Linux kernel documentation tree maintained by Jonathan Corbet http://mirrors.hust.edu.cn/git/lwn.git/atom?h=standardize-docs 2017-07-05T22:34:35+00:00 2017-07-05T22:34:35+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2017-07-05T22:34:35+00:00 urn:sha1:ea3b25e1320df4e575c323b6ab22a5fc79976fbe Pull timer-related user access updates from Al Viro: "Continuation of timers-related stuff (there had been more, but my parts of that series are already merged via timers/core). This is more of y2038 work by Deepa Dinamani, partially disrupted by the unification of native and compat timers-related syscalls" * 'timers-compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: posix_clocks: Use get_itimerspec64() and put_itimerspec64() timerfd: Use get_itimerspec64() and put_itimerspec64() nanosleep: Use get_timespec64() and put_timespec64() posix-timers: Use get_timespec64() and put_timespec64() posix-stubs: Conditionally include COMPAT_SYS_NI defines time: introduce {get,put}_itimerspec64 time: add get_timespec64 and put_timespec64 2017-07-03T23:14:51+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2017-07-03T23:14:51+00:00 urn:sha1:1b044f1cfc65a7d90b209dfabd57e16d98b58c5b Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A rather large update for timers/timekeeping: - compat syscall consolidation (Al Viro) - Posix timer consolidation (Christoph Helwig / Thomas Gleixner) - Cleanup of the device tree based initialization for clockevents and clocksources (Daniel Lezcano) - Consolidation of the FTTMR010 clocksource/event driver (Linus Walleij) - The usual set of small fixes and updates all over the place" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (93 commits) timers: Make the cpu base lock raw clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Fix an error code in 'gic_clocksource_of_init()' clocksource/drivers/fsl_ftm_timer: Unmap region obtained by of_iomap clocksource/drivers/tcb_clksrc: Make IO endian agnostic clocksource/drivers/sun4i: Switch to the timer-of common init clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Fix invalid iomap check Revert "ktime: Simplify ktime_compare implementation" clocksource/drivers: Fix uninitialized variable use in timer_of_init kselftests: timers: Add test for frequency step kselftests: timers: Fix inconsistency-check to not ignore first timestamp time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD time: Clean up CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW time handling posix-cpu-timers: Make timespec to nsec conversion safe itimer: Make timeval to nsec conversion range limited timers: Fix parameter description of try_to_del_timer_sync() ktime: Simplify ktime_compare implementation clocksource/drivers/fttmr010: Factor out clock read code clocksource/drivers/fttmr010: Implement delay timer clocksource/drivers: Add timer-of common init routine clocksource/drivers/tcb_clksrc: Save timer context on suspend/resume ... 2017-07-03T20:33:57+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2017-07-03T20:33:57+00:00 urn:sha1:59b60185b4a1adc46b115291dc34af2186cc9678 Pull nohz updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle relate to fixing another bad (but sporadic and hard to detect) interaction between the dynticks scheduler tick and hrtimers, plus related improvements to better detection and handling of similar problems - by Frédéric Weisbecker" * 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: nohz: Fix spurious warning when hrtimer and clockevent get out of sync nohz: Fix buggy tick delay on IRQ storms nohz: Reset next_tick cache even when the timer has no regs nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers, again nohz: Add hrtimer sanity check 2017-07-03T20:08:04+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2017-07-03T20:08:04+00:00 urn:sha1:9bd42183b951051f73de121f7ee17091e7d26fbb Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - Add the SYSTEM_SCHEDULING bootup state to move various scheduler debug checks earlier into the bootup. This turns silent and sporadically deadly bugs into nice, deterministic splats. Fix some of the splats that triggered. (Thomas Gleixner) - A round of restructuring and refactoring of the load-balancing and topology code (Peter Zijlstra) - Another round of consolidating ~20 of incremental scheduler code history: this time in terms of wait-queue nomenclature. (I didn't get much feedback on these renaming patches, and we can still easily change any names I might have misplaced, so if anyone hates a new name, please holler and I'll fix it.) (Ingo Molnar) - sched/numa improvements, fixes and updates (Rik van Riel) - Another round of x86/tsc scheduler clock code improvements, in hope of making it more robust (Peter Zijlstra) - Improve NOHZ behavior (Frederic Weisbecker) - Deadline scheduler improvements and fixes (Luca Abeni, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira) - Simplify and optimize the topology setup code (Lauro Ramos Venancio) - Debloat and decouple scheduler code some more (Nicolas Pitre) - Simplify code by making better use of llist primitives (Byungchul Park) - ... plus other fixes and improvements" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (103 commits) sched/cputime: Refactor the cputime_adjust() code sched/debug: Expose the number of RT/DL tasks that can migrate sched/numa: Hide numa_wake_affine() from UP build sched/fair: Remove effective_load() sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine() sched/fair: Simplify wake_affine() for the single socket case sched/numa: Override part of migrate_degrades_locality() when idle balancing sched/rt: Move RT related code from sched/core.c to sched/rt.c sched/deadline: Move DL related code from sched/core.c to sched/deadline.c sched/cpuset: Only offer CONFIG_CPUSETS if SMP is enabled sched/fair: Spare idle load balancing on nohz_full CPUs nohz: Move idle balancer registration to the idle path sched/loadavg: Generalize "_idle" naming to "_nohz" sched/core: Drop the unused try_get_task_struct() helper function sched/fair: WARN() and refuse to set buddy when !se->on_rq sched/debug: Fix SCHED_WARN_ON() to return a value on !