nothing blocking there, since all instances of sysctl
->permissions() method are non-blocking - both of them,
that is.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

nothing blocking other than generic_permission() (and
check_acl callback does bail out in RCU mode).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

nothing blocking except generic_permission()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Nothing blocking except for generic_permission().  Which will DTRT.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... and never did, what with its ->permission() being what we do by default
when ->permission is NULL...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

return (mask & MAY_EXEC) ? -EACCES : 0; is non-blocking...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

nothing potentially blocking except generic_permission(), which
will DTRT
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

return -EIO; is *not* a blocking operation, thank you very much.
Nick, what the hell have you been smoking?
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

d251ed27 "ubifs: fix sget races" left out the goto from this
error path so the static checkers complain that we're dereferencing
"sb" when it's an ERR_PTR.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd:
  proc: Fix Oops on stat of /proc/<zombie pid>/ns/net

swapcache will reach the below code path in migrate_page_move_mapping,
and swapcache is accounted as NR_FILE_PAGES but it's not accounted as
NR_SHMEM.

Hugh pointed out we must use PageSwapCache instead of comparing
mapping to &swapper_space, to avoid build failure with CONFIG_SWAP=n.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  kbuild: Call depmod.sh via shell
  perf: clear out make flags when calling kernel make kernelver

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  AFS: Use i_generation not i_version for the vnode uniquifier
  AFS: Set s_id in the superblock to the volume name
  vfs: Fix data corruption after failed write in __block_write_begin()
  afs: afs_fill_page reads too much, or wrong data
  VFS: Fix vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount
  fix wrong iput on d_inode introduced by e6bc45d6
  Delay struct net freeing while there's a sysfs instance refering to it
  afs: fix sget() races, close leak on umount
  ubifs: fix sget races
  ubifs: split allocation of ubifs_info into a separate function
  fix leak in proc_set_super()

* 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.x:
  sh: sh7724: Add USBHS DMAEngine support
  sh: ecovec: Add renesas_usbhs support
  sh, exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
  drivers: sh: resume enabled clocks fix
  dmaengine: shdma: SH_DMAC_MAX_CHANNELS message fix
  sh: Fix up xchg/cmpxchg corruption with gUSA RB.
  sh: Remove compressed kernel libgcc dependency.
  sh: fix wrong icache/dcache address-array start addr in cache-debugfs.

Merge branch 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.x

* 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.x:
  ARM: mach-shmobile: mackerel: tidyup usbhs driver settings
  ARM: mach-shmobile: Correct SCIF port types for SH7367.
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh73a0 gic_arch_extn.irq_set_wake() fix
  ARM: mach-shmobile: Mackerel USB platform data update
  ARM: mach-shmobile: AG5EVM SDHI1 platform data update

Merge branch 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-3.x

* 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-3.x:
  fbdev: sh_mobile_hdmi: fix regression: statically enable RTPM
  fbdev/atyfb: Fix 2 defined-but-not-used warnings
  efifb: Fix call to wrong unregister function
  video: s3c-fb: move enabling channel for window
  video: s3c-fb: fix virtual resolution checking
  video: s3c-fb: fix misleading kfree in remove function

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  SELinux: skip file_name_trans_write() when policy downgraded.
  selinux: fix case of names with whitespace/multibytes on /selinux/create

Store the AFS vnode uniquifier in the i_generation field, not the i_version
field of the inode struct.  i_version can then be given the AFS data version
number.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Set s_id in the superblock to the name of the AFS volume that this superblock
corresponds to.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

I've got a report of a file corruption from fsxlinux on ext3. The important
operations to the page were:
mapwrite to a hole
partial write to the page
read - found the page zeroed from the end of the normal write

The culprit seems to be that if get_block() fails in __block_write_begin()
(e.g. transient ENOSPC in ext3), the function does ClearPageUptodate(page).
Thus when we retry the write, the logic in __block_write_begin() thinks zeroing
of the page is needed and overwrites old data.  In fact, I don't see why we
should ever need to zero the uptodate bit here - either the page was uptodate
when we entered __block_write_begin() and it should stay so when we leave it,
or it was not uptodate and noone had right to set it uptodate during
__block_write_begin() so it remains !uptodate when we leave as well. So just
remove clearing of the bit.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

afs_fill_page should read the page that is about to be written but
the current implementation has a number of issues. If we aren't
extending the file we always read PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at offset 0. If we
are extending the file we try to read the entire file.

