Split out the actual functionality of adjtimex() and make do_adjtimex() a
wrapper which feeds the core timekeeper into it and handles the result
including audit at the call site.
This allows to reuse the actual functionality for auxiliary clocks.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625183758.187322876@linutronix.de
Redirect the relative offset adjustment to the auxiliary clock offset
instead of modifying CLOCK_REALTIME, which has no meaning in context of
these clocks.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625183758.124057787@linutronix.de
Add clock_settime(2) support for auxiliary clocks. The function affects the
AUX offset which is added to the "monotonic" clock readout of these clocks.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625183757.995688714@linutronix.de
Provide interfaces similar to the ktime_get*() family which provide access
to the auxiliary clocks.
These interfaces have a boolean return value, which indicates whether the
accessed clock is valid or not.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625183757.868342628@linutronix.de
Propagate a system clocksource change to the auxiliary timekeepers so that
they can pick up the new clocksource.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625183757.803890875@linutronix.de
Provide timekeepers for auxiliary clocks and initialize them during
boot.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250519083026.350061049@linutronix.de
In preparation for supporting independent auxiliary timekeepers, add a
clock valid field and set it to true for the system timekeeper.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250519083026.287145536@linutronix.de
Don't invoke the VDSO and paravirt updates when utilized for auxiliary
clocks. This is a temporary workaround until the VDSO and paravirt
interfaces have been worked out.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250519083026.223876435@linutronix.de
In __timekeeping_advance() the pointer to struct tk_data is hardcoded by the
use of &tk_core. As long as there is only a single timekeeper (tk_core),
this is not a problem. But when __timekeeping_advance() will be reused for
per auxiliary timekeepers, __timekeeping_advance() needs to be generalized.
Add a pointer to struct tk_data as function argument of
__timekeeping_advance() and adapt all call sites.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250519083026.160967312@linutronix.de
In preparation for supporting auxiliary POSIX clocks, add a timekeeper ID
to the relevant functions.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250519083026.032425931@linutronix.de
If auxiliary clocks are enabled, provide an array of NTP data so that the
auxiliary timekeepers can be steered independently of the core timekeeper.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250519083025.969000914@linutronix.de
To support auxiliary timekeeping and the related user space interfaces,
it's required to define a clock ID range for them.
Reserve 8 auxiliary clock IDs after the regular timekeeping clock ID space.
This is the maximum number of auxiliary clocks the kernel can support. The actual
number of supported clocks depends obviously on the presence of related devices
and might be constraint by the available VDSO space.
Add the corresponding timekeeper IDs as well.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250519083025.905800695@linutronix.de
As long as there is only a single timekeeper, there is no need to clarify
which timekeeper is used. But with the upcoming reusage of the timekeeper
infrastructure for auxiliary clock timekeepers, an ID is required to
differentiate.
Introduce an enum for timekeeper IDs, introduce a field in struct tk_data
to store this timekeeper id and add also initialization. The id struct
field is added at the end of the second cachline, as there is a 4 byte hole
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250519083025.842476378@linutronix.de
This was overlooked in the initial conversion. Use the provided pointer to
access the shadow timekeeper.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250519083025.652611452@linutronix.de
cpumask_next_wrap() is more verbose and efficient comparing to
cpumask_next() followed by cpumask_first().
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov [NVIDIA] <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250614155031.340988-3-yury.norov@gmail.com
cpumask_any_but() is more verbose than cpumask_first() followed by
cpumask_next(). Use it in clocksource_verify_choose_cpus().
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov [NVIDIA] <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250614155031.340988-2-yury.norov@gmail.com
If an exiting non-autoreaping task has already passed exit_notify() and
calls handle_posix_cpu_timers() from IRQ, it can be reaped by its parent
or debugger right after unlock_task_sighand().
If a concurrent posix_cpu_timer_del() runs at that moment, it won't be
able to detect timer->it.cpu.firing != 0: cpu_timer_task_rcu() and/or
lock_task_sighand() will fail.
Add the tsk->exit_state check into run_posix_cpu_timers() to fix this.
This fix is not needed if CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK=y, because
exit_task_work() is called before exit_notify(). But the check still
makes sense, task_work_add(&tsk->posix_cputimers_work.work) will fail
anyway in this case.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Benoît Sevens <bsevens@google.com>
Fixes: 0bdd2ed413 ("sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand()")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make the logic easier to follow:
- Remove the final return statement, which is never reached, and move the
actual walk-terminating return statement out of the do-while loop.
- Remove the else-clause to reduce indentation. If a non-lonely group is
encountered during the walk, the loop is immediately terminated with a
return statement anyway; no need for an else.
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250606124818.455560-1-ptesarik@suse.com
Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.
[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com
- Rework the initialization of the posix-timer kmem_cache and move the
cache pointer into the timer_data structure to prevent false sharing.
- Switch the alarmtimer code to lock guards.
- Improve the CPU selection criteria in the per CPU validation of the
clocksource watchdog to avoid arbitrary selections (or omissions) on
systems with a small number of CPUs.
- The usual cleanups and improvements
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Updates for the time/timer core code:
- Rework the initialization of the posix-timer kmem_cache and move
the cache pointer into the timer_data structure to prevent false
sharing
- Switch the alarmtimer code to lock guards
- Improve the CPU selection criteria in the per CPU validation of the
clocksource watchdog to avoid arbitrary selections (or omissions)
on systems with a small number of CPUs
- The usual cleanups and improvements"
* tag 'timers-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tick/nohz: Remove unused tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to()
clocksource: Fix the CPUs' choice in the watchdog per CPU verification
alarmtimer: Switch spin_{lock,unlock}_irqsave() to guards
alarmtimer: Remove dead return value in clock2alarm()
time/jiffies: Change register_refined_jiffies() to void __init
timers: Remove unused __round_jiffies(_up)
posix-timers: Initialize cache early and move pointer into __timer_data
- Convert init_timer*(), try_to_del_timer_sync() and
destroy_timer_on_stack() over to the canonical timer_*() namespace
convention.
There are is another large converstion pending, which has not been included
because it would have caused a gazillion of merge conflicts in next. The
conversion scripts will be run towards the end of the merge window and a
pull request sent once all conflict dependencies have been merged.
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Merge tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"Another set of timer API cleanups:
- Convert init_timer*(), try_to_del_timer_sync() and
destroy_timer_on_stack() over to the canonical timer_*()
namespace convention.
There is another large conversion pending, which has not been included
because it would have caused a gazillion of merge conflicts in next.
The conversion scripts will be run towards the end of the merge window
and a pull request sent once all conflict dependencies have been
merged"
* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
treewide, timers: Rename destroy_timer_on_stack() as timer_destroy_on_stack()
treewide, timers: Rename try_to_del_timer_sync() as timer_delete_sync_try()
timers: Rename init_timers() as timers_init()
timers: Rename NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA as TIMER_NEXT_MAX_DELTA
timers: Rename __init_timer_on_stack() as __timer_init_on_stack()
timers: Rename __init_timer() as __timer_init()
timers: Rename init_timer_on_stack_key() as timer_init_key_on_stack()
timers: Rename init_timer_key() as timer_init_key()
Right now, if the clocksource watchdog detects a clocksource skew, it might
perform a per CPU check, for example in the TSC case on x86. In other
words: supposing TSC is detected as unstable by the clocksource watchdog
running at CPU1, as part of marking TSC unstable the kernel will also run a
check of TSC readings on some CPUs to be sure it is synced between them
all.
But that check happens only on some CPUs, not all of them; this choice is
based on the parameter "verify_n_cpus" and in some random cpumask
calculation. So, the watchdog runs such per CPU checks on up to
"verify_n_cpus" random CPUs among all online CPUs, with the risk of
repeating CPUs (that aren't double checked) in the cpumask random
calculation.
