hres_active, and returns KTIME_MAX. Taking the lock is not required because cpu_base->hres_active is only written by the local CPU in hrtimer_switch_to_hres() from hard interrupt context and in hrtimers_cpu_starting() during bring-up. All callers of hrtimer_get_next_event() reach it from the tick-stop / cpuidle paths with interrupts disabled on that CPU. No writer can therefore race with the read, so an unlocked hres_active check is stable and the lock can be skipped in this case. On a 176-thread AMD EPYC 9D64 running a production workload, bucketing callers of native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath(), the slowpath had 199 samples in total, of which 54 are attributed to hrtimer_get_next_event(), i.e. this accounts for ~27% of slowpath hits on this specific workload. Move the hres_active check before the lock guard region to address this. [ tglx: Massaged change log and comments ] Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707153800.542394-1-usama.arif@linux.dev
2026-07-07timer_list: Annotate print_cpu() diagnostic readsYu Peng
print_cpu() prints hrtimer_cpu_base and tick_sched state without synchronizing with concurrent updates. The output is diagnostic only, so use data_race(READ_ONCE()) for these scalar reads to document the intentional races and avoid KCSAN reports. Reported-by: syzbot+8f0e958900a14d08a51d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Yu Peng <pengyu@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707125813.2182532-1-pengyu@kylinos.cn Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8f0e958900a14d08a51d
2026-07-07time/namespace: Validate nanosecond field in proc_timens_set_offset()Malaya Kumar Rout
The function validates tv_sec to be within [-KTIME_SEC_MAX, KTIME_SEC_MAX] but never validates that tv_nsec is within the valid range of [0, NSEC_PER_SEC-1] before using it in timespec64_add(). timespec64_add() expects both timespec64 structures to have normalized values with tv_nsec in the range [0, 999999999]. If off->val.tv_nsec contains invalid values (negative or >= NSEC_PER_SEC), it could lead to incorrect calculations or unexpected behavior. Add validation to ensure tv_nsec is within the valid range before performing the addition. Fixes: 04a8682a71be ("fs/proc: Introduce /proc/pid/timens_offsets") Signed-off-by: Malaya Kumar Rout <malayarout91@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260704093429.89350-1-malayarout91@gmail.com
2026-07-07timers/migration: Fix memory leak in tmigr_setup_groups() error pathMalaya Kumar Rout
When the WARN_ON_ONCE(i >= tmigr_hierarchy_levels) assertion triggers, the function returns -EINVAL without freeing the 'stack' memory allocated via kzalloc_objs() at the beginning of the function. Add kfree(stack) before returning to prevent the memory leak. Fixes: 6c181b5667ee ("timers/migration: Convert "while" loops to use "for"") Signed-off-by: Malaya Kumar Rout <malayarout91@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260704085533.87098-1-malayarout91@gmail.com
2026-07-07timekeeping: Unwind aux clock sysfs children on failureYuho Choi
tk_aux_sysfs_init() creates one child kobject per auxiliary clock. If a later child or sysfs group creation fails, the current error path only puts the parent kobjects and leaves earlier children and groups behind. Store the child kobjects during init and remove the successfully created groups and kobjects on failure. Fixes: 7b5ab04f035f ("timekeeping: Fix resource leak in tk_aux_sysfs_init() error paths") Signed-off-by: Yuho Choi <dbgh9129@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260703165337.168445-1-dbgh9129@gmail.com
2026-07-07clocksource: Unregister subsystem on device registration failureYuho Choi
init_clocksource_sysfs() registers the clocksource subsystem before registering the clocksource device. If device_register() fails, the function returns the error while leaving the subsystem registered. Unregister the clocksource subsystem on that failure path so the successful subsystem registration is unwound before returning. Fixes: d369a5d8fc70 ("clocksource: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem") Signed-off-by: Yuho Choi <dbgh9129@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702215733.84588-1-dbgh9129@gmail.com
2026-07-06clocksource: Remove unused WATCHDOG_INTERVAL_NS macroZhan Xusheng
WATCHDOG_INTERVAL_NS has been unused since it was introduced by commit 763aacf86f1b ("clocksource: Rewrite watchdog code completely"); the watchdog timer rearming uses WATCHDOG_INTERVAL (in jiffies) directly and the nanosecond variant has never had a user. Remove the dead macro. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706084557.3845091-3-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
2026-07-06hrtimer: Remove unused next_timer argument from __hrtimer_reprogram()Zhan Xusheng
__hrtimer_reprogram() takes a @next_timer argument but never references it; it only stores @expires_next into cpu_base->expires_next and reprograms the clock event device. The argument has been unused since commit b14bca97c9f5 ("hrtimer: Consolidate reprogramming code"). Drop it and update the two callers. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706084557.3845091-2-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
2026-07-06timekeeping: Document monotonic raw timestamps in snapshots correctlyThomas Gleixner
