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  1. 08 Jul, 2013 6 commits
  3. 06 Jul, 2013 1 commit
  5. 05 Jul, 2013 2 commits
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context · 5ec2481b
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      smp_call_function_* must not be called from softirq context.

But clock_was_set() which calls on_each_cpu() is called from softirq
context to implement a delayed clock_was_set() for the timer interrupt
handler. Though that almost never gets invoked. A recent change in the
resume code uses the softirq based delayed clock_was_set to support
Xens resume mechanism.

linux-next contains a new warning which warns if smp_call_function_*
is called from softirq context which gets triggered by that Xen
change.

Fix this by moving the delayed clock_was_set() call to a work context.
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarArtem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      5ec2481b
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated high-res capability · 332962f2
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      Up to commit 5d33b883 (clocksource: Always verify highres capability)
we had no sanity check when selecting a clocksource, which prevented
that a non highres capable clocksource is used when the system already
switched to highres/nohz mode.

The new sanity check works as Alex and Tim found out. It prevents the
TSC from being used. This happens because on x86 the boot process
looks like this:

 tsc_start_freqency_validation(TSC);
 clocksource_register(HPET);
 clocksource_done_booting();
	clocksource_select()
		Selects HPET which is valid for high-res

 switch_to_highres();

 clocksource_register(TSC);
 	TSC is not selected, because it is not yet
	flagged as VALID_HIGH_RES

 clocksource_watchdog()
	Validates TSC for highres, but that does not make TSC
	the current clocksource.

Before the sanity check was added, we installed TSC unvalidated which
worked most of the time. If the TSC was really detected as unstable,
then the unstable logic removed it and installed HPET again.

The sanity check is correct and needed. So the watchdog needs to kick
a reselection of the clocksource, when it qualifies TSC as a valid
high res clocksource.

To solve this, we mark the clocksource which got the flag
CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES set by the watchdog with an new flag
CLOCK_SOURCE_RESELECT and trigger the watchdog thread. The watchdog
thread evaluates the flag and invokes clocksource_select() when set.

To avoid that the clocksource_done_booting() code, which is about to
install the first real clocksource anyway, needs to go through
clocksource_select and tick_oneshot_notify() pointlessly, split out
the clocksource_watchdog_kthread() list walk code and invoke the
select/notify only when called from clocksource_watchdog_kthread().

So clocksource_done_booting() can utilize the same splitout code
without the select/notify invocation and the clocksource_mutex
unlock/relock dance.
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarAlex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: Hans Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307042239150.11637@ionos.tec.linutronix.deSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      332962f2
  7. 04 Jul, 2013 2 commits
  9. 03 Jul, 2013 6 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      posix_timers: fix racy timer delta caching on task exit · a0b2062b
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      When a task exits, we perform a caching of the remaining cputime delta
before expiring of its timers.

This is done from the following places:

* When the task is reaped. We iterate through its list of
  posix cpu timers and store the remaining timer delta to
  the timer struct instead of the absolute value.
  (See posix_cpu_timers_exit() / posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() )

* When we call posix_cpu_timer_get() or posix_cpu_timer_schedule().
  If the timer's task is considered dying when watched from these
  places, the same conversion from absolute to relative expiry time
  is performed. Then the given task's reference is released.
  (See clear_dead_task() ).

The relevance of this caching is questionable but this is another
and deeper debate.

The big issue here is that these two sources of caching don't mix
up very well together.

More specifically, the caching can easily be done twice, resulting
in a wrong delta as it gets spuriously substracted a second time by
the elapsed clock. This can happen in the following scenario:

1) The task exits and gets reaped: we call posix_cpu_timers_exit()
   and the absolute timer expiry values are converted to a relative
   delta.

2) timer_gettime() -> posix_cpu_timer_get() is called and relies on
   clear_dead_task() because  tsk->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD.
   The delta gets substracted again by the elapsed clock and we return
   a wrong result.

To fix this, just remove the caching done on task reaping time.  It
doesn't bring much value on its own.  The caching done from
posix_cpu_timer_get/schedule is enough.

And it would also be hard to get it really right: we could make it put and
clear the target task in the timer struct so that readers know if they are
dealing with a relative cached of absolute value.  But it would be racy.
The only safe way to do it would be to lock the itimer->it_lock so that we
know nobody reads the cputime expiry value while we modify it and its
target task reference.  Doing so would involve some funny workarounds to
avoid circular lock against the sighand lock.  There is just no reason to
maintain this.