But if "verify_n_cpus" > num_online_cpus(), it should skip the random
calculation and just go ahead and check the clocksource sync between
all online CPUs, without the risk of skipping some CPUs due to
duplicity in the random cpumask calculation.
Tests in a 4 CPU laptop with TSC skew detected led to some cases of the per
CPU verification skipping some CPU even with verify_n_cpus=8, due to the
duplicity on random cpumask generation. Skipping the randomization when the
number of online CPUs is smaller than verify_n_cpus, solves that.
Suggested-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250323173857.372390-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Using guard/scoped_guard() to simplify code. Using guard() to remove
'goto unlock' label is neater especially.
[ tglx: Brought back the scoped_guard()'s which were dropped in v2 and
simplified alarmtimer_rtc_add_device() ]
Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@nfschina.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250430032734.2079290-4-suhui@nfschina.com
'clockid' can only be ALARM_REALTIME and ALARM_BOOTTIME. It's impossible to
return -1 and callers never check the return value.
Only alarm_clock_get_timespec(), alarm_clock_get_ktime(),
alarm_timer_create() and alarm_timer_nsleep() call clock2alarm(). These
callers use clockid_to_kclock() to get 'struct k_clock', which ensures
that clock2alarm() never returns -1.
Remove the impossible -1 return value, and add a warning to notify about any
future misuse of this function.
Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@nfschina.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250430032734.2079290-3-suhui@nfschina.com
register_refined_jiffies() is only used in setup code and always returns 0.
Mark it as __init to save some bytes and change it to void.
Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@nfschina.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250430032734.2079290-2-suhui@nfschina.com
Lei Chen raised an issue with CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE seeing time
inconsistencies. Lei tracked down that this was being caused by the
adjustment:
tk->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:
757b000f7b ("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 757b000f7b 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: da15cfdae0 ("time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE")
Reported-by: Lei Chen <lei.chen@smartx.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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/
Remove two trivial but long unused functions.
__round_jiffies() has been unused since 2008's
commit 9c133c469d ("Add round_jiffies_up and related routines")
__round_jiffies_up() has been unused since 2019's
commit 7ae3f6e130 ("powerpc/watchdog: Use hrtimers for per-CPU
heartbeat")
Remove them.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250418200803.427911-1-linux@treblig.org
Move posix_timers_cache initialization to posixtimer_init(). At that point
the memory subsystem is already up and running.
Also move the cache pointer to the __timer_data variable to avoid
potential false sharing, since it never was marked as __ro_after_init.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250402133114.253901-1-edumazet@google.com
1) Convert all del_timer[_sync]() instances over to the new
timer_delete[_sync]() API and remove the legacy wrappers.
Conversion was done with coccinelle plus some manual fixups as
coccinelle chokes on scoped_guard().
2) The final cleanup of the hrtimer_init() to hrtimer_setup() conversion.
This has been delayed to the end of the merge window, so that all
patches which have been merged through other trees are in mainline and
all new users are catched.
Doing this right before rc1 ensures that new code which is merged post rc1
is not introducing new instances of the original functionality.
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Merge tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-04-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of final cleanups for the timer subsystem:
- Convert all del_timer[_sync]() instances over to the new
timer_delete[_sync]() API and remove the legacy wrappers.
Conversion was done with coccinelle plus some manual fixups as
coccinelle chokes on scoped_guard().
- The final cleanup of the hrtimer_init() to hrtimer_setup()
conversion.
This has been delayed to the end of the merge window, so that all
patches which have been merged through other trees are in mainline
and all new users are catched.
Doing this right before rc1 ensures that new code which is merged post
rc1 is not introducing new instances of the original functionality"
* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-04-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tracing/timers: Rename the hrtimer_init event to hrtimer_setup
hrtimers: Rename debug_init_on_stack() to debug_setup_on_stack()
hrtimers: Rename debug_init() to debug_setup()
hrtimers: Rename __hrtimer_init_sleeper() to __hrtimer_setup_sleeper()
hrtimers: Remove unnecessary NULL check in hrtimer_start_range_ns()
hrtimers: Make callback function pointer private
hrtimers: Merge __hrtimer_init() into __hrtimer_setup()
hrtimers: Switch to use __htimer_setup()
hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init()
treewide: Convert new and leftover hrtimer_init() users
treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()
The function hrtimer_init() doesn't exist anymore. It was replaced by
hrtimer_setup().
Thus, rename the hrtimer_init trace event to hrtimer_setup to keep it
consistent.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cba84c3d853c5258aa3a262363a6eac08e2c7afc.1738746927.git.namcao@linutronix.de
All the hrtimer_init*() functions have been renamed to hrtimer_setup*().
Rename debug_init_on_stack() to debug_setup_on_stack() as well, to keep the
names consistent.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/073cf6162779a2f5b12624677d4c49ee7eccc1ed.1738746927.git.namcao@linutronix.de
All the hrtimer_init*() functions have been renamed to hrtimer_setup*().
Rename __hrtimer_init_sleeper() to __hrtimer_setup_sleeper() as well, to
keep the names consistent.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/807694aedad9353421c4a7347629a30c5c31026f.1738746927.git.namcao@linutronix.de
The struct hrtimer::function field can only be changed using
hrtimer_setup*() or hrtimer_update_function(), and both already null-check
'function'. Therefore, null-checking 'function' in hrtimer_start_range_ns()
is not necessary.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4661c571ee87980c340ccc318fc1a473c0c8f6bc.1738746927.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Make the struct hrtimer::function field private, to prevent users from
changing this field in an unsafe way. hrtimer_update_function() should be
used if the callback function needs to be changed.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7d0e6e0c5c59a64a9bea940051aac05d750bc0c2.1738746927.git.namcao@linutronix.de
__hrtimer_init_sleeper() calls __hrtimer_init() and also sets up the
callback function. But there is already __hrtimer_setup() which does both
actions.
Switch to use __hrtimer_setup() to simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d9a45a51b6a8aa0045310d63f73753bf6b33f385.1738746927.git.namcao@linutronix.de
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.
Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This reverts commit 757b000f7b.
Miroslav reported that the changes for handling the inconsistencies in the
coarse time getters result in 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.
Userspace 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.
Revert the change, so that the established expectations of user space
implementations (ntpd, chronyd) are restored. The re-introduced
inconsistency of the coarse time getters will be addressed in a subsequent
fix.
Fixes: 757b000f7b ("timekeeping: Fix possible inconsistencies in _COARSE clockids")
Reported-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z-qsg6iDGlcIJulJ@localhost
Core & protocols
----------------
- Continue Netlink conversions to per-namespace RTNL lock
(IPv4 routing, routing rules, routing next hops, ARP ioctls).
- Continue extending the use of netdev instance locks. As a driver
opt-in protect queue operations and (in due course) ethtool
operations with the instance lock and not RTNL lock.
- Support collecting TCP timestamps (data submitted, sent, acked)
in BPF, allowing for transparent (to the application) and lower
overhead tracking of TCP RPC performance.
- Tweak existing networking Rx zero-copy infra to support zero-copy
Rx via io_uring.
- Optimize MPTCP performance in single subflow mode by 29%.
- Enable GRO on packets which went thru XDP CPU redirect (were queued
for processing on a different CPU). Improving TCP stream performance
up to 2x.
- Improve performance of contended connect() by 200% by searching
for an available 4-tuple under RCU rather than a spin lock.
Bring an additional 229% improvement by tweaking hash distribution.
- Avoid unconditionally touching sk_tsflags on RX, improving
performance under UDP flood by as much as 10%.
- Avoid skb_clone() dance in ping_rcv() to improve performance under
ping flood.
- Avoid FIB lookup in netfilter if socket is available, 20% perf win.
- Rework network device creation (in-kernel) API to more clearly
identify network namespaces and their roles.
