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2018-07-02posix-timers: Sanitize overrun handlingThomas Gleixner
The posix timer overrun handling is broken because the forwarding functions can return a huge number of overruns which does not fit in an int. As a consequence timer_getoverrun(2) and siginfo::si_overrun can turn into random number generators. The k_clock::timer_forward() callbacks return a 64 bit value now. Make k_itimer::ti_overrun[_last] 64bit as well, so the kernel internal accounting is correct. 3Remove the temporary (int) casts. Add a helper function which clamps the overrun value returned to user space via timer_getoverrun(2) or siginfo::si_overrun limited to a positive value between 0 and INT_MAX. INT_MAX is an indicator for user space that the overrun value has been clamped. Reported-by: Team OWL337 <icytxw@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180626132705.018623573@linutronix.de
2018-01-04posix-timers: Prevent UB from shifting negative signed valueNick Desaulniers
Shifting a negative signed number is undefined behavior. Looking at the macros MAKE_PROCESS_CPUCLOCK and FD_TO_CLOCKID, it seems that the subexpression: (~(clockid_t) (pid) << 3) where clockid_t resolves to a signed int, which once negated, is undefined behavior to shift the value of if the results thus far are negative. It was further suggested to make these macros into inline functions. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1514517100-18051-1-git-send-email-nick.desaulniers@gmail.com
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-25time: introduce {get,put}_itimerspec64Deepa Dinamani
As we change the user space type for the timerfd and posix timer functions to newer data types, we need some form of conversion helpers to avoid duplicating that logic. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-06-14time/posix-timers: Move the compat copyouts to the nanosleep implementationsAl Viro
Turn restart_block.nanosleep.{rmtp,compat_rmtp} into a tagged union (kind = 1 -> native, kind = 2 -> compat, kind = 0 -> nothing) and make the places doing actual copyout handle compat as well as native (that will become a helper in the next commit). Result: compat wrappers, messing with reassignments, etc. are gone. [ tglx: Folded in a variant of Peter Zijlstras enum patch ] Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607084241.28657-6-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
2017-06-04posix-timers: Add active flag to k_itimerThomas Gleixner
Keep track of the activation state of posix timers. This is a preparatory change for making common_timer_get() usable by both hrtimer and alarm timer implementations. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211656.967783982@linutronix.de
2017-06-04posix-timers: Rename do_schedule_next_timerThomas Gleixner
That function is a misnomer. Rename it with a proper prefix to posixtimer_rearm(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211656.811362578@linutronix.de
2017-06-04posix-timers: Store k_clock pointer in k_itimerThomas Gleixner
Having the k_clock pointer in the k_itimer struct avoids the lookup in several code pathes and makes the next steps of unification of the hrtimer and alarmtimer based posix timers simpler. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211656.641222072@linutronix.de
2017-06-04posix-timers: Move interval out of the unionThomas Gleixner
Preparatory patch to unify the alarm timer and hrtimer based posix interval timer handling. The interval is used as a criteria for rearming decisions so moving it out of the clock specific data structures allows later unification. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211656.563922908@linutronix.de
2017-06-04posix-timers: Move posix-timer internals to coreThomas Gleixner
None of these declarations is required outside of kernel/time. Move them to an internal header. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211656.394803853@linutronix.de
2017-06-04posix-timers: Cleanup struct k_itimerThomas Gleixner
As a preparation for further changes, cleanup the formatting of the k_itimer structure and add kernel doc comments. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211656.316574129@linutronix.de
2017-06-04posix-timers: Move the do_schedule_next_timer declarationChristoph Hellwig
Having it in asm-generic/siginfo.h doesn't make any sense as it is in no way architecture specific. Move it to posix-timers.h instead. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170603190102.28866-4-hch@lst.de
2017-05-27posix-timers: Remove mmtimer leftoversDimitri Sivanich
After removing mmtimer, the mmtimer struct can be removed from the k_itimer struct. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com> Cc: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526130534.GE30788@hpe.com
2017-05-27posix-timers: Make posix_clocks immutableChristoph Hellwig
There are no more modular users providing a posix clock. The register function is now pointless so the posix clock array can be initialized statically at compile time and the array including the various k_clock structs can be marked 'const'. Inspired by changes in the Grsecurity patch set, but done proper. [ tglx: Massaged changelog and fixed the POSIX_TIMER=n case ] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526090311.3377-3-hch@lst.de
2017-04-14time: Change k_clock nsleep() to use timespec64Deepa Dinamani
struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines. Replace uses of struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel. The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series. Note that the restart_block parameter for nanosleep has also been left unchanged and will be part of syscall series noted above. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: arnd@arndb.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-8-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-14time: Change k_clock timer_set() and timer_get() to use timespec64Deepa Dinamani
struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines. Replace uses of struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel. struct itimerspec internally uses struct timespec. Use struct itimerspec64 which uses struct timespec64. The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: arnd@arndb.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-7-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-14time: Change k_clock clock_set() to use timespec64Deepa Dinamani
struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines. Replace uses of struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel. The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: arnd@arndb.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-6-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-14time: Change k_clock clock_getres() to use timespec64Deepa Dinamani
struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines. Replace uses of struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel. The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series. The clock_getres() interface has also been changed to use timespec64 even though this particular interface is not affected by the y2038 problem. This helps verification for internal kernel code for y2038 readiness by getting rid of time_t/ timeval/ timespec completely. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: arnd@arndb.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-5-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-14time: Change k_clock clock_get() to use timespec64Deepa Dinamani
struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines. Replace uses of struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel. The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: arnd@arndb.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-4-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-02-01timers/itimer: Convert internal cputime_t units to nsecFrederic Weisbecker
Use the new nsec based cputime accessors as part of the whole cputime conversion from cputime_t to nsecs. Also convert itimers to use nsec based internal counters. This simplifies it and removes the whole game with error/inc_error which served to deal with cputime_t random granularity. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-20-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-01timers/posix-timers: Convert internals to use nsecsFrederic Weisbecker
Use the new nsec based cputime accessors as part of the whole cputime conversion from cputime_t to nsecs. Also convert posix-cpu-timers to use nsec based internal counters to simplify it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-19-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-02posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask modelFrederic Weisbecker
Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify posix cpu timers tick dependency, migrate the latter to the new mask. In order to keep track of the running timers and expose the tick dependency accordingly, we must probe the timers queuing and dequeuing on threads and process lists. Unfortunately it implies both task and signal level dependencies. We should be able to further optimize this and merge all that on the task level dependency, at the cost of a bit of complexity and may be overhead. Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-07-03posix_cpu_timer: consolidate expiry time typeFrederic Weisbecker
The posix cpu timer expiry time is stored in a union of two types: a 64 bits field if we rely on scheduler precise accounting, or a cputime_t if we rely on jiffies. This results in quite some duplicate code and special cases to handle the two types. Just unify this into a single 64 bits field. cputime_t can always fit into it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-05Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar: "This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks', or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y. This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly. This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than that: - HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on typical distro configs even on modern systems. - Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick. - A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation, especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature helps desktop and mobile workloads as well. The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency. Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing two NOHZ kconfig modes: - CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of whether a CPU is idle or not. - CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode. - CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a CPU. The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by default. This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already. This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull request is marked RFC because: - it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is small but did not get ready in time. - it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I marked it RFC. - it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and while the components have been in testing for some time, the full combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either. - the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100% equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this feature at this point. - it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed. Without flaming us to crisp! :-) Future plans: - there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go for the 0 Hz target though. - once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do - once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running. I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long - but the final word is up to you as usual. More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt" * 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits) sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch() nohz_full: Add documentation. cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle nohz: Add basic tracing nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit nohz: Implement full dynticks kick nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued. perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed ...
2013-04-19posix_timers: New API to prevent from stopping the tick when timers are runningFrederic Weisbecker
Bring a new helper that the full dynticks infrastructure can call in order to know if it can safely stop the tick from the posix cpu timers subsystem point of view. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-17posix timers: Allocate timer id per process (v2)Pavel Emelyanov
Currently kernel generates IDs for posix timers in a global manner -- there's a kernel-wide IDR tree from which IDs are created. This makes it impossible to recreate a timer with a desired ID (in particular this is done by the CRIU checkpoint-restore project) -- since these IDs are global it may happen, that at the time we recreate a timer, the ID we want for it is already busy by some other timer. In order to address this, replace the IDR tree with a global hash table for timers and makes timer IDs unique per signal_struct (to which timers are linked anyway). With this, two timers belonging to different processes may have equal IDs and we can recreate either of them with the ID we want. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D9FF5.9010004@parallels.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structureJohn Stultz
Now that periodic alarmtimers are managed by the handler function, remove the period value from the alarm structure and let the handlers manage the interval on their own. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-05-24posix-timers: RCU conversionEric Dumazet
Ben Nagy reported a scalability problem with KVM/QEMU that hit very hard a single spinlock (idr_lock) in posix-timers code, on its 48 core machine. Even on a 16 cpu machine (2x4x2), a single test can show 98% of cpu time used in ticket_spin_lock, from lock_timer Ref: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg51526.html Switching to RCU is quite easy, IDR being already RCU ready. idr_lock should be locked only for an insert/delete, not a lookup. Benchmark on a 2x4x2 machine, 16 processes calling timer_gettime(). Before : real 1m18.669s user 0m1.346s sys 1m17.180s After : real 0m3.296s user 0m1.366s sys 0m1.926s Reported-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-04-26timers: Posix interface for alarm-timersJohn Stultz