Change afs_fill_page to read PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at the right offset,
clamped to i_size.

While here, avoid calling afs_fill_page when we are doing a
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE write.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Fix build by moving enum list outside of
#ifdef CONFIG_IIO_RING_BUFFER.

  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16201_core.c:413: error: 'ADIS16201_SCAN_SUPPLY' undeclared here (not in a function)
  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16201_core.c:417: error: 'ADIS16201_SCAN_TEMP' undeclared here (not in a function)
  ..

  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203_core.c:374: error: 'ADIS16203_SCAN_SUPPLY' undeclared here (not in a function)
  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203_core.c:378: error: 'ADIS16203_SCAN_AUX_ADC' undeclared here (not in a function)
  ..
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[Kudos to dhowells for tracking that crap down]

If two processes attempt to cause automounting on the same mountpoint at the
same time, the vfsmount holding the mountpoint will be left with one too few
references on it, causing a BUG when the kernel tries to clean up.

The problem is that lock_mount() drops the caller's reference to the
mountpoint's vfsmount in the case where it finds something already mounted on
the mountpoint as it transits to the mounted filesystem and replaces path->mnt
with the new mountpoint vfsmount.

During a pathwalk, however, we don't take a reference on the vfsmount if it is
the same as the one in the nameidata struct, but do_add_mount() doesn't know
this.

The fix is to make sure we have a ref on the vfsmount of the mountpoint before
calling do_add_mount().  However, if lock_mount() doesn't transit, we're then
left with an extra ref on the mountpoint vfsmount which needs releasing.
We can handle that in follow_managed() by not making assumptions about what
we can and what we cannot get from lookup_mnt() as the current code does.

The callers of follow_managed() expect that reference to path->mnt will be
grabbed iff path->mnt has been changed.  follow_managed() and follow_automount()
keep track of whether such reference has been grabbed and assume that it'll
happen in those and only those cases that'll have us return with changed
path->mnt.  That assumption is almost correct - it breaks in case of
racing automounts and in even harder to hit race between following a mountpoint
and a couple of mount --move.  The thing is, we don't need to make that
assumption at all - after the end of loop in follow_manage() we can check
if path->mnt has ended up unchanged and do mntput() if needed.

The BUG can be reproduced with the following test program:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <sys/stat.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>
	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		int pid, ws;
		struct stat buf;
		pid = fork();
		stat(argv[1], &buf);
		if (pid > 0) wait(&ws);
		return 0;
	}

and the following procedure:

 (1) Mount an NFS volume that on the server has something else mounted on a
     subdirectory.  For instance, I can mount / from my server:

	mount warthog:/ /mnt -t nfs4 -r

     On the server /data has another filesystem mounted on it, so NFS will see
     a change in FSID as it walks down the path, and will mark /mnt/data as
     being a mountpoint.  This will cause the automount code to be triggered.

     !!! Do not look inside the mounted fs at this point !!!

 (2) Run the above program on a file within the submount to generate two
     simultaneous automount requests:

	/tmp/forkstat /mnt/data/testfile

 (3) Unmount the automounted submount:

	umount /mnt/data

 (4) Unmount the original mount:

	umount /mnt

     At this point the kernel should throw a BUG with something like the
     following:

	BUG: Dentry ffff880032e3c5c0{i=2,n=} still in use (1) [unmount of nfs4 0:12]

Note that the bug appears on the root dentry of the original mount, not the
mountpoint and not the submount because sys_umount() hasn't got to its final
mntput_no_expire() yet, but this isn't so obvious from the call trace:

 [<ffffffff8117cd82>] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x69/0x82
 [<ffffffff8116160e>] generic_shutdown_super+0x37/0x15b
 [<ffffffffa00fae56>] ? nfs_super_return_all_delegations+0x2e/0x1b1 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff811617f3>] kill_anon_super+0x1d/0x7e
 [<ffffffffa00d0be1>] nfs4_kill_super+0x60/0xb6 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff81161c17>] deactivate_locked_super+0x34/0x83
 [<ffffffff811629ff>] deactivate_super+0x6f/0x7b
 [<ffffffff81186261>] mntput_no_expire+0x18d/0x199
 [<ffffffff811862a8>] mntput+0x3b/0x44
 [<ffffffff81186d87>] release_mounts+0xa2/0xbf
 [<ffffffff811876af>] sys_umount+0x47a/0x4ba
 [<ffffffff8109e1ca>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x1fd/0x22f
 [<ffffffff816ea86b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

as do_umount() is inlined.  However, you can see release_mounts() in there.