There are up to 4 namespace roles but we used to have just 2 netns
pointer arguments, interpreted differently based on context.
- Use sysfs_break_active_protection() instead of trylock to avoid
deadlocks between unregistering objects and sysfs access.
- Add a new sysctl and sockopt for capping max retransmit timeout
in TCP.
- Support masking port and DSCP in routing rule matches.
- Support dumping IPv4 multicast addresses with RTM_GETMULTICAST.
- Support specifying at what time packet should be sent on AF_XDP
sockets.
- Expose TCP ULP diagnostic info (for TLS and MPTCP) to non-admin users.
- Add Netlink YAML spec for WiFi (nl80211) and conntrack.
- Introduce EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() for symbols
which only need to be exported when IPv6 support is built as a module.
- Age FDB entries based on Rx not Tx traffic in VxLAN, similar
to normal bridging.
- Allow users to specify source port range for GENEVE tunnels.
- netconsole: allow attaching kernel release, CPU ID and task name
to messages as metadata
Driver API
----------
- Continue rework / fixing of Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) across
the SW layers. Delegate the responsibilities to phylink where possible.
Improve its handling in phylib.
- Support symmetric OR-XOR RSS hashing algorithm.
- Support tracking and preserving IRQ affinity by NAPI itself.
- Support loopback mode speed selection for interface selftests.
Device drivers
--------------
- Remove the IBM LCS driver for s390.
- Remove the sb1000 cable modem driver.
- Add support for SFP module access over SMBus.
- Add MCTP transport driver for MCTP-over-USB.
- Enable XDP metadata support in multiple drivers.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- add PCIe TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support for new AMD platforms
- support dumping RoCE queue state for debug
- opt into instance locking
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: rework MSI-X IRQ management and distribution
- ice: support for E830 devices
- iavf: add support for Rx timestamping
- iavf: opt into instance locking
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- mlx4: use page pool memory allocator for Rx
- mlx5: support for one PTP device per hardware clock
- mlx5: support for 200Gbps per-lane link modes
- mlx5: move IPSec policy check after decryption
- AMD/Solarflare:
- support FW flashing via devlink
- Cisco (enic):
- use page pool memory allocator for Rx
- enable 32, 64 byte CQEs
- get max rx/tx ring size from the device
- Meta (fbnic):
- support flow steering and RSS configuration
- report queue stats
- support TCP segmentation
- support IRQ coalescing
- support ring size configuration
- Marvell/Cavium:
- support AF_XDP
- Wangxun:
- support for PTP clock and timestamping
- Huawei (hibmcge):
- checksum offload
- add more statistics
- Ethernet virtual:
- VirtIO net:
- aggressively suppress Tx completions, improve perf by 96% with
1 CPU and 55% with 2 CPUs
- expose NAPI to IRQ mapping and persist NAPI settings
- Google (gve):
- support XDP in DQO RDA Queue Format
- opt into instance locking
- Microsoft vNIC:
- support BIG TCP
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- cleanup Tx and Tx clock setting and other link-focused cleanups
- enable SGMII and 2500BASEX mode switching for Intel platforms
- support Sophgo SG2044
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support for BCM53101
- TI:
- iep: add perout configuration support
- icssg: support XDP
- Cadence (macb):
- implement BQL
- Xilinx (axinet):
- support dynamic IRQ moderation and changing coalescing at runtime
- implement BQL
- report standard stats
- MediaTek:
- support phylink managed EEE
- Intel:
- igc: don't restart the interface on every XDP program change
- RealTek (r8169):
- support reading registers of internal PHYs directly
- increase max jumbo packet size on RTL8125/RTL8126
- Airoha:
- support for RISC-V NPU packet processing unit
- enable scatter-gather and support MTU up to 9kB
- Tehuti (tn40xx):
- support cards with TN4010 MAC and an Aquantia AQR105 PHY
- Ethernet PHYs:
- support for TJA1102S, TJA1121
- dp83tg720: add randomized polling intervals for link detection
- dp83822: support changing the transmit amplitude voltage
- support for LEDs on 88q2xxx
- CAN:
- canxl: support Remote Request Substitution bit access
- flexcan: add S32G2/S32G3 SoC
- WiFi:
- remove cooked monitor support
- strict mode for better AP testing
- basic EPCS support
- OMI RX bandwidth reduction support
- batman-adv: add support for jumbo frames
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw88):
- support RTL8814AE and RTL8814AU
- RealTek (rtw89):
- switch using wiphy_lock and wiphy_work
- add BB context to manipulate two PHY as preparation of MLO
- improve BT-coexistence mechanism to play A2DP smoothly
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- add new iwlmld sub-driver for latest HW/FW combinations
- MediaTek (mt76):
- preparation for mt7996 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
- continued work on MLO
- Silabs (wfx):
- Wake-on-WLAN support
- Bluetooth:
- add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping
- hci_core: enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO
- coredump: log devcd dumps into the monitor
- Bluetooth drivers:
- intel: add support to configure TX power
- nxp: handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:
- Continue Netlink conversions to per-namespace RTNL lock
(IPv4 routing, routing rules, routing next hops, ARP ioctls)
- Continue extending the use of netdev instance locks. As a driver
opt-in protect queue operations and (in due course) ethtool
operations with the instance lock and not RTNL lock.
- Support collecting TCP timestamps (data submitted, sent, acked) in
BPF, allowing for transparent (to the application) and lower
overhead tracking of TCP RPC performance.
- Tweak existing networking Rx zero-copy infra to support zero-copy
Rx via io_uring.
- Optimize MPTCP performance in single subflow mode by 29%.
- Enable GRO on packets which went thru XDP CPU redirect (were queued
for processing on a different CPU). Improving TCP stream
performance up to 2x.
- Improve performance of contended connect() by 200% by searching for
an available 4-tuple under RCU rather than a spin lock. Bring an
additional 229% improvement by tweaking hash distribution.
- Avoid unconditionally touching sk_tsflags on RX, improving
performance under UDP flood by as much as 10%.
- Avoid skb_clone() dance in ping_rcv() to improve performance under
ping flood.
- Avoid FIB lookup in netfilter if socket is available, 20% perf win.
- Rework network device creation (in-kernel) API to more clearly
identify network namespaces and their roles. There are up to 4
namespace roles but we used to have just 2 netns pointer arguments,
interpreted differently based on context.
- Use sysfs_break_active_protection() instead of trylock to avoid
deadlocks between unregistering objects and sysfs access.
- Add a new sysctl and sockopt for capping max retransmit timeout in
TCP.
- Support masking port and DSCP in routing rule matches.
- Support dumping IPv4 multicast addresses with RTM_GETMULTICAST.
- Support specifying at what time packet should be sent on AF_XDP
sockets.
- Expose TCP ULP diagnostic info (for TLS and MPTCP) to non-admin
users.
- Add Netlink YAML spec for WiFi (nl80211) and conntrack.
- Introduce EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() for symbols
which only need to be exported when IPv6 support is built as a
module.
- Age FDB entries based on Rx not Tx traffic in VxLAN, similar to
normal bridging.
- Allow users to specify source port range for GENEVE tunnels.
- netconsole: allow attaching kernel release, CPU ID and task name to
messages as metadata
Driver API:
- Continue rework / fixing of Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) across
the SW layers. Delegate the responsibilities to phylink where
possible. Improve its handling in phylib.
- Support symmetric OR-XOR RSS hashing algorithm.
- Support tracking and preserving IRQ affinity by NAPI itself.
- Support loopback mode speed selection for interface selftests.