This patch exposes alarm-timers to userland via the posix clock and timers interface, using two new clockids: CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM and CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM. Both clockids behave identically to CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME, respectively, but timers set against the _ALARM suffixed clockids will wake the system if it is suspended. Some background can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/429925/ The concept for Alarm-timers was inspired by the Android Alarm driver (by Arve Hjønnevåg) found in the Android kernel tree. See: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=blob;f=drivers/rtc/alarm.c;h=1250edfbdf3302f5e4ea6194847c6ef4bb7beb1c;hb=android-2.6.36 While the in-kernel interface is pretty similar between alarm-timers and Android alarm driver, the user-space interface for the Android alarm driver is via ioctls to a new char device. As mentioned above, I've instead chosen to export this functionality via the posix interface, as it seemed a little simpler and avoids creating duplicate interfaces to things like CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC under alternate names (ie:ANDROID_ALARM_RTC and ANDROID_ALARM_SYSTEMTIME). The semantics of the Android alarm driver are different from what this posix interface provides. For instance, threads other then the thread waiting on the Android alarm driver are able to modify the alarm being waited on. Also this interface does not allow the same wakelock semantics that the Android driver provides (ie: kernel takes a wakelock on RTC alarm-interupt, and holds it through process wakeup, and while the process runs, until the process either closes the char device or calls back in to wait on a new alarm). One potential way to implement similar semantics may be via the timerfd infrastructure, but this needs more research. There may also need to be some sort of sysfs system level policy hooks that allow alarm timers to be disabled to keep them from firing at inappropriate times (ie: laptop in a well insulated bag, mid-flight). CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-02-02posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocksRichard Cochran
This patch adds support for adding and removing posix clocks. The clock lifetime cycle is patterned after usb devices. Each clock is represented by a standard character device. In addition, the driver may optionally implement custom character device operations. The posix clock and timer system calls listed below now work with dynamic posix clocks, as well as the traditional static clocks. The following system calls are affected: - clock_adjtime (brand new syscall) - clock_gettime - clock_getres - clock_settime - timer_create - timer_delete - timer_gettime - timer_settime [ tglx: Adapted to the posix-timer cleanup. Moved clock_posix_dynamic to posix-clock.c and made all referenced functions static ] Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20110201134420.164172635@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02posix-timers: Cleanup namespaceThomas Gleixner
Rename register_posix_clock() to posix_timers_register_clock(). That's what the function really does. As a side effect this cleans up the posix_clock namespace for the upcoming dynamic posix_clock infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1102021222240.31804@localhost6.localdomain6>
2011-02-02posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocksRichard Cochran
Extend the negative clockids which are currently used by posix cpu timers to encode the PID with a file descriptor based type which encodes the fd in the upper bits. Originally-from: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20110201134420.062860200@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning.Richard Cochran
A new syscall is introduced that allows tuning of a POSIX clock. The new call, clock_adjtime, takes two parameters, the clock ID and a pointer to a struct timex. Any ADJTIMEX(2) operation may be requested via this system call, but various POSIX clocks may or may not support tuning. [ tglx: Adapted to the posix-timer cleanup series. Avoid copy_to_user in the error case ] Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.869804645@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02posix-timers: Make posix-cpu-timers functions staticThomas Gleixner
All functions are accessed via clock_posix_cpu now. So make them static. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.389755466@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02posix-timers: Remove useless res field from k_clockThomas Gleixner
The res member of kclock is only used by mmtimer.c, but even there it contains redundant information. Remove the field and fixup mmtimer. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.808714587@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02posix-timers: Convert clock_settime to clockid_to_kclock()Thomas Gleixner
Use the new kclock decoding function in clock_settime and cleanup all kclocks which use the default functions. Rename the misnomed common_clock_set() to posix_clock_realtime_set(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.518851246@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02posix-timers: Convert clock_nanosleep to clockid_to_kclock()Thomas Gleixner
Use the new kclock decoding function in clock_nanosleep and cleanup all kclocks which use the default functions. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.034175556@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02posix-timers: Introduce clock_posix_cpuThomas Gleixner
The CLOCK_DISPATCH() macro is a horrible magic. We call common functions if a function pointer is not set. That's just backwards. To support dynamic file decriptor based clocks we need to cleanup that dispatch logic. Create a k_clock struct clock_posix_cpu which has all the posix-cpu-timer functions filled in. After the cleanup the functions can be made static. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> LKML-Reference: <20110201134417.841974553@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02time: Correct the *settime* parametersRichard Cochran
Both settimeofday() and clock_settime() promise with a 'const' attribute not to alter the arguments passed in. This patch adds the missing 'const' attribute into the various kernel functions implementing these calls. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20110201134417.545698637@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-16rlimits: add task_struct to update_rlimit_cpuJiri Slaby
Add task_struct as a parameter to update_rlimit_cpu to be able to set rlimit_cpu of different task than current. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-12posix-timers: use "struct pid*" instead of "struct task_struct*"Oleg Nesterov
Impact: restructure, clean up code k_itimer holds the ref to the ->it_process until sys_timer_delete(). This allows to pin up to RLIMIT_SIGPENDING dead task_struct's. Change the code to use "struct pid *" instead. The patch doesn't kill ->it_process, it places ->it_pid into the union. ->it_process is still used by do_cpu_nanosleep() as before. It would be trivial to change the nanosleep code as well, but since it uses it_process in a special way I think it is better to keep this field for grep. The patch bloats the kernel by 104 bytes and it also adds the new pointer, ->it_signal, to k_itimer. It is used by lock_timer() to verify that the found timer was not created by another process. It is not clear why do we use the global database (and thus the global idr_lock) for posix timers. We still need the signal_struct->posix_timers which contains all useable timers, perhaps it is better to use some form of per-process array instead. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_valueOleg Nesterov
