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Thomas Gleixner
79ef2bb014 clocksource: Prevent NULL pointer dereference
Writing a zero length string to sys/.../current_clocksource will cause
a NULL pointer dereference if the clock events system is in one shot
(highres or nohz) mode.

Pointed-out-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0907191545580.12306@bicker>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-19 17:15:54 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
6ff7041dbf hrtimer: Fix migration expiry check
The timer migration expiry check should prevent the migration of a
timer to another CPU when the timer expires before the next event is
scheduled on the other CPU. Migrating the timer might delay it because
we can not reprogram the clock event device on the other CPU. But the
code implementing that check has two flaws:

- for !HIGHRES the check compares the expiry value with the clock
  events device expiry value which is wrong for CLOCK_REALTIME based
  timers.

- the check is racy. It holds the hrtimer base lock of the target CPU,
  but the clock event device expiry value can be modified
  nevertheless, e.g. by an timer interrupt firing.

The !HIGHRES case is easy to fix as we can enqueue the timer on the
cpu which was selected by the load balancer. It runs the idle
balancing code once per jiffy anyway. So the maximum delay for the
timer is the same as when we keep the tick on the current cpu going.

In the HIGHRES case we can get the next expiry value from the hrtimer
cpu_base of the target CPU and serialize the update with the cpu_base
lock. This moves the lock section in hrtimer_interrupt() so we can set
next_event to KTIME_MAX while we are handling the expired timers and
set it to the next expiry value after we handled the timers under the
base lock. While the expired timers are processed timer migration is
blocked because the expiry time of the timer is always <= KTIME_MAX.

Also remove the now useless clockevents_get_next_event() function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-10 17:32:55 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
507e123151 timer stats: Optimize by adding quick check to avoid function calls
When the kernel is configured with CONFIG_TIMER_STATS but timer
stats are runtime disabled we still get calls to
__timer_stats_timer_set_start_info which initializes some
fields in the corresponding struct timer_list.

So add some quick checks in the the timer stats setup functions
to avoid function calls to __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info
when timer stats are disabled.

In an artificial workload that does nothing but playing ping
pong with a single tcp packet via loopback this decreases cpu
consumption by 1 - 1.5%.

This is part of a modified function trace output on SLES11:

 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732388 [+  125]: sk_reset_timer <-tcp_v4_rcv
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732513 [+  125]: mod_timer <-sk_reset_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732638 [+  125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-mod_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732763 [+  125]: __mod_timer <-mod_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732888 [+  125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-__mod_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177733013 [+   93]: lock_timer_base <-__mod_timer

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mustafa Mesanovic <mustafa.mesanovic@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090623153811.GA4641@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 11:15:09 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
38df92b8ce Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  NOHZ: Properly feed cpufreq ondemand governor
2009-06-20 10:51:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
19035e5b5d Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
  timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration
  timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
  timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers
  timers: allow deferrable timers for intervals tv2-tv5 to be deferred

Fix up conflicts in kernel/sched.c and kernel/timer.c manually
2009-06-15 10:06:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f9db6e0951 Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-clockevents' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus-clockevents' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  clockevent: export register_device and delta2ns
  clockevents: tick_broadcast_device can become static
2009-06-15 09:58:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3f27c0d2a4 Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-clocksource' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus-clocksource' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  clocksource: prevent selection of low resolution clocksourse also for nohz=on
  clocksource: sanity check sysfs clocksource changes
2009-06-15 09:58:33 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
cd6d95d844 clocksource: prevent selection of low resolution clocksourse also for nohz=on
commit 3f68535ada (clocksource: sanity check sysfs clocksource
changes) prevents selection of non high resolution capable
clocksources when high resolution mode is active, but did not take
into account that the same rules apply for highres=off nohz=on.

Check the tick device mode instead of hrtimer_hres_active() to verify
whether the system needs to be protected from a switch to jiffies or
other non highres capable clock sources.