Device drivers:
- Remove the IBM LCS driver for s390
- Remove the sb1000 cable modem driver
- Add support for SFP module access over SMBus
- Add MCTP transport driver for MCTP-over-USB
- Enable XDP metadata support in multiple drivers
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- add PCIe TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support for new AMD
platforms
- support dumping RoCE queue state for debug
- opt into instance locking
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: rework MSI-X IRQ management and distribution
- ice: support for E830 devices
- iavf: add support for Rx timestamping
- iavf: opt into instance locking
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- mlx4: use page pool memory allocator for Rx
- mlx5: support for one PTP device per hardware clock
- mlx5: support for 200Gbps per-lane link modes
- mlx5: move IPSec policy check after decryption
- AMD/Solarflare:
- support FW flashing via devlink
- Cisco (enic):
- use page pool memory allocator for Rx
- enable 32, 64 byte CQEs
- get max rx/tx ring size from the device
- Meta (fbnic):
- support flow steering and RSS configuration
- report queue stats
- support TCP segmentation
- support IRQ coalescing
- support ring size configuration
- Marvell/Cavium:
- support AF_XDP
- Wangxun:
- support for PTP clock and timestamping
- Huawei (hibmcge):
- checksum offload
- add more statistics
- Ethernet virtual:
- VirtIO net:
- aggressively suppress Tx completions, improve perf by 96%
with 1 CPU and 55% with 2 CPUs
- expose NAPI to IRQ mapping and persist NAPI settings
- Google (gve):
- support XDP in DQO RDA Queue Format
- opt into instance locking
- Microsoft vNIC:
- support BIG TCP
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- cleanup Tx and Tx clock setting and other link-focused
cleanups
- enable SGMII and 2500BASEX mode switching for Intel platforms
- support Sophgo SG2044
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support for BCM53101
- TI:
- iep: add perout configuration support
- icssg: support XDP
- Cadence (macb):
- implement BQL
- Xilinx (axinet):
- support dynamic IRQ moderation and changing coalescing at
runtime
- implement BQL
- report standard stats
- MediaTek:
- support phylink managed EEE
- Intel:
- igc: don't restart the interface on every XDP program change
- RealTek (r8169):
- support reading registers of internal PHYs directly
- increase max jumbo packet size on RTL8125/RTL8126
- Airoha:
- support for RISC-V NPU packet processing unit
- enable scatter-gather and support MTU up to 9kB
- Tehuti (tn40xx):
- support cards with TN4010 MAC and an Aquantia AQR105 PHY
- Ethernet PHYs:
- support for TJA1102S, TJA1121
- dp83tg720: add randomized polling intervals for link detection
- dp83822: support changing the transmit amplitude voltage
- support for LEDs on 88q2xxx
- CAN:
- canxl: support Remote Request Substitution bit access
- flexcan: add S32G2/S32G3 SoC
- WiFi:
- remove cooked monitor support
- strict mode for better AP testing
- basic EPCS support
- OMI RX bandwidth reduction support
- batman-adv: add support for jumbo frames
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw88):
- support RTL8814AE and RTL8814AU
- RealTek (rtw89):
- switch using wiphy_lock and wiphy_work
- add BB context to manipulate two PHY as preparation of MLO
- improve BT-coexistence mechanism to play A2DP smoothly
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- add new iwlmld sub-driver for latest HW/FW combinations
- MediaTek (mt76):
- preparation for mt7996 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
- continued work on MLO
- Silabs (wfx):
- Wake-on-WLAN support
- Bluetooth:
- add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping
- hci_core: enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO
- coredump: log devcd dumps into the monitor
- Bluetooth drivers:
- intel: add support to configure TX power
- nxp: handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7"
* tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1681 commits)
unix: fix up for "apparmor: add fine grained af_unix mediation"
mctp: Fix incorrect tx flow invalidation condition in mctp-i2c
net: usb: asix: ax88772: Increase phy_name size
net: phy: Introduce PHY_ID_SIZE — minimum size for PHY ID string
net: libwx: fix Tx L4 checksum
net: libwx: fix Tx descriptor content for some tunnel packets
atm: Fix NULL pointer dereference
net: tn40xx: add pci-id of the aqr105-based Tehuti TN4010 cards
net: tn40xx: prepare tn40xx driver to find phy of the TN9510 card
net: tn40xx: create swnode for mdio and aqr105 phy and add to mdiobus
net: phy: aquantia: add essential functions to aqr105 driver
net: phy: aquantia: search for firmware-name in fwnode
net: phy: aquantia: add probe function to aqr105 for firmware loading
net: phy: Add swnode support to mdiobus_scan
gve: add XDP DROP and PASS support for DQ
gve: update XDP allocation path support RX buffer posting
gve: merge packet buffer size fields
gve: update GQ RX to use buf_size
gve: introduce config-based allocation for XDP
gve: remove xdp_xsk_done and xdp_xsk_wakeup statistics
...
- Consolidate the VDSO storage
The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance effort
and causes inconsistencies over and over.
There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts and
implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
duplicated code for managing the mappings.
Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
functionalities without conflict and interaction.
- Rework the timekeeping data storage
The current implementation is designed for exposing system timekeeping
accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was designed.
PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related to
system timekeeping.
Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.
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Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull VDSO infrastructure updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Consolidate the VDSO storage
The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance
effort and causes inconsistencies over and over.
There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts
and implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
duplicated code for managing the mappings.
Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
functionalities without conflict and interaction.
- Rework the timekeeping data storage
The current implementation is designed for exposing system
timekeeping accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was
designed.
PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related
to system timekeeping.
Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.
* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
sparc/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
x86/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
vdso: Rework struct vdso_time_data and introduce struct vdso_clock
vdso: Move architecture related data before basetime data
powerpc/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
arm64/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
x86/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
time/namespace: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/namespace: Rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to reflect new vdso_clock struct
vdso/vsyscall: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare helper functions for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/helpers: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/datapage: Define vdso_clock to prepare for multiple PTP clocks
vdso: Make vdso_time_data cacheline aligned
arm64: Make asm/cache.h compatible with vDSO
...
hrtimers are initialized with hrtimer_init() and a subsequent store to
the callback pointer. This turned out to be suboptimal for the upcoming
Rust integration and is obviously a silly implementation to begin with.
This cleanup replaces the hrtimer_init(T); T->function = cb; sequence
with hrtimer_setup(T, cb);
The conversion was done with Coccinelle and a few manual fixups.
Once the conversion has completely landed in mainline, hrtimer_init()
will be removed and the hrtimer::function becomes a private member.
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Merge tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"A treewide hrtimer timer cleanup
hrtimers are initialized with hrtimer_init() and a subsequent store to
the callback pointer. This turned out to be suboptimal for the
upcoming Rust integration and is obviously a silly implementation to
begin with.
This cleanup replaces the hrtimer_init(T); T->function = cb; sequence
with hrtimer_setup(T, cb);
The conversion was done with Coccinelle and a few manual fixups.
Once the conversion has completely landed in mainline, hrtimer_init()
will be removed and the hrtimer::function becomes a private member"
* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (100 commits)
wifi: rt2x00: Switch to use hrtimer_update_function()
io_uring: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
serial: xilinx_uartps: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
ASoC: fsl: imx-pcm-fiq: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
RDMA: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
virtio: mem: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/vmwgfx: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/xe/oa: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/vkms: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/msm: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/request: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/uncore: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/pmu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/perf: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/gvt: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/huc: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/amdgpu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
stm class: heartbeat: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
i2c: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
iio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
...
- Fix a memory ordering issue in posix-timers
Posix-timer lookup is lockless and reevaluates the timer validity under
the timer lock, but the update which validates the timer is not
protected by the timer lock. That allows the store to be reordered
against the initialization stores, so that the lookup side can observe
a partially initialized timer. That's mostly a theoretical problem, but
incorrect nevertheless.
- Fix a long standing inconsistency of the coarse time getters
The coarse time getters read the base time of the current update cycle
without reading the actual hardware clock. NTP frequency adjustment can
set the base time backwards. The fine grained interfaces compensate
this by reading the clock and applying the new conversion factor, but
the coarse grained time getters use the base time directly. That allows
the user to observe time going backwards.