The comments related to raw monotonic timestamps for the various snapshot mechanisms in code and struct documentation are ambiguous. They reference them as CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW timestamps, but with the arrival of AUX clocks that's not longer correct. The raw monotonic timestamps only represent CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW for the system time clock IDs, i.e. REALTIME, MONOTONIC, BOOTTIME, TAI. For AUX clocks they refer to the monotonic raw clock which is related to the individual AUX clocks. These monotonic raw timestamps have the same conversion factor as CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, but differ from that by an offset: MONORAW(AUX$N) = MONORAW(SYSTEM) + OFFSET(AUX$N) The offset is established when a AUX clock is enabled and stays constant for the lifetime of the AUX clock. Update the comments so they reflect reality. Reported-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87wlv9k3wz.ffs@fw13
2026-07-05posix-cpu-timers: Don't abuse lock_task_sighand() in handle_posix_cpu_timers()Oleg Nesterov
After commit f90fff1e152d ("posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del()"), tsk->sighand is stable in handle_posix_cpu_timers(), so it can use the plain spin_lock_irqsave(&tsk->sighand->siglock). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/akjp8AGpY8eJG5I1@redhat.com
2026-07-05posix-cpu-timers: Prevent UAF caused by non-leader exec() raceThomas Gleixner
Wongi and Jungwoo decoded and reported a non-leader exec() related race which can result in an UAF: sys_timer_delete() exec() posix_cpu_timer_del() // Observes old leader p = pid_task(pid, pid_type); de_thread() switch_leader(); release_task(old_leader) __exit_signal(old_leader) sighand = lock(old_leader, sighand); posix_cpu_timers*_exit(); sighand = lock_task_sighand(p) unhash_task(old_leader); sh = lock(p, sighand) old_leader->sighand = NULL; unlock(sighand); (p->sighand == NULL) unlock(sh) return NULL; // Returns without action if(!sighand) return 0; free_posix_timer(); This is "harmless" unless the deleted timer was armed and enqueued in p->signal because on exec() a TGID targeted timer is inherited. As sys_timer_delete() freed the underlying posix timer object run_posix_cpu_timers() or any timerqueue related add/delete operations on other timers will access the freed object's timerqueue node, which results in an UAF. There is a similar problem vs. posix_cpu_timer_set(). For regular posix timers it just transiently returns -ESRCH to user space, but for the use case in do_cpu_nanosleep() it's the same UAF just that the k_itimer is allocated on the stack. Also posix_cpu_timer_rearm() fails to rearm the timer, which means it stops to expire. While debating solutions Frederic pointed out another problem: posix_cpu_timer_del(tmr) __exit_signal(p) posix_cpu_timers*_exit(p); unhash_task(p); p->sighand = NULL; sh = lock_task_sighand(p) sighand = p->sighand; if (!sighand) return NULL; lock(sighand); if (!sh) WARN_ON_ONCE(timer_queued(tmr)); On weakly ordered architectures it is not guaranteed that posix_cpu_timer_del() will observe the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit() when p->sighand is observed as NULL, which means the WARN() can be a false positive. Solve these issues by: 1) Changing the store in __exit_signal() to smp_store_release(). 2) Adding a smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() into the !sighand path of lock_task_sighand(). 3) Creating a helper function for looking up the task and locking sighand which does not return when sighand == NULL. Instead it retries the task lookup and only if that fails it gives up. 4) Using that helper in the three affected functions. #1/#2 ensures that the reader side which observes sighand == NULL also observes all preceeding stores, i.e. the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit() and the ones in unhash_task(). #3 ensures that the above described non-leader exec() situation is handled gracefully. When the task lookup returns the old leader, but sighand == NULL then it retries. In the non-leader exec() case the subsequent task lookup will observe the new leader due to #1/#2. In normal exit() scenarios the subsequent lookup fails. When the task lookup fails, the function also checks whether the timer is still enqueued and issues a warning if that's the case. Unfortunately there is nothing which can be done about it, but as the task is already not longer visible the timer should not be accessed anymore. This check also requires memory ordering, which is not provided when the first lookup fails. To achieve that the check is preceeded by a smp_rmb() which pairs with the smp_wmb() in write_seqlock() in __exit_signal(). That ensures that the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit() are visible. The history of the non-leader exec() issue goes back to the early days of posix CPU timers, which stored a pointer to the group leader task in the timer. That obviously fails when a non-leader exec() switches the leader. commit e0a70217107e ("posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec") added a temporary workaround for that in 2010 which survived about 10 years. The fix for the workaround changed the task pointer to a pid pointer, but failed to see the subtle race described above. So the Fixes tag picks that commit, which seems to be halfways accurate. Thanks to Frederic Weissbecker, Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra for review, feedback and suggestions and to Wongi and Jungwoo for the excellent bug report and analysis! Fixes: 55e8c8eb2c7b ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task") Reported-by: Wongi Lee <qw3rtyp0@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jungwoo Lee <jwlee2217@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-06-30hrtimer: Remove unused clock_base_next_timer_safe()Zhan Xusheng