Reported-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-06-13 12:00:26 +02:00
john stultz
3f68535ada clocksource: sanity check sysfs clocksource changes
Thomas, Andrew and Ingo pointed out that we don't have any safety checks
in the clocksource sysfs entries to make sure sysadmins don't try to
change the clocksource to a non high-res timer capable clocksource (such
as jiffies) when high-res timers (HRT) is enabled.  Doing so will likely
hang a system.

Correct this by filtering non HRT clocksources from available_clocksources
and not accepting non HRT clocksources with HRT enabled.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-06-11 11:24:52 +02:00
Paul Mundt
cf9fe114e3 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-06-11 09:01:14 +03:00
Eero Nurkkala
f2e21c9610 NOHZ: Properly feed cpufreq ondemand governor
A call from irq_exit() may occasionally pause the timing
info for cpufreq ondemand governor. This results in the
cpufreq ondemand governor to fail to calculate the 
system load properly. Thus, relocate the checks for this
particular case to keep the governor always functional.

Signed-off-by: Eero Nurkkala <ext-eero.nurkkala@nokia.com>
Reported-by: Tero Kristo <tero.kristo@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-27 15:33:43 +02:00
Paul Mundt
5f8371cec9 Merge branches 'sh/stable-updates' and 'sh/sparseirq' 2009-05-22 13:29:37 +09:00
Thomas Gleixner
dce48a84ad sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler
Dimitri Sivanich noticed that xtime_lock is held write locked across
calc_load() which iterates over all online CPUs. That can cause long
latencies for xtime_lock readers on large SMP systems. 

The load average calculation is an rough estimate anyway so there is
no real need to protect the readers vs. the update. It's not a problem
when the avenrun array is updated while a reader copies the values.

Instead of iterating over all online CPUs let the scheduler_tick code
update the number of active tasks shortly before the avenrun update
happens. The avenrun update itself is handled by the CPU which calls
do_timer().

[ Impact: reduce xtime_lock write locked section ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-05-15 15:32:45 +02:00
Arun R Bharadwaj
eea08f32ad timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

This patch migrates all non pinned timers and hrtimers to the current
idle load balancer, from all the idle CPUs. Timers firing on busy CPUs
are not migrated.

While migrating hrtimers, care should be taken to check if migrating
a hrtimer would result in a latency or not. So we compare the expiry of the
hrtimer with the next timer interrupt on the target cpu and migrate the
hrtimer only if it expires *after* the next interrupt on the target cpu.
So, added a clockevents_get_next_event() helper function to return the
next_event on the target cpu's clock_event_device.

[ tglx: cleanups and simplifications ]

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Arun R Bharadwaj
5c333864a6 timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked:
1)sched_rt_period_timer
2)tick_sched_timer
3)stack_trace_timer_fn

[ tglx: fixup the hrtimer pinned mode ]

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Magnus Damm
c81fc2c331 clockevent: export register_device and delta2ns
Export the following symbols using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL:
 - clockevent_delta2ns
 - clockevents_register_device

This allows us to build SuperH clockevent and clocksource
drivers as modules, see drivers/clocksource/sh_*.c

[ Impact: allow modular build of clockevent drivers ]

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
LKML-Reference: <20090501055247.8286.64067.sendpatchset@rx1.opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-02 11:51:07 +02:00
john stultz
7d27558c41 timekeeping: create arch_gettimeoffset infrastructure
Some arches don't supply their own clocksource. This is mainly the
case in architectures that get their inter-tick times by reading the
counter on their interval timer.  Since these timers wrap every tick,
they're not really useful as clocksources.  Wrapping them to act like
one is possible but not very efficient. So we provide a callout these
arches can implement for use with the jiffies clocksource to provide
finer then tick granular time.

[ Impact: ease the migration to generic time keeping ]

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-02 11:45:15 +02:00
Magnus Damm
a25cbd045a clocksource: setup mult_orig in clocksource_enable()
Setup clocksource mult_orig in clocksource_enable().