Cure it by always forwarding base time, when NTP changes the frequency
with an immediate step.
- Rework of posix-timer hashing
The posix-timer hash is not scalable and due to the CRIU timer restore
mechanism prone to massive contention on the global hash bucket lock.
Replace the global hash lock with a fine grained per bucket locking
scheme to address that.
- Rework the proc/$PID/timers interface.
/proc/$PID/timers is provided for CRIU to be able to restore a
timer. The printout happens with sighand lock held and interrupts
disabled. That's not required as this can be done with RCU protection
as well.
- Provide a sane mechanism for CRIU to restore a timer ID
CRIU restores timers by creating and deleting them until the kernel
internal per process ID counter reached the requested ID. That's
horribly slow for sparse timer IDs.
Provide a prctl() which allows CRIU to restore a timer with a given
ID. When enabled the ID pointer is used as input pointer to read the
requested ID from user space. When disabled, the normal allocation
scheme (next ID) is active as before. This is backwards compatible for
both kernel and user space.
- Make hrtimer_update_function() less expensive.
The sanity checks are valuable, but expensive for high frequency usage
in io/uring. Make the debug checks conditional and enable them only
when lockdep is enabled.
- Small updates, cleanups and improvements
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Fix a memory ordering issue in posix-timers
Posix-timer lookup is lockless and reevaluates the timer validity
under the timer lock, but the update which validates the timer is not
protected by the timer lock. That allows the store to be reordered
against the initialization stores, so that the lookup side can
observe a partially initialized timer. That's mostly a theoretical
problem, but incorrect nevertheless.
- Fix a long standing inconsistency of the coarse time getters
The coarse time getters read the base time of the current update
cycle without reading the actual hardware clock. NTP frequency
adjustment can set the base time backwards. The fine grained
interfaces compensate this by reading the clock and applying the new
conversion factor, but the coarse grained time getters use the base
time directly. That allows the user to observe time going backwards.
Cure it by always forwarding base time, when NTP changes the
frequency with an immediate step.
- Rework of posix-timer hashing
The posix-timer hash is not scalable and due to the CRIU timer
restore mechanism prone to massive contention on the global hash
bucket lock.
Replace the global hash lock with a fine grained per bucket locking
scheme to address that.
- Rework the proc/$PID/timers interface.
/proc/$PID/timers is provided for CRIU to be able to restore a timer.
The printout happens with sighand lock held and interrupts disabled.
That's not required as this can be done with RCU protection as well.
- Provide a sane mechanism for CRIU to restore a timer ID
CRIU restores timers by creating and deleting them until the kernel
internal per process ID counter reached the requested ID. That's
horribly slow for sparse timer IDs.
Provide a prctl() which allows CRIU to restore a timer with a given
ID. When enabled the ID pointer is used as input pointer to read the
requested ID from user space. When disabled, the normal allocation
scheme (next ID) is active as before. This is backwards compatible
for both kernel and user space.
- Make hrtimer_update_function() less expensive.
The sanity checks are valuable, but expensive for high frequency
usage in io/uring. Make the debug checks conditional and enable them
only when lockdep is enabled.
- Small updates, cleanups and improvements
* tag 'timers-core-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
selftests/timers: Improve skew_consistency by testing with other clockids
timekeeping: Fix possible inconsistencies in _COARSE clockids
posix-timers: Drop redundant memset() invocation
selftests/timers/posix-timers: Add a test for exact allocation mode
posix-timers: Provide a mechanism to allocate a given timer ID
posix-timers: Dont iterate /proc/$PID/timers with sighand:: Siglock held
posix-timers: Make per process list RCU safe
posix-timers: Avoid false cacheline sharing
posix-timers: Switch to jhash32()
posix-timers: Improve hash table performance
posix-timers: Make signal_struct:: Next_posix_timer_id an atomic_t
posix-timers: Make lock_timer() use guard()
posix-timers: Rework timer removal
posix-timers: Simplify lock/unlock_timer()
posix-timers: Use guards in a few places
posix-timers: Remove SLAB_PANIC from kmem cache
posix-timers: Remove a few paranoid warnings
posix-timers: Cleanup includes
posix-timers: Add cond_resched() to posix_timer_add() search loop
posix-timers: Initialise timer before adding it to the hash table
...
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 <mingo@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fb94fc9303d48a5ed370498f54500cc4c338eb6d.1742586676.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Lei Chen raised an issue with CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE seeing time
inconsistencies.
Lei tracked down that this was being caused by the adjustment
tk->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 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.
To fix this, rework the timekeeping_advance() logic so that when invoked
from do_adjtimex(), the time is immediately forwarded to accumulate also
the sub-interval portion into xtime. That means the remaining offset
becomes zero and the subsequent multiplier adjustment therefore does not
modify xtime_nsec.
There is another related inconsistency. If xtime is forwarded due to the
instantaneous multiplier adjustment, the NTP error, which was accumulated
with the previous setting, becomes meaningless.
Therefore clear the NTP error as well, after forwarding the clock for the
instantaneous multiplier update.
Fixes: da15cfdae0 ("time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE")
Reported-by: Lei Chen <lei.chen@smartx.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250320200306.1712599-1-jstultz@google.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250310030004.3705801-1-lei.chen@smartx.com/
Initially in commit 6891c4509c memset() was required to clear a variable
allocated on stack. Commit 2482097c6c removed the on stack variable and
retained the memset() despite the fact that the memory is allocated via
kmem_cache_zalloc() and therefore zereoed already.
Drop the redundant memset().
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z9ctVxwaYOV4A2g4@grain
Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace (CRIU) requires to reconstruct posix timers
with the same timer ID on restore. It uses sys_timer_create() and relies on
the monotonic increasing timer ID provided by this syscall. It creates and
deletes timers until the desired ID is reached. This is can loop for a long
time, when the checkpointed process had a very sparse timer ID range.
It has been debated to implement a new syscall to allow the creation of
timers with a given timer ID, but that's tideous due to the 32/64bit compat
issues of sigevent_t and of dubious value.
The restore mechanism of CRIU creates the timers in a state where all
threads of the restored process are held on a barrier and cannot issue
syscalls. That means the restorer task has exclusive control.
This allows to address this issue with a prctl() so that the restorer
thread can do:
if (prctl(PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS, PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS_ON))
goto linear_mode;
create_timers_with_explicit_ids();
prctl(PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS, PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS_OFF);
This is backwards compatible because the prctl() fails on older kernels and
CRIU can fall back to the linear timer ID mechanism. CRIU versions which do
not know about the prctl() just work as before.
Implement the prctl() and modify timer_create() so that it copies the
requested timer ID from userspace by utilizing the existing timer_t
pointer, which is used to copy out the allocated timer ID on success.
If the prctl() is disabled, which it is by default, timer_create() works as
before and does not try to read from the userspace pointer.
There is no problem when a broken or rogue user space application enables
the prctl(). If the user space pointer does not contain a valid ID, then
timer_create() fails. If the data is not initialized, but constains a
random valid ID, timer_create() will create that random timer ID or fail if
the ID is already given out.
As CRIU must use the raw syscall to avoid manipulating the internal state
of the restored process, this has no library dependencies and can be
adopted by CRIU right away.
Recreating two timers with IDs 1000000 and 2000000 takes 1.5 seconds with
the create/delete method. With the prctl() it takes 3 microseconds.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87jz8vz0en.ffs@tglx
Preparatory change to remove the sighand locking from the /proc/$PID/timers
iterator.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155624.403223080@linutronix.de
struct k_itimer has the hlist_node, which is used for lookup in the hash
bucket, and the timer lock in the same cache line.
That's obviously bad, if one CPU fiddles with a timer and the other is
walking the hash bucket on which that timer is queued.