clock_base_next_timer_safe() was added by commit a64ad57e41c7 ("hrtimer: Simplify run_hrtimer_queues()") but has never had a caller; the queue iteration in __hrtimer_run_queues() uses clock_base_next_timer() instead. The two are functionally equivalent: struct hrtimer embeds the timerqueue node at offset 0, so container_of() of a NULL node yields NULL. Thus clock_base_next_timer() already returns NULL on an empty queue and the explicit NULL check in the _safe variant is redundant. Being a static __always_inline function it does not trigger -Wunused-function, so the dead code has gone unnoticed. Remove it. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260625140901.929554-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
2026-06-22time: Fix off-by-one in compat settimeofday() usec validationWang Yan
The compat version of settimeofday() uses '>' instead of '>=' when validating tv_usec against USEC_PER_SEC, allowing the value 1000000 to pass the check. After the subsequent conversion to nanoseconds (tv_nsec *= NSEC_PER_USEC), this results in tv_nsec == NSEC_PER_SEC, which violates the timespec invariant that tv_nsec must be strictly less than NSEC_PER_SEC. The native settimeofday() was already fixed in commit ce4abda5e126 ("time: Fix off-by-one in settimeofday() usec validation"), but the compat counterpart was missed. Fix it by using '>=' to reject tv_usec values outside the valid range [0, USEC_PER_SEC - 1]. Fixes: 5e0fb1b57bea ("y2038: time: avoid timespec usage in settimeofday()") Signed-off-by: Wang Yan <wangyan01@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260622103348.120255-1-wangyan01@kylinos.cn
2026-06-17hrtimer: Correct CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON macro name in commentEthan Nelson-Moore
A comment in kernel/time/hrtimer.c incorrectly refers to CONFIG_NOHZ_COMMON instead of CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON. Correct it. Discovered while searching for CONFIG_* symbols referenced in code but not defined in any Kconfig file. Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609034314.25029-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
2026-06-17posix-cpu-timers: Use u64 multiplication in update_rlimit_cpu()Zhan Xusheng
update_rlimit_cpu() converts the RLIMIT_CPU value to nanoseconds with u64 nsecs = rlim_new * NSEC_PER_SEC; On 32-bit kernels both rlim_new (unsigned long) and NSEC_PER_SEC (1000000000L) are 32-bit, so the multiplication is performed in unsigned long and truncated for rlim_new > 4 seconds before being widened to u64. The same file already casts to u64 for the matching computation in check_process_timers(): u64 softns = (u64)soft * NSEC_PER_SEC; As a result, the truncated value is installed into the CPUCLOCK_PROF expiry cache (nextevt), causing the process CPU timer to be programmed to fire prematurely for any RLIMIT_CPU soft limit >= 5 seconds. The actual SIGXCPU/SIGKILL decision in check_process_timers() already casts to u64 and is therefore correct, so limit enforcement is not broken; only the expiry-cache programming is wrong. Apply the same cast here so both paths convert rlim_cur identically. 64-bit kernels are unaffected. Fixes: 858cf3a8c599 ("timers/itimer: Convert internal cputime_t units to nsec") Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616112017.1681372-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
2026-06-17timekeeping: Register default clocksource before taking tk_core.lockMikhail Gavrilov
Commit f24df84cbe05 ("time/jiffies: Register jiffies clocksource before usage") moved the jiffies clocksource registration into clocksource_default_clock(), so that it is registered lazily on the first call. __clocksource_register() acquires clocksource_mutex, but the first caller is timekeeping_init(), which invokes clocksource_default_clock() while holding tk_core.lock, a raw spinlock. Acquiring a sleeping mutex while holding a raw spinlock is invalid. The default clocksource only has to be registered before tk_setup_internals() consumes its mult/shift/maxadj. Neither clocksource_default_clock(), the ->enable() callback, nor the registration itself need tk_core.lock, so fetch and enable the clock before acquiring the lock. This preserves the "register before usage" ordering while keeping clocksource_mutex out of the raw spinlock section. clocksource_default_clock() has a second caller, clocksource_done_booting(), which invokes it with clocksource_mutex already held. That path avoids a recursive lock because timekeeping_init() has already run and set cs_jiffies_registered, so the registration is skipped there. This change does not alter that; it only fixes the invalid wait context in timekeeping_init(). Fixes: f24df84cbe05 ("time/jiffies: Register jiffies clocksource before usage") Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reported-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616070914.65818-1-mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com