Clocksource drivers can save power by using keeping the
device clock disabled while the clocksource is unused.

In practice this means that the enable() and disable()
callbacks perform clk_enable() and clk_disable().

The enable() callback may also use clk_get_rate() to get
the clock rate from the clock framework. This information
can then be used to calculate the shift and mult variables.

Currently the mult_orig variable is setup from mult at
registration time only. This is conflicting with the above
case since the clock is disabled and the mult variable is
not yet calculated at the time of registration.

Moving the mult_orig setup code to clocksource_enable()
allows us to both handle the common case with no enable()
callback and the mult-changed-after-enable() case.

[ Impact: allow dynamic clock source usage ]

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
LKML-Reference: <20090501054546.8193.10688.sendpatchset@rx1.opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-02 11:45:15 +02:00
Dmitri Vorobiev
a52f5c5620 clockevents: tick_broadcast_device can become static
The variable tick_broadcast_device is not used outside of the
file where it is defined, so let's make it static.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-02 10:31:14 +02:00
john stultz
74a03b69d1 clockevents: prevent endless loop in tick_handle_periodic()
tick_handle_periodic() can lock up hard when a one shot clock event
device is used in combination with jiffies clocksource.

Avoid an endless loop issue by requiring that a highres valid
clocksource be installed before we call tick_periodic() in a loop when
using ONESHOT mode. The result is we will only increment jiffies once
per interrupt until a continuous hardware clocksource is available.

Without this, we can run into a endless loop, where each cycle through
the loop, jiffies is updated which increments time by tick_period or
more (due to clock steering), which can cause the event programming to
think the next event was before the newly incremented time and fail
causing tick_periodic() to be called again and the whole process loops
forever.

[ Impact: prevent hard lock up ]

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-05-02 10:22:27 +02:00
Magnus Damm
4614e6adaf clocksource: add enable() and disable() callbacks
Add enable() and disable() callbacks for clocksources.

This allows us to put unused clocksources in power save mode.  The
functions clocksource_enable() and clocksource_disable() wrap the
callbacks and are inserted in the timekeeping code to enable before use
and disable after switching to a new clocksource.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-21 13:41:47 -07:00
Magnus Damm
8e19608e8b clocksource: pass clocksource to read() callback
Pass clocksource pointer to the read() callback for clocksources.  This
allows us to share the callback between multiple instances.

[hugh@veritas.com: fix powerpc build of clocksource pass clocksource mods]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-21 13:41:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6671de344c Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits)
  posix timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()
  time: ntp: fix bug in ntp_update_offset() & do_adjtimex(), fix
  time: ntp: clean up second_overflow()
  time: ntp: simplify ntp_tick_adj calculations
  time: ntp: make 64-bit constants more robust
  time: ntp: refactor do_adjtimex() some more
  time: ntp: refactor do_adjtimex()
  time: ntp: fix bug in ntp_update_offset() & do_adjtimex()
  time: ntp: micro-optimize ntp_update_offset()
  time: ntp: simplify ntp_update_offset_fll()
  time: ntp: refactor and clean up ntp_update_offset()
  time: ntp: refactor up ntp_update_frequency()
  time: ntp: clean up ntp_update_frequency()
  time: ntp: simplify the MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED definition
  time: ntp: simplify the second_overflow() code flow
  time: ntp: clean up kernel/time/ntp.c
  x86: hpet: stop HPET_COUNTER when programming periodic mode
  x86: hpet: provide separate functions to stop and start the counter
  x86: hpet: print HPET registers during setup (if hpet=verbose is used)
  time: apply NTP frequency/tick changes immediately
  ...
2009-03-26 16:05:42 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
7c526e1fef Merge branches 'timers/new-apis', 'timers/ntp' and 'timers/urgent' into timers/core 2009-03-26 15:45:52 +01:00
John Stultz
a2a5ac8650 time: ntp: fix bug in ntp_update_offset() & do_adjtimex(), fix
The time_status conditional was accidentally placed right after we clear
the checked time_status bits, which causes us to take the conditional
every time through. This fixes it by moving the conditional to before we
clear the time_status bits.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 19:39:47 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
39854fe8c1 time: ntp: clean up second_overflow()
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

The 'time_adj' local variable is named in a very confusing
way because it almost shadows the 'time_adjust' global
variable - which is used in this same function.