Note also that it may be necessary to have multiple CPU cores to be able to
trigger this bug.
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Git bisection shows that commit e6bc45d6 causes
BUG_ONs under high I/O load:

kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:1368!
[ 2862.501007] Call Trace:
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff811691d8>] d_kill+0xf8/0x140
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81169c19>] dput+0xc9/0x190
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff8115577f>] fput+0x15f/0x210
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81152171>] filp_close+0x61/0x90
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81152251>] sys_close+0xb1/0x110
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff814c14fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

A reliable way to reproduce this bug is:
Login to KDE, run 'rsnapshot sync', and apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk,
and apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk.

The buggy part of the patch is this:
	struct inode *inode = NULL;
.....
-               if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len])
-                       goto slashes;
                inode = dentry->d_inode;
-               if (inode)
-                       ihold(inode);
+               if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len] || !inode)
+                       goto slashes;
+               ihold(inode)
...
	if (inode)
		iput(inode);	/* truncate the inode here */

If nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is nonzero (and thus goto slashes branch is taken),
and dentry->d_inode is non-NULL, then this code now does an additional iput on
the inode, which is wrong.

Fix this by only setting the inode variable if nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is 0.

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/15/50Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Reported-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

We have some users of this function that date back to before the vma
list was doubly linked, and just are silly.  These days, you can find
the previous vma by just following the vma->vm_prev pointer.

In some cases you don't need any find_vma() lookup at all, and in other
cases you're better off with the regular "find_vma()" that uses the vma
cache front-end lookup.

Some "find_vma_prev()" users are still valid, though.  For example, in
the case of a stack that grows up, it can be the case that we don't find
any 'vma' at all (because we're looking up an address that is past the
last vma), and that the stack that we want to grow is the 'prev' vma.

But that kind of special case aside, we generally should prefer to use
'find_vma()'.

Noticed due to a totally unrelated POWER memory corruption bug that just
happened to hit in 'find_vma_prev()' and made me go "Hmm - why are we
using that function here?".
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <morimoto.kuninori@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <morimoto.kuninori@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

* 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  ARM: footbridge: fix clock event support
  ARM: footbridge: fix debug macros
  ARM: initrd: disable initrds outside of memory
  ARM: extend Code: line by one 16-bit quantity for Thumb instructions
  ARM: 6955/1: cmpxchg syscall should data abort if page not write
  ARM: 6954/1: zImage: fix Thumb2 breakage
  ARM: 6953/1: DT: don't try to access physical address zero
  ARM: 6949/2: mach-u300: fix compilaton warning in IO accessors
  Revert "ARM: 6944/1: mm: allow ASID 0 to be allocated to tasks"
  Revert "ARM: 6943/1: mm: use TTBR1 instead of reserved context ID"
  davinci: make PCM platform devices static
  arm: davinci: Fix fallout from generic irq chip conversion
  ARM: 6894/1: mmci: trigger card detect IRQs on falling and rising edges
  ARM: 6952/1: fix lockdep warning of "unannotated irqs-off"
  ARM: 6951/1: include .bss in memory layout information
  ARM: 6948/1: Fix .size directives for __arm{7,9}tdmi_proc_info
  ARM: 6947/2: mach-u300: fix compilation error in timer
  ARM: 6946/1: vexpress: move v2m clock init to init_early
  ARM: mx51/sdma: Check the chip revision in run-time
  arm: mxs: include asm/processor.h for cpu_relax()

This reverts commit 7f81c889.

It turns out that it's not actually a build-time check on x86-64 UML,
which does some seriously crazy stuff with VM_STACK_FLAGS.