With the recent changes ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value are only used in sys_timer_create(), kill them. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: mingo@elte.hu Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-14timers: fix itimer/many thread hangFrank Mayhar
Overview This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling. It was put together with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code. The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads. It appears that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse. Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at which point things degrade rather quickly. This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF." Code Changes This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it run in constant time for a particular machine. (Performance may vary between one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single- or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of running processors.) To do this, at each tick we now update fields in signal_struct as well as task_struct. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function uses those fields to make its decisions. We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and scheduler times and use these in appropriate places: struct task_cputime { cputime_t utime; cputime_t stime; unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime; }; This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus multiprocessor kernels. For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer: struct thread_group_cputime { struct task_cputime totals; }; struct thread_group_cputime { struct task_cputime *totals; }; We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration of thread timers). The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends. In the non-SMP case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention). For SMP, the thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated using alloc_percpu(). The timer functions update only the timer field in the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr(). We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP implementations from the rest of the kernel. The thread_group_cputime_init() function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task. The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill in the per-cpu structures and fields. The thread_group_cputime_free() function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures. The thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been allocated. The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields; in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and, if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU. Finally, the three functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure. Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further. The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal(). It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from cleanup_signal(). All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated. Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting. With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away. All summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the thread_group_cputime() inline. When process-wide timers are set, the new task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest expiration; this is checked in the fast path. Performance The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations. It generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs very significantly better (Case 2 below). Overall it's a wash except in those two cases. I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system. Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system, all of which was spent in the system. There were twice as many voluntary context switches with the fix as without it. Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023 seconds per tick). Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had very nearly the same performance in both cases: 6.3 seconds elapsed for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel. With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus 5.8 seconds). The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel. Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits. Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was user time. The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system time. Really, though, the results were too close to call. The results were essentially the same with no itimer running. Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds (where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running, the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick. Otherwise, performance was almost indistinguishable. With no itimer running this test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases. In times past I did some limited performance testing. those results are below. On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s. On the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but system time dropped to 0.007 seconds. Performance with eight, four and one thread were comparable. Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed more accurate: The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720 for 0.061 seconds per tick. Both cases were configured for an interval of 0.01 seconds. Again, the other tests were comparable. Each thread in this test computed the primes up to 25,000,000. I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is impossible without the fix. In this case each thread computed the primes only up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable). System time dominated, at 1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of 629.938s). It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite accurate. There is obviously no comparable test without the fix. Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-09-29[PATCH] posix-timers: Fix clock_nanosleep() doesn't return the remaining ↵Toyo Abe
time in compatibility mode The clock_nanosleep() function does not return the time remaining when the sleep is interrupted by a signal. This patch creates a new call out, compat_clock_nanosleep_restart(), which handles returning the remaining time after a sleep is interrupted. This patch revives clock_nanosleep_restart(). It is now accessed via the new call out. The compat_clock_nanosleep_restart() is used for compatibility access. Since this is implemented in compatibility mode the normal path is virtually unaffected - no real performance impact. Signed-off-by: Toyo Abe <toyoa@mvista.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] kernel/posix-timers.c: remove do_posix_clock_notimer_create()Adrian Bunk
This function is neither used nor has any real contents. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] hrtimer: convert posix timers completelyThomas Gleixner
- convert posix-timers.c to use hrtimers - remove the now obsolete abslist code Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] hrtimer: switch clock_nanosleep to hrtimer nanosleep APIThomas Gleixner
Switch clock_nanosleep to use the new nanosleep functions in hrtimer.c Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] hrtimer: coding style and white space cleanup 2Thomas Gleixner
style/whitespace/macro cleanups of posix-timers.h Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] hrtimer: make clockid_t arguments constThomas Gleixner
add const arguments to the posix-timers.h API functions Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!