Rename it to 'delta' - to make them stand apart more clearly.

kernel/time/ntp.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2545	    114	    144	   2803	    af3	ntp.o.before
   2545	    114	    144	   2803	    af3	ntp.o.after

md5:
   1bf0b3be564512279ba7cee299d1d2be  ntp.o.before.asm
   1bf0b3be564512279ba7cee299d1d2be  ntp.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:17 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
069569e025 time: ntp: simplify ntp_tick_adj calculations
Impact: micro-optimization

Convert the (internal) ntp_tick_adj value we store from unscaled
units to scaled units. This is a constant that we never modify,
so scaling it up once during bootup is enough - we dont have to
do it for every adjustment step.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
2b9d1496e7 time: ntp: make 64-bit constants more robust
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

 - make PPM_SCALE an explicit s64 constant, to
   remove (s64) casts from usage sites.

kernel/time/ntp.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2536	    114	    136	   2786	    ae2	ntp.o.before
   2536	    114	    136	   2786	    ae2	ntp.o.after

md5:
   40a7728d1188aa18e83e21a81fa7b150  ntp.o.before.asm
   40a7728d1188aa18e83e21a81fa7b150  ntp.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e96291653b time: ntp: refactor do_adjtimex() some more
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

Further simplify do_adjtimex():

 - introduce the ntp_start_leap_timer() helper function
 - eliminate the goto adj_done complication

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
80f2257116 time: ntp: refactor do_adjtimex()
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

do_adjtimex() is currently a monster function with a maze of
branches. Refactor the txc->modes setting aspects of it into
two new helper functions:

	process_adj_status()
	process_adjtimex_modes()

kernel/time/ntp.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2512	    114	    136	   2762	    aca	ntp.o.before
   2512	    114	    136	   2762	    aca	ntp.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
10dd31a7a1 time: ntp: fix bug in ntp_update_offset() & do_adjtimex()
Impact: change (fix) the way the NTP PLL seconds offset is initialized/tracked

Fix a bug and do a micro-optimization:

When PLL is enabled we do not reset time_reftime. If the PLL
was off for a long time (for example after bootup), this is
arguably the wrong thing to do.

We already had a hack for the common boot-time case in
ntp_update_offset(), in form of:

	if (unlikely(time_status & STA_FREQHOLD || time_reftime == 0))
 		secs = 0;

But the update delta should be reset later on too - not just when
the PLL is enabled for the first time after bootup.

So do it on !STA_PLL -> STA_PLL transitions.

This changes behavior, as previously if ntpd was disabled for
a long time and we restarted it, we'd run from that last update,
with a very large delta.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:13 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
c7986acba2 time: ntp: micro-optimize ntp_update_offset()
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

The time_reftime update in ntp_update_offset() to xtime.tv_sec
is a convoluted way of saying that we want to freeze the frequency
and want the 'secs' delta to be 0. Also make this branch unlikely.

This shaves off 8 bytes from the code size:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2504	    114	    136	   2754	    ac2	ntp.o.before
   2496	    114	    136	   2746	    aba	ntp.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:12 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
478b7aab16 time: ntp: simplify ntp_update_offset_fll()
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

Change ntp_update_offset_fll() to delta logic instead of
absolute value logic. This eliminates 'freq_adj' from the
function.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:12 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f939890b66 time: ntp: refactor and clean up ntp_update_offset()
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