The VM_STACK_FLAGS define depends on the arch-supplied
VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS value, and on x86-64 UML we have

  arch/um/sys-x86_64/shared/sysdep/vm-flags.h:

	#define VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS \
		(test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) ? vm_stack_flags32 : vm_stack_flags)

	#define VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS vm_stack_flags

(yes, seriously: two different #define's for that thing, with the first
one being inside an "#ifdef TIF_IA32")

It's possible that it is UML that should just be fixed in this area, but
for now let's just undo the (very small) optimization.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix format and spelling.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

According to commit 676db4af ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to
mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem
is /sys/fs/cgroup.  Hence, this should be used in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Instead of listing the architectures that are supported by
kmemleak in Documentation/kmemleak.txt, just refer people to
the list of supported architecutures in lib/Kconfig.debug so
that Documentation/kmemleak.txt does not need more updates
for this.
Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch updates the incomplete documentation concerning the printk
extended format specifiers.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@mpc-data.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Check if lowest_mask is initialized in find_lowest_rq()
  sched: Fix need_resched() when checking peempt

Fix several security issues in Alpha-specific syscalls.  Untested, but
mostly trivial.

1. Signedness issue in osf_getdomainname allows copying out-of-bounds
kernel memory to userland.

2. Signedness issue in osf_sysinfo allows copying large amounts of
kernel memory to userland.

3. Typo (?) in osf_getsysinfo bounds minimum instead of maximum copy
size, allowing copying large amounts of kernel memory to userland.

4. Usage of user pointer in osf_wait4 while under KERNEL_DS allows
privilege escalation via writing return value of sys_wait4 to kernel
memory.
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fixes this warning:

  drivers/misc/apds990x.c: At top level:
  drivers/misc/apds990x.c:613: warning: `apds990x_chip_on' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Andrea Righi reported a case where an exiting task can race against
ksmd::scan_get_next_rmap_item (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/1/742) easily
triggering a NULL pointer dereference in ksmd.

ksm_scan.mm_slot == &ksm_mm_head with only one registered mm

CPU 1 (__ksm_exit)		CPU 2 (scan_get_next_rmap_item)
 				list_empty() is false
lock				slot == &ksm_mm_head
list_del(slot->mm_list)
(list now empty)
unlock
				lock
				slot = list_entry(slot->mm_list.next)
				(list is empty, so slot is still ksm_mm_head)
				unlock
				slot->mm == NULL ... Oops

Close this race by revalidating that the new slot is not simply the list
head again.

Andrea's test case:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

#define BUFSIZE getpagesize()

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	void *ptr;

	if (posix_memalign(&ptr, getpagesize(), BUFSIZE) < 0) {
		perror("posix_memalign");
		exit(1);
	}
	if (madvise(ptr, BUFSIZE, MADV_MERGEABLE) < 0) {
		perror("madvise");
		exit(1);
	}
	*(char *)NULL = 0;

	return 0;
}
Reported-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

RTC_CLASS is changed to bool, so 'm' is invalid.
Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If dmi_get_system_info() returns NULL, pch_uart_init_port() will
dereferencea a zero pointer.

This oops was observed on an Atom based board which has no BIOS, but
a bootloder which doesn't provide DMI data.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When interrupts are delayed due to interrupt masking or due to other
interrupts being serviced the HPET periodic-emuation would fail.  This
happened because given an interval t and a time for the current interrupt
m we would compute the next time as t + m.  This works until we are
delayed for > t, in which case we would be writing a new value which is in
fact in the past.

This can be solved by computing the next time instead as (k * t) + m where
k is large enough to be in the future.  The exact computation of k is
described in a comment to the code.

More detail:

Assuming an interval of 5 between each expected interrupt we have a normal
case of

t0: interrupt, read t0 from comparator, set next interrupt t0 + 5
t5: interrupt, read t5 from comparator, set next interrupt t5 + 5
t10: interrupt, read t10 from comparator, set next interrupt t10 + 5
...

So, what happens when the interrupt is serviced too late?

t0: interrupt, read t0 from comparator, set next interrupt t0 + 5
t11: delayed interrupt serviced, read t5 from comparator, set next
interrupt t5 + 5, which is in the past!
... counter loops ...
t10: Much much later, get the next interrupt.

This can happen either because we have interrupts masked for too long
(some stupid driver goes on a printk rampage) or just because we are
pushing the limits of the interval (too small a period), or both most
probably.

My solution is to read the main counter as well and set the next interrupt
to occur at the right interval, for example:

t0: interrupt, read t0 from comparator, set next interrupt t0 + 5
t11: delayed interrupt serviced, read t5 from comparator, set next
interrupt t15 as t10 has been missed.
t15: back on track.
Signed-off-by: Nils Carlson <nils.carlson@ericsson.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>