While calculating the scheduler tick max deferment, the delta is
converted from microseconds to nanoseconds through a multiplication
against NSEC_PER_USEC.
But this microseconds operand is an unsigned int, thus the result may
likely overflow. The result is cast to u64 but only once the operation
is completed, which is too late to avoid overflown result.
This is currently not a problem because the scheduler tick max deferment
is 1 second. But this may become an issue as we plan to make this
value tunable.
So lets fix this by casting the usecs value to u64 before multiplying by
NSECS_PER_USEC.
Also to prevent from this kind of mistake to happen again, move this
ad-hoc jiffies -> nsecs conversion to a new helper.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387315388-31676-2-git-send-email-khilman@linaro.org
[move ad-hoc conversion to jiffies_to_nsecs helper]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
According to the C standard 3.4.3p3, overflow of a signed integer results
in undefined behavior. This commit therefore changes the definitions
of time_after(), time_after_eq(), time_after64(), and time_after_eq64()
to avoid this undefined behavior. The trick is that the subtraction
is done using unsigned arithmetic, which according to 6.2.5p9 cannot
overflow because it is defined as modulo arithmetic. This has the added
(though admittedly quite small) benefit of shortening four lines of code
by four characters each.
Note that the C standard considers the cast from unsigned to
signed to be implementation-defined, see 6.3.1.3p3. However, on a
two's-complement system, an implementation that defines anything other
than a reinterpretation of the bits is free to come to me, and I will be
happy to act as a witness for its being committed to an insane asylum.
(Although I have nothing against saturating arithmetic or signals in some
cases, these things really should not be the default when compiling an
operating-system kernel.)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org>
[ paulmck: Included time_after64() and time_after_eq64(), as suggested
by Eric Dumazet, also fixed commit message.]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Time in range will fail safely if we move to a different cpu with an
extremely large clock skew.
Add time_in_range64() and convert lls to use it.
changelog:
v2
- fixed double call to sched_clock in can_poll_ll
- fixed checkpatchisms
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Nothing outside of the timekeeping core needs that lock.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Pull timer core update from Thomas Gleixner:
- Bug fixes (one for a longstanding dead loop issue)
- Rework of time related vsyscalls
- Alarm timer updates
- Jiffies updates to remove compile time dependencies
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timekeeping: Cast raw_interval to u64 to avoid shift overflow
timers: Fix endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer()
time/jiffies: bring back unconditional LATCH definition
time: Convert x86_64 to using new update_vsyscall
time: Only do nanosecond rounding on GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD systems
time: Introduce new GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
time: Convert CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL to CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
time: Move update_vsyscall definitions to timekeeper_internal.h
time: Move timekeeper structure to timekeeper_internal.h for vsyscall changes
jiffies: Remove compile time assumptions about CLOCK_TICK_RATE
jiffies: Kill unused TICK_USEC_TO_NSEC
alarmtimer: Rename alarmtimer_remove to alarmtimer_dequeue
alarmtimer: Remove unused helpers & defines
alarmtimer: Use hrtimer per-alarm instead of per-base
alarmtimer: Implement minimum alarm interval for allowing suspend
Patch a7ea3bbf5d "time/jiffies: Allow CLOCK_TICK_RATE to be undefined"
breaks the compilation of targets that rely on the LATCH definition,
because of recursive header file inclusion not defining CLOCK_TICK_RATE
before it is checked here.
This fixes the problem by moving LATCH back to where it was, but it
seems that there are still cases where SHIFTED_HZ is defined incorrectly
because of the same problem. Need to investigate further.
Without this patch, building h7201_defconfig results in:
arch/arm/mach-h720x/common.c: In function 'h720x_gettimeoffset':
arch/arm/mach-h720x/common.c:50:73: error: 'LATCH' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/arm/mach-h720x/common.c:50:73: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
arch/arm/mach-h720x/common.c:51:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
CLOCK_TICK_RATE is used to accurately caclulate exactly how
a tick will be at a given HZ.
This is useful, because while we'd expect NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ,
the underlying hardware will have some granularity limit,
so we won't be able to have exactly HZ ticks per second.
This slight error can cause timekeeping quality problems
when using the jiffies or other jiffies driven clocksources.
Thus we currently use compile time CLOCK_TICK_RATE value to
generate SHIFTED_HZ and NSEC_PER_JIFFIES, which we then use
to adjust the jiffies clocksource to correct this error.
Unfortunately though, since CLOCK_TICK_RATE is a compile
time value, and the jiffies clocksource is registered very
early during boot, there are a number of cases where there
are different possible hardware timers that have different
tick rates. This causes problems in cases like ARM where
there are numerous different types of hardware, each having
their own compile-time CLOCK_TICK_RATE, making it hard to
accurately support different hardware with a single kernel.
For the most part, this doesn't matter all that much, as not
too many systems actually utilize the jiffies or jiffies driven
clocksource. Usually there are other highres clocksources
who's granularity error is negligable.
Even so, we have some complicated calcualtions that we do
everywhere to handle these edge cases.
This patch removes the compile time SHIFTED_HZ value, and
introduces a register_refined_jiffies() function. This results
in the default jiffies clock as being assumed a perfect HZ
freq, and allows archtectures that care about jiffies accuracy
to call register_refined_jiffies() with the tick rate, specified
dynamically at boot.