- introduce the ntp_update_offset_fll() helper
- clean up the flow and variable naming

kernel/time/ntp.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2504	    114	    136	   2754	    ac2	ntp.o.before
   2504	    114	    136	   2754	    ac2	ntp.o.after

md5:
   01f7b8e1a5472a3056f9e4ae84d46315  ntp.o.before.asm
   01f7b8e1a5472a3056f9e4ae84d46315  ntp.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:11 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
bc26c31d44 time: ntp: refactor up ntp_update_frequency()
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

Change ntp_update_frequency() from a hard to follow code
flow that uses global variables as temporaries, to a clean
input+output flow.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:10 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9ce616aaef time: ntp: clean up ntp_update_frequency()
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

Prepare a refactoring of ntp_update_frequency().

kernel/time/ntp.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2504	    114	    136	   2754	    ac2	ntp.o.before
   2504	    114	    136	   2754	    ac2	ntp.o.after

md5:
   41f3009debc9b397d7394dd77d912f0a  ntp.o.before.asm
   41f3009debc9b397d7394dd77d912f0a  ntp.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
bbd1267690 time: ntp: simplify the MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED definition
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

There's an ugly u64 typecase in the MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED definition,
this can be eliminated by making the MAX_TICKADJ constant's type
64-bit (signed).

kernel/time/ntp.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2504	    114	    136	   2754	    ac2	ntp.o.before
   2504	    114	    136	   2754	    ac2	ntp.o.after

md5:
   41f3009debc9b397d7394dd77d912f0a  ntp.o.before.asm
   41f3009debc9b397d7394dd77d912f0a  ntp.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:08 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3c972c2444 time: ntp: simplify the second_overflow() code flow
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

Instead of a hierarchy of conditions, transform them to clean
gradual conditions and return's.

This makes the flow easier to read and makes the purpose of
the function easier to understand.

kernel/time/ntp.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2552	    170	    168	   2890	    b4a	ntp.o.before
   2552	    170	    168	   2890	    b4a	ntp.o.after

md5:
   eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c  ntp.o.before.asm
   eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c  ntp.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:07 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
53bbfa9e94 time: ntp: clean up kernel/time/ntp.c
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

Make this file a bit more readable by applying a consistent coding style.

No code changed:

kernel/time/ntp.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2552	    170	    168	   2890	    b4a	ntp.o.before
   2552	    170	    168	   2890	    b4a	ntp.o.after

md5:
   eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c  ntp.o.before.asm
   eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c  ntp.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 18:38:06 +01:00
john stultz
fdcedf7b75 time: apply NTP frequency/tick changes immediately
Since the GENERIC_TIME changes landed, the adjtimex behavior changed
for struct timex.tick and .freq changed. When the tick or freq value
is set, we adjust the tick_length_base in ntp_update_frequency().
However, this new value doesn't get applied to tick_length until the
next second (via second_overflow).

This means some applications that do quick time tweaking do not see the
requested change made as quickly as expected.

I've run a few tests with this change, and ntpd still functions fine.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-19 10:10:08 +01:00
Patrick Ohly
a75244c3d5 timecompare: generic infrastructure to map between two time bases
Mapping from a struct timecounter to a time returned by functions like
ktime_get_real() is implemented. This is sufficient to use this code
in a network device driver which wants to support hardware time
stamping and transformation of hardware time stamps to system time.

The interface could have been made more versatile by not depending on
a time counter, but this wasn't done to avoid writing glue code
elsewhere.

The method implemented here is the one used and analyzed under the name
"assisted PTP" in the LCI PTP paper:
http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/conferences/archive/2008/PDF/Ohly_92221.pdf

Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15 22:43:32 -08:00
Patrick Ohly
a038a353c3 clocksource: allow usage independent of timekeeping.c
So far struct clocksource acted as the interface between time/timekeeping.c
and hardware. This patch generalizes the concept so that a similar
interface can also be used in other contexts. For that it introduces
new structures and related functions *without* touching the existing
struct clocksource.

The reasons for adding these new structures to clocksource.[ch] are
* the APIs are clearly related
* struct clocksource could be cleaned up to use the new structs
* avoids proliferation of files with similar names (timesource.h?
  timecounter.h?)