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG as well sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry->task_list and wq_head->task_list naming sched/wait: Move bit_wait_table[] and related functionality from sched/core.c to sched/wait_bit.c sched/wait: Split out the wait_bit*() APIs from <linux/wait.h> into <linux/wait_bit.h> sched/wait: Re-adjust macro line continuation backslashes in <linux/wait.h> ... 2017-07-03T18:34:53+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2017-07-03T18:34:53+00:00 urn:sha1:330e9e46253cbfab178450c976aa90ef0f3ae940 Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The sole purpose of these changes is to shrink and simplify the RCU code base, which has suffered from creeping bloat over the past couple of years. The end result is a net removal of ~2700 lines of code: 79 files changed, 1496 insertions(+), 4211 deletions(-) Plus there's a marked reduction in the Kconfig space complexity as well, here's the number of matches on 'grep RCU' in the .config: before after x86-defconfig 17 15 x86-allmodconfig 33 20" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (86 commits) rcu: Remove RCU CPU stall warnings from Tiny RCU rcu: Remove event tracing from Tiny RCU rcu: Move RCU debug Kconfig options to kernel/rcu rcu: Move RCU non-debug Kconfig options to kernel/rcu rcu: Eliminate NOCBs CPU-state Kconfig options rcu: Remove debugfs tracing srcu: Remove Classic SRCU srcu: Fix rcutorture-statistics typo rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option rcu: Remove the now-obsolete PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option rcu: Remove typecheck() from RCU locking wrapper functions rcu: Remove #ifdef moving rcu_end_inkernel_boot from rcupdate.h rcu: Remove nohz_full full-system-idle state machine rcu: Remove the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig option rcu: Remove *_SLOW_* Kconfig options srcu: Use rnp->lock wrappers to replace explicit memory barriers rcu: Move rnp->lock wrappers for SRCU use rcu: Convert rnp->lock wrappers to macros for SRCU use rcu: Refactor #includes from include/linux/rcupdate.h bcm47xx: Fix build regression ... 2017-06-30T08:15:02+00:00 Deepa Dinamani deepa.kernel@gmail.com 2017-06-24T18:45:08+00:00 urn:sha1:725816e8aabb1c183baa2bc9572ab9a0d26b9ea1 Usage of these apis and their compat versions makes the syscalls: timer_settime and timer_gettime and their compat implementations simpler. This patch also serves as a preparatory patch for changing syscalls to use new time_t data types to support the y2038 effort by isolating the processing of user pointers through these apis. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 2017-06-30T08:14:14+00:00 Deepa Dinamani deepa.kernel@gmail.com 2017-06-24T18:45:06+00:00 urn:sha1:c0edd7c9acd0eaee149ab6cb4441cc71a1af87f0 Usage of these apis and their compat versions makes the syscalls: clock_nanosleep and nanosleep and their compat implementations simpler. This is a preparatory patch to isolate data conversions to struct timespec64 at userspace boundaries. This helps contain the changes needed to transition to new y2038 safe types. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 2017-06-30T08:13:19+00:00 Deepa Dinamani deepa.kernel@gmail.com 2017-06-24T18:45:05+00:00 urn:sha1:5c4994102fb508d4a0f7a8afa46560c314c1ebd4 Usage of these apis and their compat versions makes the syscalls: clock_gettime, clock_settime, clock_getres and their compat implementations simpler. This is a preparatory patch to isolate data conversions to struct timespec64 at userspace boundaries. This helps contain the changes needed to transition to new y2038 safe types. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 2017-06-28T22:27:24+00:00 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de 2017-06-27T16:15:38+00:00 urn:sha1:2287d8664fe7345ead891017eccd879fc605305e The timers cpu base lock could not be converted to a raw spinlock becaue the lock held time was non-deterministic due to cascading and long lasting timer wheel traversals. The rework of the timer wheel to the new non-cascading model removed also the wheel traversals and the lock held times are deterministic now. This allows to make the lock raw and thereby unbreaks NOHz* on preempt-RT. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170627161538.30257-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 2017-06-26T01:58:46+00:00 Deepa Dinamani deepa.kernel@gmail.com 2017-06-24T18:45:04+00:00 urn:sha1:63a766a1780f9581e8885bdb64270a594a84f81a These apis only need to be defined if CONFIG_COMPAT is enabled. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>