The user visible effect of this patch can be observed by running the
following code: it creates a subthread that launches a posix cputimer
which expires after 10 seconds. But then the subthread only busy loops for 2
seconds and exits. The parent reaps the subthread and read the timer value.
Its expected value should the be the initial timer's expiration value
minus the cputime elapsed in the subthread. Roughly 10 - 2 = 8 seconds:

	#include <sys/time.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <time.h>
	#include <pthread.h>

	static timer_t id;
	static struct itimerspec val = { .it_value.tv_sec = 10, }, new;

	static void *thread(void *unused)
	{
		int err;
		struct timeval start, end, diff;

		timer_create(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, NULL, &id);
		if (err < 0) {
			perror("Can't create timer\n");
			return NULL;
		}

		/* Arm 10 sec timer */
		err = timer_settime(id, 0, &val, NULL);
		if (err < 0) {
			perror("Can't set timer\n");
			return NULL;
		}

		/* Exit after 2 seconds of execution */
		gettimeofday(&start, NULL);
	        do {
			gettimeofday(&end, NULL);
			timersub(&end, &start, &diff);
		} while (diff.tv_sec < 2);

		return NULL;
	}

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		pthread_t pthread;
		int err;

		err = pthread_create(&pthread, NULL, thread, NULL);
		if (err) {
			perror("Can't create thread\n");
			return -1;
		}
		pthread_join(pthread, NULL);
		/* Just wait a little bit to make sure the child got reaped */
		sleep(1);
		err = timer_gettime(id, &new);
		if (err)
			perror("Can't get timer value\n");
		printf("%d %ld\n", new.it_value.tv_sec, new.it_value.tv_nsec);

		return 0;
	}

Before the patch:

       $ ./posix_cpu_timers
       6 2278074

After the patch:

      $ ./posix_cpu_timers
      8 1158766

Before the patch, the elapsed time got two more seconds spuriously accounted.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      a0b2062b
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      posix-timers: correctly get dying task time sample in posix_cpu_timer_schedule() · 76cdcdd9
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      In order to re-arm a timer after it fired, we take a sample of the current
process or thread cputime.

If the task is dying though, we don't arm anything but we cache the
remaining timer expiration delta for further reads.

Something similar is performed in posix_cpu_timer_get() but here we forget
to take the process wide cputime sample before caching it.

As a result we are storing random stack content, leading every further
reads of that timer to return junk values.

Fix this by taking the appropriate sample in the case of process wide
timers.

This probably doesn't matter much in practice because, at this stage, the
thread is the last one in the group and we reached exit_notify().  This
implies that we called exit_itimers() and there should be no more timers
to handle for that task.

So this is likely dead code anyway but let's fix the current logic
and the warning that came along:

    kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c: In function 'posix_cpu_timer_schedule':
    kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c:1127: warning: 'now' may be used uninitialized in this function

Then we can start to think further about cleaning up that code.
Reported-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: default avatarChen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      76cdcdd9
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      selftests: add basic posix timers selftests · 0bc4b0cf
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Add some initial basic tests on a few posix timers interface such as
setitimer() and timer_settime().

These simply check that expiration happens in a reasonable timeframe after
expected elapsed clock time (user time, user + system time, real time,
...).

This is helpful for finding basic breakages while hacking
on this subsystem.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      0bc4b0cf
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      posix_cpu_timers: consolidate expired timers check · 2473f3e7
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Consolidate the common code amongst per thread and per process timers list
on tick time.

List traversal, expiry check and subsequent updates can be shared in a
common helper.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      2473f3e7
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      posix_cpu_timers: consolidate timer list cleanups · 1a7fa510
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Cleaning up the posix cpu timers on task exit shares some common code
among timer list types, most notably the list traversal and expiry time
update.

Unify this in a common helper.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      1a7fa510
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      posix_cpu_timer: consolidate expiry time type · 55ccb616
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      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: default avatarFrederic 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      55ccb616
  11. 02 Jul, 2013 3 commits
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic · 07bd1172
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      The recent implementation of a generic dummy timer resulted in a
different registration order of per cpu local timers which made the
broadcast control logic go belly up.

If the dummy timer is the first clock event device which is registered
for a CPU, then it is installed, the broadcast timer is initialized
and the CPU is marked as broadcast target.

If a real clock event device is installed after that, we can fail to
take the CPU out of the broadcast mask. In the worst case we end up
with two periodic timer events firing for the same CPU. One from the
per cpu hardware device and one from the broadcast.

Now the problem is that we have no way to distinguish whether the
system is in a state which makes broadcasting necessary or the
broadcast bit was set due to the nonfunctional dummy timer
installment.

To solve this we need to keep track of the system state seperately and
provide a more detailed decision logic whether we keep the CPU in
broadcast mode or not.