This allows us, where necessary, to not have a compile time
CLOCK_TICK_RATE constant, simplifies the jiffies code, and
still provides a way to have an accurate jiffies clock.
NOTE: Since this patch does not add register_refinied_jiffies()
calls for every arch, it may cause time quality regressions
in some cases. Its likely these will not be noticable, but
if they are an issue, adding the following to the end of
setup_arch() should resolve the regression:
register_refinied_jiffies(CLOCK_TICK_RATE)
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Various /proc/net files sometimes report crazy timer values, expressed
in clock_t units.
This happens when an expired timer delta (expires - jiffies) is passed
to jiffies_to_clock_t().
This function has an overflow in :
return div_u64((u64)x * TICK_NSEC, NSEC_PER_SEC / USER_HZ);
commit cbbc719fcc (time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type
to unsigned long) only got around the problem.
As we cant output negative values in /proc/net/tcp without breaking
various tools, I suggest adding a jiffies_delta_to_clock_t() wrapper
that caps the negative delta to a 0 value.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: hank <pyu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CLOCK_TICK_RATE is a legacy constant that defines the timer
device's granularity. On hardware with particularly coarse
granularity, this constant is used to reduce accumulated
time error when using jiffies as a clocksource, by calculating
the hardware's actual tick length rather then just assuming
it is 1sec/HZ.
However, for the most part this is unnecessary, as most modern
systems don't use jiffies for their clocksource, and their
tick device is sufficiently fine grained to avoid major error.
Thus, this patch allows an architecture to not define
CLOCK_TICK_RATE, in which case ACTHZ defaults to (HZ << 8).
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Commit log & intention tweaks ]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343414893-45779-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The parameter's origin type is long. On an i386 architecture, it can
easily be larger than 0x80000000, causing this function to convert it
to a sign-extended u64 type.
Change the type to unsigned long so we get the correct result.
Signed-off-by: hank <pyu@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
[ build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use of msecs_to_jiffies() for nsecs_to_cputime() have some
problems:
- The type of msecs_to_jiffies()'s argument is unsigned int, so
it cannot convert msecs greater than UINT_MAX = about 49.7 days.
- msecs_to_jiffies() returns MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET if MSB of argument
is set, assuming that input was negative value. So it cannot
convert msecs greater than INT_MAX = about 24.8 days too.
This patch defines a new function nsecs_to_jiffies() that can
deal greater values, and that can deal all incoming values as
unsigned.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Amrico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E16E7.5070307@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Hi.
I've been looking at a bugzilla which describes a problem where
a customer was advised to use either the "noac" or "actimeo=0"
mount options to solve a consistency problem that they were
seeing in the file attributes. It turned out that this solution
did not work reliably for them because sometimes, the local
attribute cache was believed to be valid and not timed out.
(With an attribute cache timeout of 0, the cache should always
appear to be timed out.)
In looking at this situation, it appears to me that the problem
is that the attribute cache timeout code has an off-by-one
error in it. It is assuming that the cache is valid in the
region, [read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo]. The
cache should be considered valid only in the region,
[read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo). With this
change, the options, "noac" and "actimeo=0", work as originally
expected.
This problem was previously addressed by special casing the
attrtimeo == 0 case. However, since the problem is only an off-
by-one error, the cleaner solution is address the off-by-one
error and thus, not require the special case.
Thanx...
ps
Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
x86 is the only arch right now, which provides an optimized for
div_long_long_rem and it has the downside that one has to be very careful that
the divide doesn't overflow.
The API is a little akward, as the arguments for the unsigned divide are
signed. The signed version also doesn't handle a negative divisor and
produces worse code on 64bit archs.
There is little incentive to keep this API alive, so this converts the few
users to the new API.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial: (24 commits)
DOC: A couple corrections and clarifications in USB doc.
Generate a slightly more informative error msg for bad HZ
fix typo "is" -> "if" in Makefile
ext*: spelling fix prefered -> preferred
DOCUMENTATION: Use newer DEFINE_SPINLOCK macro in docs.
KEYS: Fix the comment to match the file name in rxrpc-type.h.
RAID: remove trailing space from printk line
DMA engine: typo fixes
Remove unused MAX_NODES_SHIFT
MAINTAINERS: Clarify access to OCFS2 development mailing list.
V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier (sn9c102)
V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier
sonypi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
intel_menlow: Storage class should be before const qualifier
DVB: Storage class should be before const qualifier
arm: Storage class should be before const qualifier
ALSA: Storage class should be before const qualifier
acpi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
firmware_sample_driver.c: fix coding style
MAINTAINERS: Add ati_remote2 driver
...
Fixed up trivial conflicts in firmware_sample_driver.c
Generate a slightly more informative error msg for bad HZ
in include/linux/jiffies.h
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
For some crazy reason (trying to work around hw problem in i810) I wanted
to use HZ around 4000.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Kevin Hilman
Paul E. McKenney
Eliezer Tamir
Thomas Gleixner
John Stultz
Linus Torvalds
Arnd Bergmann
David S. Miller
Eric Dumazet
Catalin Marinas
hank
Lucas De Marchi
Venkatesh Pallipadi
Hidetoshi Seto
Peter Staubach
Roman Zippel
Robert P. J. Day
Dave Young
Li Zefan
Pavel Machek