Avoid this by restructuring struct k_itimer, so that the read mostly (only
modified during setup and teardown) fields are in the first cache line and
the lock and the rest of the fields which get written to are in cacheline
2-N.
Reduces cacheline contention in a test case of 64 processes creating and
accessing 20000 timers each by almost 30% according to perf.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155624.341108067@linutronix.de
The hash distribution of hash_32() is suboptimal. jhash32() provides a way
better distribution, which evens out the length of the hash bucket lists,
which in turn avoids large outliers in list walk times.
Due to the sparse ID space (thanks CRIU) there is no guarantee that the
timers will be fully evenly distributed over the hash buckets, but the
behaviour is way better than with hash_32() even for randomly sparse ID
spaces.
For a pathological test case with 64 processes creating and accessing
20000 timers each, this results in a runtime reduction of ~10% and a
significantly reduced runtime variation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155624.279080328@linutronix.de
Eric and Ben reported a significant performance bottleneck on the global
hash, which is used to store posix timers for lookup.
Eric tried to do a lockless validation of a new timer ID before trying to
insert the timer, but that does not solve the problem.
For the non-contended case this is a pointless exercise and for the
contended case this extra lookup just creates enough interleaving that all
tasks can make progress.
There are actually two real solutions to the problem:
1) Provide a per process (signal struct) xarray storage
2) Implement a smarter hash like the one in the futex code
#1 works perfectly fine for most cases, but the fact that CRIU enforced a
linear increasing timer ID to restore timers makes this problematic.
It's easy enough to create a sparse timer ID space, which amounts very
fast to a large junk of memory consumed for the xarray. 2048 timers with
a ID offset of 512 consume more than one megabyte of memory for the
xarray storage.
#2 The main advantage of the futex hash is that it uses per hash bucket
locks instead of a global hash lock. Aside of that it is scaled
according to the number of CPUs at boot time.
Experiments with artifical benchmarks have shown that a scaled hash with
per bucket locks comes pretty close to the xarray performance and in some
scenarios it performes better.
Test 1:
A single process creates 20000 timers and afterwards invokes
timer_getoverrun(2) on each of them:
mainline Eric newhash xarray
create 23 ms 23 ms 9 ms 8 ms
getoverrun 14 ms 14 ms 5 ms 4 ms
Test 2:
A single process creates 50000 timers and afterwards invokes
timer_getoverrun(2) on each of them:
mainline Eric newhash xarray
create 98 ms 219 ms 20 ms 18 ms
getoverrun 62 ms 62 ms 10 ms 9 ms
Test 3:
A single process creates 100000 timers and afterwards invokes
timer_getoverrun(2) on each of them:
mainline Eric newhash xarray
create 313 ms 750 ms 48 ms 33 ms
getoverrun 261 ms 260 ms 20 ms 14 ms
Erics changes create quite some overhead in the create() path due to the
double list walk, as the main issue according to perf is the list walk
itself. With 100k timers each hash bucket contains ~200 timers, which in
the worst case need to be all inspected. The same problem applies for
getoverrun() where the lookup has to walk through the hash buckets to find
the timer it is looking for.
The scaled hash obviously reduces hash collisions and lock contention
significantly. This becomes more prominent with concurrency.
Test 4:
A process creates 63 threads and all threads wait on a barrier before
each instance creates 20000 timers and afterwards invokes
timer_getoverrun(2) on each of them. The threads are pinned on
seperate CPUs to achive maximum concurrency. The numbers are the
average times per thread:
mainline Eric newhash xarray
create 180239 ms 38599 ms 579 ms 813 ms
getoverrun 2645 ms 2642 ms 32 ms 7 ms
Test 5:
A process forks 63 times and all forks wait on a barrier before each
instance creates 20000 timers and afterwards invokes
timer_getoverrun(2) on each of them. The processes are pinned on
seperate CPUs to achive maximum concurrency. The numbers are the
average times per process:
mainline eric newhash xarray
create 157253 ms 40008 ms 83 ms 60 ms
getoverrun 2611 ms 2614 ms 40 ms 4 ms
So clearly the reduction of lock contention with Eric's changes makes a
significant difference for the create() loop, but it does not mitigate the
problem of long list walks, which is clearly visible on the getoverrun()
side because that is purely dominated by the lookup itself. Once the timer
is found, the syscall just reads from the timer structure with no other
locks or code paths involved and returns.
The reason for the difference between the thread and the fork case for the
new hash and the xarray is that both suffer from contention on
sighand::siglock and the xarray suffers additionally from contention on the
xarray lock on insertion.
The only case where the reworked hash slighly outperforms the xarray is a
tight loop which creates and deletes timers.
Test 4:
A process creates 63 threads and all threads wait on a barrier before
each instance runs a loop which creates and deletes a timer 100000
times in a row. The threads are pinned on seperate CPUs to achive
maximum concurrency. The numbers are the average times per thread:
mainline Eric newhash xarray
loop 5917 ms 5897 ms 5473 ms 7846 ms
Test 5:
A process forks 63 times and all forks wait on a barrier before each
each instance runs a loop which creates and deletes a timer 100000
times in a row. The processes are pinned on seperate CPUs to achive
maximum concurrency. The numbers are the average times per process:
mainline Eric newhash xarray
loop 5137 ms 7828 ms 891 ms 872 ms
In both test there is not much contention on the hash, but the ucount
accounting for the signal and in the thread case the sighand::siglock
contention (plus the xarray locking) contribute dominantly to the overhead.
As the memory consumption of the xarray in the sparse ID case is
significant, the scaled hash with per bucket locks seems to be the better
overall option. While the xarray has faster lookup times for a large number
of timers, the actual syscall usage, which requires the lookup is not an
extreme hotpath. Most applications utilize signal delivery and all syscalls
except timer_getoverrun(2) are all but cheap.
So implement a scaled hash with per bucket locks, which offers the best
tradeoff between performance and memory consumption.
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Benjamin Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155624.216091571@linutronix.de
The global hash_lock protecting the posix timer hash table can be heavily
contended especially when there is an extensive linear search for a timer
ID.
Timer IDs are handed out by monotonically increasing next_posix_timer_id
and then validating that there is no timer with the same ID in the hash
table. Both operations happen with the global hash lock held.
To reduce the hash lock contention the hash will be reworked to a scaled
hash with per bucket locks, which requires to handle the ID counter
lockless.
Prepare for this by making next_posix_timer_id an atomic_t, which can be
used lockless with atomic_inc_return().
[ tglx: Adopted from Eric's series, massaged change log and simplified it ]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250219125522.2535263-2-edumazet@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155624.151545978@linutronix.de
The lookup and locking of posix timers requires the same repeating pattern
at all usage sites:
tmr = lock_timer(tiner_id);
if (!tmr)
return -EINVAL;
....
unlock_timer(tmr);
Solve this with a guard implementation, which works in most places out of
the box except for those, which need to unlock the timer inside the guard
scope.
Though the only places where this matters are timer_delete() and
timer_settime(). In both cases the timer pointer needs to be preserved
across the end of the scope, which is solved by storing the pointer in a
variable outside of the scope.
timer_settime() also has to protect the timer with RCU before unlocking,
which obviously can't use guard(rcu) before leaving the guard scope as that
guard is cleaned up before the unlock. Solve this by providing the RCU
protection open coded.
[ tglx: Made it work and added change log ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250224162103.GD11590@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155624.087465658@linutronix.de
sys_timer_delete() and the do_exit() cleanup function itimer_delete() are
doing the same thing, but have needlessly different implementations instead
of sharing the code.
The other oddity of timer deletion is the fact that the timer is not
invalidated before the actual deletion happens, which allows concurrent
lookups to succeed.
That's wrong because a timer which is in the process of being deleted
should not be visible and any actions like signal queueing, delivery and
rearming should not happen once the task, which invoked timer_delete(), has
the timer locked.
