Pull timer and time updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A rather large update of timers, timekeeping & co
- Core timekeeping code is year-2038 safe now for 32bit machines.
Now we just need to fix all in kernel users and the gazillion of
user space interfaces which rely on timespec/timeval :)
- Better cache layout for the timekeeping internal data structures.
- Proper nanosecond based interfaces for in kernel users.
- Tree wide cleanup of code which wants nanoseconds but does hoops
and loops to convert back and forth from timespecs. Some of it
definitely belongs into the ugly code museum.
- Consolidation of the timekeeping interface zoo.
- A fast NMI safe accessor to clock monotonic for tracing. This is a
long standing request to support correlated user/kernel space
traces. With proper NTP frequency correction it's also suitable
for correlation of traces accross separate machines.
- Checkpoint/restart support for timerfd.
- A few NOHZ[_FULL] improvements in the [hr]timer code.
- Code move from kernel to kernel/time of all time* related code.
- New clocksource/event drivers from the ARM universe. I'm really
impressed that despite an architected timer in the newer chips SoC
manufacturers insist on inventing new and differently broken SoC
specific timers.
[ Ed. "Impressed"? I don't think that word means what you think it means ]
- Another round of code move from arch to drivers. Looks like most
of the legacy mess in ARM regarding timers is sorted out except for
a few obnoxious strongholds.
- The usual updates and fixlets all over the place"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
timekeeping: Fixup typo in update_vsyscall_old definition
clocksource: document some basic timekeeping concepts
timekeeping: Use cached ntp_tick_length when accumulating error
timekeeping: Rework frequency adjustments to work better w/ nohz
timekeeping: Minor fixup for timespec64->timespec assignment
ftrace: Provide trace clocks monotonic
timekeeping: Provide fast and NMI safe access to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
seqcount: Add raw_write_seqcount_latch()
seqcount: Provide raw_read_seqcount()
timekeeping: Use tk_read_base as argument for timekeeping_get_ns()
timekeeping: Create struct tk_read_base and use it in struct timekeeper
timekeeping: Restructure the timekeeper some more
clocksource: Get rid of cycle_last
clocksource: Move cycle_last validation to core code
clocksource: Make delta calculation a function
wireless: ath9k: Get rid of timespec conversions
drm: vmwgfx: Use nsec based interfaces
drm: i915: Use nsec based interfaces
timekeeping: Provide ktime_get_raw()
hangcheck-timer: Use ktime_get_ns()
...
The members of the new struct are the required ones for the new NMI
safe accessor to clcok monotonic. In order to reuse the existing
timekeeping code and to make the update of the fast NMI safe
timekeepers a simple memcpy use the struct for the timekeeper as well
and convert all users.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
cycle_last was added to the clocksource to support the TSC
validation. We moved that to the core code, so we can get rid of the
extra copy.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Andy pointed out that binutils generates additional sections in the vdso
image (e.g. section string table) which, if our .text section gets big
enough, could cross a page boundary and end up screwing up the location
where the kernel expects to put the data page.
This patch solves the issue in the same manner as x86_32, by moving the
data page before the code pages.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
_install_special_mapping replaces install_special_mapping and removes
the need to detect special VMA in arch_vma_name.
This patch moves the vdso and compat vectors page code over to the new
API.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
The VDSO datapage doesn't need to be executable (no code there) or
CoW-able (the kernel writes the page, so a private copy is totally
useless).
This patch moves the datapage into its own VMA, identified as "[vvar]"
in /proc/<pid>/maps.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Remove some unnecessary bits that were apparently carried over from
another architecture's implementation:
- No need to get_page() the vdso text/data - these are part of the
kernel image.
- No need for ClearPageReserved on the vdso text.
- No need to vmap the first text page to check the ELF header - this
can be done through &vdso_start.
Also some minor cleanup:
- Use kcalloc for vdso_pagelist array allocation.
- Don't print on allocation failure, slab/slub will do that for us.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Update wall-to-monotonic fields in the VDSO data page
unconditionally. These are used to service CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE,
which is not guarded by use_syscall.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Currently the sigreturn compat code is copied to an offset in the
vectors table. When using a BE kernel this data will be stored in the
wrong endianess so when returning from a signal on a 32-bit BE system,
arbitrary code will be executed.
Instead of declaring the code inside a struct and copying that, use
the assembler's .byte directives to store the code in the correct
endianess regardless of platform endianess.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch is an arm64 version of ce73ec6db4 ("powerpc/vdso: Remove
redundant locking in update_vsyscall_tz()").
Timezone data is not protected, so the sequence counter is not required
to ensure consistency. Furthermore, having multiple paths updating the
counter leads to a race between update_vsyscall and update_vsyscall_tz,
so remove the timezone sequence counting from both the kernel and the
vdso.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Shifting the nanosecond component of the computed timespec early can
lead to sub-ns inaccuracies when using the truncated value as input to
further arithmetic for things like conversions to monotonic time.
This patch defers the timespec shifting until after the final value has
been computed.
Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
With commit 576094b7 (time: Introduce new GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL) the old
update_vsyscall() prototype is no longer available. This patch updates
the arm64 port.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
This patch adds VDSO support for 64-bit applications. The VDSO code is
currently used for sys_rt_sigreturn() and optimised gettimeofday()
(using the user-accessible generic counter).
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Linus Torvalds