The old decision logic only clears the broadcast mode, if the newly
installed clock event device is not affected by power states.

The new logic clears the broadcast mode if one of the following is
true:

  - The new device is not affected by power states.

  - The system is not in a power state affected mode

  - The system has switched to oneshot mode. The oneshot broadcast is
    controlled from the deep idle state. The CPU is not in idle at
    this point, so it's safe to remove it from the mask.

If we clear the broadcast bit for the CPU when a new device is
installed, we also shutdown the broadcast device when this was the
last CPU in the broadcast mask.

If the broadcast bit is kept, then we leave the new device in shutdown
state and rely on the broadcast to deliver the timer interrupts via
the broadcast ipis.
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarStehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      07bd1172
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode · 1f73a980
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      When the system switches from periodic to oneshot mode, the broadcast
logic causes a possibility that a CPU which has not yet switched to
oneshot mode puts its own clock event device into oneshot mode without
updating the state and the timer handler.

CPU0				CPU1
				per cpu tickdev is in periodic mode
				and switched to broadcast

Switch to oneshot mode
 tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot()
  cpumask_copy(tick_oneshot_broacast_mask,
	       tick_broadcast_mask);

  broadcast device mode = oneshot

				Timer interrupt
						
				irq_enter()
				 tick_check_oneshot_broadcast()
				  dev->set_mode(ONESHOT);

				tick_handle_periodic()
				 if (dev->mode == ONESHOT)
				   dev->next_event += period;
				   FAIL.

We fail, because dev->next_event contains KTIME_MAX, if the device was
in periodic mode before the uncontrolled switch to oneshot happened.

We must copy the broadcast bits over to the oneshot mask, because
otherwise a CPU which relies on the broadcast would not been woken up
anymore after the broadcast device switched to oneshot mode.

So we need to verify in tick_check_oneshot_broadcast() whether the CPU
has already switched to oneshot mode. If not, leave the device
untouched and let the CPU switch controlled into oneshot mode.

This is a long standing bug, which was never noticed, because the main
user of the broadcast x86 cannot run into that scenario, AFAICT. The
nonarchitected timer mess of ARM creates a gazillion of differently
broken abominations which trigger the shortcomings of that broadcast
code, which better had never been necessary in the first place.
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarStehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      1f73a980
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining · c9b5a266
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      In periodic mode we remove offline cpus from the broadcast propagation
mask. In oneshot mode we fail to do so. This was not a problem so far,
but the recent changes to the broadcast propagation introduced a
constellation which can result in a NULL pointer dereference.

What happens is:

CPU0			CPU1
			idle()
			  arch_idle()
			    tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(OFF);
			      set cpu1 in tick_broadcast_force_mask
			  if (cpu_offline())
			     arch_cpu_dead()

cpu_dead_cleanup(cpu1)
 cpu1 tickdevice pointer = NULL

broadcast interrupt
  dereference cpu1 tickdevice pointer -> OOPS

We dereference the pointer because cpu1 is still set in
tick_broadcast_force_mask and tick_do_broadcast() expects a valid
cpumask and therefor lacks any further checks.

Remove the cpu from the tick_broadcast_force_mask before we set the
tick device pointer to NULL. Also add a sanity check to the oneshot
broadcast function, so we can detect such issues w/o crashing the
machine.
Reported-by: default avatarPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: athorlton@sgi.com
Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1306261303260.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.deSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      c9b5a266
  13. 30 Jun, 2013 6 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 3.10 · 8bb495e3
      Linus Torvalds authored
      8bb495e3
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc · f0277dce
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull another powerpc fix from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "I mentioned that while we had fixed the kernel crashes, EEH error
  recovery didn't always recover...  It appears that I had a fix for
  that already in powerpc-next (with a stable CC).

  I cherry-picked it today and did a few tests and it seems that things
  now work quite well.  The patch is also pretty simple, so I see no
  reason to wait before merging it."

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/eeh: Fix fetching bus for single-dev-PE
      f0277dce
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi · 4b483802
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
 "This is a set of seven bug fixes.  Several fcoe fixes for locking
  problems, initiator issues and a VLAN API change, all of which could
  eventually lead to data corruption, one fix for a qla2xxx locking
  problem which could lead to multiple completions of the same request
  (and subsequent data corruption) and a use after free in the ipr
  driver.  Plus one minor MAINTAINERS file update"

(only six bugfixes in this pull, since I had already pulled the fcoe API
fix directly from Robert Love)

* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
  [SCSI] ipr: Avoid target_destroy accessing memory after it was freed
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix for locking issue between driver ISR and mailbox routines
  MAINTAINERS: Fix fcoe mailing list
  libfc: extend ex_lock to protect all of fc_seq_send
  libfc: Correct check for initiator role
  libfcoe: Fix Conflicting FCFs issue in the fabric
      4b483802
    • Gavin Shan's avatar
      powerpc/eeh: Fix fetching bus for single-dev-PE · ea461abf
      Gavin Shan authored 
      While running Linux as guest on top of phyp, we possiblly have
PE that includes single PCI device. However, we didn't return
its PCI bus correctly and it leads to failure on recovery from
EEH errors for single-dev-PE. The patch fixes the issue.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.7+
Cc: Steve Best <sbest@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      ea461abf
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc · 6c355bea
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull powerpc fixes from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "We discovered some breakage in our "EEH" (PCI Error Handling) code
  while doing error injection, due to a couple of regressions.  One of
  them is due to a patch (37f02195 "powerpc/pci: fix PCI-e devices
  rescan issue on powerpc platform") that, in hindsight, I shouldn't
  have merged considering that it caused more problems than it solved.

  Please pull those two fixes.  One for a simple EEH address cache
  initialization issue.  The other one is a patch from Guenter that I
  had originally planned to put in 3.11 but which happens to also fix
  that other regression (a kernel oops during EEH error handling and
  possibly hotplug).

  With those two, the couple of test machines I've hammered with error
  injection are remaining up now.  EEH appears to still fail to recover
  on some devices, so there is another problem that Gavin is looking
  into but at least it's no longer crashing the kernel."

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/pci: Improve device hotplug initialization
  powerpc/eeh: Add eeh_dev to the cache during boot
      6c355bea
    • Olof Johansson's avatar
      ARM: dt: Only print warning, not WARN() on bad cpu map in device tree · 8d5bc1a6
      Olof Johansson authored 
      Due to recent changes and expecations of proper cpu bindings, there are
now cases for many of the in-tree devicetrees where a WARN() will hit
on boot due to badly formatted /cpus nodes.

Downgrade this to a pr_warn() to be less alarmist, since it's not a
new problem.

Tested on Arndale, Cubox, Seaboard and Panda ES. Panda hits the WARN
without this, the others do not.
Acked-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8d5bc1a6
  15. 29 Jun, 2013 11 commits
  17. 28 Jun, 2013 3 commits
    • David Vrabel's avatar
      x86: xen: Sync the CMOS RTC as well as the Xen wallclock · 47433b8c
      David Vrabel authored 
      Adjustments to Xen's persistent clock via update_persistent_clock()
don't actually persist, as the Xen wallclock is a software only clock
and modifications to it do not modify the underlying CMOS RTC.

The x86_platform.set_wallclock hook is there to keep the hardware RTC
synchronized. On a guest this is pointless.

On Dom0 we can use the native implementaion which actually updates the
hardware RTC, but we still need to keep the software emulation of RTC
for the guests up to date. The subscription to the pvclock_notifier
allows us to emulate this easily. The notifier is called at every tick
and when the clock was set.

Right now we only use that notifier when the clock was set, but due to
the fact that it is called periodically from the timekeeping update
code, we can utilize it to emulate the NTP driven drift compensation
of update_persistant_clock() for the Xen wall (software) clock.

Add a 11 minutes periodic update to the pvclock_gtod notifier callback
to achieve that. The static variable 'next' which maintains that 11
minutes update cycle is protected by the core code serialization so
there is no need to add a Xen specific serialization mechanism.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog and added a few comments ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372329348-20841-6-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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      x86: xen: Sync the wallclock when the system time is set · 5584880e
      David Vrabel authored 
      Currently the Xen wallclock is only updated every 11 minutes if NTP is
synchronized to its clock source (using the sync_cmos_clock() work).
If a guest is started before NTP is synchronized it may see an
incorrect wallclock time.

Use the pvclock_gtod notifier chain to receive a notification when the
system time has changed and update the wallclock to match.

This chain is called on every timer tick and we want to avoid an extra
(expensive) hypercall on every tick.  Because dom0 has historically
never provided a very accurate wallclock and guests do not expect one,
we can do this simply: the wallclock is only updated if the clock was
set.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372329348-20841-5-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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      timekeeping: Indicate that clock was set in the pvclock gtod notifier · 780427f0
      David Vrabel authored 
      If the clock was set (stepped), set the action parameter to functions
in the pvclock gtod notifier chain to non-zero.  This allows the
callee to only do work if the clock was stepped.

This will be used on Xen as the synchronization of the Xen wallclock
to the control domain's (dom0) system time will be done with this
notifier and updating on every timer tick is unnecessary and too
expensive.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372329348-20841-4-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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