As outlined in the discussion with John Stultz, this patch adds
* struct cyclecounter: stateless API to hardware which counts clock cycles
* struct timecounter: stateful utility code built on a cyclecounter which
  provides a nanosecond counter
* only the function to read the nanosecond counter; deltas are used internally
  and not exposed to users of timecounter

The code does no locking of the shared state. It must be called at least
as often as the cycle counter wraps around to detect these wrap arounds.
Both is the responsibility of the timecounter user.

Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15 22:43:31 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
5ba1ae92b6 Merge branches 'timers/clockevents', 'timers/hpet', 'timers/hrtimers' and 'timers/urgent' into timers/core 2009-02-08 20:14:11 +01:00
Sebastien Dugue
94df7de028 hrtimers: allow the hot-unplugging of all cpus
Impact: fix CPU hotplug hang on Power6 testbox

On architectures that support offlining all cpus (at least powerpc/pseries),
hot-unpluging the tick_do_timer_cpu can result in a system hang.

This comes from the fact that if the cpu going down happens to be the
cpu doing the tick, then as the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happens after the
cpu is dead (via the CPU_DEAD notification), we're left without ticks,
jiffies are frozen and any task relying on timers (msleep, ...) is stuck.
That's particularly the case for the cpu looping in __cpu_die() waiting
for the dying cpu to be dead.

This patch addresses this by having the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happen
earlier during the CPU_DYING notification. For this, a new clockevent
notification type is introduced (CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_CPU_DYING) which is triggered
in hrtimer_cpu_notify().

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-30 22:35:29 +01:00
Magnus Damm
2d68259db2 clockevents: let set_mode() setup delta information
Allow the set_mode() clockevent callback to decide and fill in delta
details such as shift, mult, max_delta_ns and min_delta_ns.

With this change the clockevent can be registered without delta details
which allows us to keep the parent clock disabled until the clockevent
gets setup using set_mode().

Letting set_mode() fill in or update delta details allows us to save
power by disabling the parent clock while the clockevent is unused.
This may however make the parent clock rate change, so next time the
clockevent gets enabled we need let set_mode() to update the detla
details accordingly. Doing it at registration time is not enough.

Furthermore, the delta details seem unused in the case of periodic-only
clockevent drivers, so this change also allows registration of such
drivers without the delta details filled in.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-01-16 12:27:39 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
934d96eafa time-sched.c: tick_nohz_update_jiffies should be static
Impact: cleanup, reduce kernel size a bit, avoid sparse warning

Fixes sparse warning:

 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:137:6: warning: symbol 'tick_nohz_update_jiffies' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15 12:06:56 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e3ee1e1231 Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc1' into timers/hrtimers
Conflicts:
	kernel/time/tick-common.c
2009-01-12 11:32:03 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
57c44c5f6f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits)
  trivial: chack -> check typo fix in main Makefile
  trivial: Add a space (and a comma) to a printk in 8250 driver
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in docs for ncr53c8xx/sym53c8xx
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in powerpc Makefile
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in usb.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in qla1280.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in a100u2w.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in megaraid.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ql4_mbx.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in acpi_memhotplug.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ipw2100.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in atmel.c
  trivial: Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig
  trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments
  trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation
  trivial: update Jesper Juhl CREDITS entry with new email
  trivial: fix singal -> signal typo
  trivial: Fix incorrect use of "loose" in event.c
  trivial: printk: fix indentation of new_text_line declaration
  trivial: rtc-stk17ta8: fix sparse warning
  ...
2009-01-07 11:31:52 -08:00
Frederik Schwarzer
025dfdafe7 trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation
- (better, more, bigger ...) then -> (...) than

Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-01-06 11:28:06 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d9be28ea91 Merge branches 'sched/clock', 'sched/cleanups' and 'linus' into sched/urgent 2009-01-06 09:33:57 +01:00