Rework the code so that:
1) The signal queueing and delivery code ignore timers which are marked
invalid
2) The deletion implementation between sys_timer_delete() and
itimer_delete() is shared
3) The timer is invalidated and removed from the linked lists before
the deletion callback of the relevant clock is invoked.
That requires to rework timer_wait_running() as it does a lookup of
the timer when relocking it at the end. In case of deletion this
lookup would fail due to the preceding invalidation and the wait loop
would terminate prematurely.
But due to the preceding invalidation the timer cannot be accessed by
other tasks anymore, so there is no way that the timer has been freed
after the timer lock has been dropped.
Move the re-validation out of timer_wait_running() and handle it at
the only other usage site, timer_settime().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87zfht1exf.ffs@tglx
Since the integration of sigqueue into the timer struct, lock_timer() is
only used in task context. So taking the lock with irqsave() is not longer
required.
Convert it to use spin_[un]lock_irq().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155623.959825668@linutronix.de
There is no need to panic when the posix-timer kmem_cache can't be
created. timer_create() will fail with -ENOMEM and that's it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155623.829215801@linutronix.de
Warnings about a non-initialized timer or non-existing callbacks are just
useful for implementing new posix clocks, but there a NULL pointer
dereference is expected anyway. :)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155623.765462334@linutronix.de
A timer is only valid in the hashtable when both timer::it_signal and
timer::it_id are set to their final values, but timers are added without
those values being set.
The timer ID is allocated when the timer is added to the hash in invalid
state. The ID is taken from a monotonically increasing per process counter
which wraps around after reaching INT_MAX. The hash insertion validates
that there is no timer with the allocated ID in the hash table which
belongs to the same process. That opens a mostly theoretical race condition:
If other threads of the same process manage to create/delete timers in
rapid succession before the newly created timer is fully initialized and
wrap around to the timer ID which was handed out, then a duplicate timer ID
will be inserted into the hash table.
Prevent this by:
1) Setting timer::it_id before inserting the timer into the hashtable.
2) Storing the signal pointer in timer::it_signal with bit 0 set before
inserting it into the hashtable.
Bit 0 acts as a invalid bit, which means that the regular lookup for
sys_timer_*() will fail the comparison with the signal pointer.
But the lookup on insertion masks out bit 0 and can therefore detect a
timer which is not yet valid, but allocated in the hash table. Bit 0
in the pointer is cleared once the initialization of the timer
completed.
[ tglx: Fold ID and signal iniitializaion into one patch and massage change
log and comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250219125522.2535263-3-edumazet@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155623.572035178@linutronix.de
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->.... = ....
spin_lock(current->sighand)
// B
WRITE_ONCE(new_timer->it_signal, current->signal)
spin_unlock(current->sighand)
sys_timer_*()
t = __lock_timer()
spin_lock(&timr->it_lock)
// observes B
if (timr->it_signal == current->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 <frederic@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155623.507944489@linutronix.de
The size argument of strscpy() is only required when the destination
pointer is not a fixed sized array or when the copy needs to be smaller
than the size of the fixed sized destination array.
For fixed sized destination arrays and full copies, strscpy() automatically
determines the length of the destination buffer if the size argument is
omitted.
This makes the explicit sizeof() unnecessary. Remove it.
[ tglx: Massaged change log ]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250311110624.495718-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
This reverts commit f590308536 ("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 ad67b74d24 ("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 <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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
To support multiple PTP clocks, the VDSO data structure needs to be
reworked. All clock specific data will end up in struct vdso_clock and in
struct vdso_time_data there will be an array of VDSO clocks.
Now that all preparatory changes are in place:
Split the clock related struct members into a separate struct
vdso_clock. Make sure all users are aware, that vdso_time_data is no longer
initialized as an array and vdso_clock is now the array inside
vdso_data. Remove the vdso_clock define, which mapped it to vdso_time_data
for the transition.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250303-vdso-clock-v1-19-c1b5c69a166f@linutronix.de
To support multiple PTP clocks, the VDSO data structure needs to be
reworked. All clock specific data will end up in struct vdso_clock and in
struct vdso_time_data there will be array of VDSO clocks. At the moment,
vdso_clock is simply a define which maps vdso_clock to vdso_time_data.
To prepare for the rework of the data structures, replace the struct
vdso_time_data pointer with a struct vdso_clock pointer where applicable.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250303-vdso-clock-v1-14-c1b5c69a166f@linutronix.de
To support multiple PTP clocks, the VDSO data structure needs to be
reworked. All clock specific data will end up in struct vdso_clock and in
struct vdso_time_data there will be array of VDSO clocks. At the moment,
vdso_clock is simply a define which maps vdso_clock to vdso_time_data.
For time namespaces, vdso_time_data needs to be set up. But only the clock
related part of the vdso_data thats requires this setup. To reflect the
future struct vdso_clock, rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to
timns_setup_vdso_clock_data().
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250303-vdso-clock-v1-13-c1b5c69a166f@linutronix.de
To support multiple PTP clocks, the VDSO data structure needs to be
reworked. All clock specific data will end up in struct vdso_clock and in
struct vdso_time_data there will be array of VDSO clocks. At the moment,
vdso_clock is simply a define which maps vdso_clock to vdso_time_data.
To prepare for the rework of the data structures, replace the struct
vdso_time_data pointer with a struct vdso_clock pointer where applicable.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250303-vdso-clock-v1-12-c1b5c69a166f@linutronix.de
Many devices implement highly accurate clocks, which the kernel manages
as PTP Hardware Clocks (PHCs). Userspace applications rely on these
clocks to timestamp events, trace workload execution, correlate
timescales across devices, and keep various clocks in sync.
The kernel’s current implementation of PTP clocks does not enforce file
permissions checks for most device operations except for POSIX clock
operations, where file mode is verified in the POSIX layer before
forwarding the call to the PTP subsystem. Consequently, it is common
practice to not give unprivileged userspace applications any access to
PTP clocks whatsoever by giving the PTP chardevs 600 permissions. An
example of users running into this limitation is documented in [1].
Additionally, POSIX layer requires WRITE permission even for readonly
adjtime() calls which are used in PTP layer to return current frequency
offset applied to the PHC.
Add permission checks for functions that modify the state of a PTP
device. Continue enforcing permission checks for POSIX clock operations
(settime, adjtime) in the POSIX layer. Only require WRITE access for
dynamic clocks adjtime() if any flags are set in the modes field.
[1] https://lists.nwtime.org/sympa/arc/linuxptp-users/2024-01/msg00036.html
Changes in v4:
- Require FMODE_WRITE in ajtime() only for calls modifying the clock in
any way.
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Wojtek Wasko <wwasko@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
File descriptor based pc_clock_*() operations of dynamic posix clocks
have access to the file pointer and implement permission checks in the
generic code before invoking the relevant dynamic clock callback.
Character device operations (open, read, poll, ioctl) do not implement a
generic permission control and the dynamic clock callbacks have no
access to the file pointer to implement them.
Extend struct posix_clock_context with a struct file pointer and
initialize it in posix_clock_open(), so that all dynamic clock callbacks
can access it.
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Wojtek Wasko <wwasko@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The normal and compat ioctl handlers are identical,
which is fine as compat ioctls are detected and handled dynamically
inside the underlying clock implementation.
The duplicate definition however is unnecessary.
Just reuse the regular ioctl handler also for compat ioctls.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250225-posix-clock-compat-cleanup-v2-1-30de86457a2b@weissschuh.net
All users of the time releated parts of the vDSO are now using the generic
storage implementation. Remove the therefore unnecessary compatibility
accessor functions and symbols.
Co-developed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250204-vdso-store-rng-v3-18-13a4669dfc8c@linutronix.de
Historically each architecture defined their own way to store the vDSO
data page. Add a generic mechanism to provide storage for that page.
Furthermore this generic storage will be extended to also provide
uniform storage for *non*-time-related data, like the random state or
architecture-specific data. These will have their own pages and data
structures, so rename 'vdso_data' into 'vdso_time_data' to make that
split clear from the name.
Also introduce a new consistent naming scheme for the symbols related to
the vDSO, which makes it clear if the symbol is accessible from
userspace or kernel space and the type of data behind the symbol.
The generic fault handler contains an optimization to prefault the vvar
page when the timens page is accessed. This was lifted from s390 and x86.
Co-developed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250204-vdso-store-rng-v3-5-13a4669dfc8c@linutronix.de
hrtimer_setup() takes the callback function pointer as argument and
initializes the timer completely.
Replace hrtimer_init() and the open coded initialization of
hrtimer::function with the new setup mechanism.
Most of this patch is generated by Coccinelle. Except for the TX thrtimer
in bcm_tx_setup() because this timer is not used and the callback function
is never set. For this particular case, set the callback to
hrtimer_dummy_timeout()
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a3a6be42c818722ad41758457408a32163bfd9a0.1738746872.git.namcao@linutronix.de
hrtimer_setup() takes the callback function pointer as argument and
initializes the timer completely.
Replace hrtimer_init() and the open coded initialization of
hrtimer::function with the new setup mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/170bb691a0d59917c8268a98c80b607128fc9f7f.1738746821.git.namcao@linutronix.de
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 <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/xm2634gg2n23.fsf@google.com
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 <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250214134424.3367619-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
caused false positive warnings.
Also fix a timer migration setup bug when new CPUs are added.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2025-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
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
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 b729cc1ec2
("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:
<IRQ>
? tmigr_requires_handle_remote
? hrtimer_run_queues
update_process_times
tick_periodic
tick_handle_periodic
__sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
</IRQ>
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: b729cc1ec2 ("timers/migration: Fix another race between hotplug and idle entry/exit")
Reported-by: Matt Fleming <mfleming@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250205160220.39467-1-frederic@kernel.org
- Properly cast the input to secs_to_jiffies() to unsigned long as
otherwise the result uses the data type of the input variable, which
causes result range checks to fail if the input data type is signed and
smaller than unsigned long.
- Handle late armed hrtimers gracefully on CPU hotplug
There are legitimate cases where a hrtimer is (re)armed on an outgoing
CPU after the timers have been migrated away. This triggers warnings and
caused people to implement horrible workarounds in RCU. But those work
arounds are incomplete and do not cover e.g. the scheduler hrtimers.
Stop this by force moving timer which are enqueued on the current CPU
after timer migration to be queued on a remote online CPU.
This allows to undo the workarounds in a seperate step.
- Demote a warning level printk() to info level in the clocksource
watchdog code as there is no point to emit a warning level message for a
purely informational message.
- Mark a helper function __always_inline and move it into the existing
#ifdef block to avoid 'unused function' warnings from CLANG
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Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2025-02-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- Properly cast the input to secs_to_jiffies() to unsigned long as
otherwise the result uses the data type of the input variable, which
causes result range checks to fail if the input data type is signed
and smaller than unsigned long.
- Handle late armed hrtimers gracefully on CPU hotplug
There are legitimate cases where a hrtimer is (re)armed on an
outgoing CPU after the timers have been migrated away. This triggers
warnings and caused people to implement horrible workarounds in RCU.
But those workarounds are incomplete and do not cover e.g. the
scheduler hrtimers.
Stop this by force moving timer which are enqueued on the current CPU
after timer migration to be queued on a remote online CPU.
This allows to undo the workarounds in a seperate step.
- Demote a warning level printk() to info level in the clocksource
watchdog code as there is no point to emit a warning level message
for a purely informational message.
- Mark a helper function __always_inline and move it into the existing
#ifdef block to avoid 'unused function' warnings from CLANG
* tag 'timers-urgent-2025-02-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
jiffies: Cast to unsigned long in secs_to_jiffies() conversion
clocksource: Use pr_info() for "Checking clocksource synchronization" message
hrtimers: Force migrate away hrtimers queued after CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING
hrtimers: Mark is_migration_base() with __always_inline
The following bug report happened with a PREEMPT_RT kernel:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2012, name: kwatchdog
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
get_random_u32+0x4f/0x110
clocksource_verify_choose_cpus+0xab/0x1a0
clocksource_verify_percpu.part.0+0x6b/0x330
clocksource_watchdog_kthread+0x193/0x1a0
It is due to the fact that clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() is invoked with
preemption disabled. This function invokes get_random_u32() to obtain
random numbers for choosing CPUs. The batched_entropy_32 local lock and/or
the base_crng.lock spinlock in driver/char/random.c will be acquired during
the call. In PREEMPT_RT kernel, they are both sleeping locks and so cannot
be acquired in atomic context.
Fix this problem by using migrate_disable() to allow smp_processor_id() to
be reliably used without introducing atomic context. preempt_disable() is
then called after clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() but before the
clocksource measurement is being run to avoid introducing unexpected
latency.
Fixes: 7560c02bdf ("clocksource: Check per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable")
Suggested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250131173323.891943-2-longman@redhat.com
Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.
Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25c ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.
Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
virtual patch
@
depends on !(file in "net")
disable optional_qualifier
@
identifier table_name != {
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
iwcm_ctl_table,
ucma_ctl_table,
memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table
};
@@
+ const
struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };
sed:
sed --in-place \
-e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
The "Checking clocksource synchronization" message is normally printed
when clocksource_verify_percpu() is called for a given clocksource if
both the CLOCK_SOURCE_UNSTABLE and CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU flags
are set.
It is an informational message and so pr_info() is the correct choice.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250125015442.3740588-1-longman@redhat.com
hrtimers are migrated away from the dying CPU to any online target at
the CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING stage in order not to delay bandwidth timers
handling tasks involved in the CPU hotplug forward progress.
However wakeups can still be performed by the outgoing CPU after
CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING. Those can result again in bandwidth timers being
armed. Depending on several considerations (crystal ball power management
based election, earliest timer already enqueued, timer migration enabled or
not), the target may eventually be the current CPU even if offline. If that
happens, the timer is eventually ignored.
The most notable example is RCU which had to deal with each and every of
those wake-ups by deferring them to an online CPU, along with related
workarounds:
_ e787644caf (rcu: Defer RCU kthreads wakeup when CPU is dying)
_ 9139f93209 (rcu/nocb: Fix RT throttling hrtimer armed from offline CPU)
_ f7345ccc62 (rcu/nocb: Fix rcuog wake-up from offline softirq)
The problem isn't confined to RCU though as the stop machine kthread
(which runs CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING) reports its completion at the end
of its work through cpu_stop_signal_done() and performs a wake up that
eventually arms the deadline server timer:
WARNING: CPU: 94 PID: 588 at kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1086 hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x289/0x2d0
CPU: 94 UID: 0 PID: 588 Comm: migration/94 Not tainted
Stopper: multi_cpu_stop+0x0/0x120 <- stop_machine_cpuslocked+0x66/0xc0
RIP: 0010:hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x289/0x2d0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
start_dl_timer
enqueue_dl_entity
dl_server_start
enqueue_task_fair
enqueue_task
ttwu_do_activate
try_to_wake_up
complete
cpu_stopper_thread
Instead of providing yet another bandaid to work around the situation, fix
it in the hrtimers infrastructure instead: always migrate away a timer to
an online target whenever it is enqueued from an offline CPU.
This will also allow to revert all the above RCU disgraceful hacks.
Fixes: 5c0930ccaa ("hrtimers: Push pending hrtimers away from outgoing CPU earlier")
Reported-by: Vlad Poenaru <vlad.wing@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250117232433.24027-1-frederic@kernel.org
Closes: 20241213203739.1519801-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com
