14 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
    aren't. The list includes:

    (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
    syscalls and some mount syscalls.

    (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.

    (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: David S. Miller
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

13 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • The current computation, introduced with f12a15be63, of FSEC_PER_SEC using
    the multiplication of (FSEC_PER_NSEC * NSEC_PER_SEC) is performed only
    with 32bit integers on small machines, resulting in an overflow and a
    *very* short intervals being programmed. An interrupt storm follows.

    Note that we also have to specify FSEC_PER_SEC as being long long to
    overcome the same limitations.

    Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson
    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Chris Wilson
     

27 Jul, 2010

3 commits

  • This patch makes xtime and wall_to_monotonic static, as planned in
    Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. This will allow for
    further cleanups to the timekeeping core.

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    John Stultz
     
  • Provides an accessor function to replace hrtimer.c's
    direct access of wall_to_monotonic.

    This will allow wall_to_monotonic to be made static as
    planned in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    John Stultz
     
  • After accidentally misusing timespec_add_safe, I wanted to make sure
    we don't accidently trip over that issue again, so I created a simple
    timespec_add() function which we can use to replace the instances
    of timespec_add_safe() that don't want the overflow detection.

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    John Stultz
     

13 Apr, 2010

1 commit

  • With the earlier logarithmic time accumulation patch, xtime will now
    always be within one "tick" of the current time, instead of possibly
    half a second off.

    This removes the need for the xtime_cache value, which always stored the
    time at the last interrupt, so this patch cleans that up removing the
    xtime_cache related code.

    This patch also addresses an issue with an earlier version of this change,
    where xtime_cache was normalizing xtime, which could in some cases be
    not valid (ie: tv_nsec == NSEC_PER_SEC). This is fixed by handling
    the edge case in update_wall_time().

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    Cc: Petr Titěra
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    John Stultz
     

14 Nov, 2009

1 commit

  • The dynamic tick allows the kernel to sleep for periods longer than a
    single tick, but it does not limit the sleep time currently. In the
    worst case the kernel could sleep longer than the wrap around time of
    the time keeping clock source which would result in losing track of
    time.

    Prevent this by limiting it to the safe maximum sleep time of the
    current time keeping clock source. The value is calculated when the
    clock source is registered.

    [ tglx: simplified the code a bit and massaged the commit msg ]

    Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter
    Cc: John Stultz
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Jon Hunter
     

24 Sep, 2009

1 commit

  • There are many similar code in kernel for one object: convert time between
    calendar time and broken-down time.

    Here is some source I found:
    fs/ncpfs/dir.c
    fs/smbfs/proc.c
    fs/fat/misc.c
    fs/udf/udftime.c
    fs/cifs/netmisc.c
    net/netfilter/xt_time.c
    drivers/scsi/ips.c
    drivers/input/misc/hp_sdc_rtc.c
    drivers/rtc/rtc-lib.c
    arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c
    arch/m68k/mac/misc.c
    arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
    arch/parisc/include/asm/rtc.h
    ...

    We can make a common function for this type of conversion, At least we
    can get following benefit:

    1: Make kernel simple and unify
    2: Easy to fix bug in converting code
    3: Reduce clone of code in future
    For example, I'm trying to make ftrace display walltime,
    this patch will make me easy.

    This code is based on code from glibc-2.6

    Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei
    Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Pavel Machek
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Zhaolei
     

15 Sep, 2009

1 commit

  • set_normalized_timespec() nsec argument is of type long. The recent
    timekeeping changes of ktime_get_ts() feed

    ts->tv_nsec + tomono.tv_nsec + nsecs

    to set_normalized_timespec(). On 32 bit machines that sum can be
    larger than (1 << 31) and therefor result in a negative value which
    screws up the result completely.

    Make the nsec argument of set_normalized_timespec() s64 to fix the
    problem at hand. This also prevents similar problems for future users
    of set_normalized_timespec().

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Tested-by: Carsten Emde
    LKML-Reference:
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: John Stultz

    Thomas Gleixner
     

22 Aug, 2009

1 commit

  • After talking with some application writers who want very fast, but not
    fine-grained timestamps, I decided to try to implement new clock_ids
    to clock_gettime(): CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE
    which returns the time at the last tick. This is very fast as we don't
    have to access any hardware (which can be very painful if you're using
    something like the acpi_pm clocksource), and we can even use the vdso
    clock_gettime() method to avoid the syscall. The only trade off is you
    only get low-res tick grained time resolution.

    This isn't a new idea, I know Ingo has a patch in the -rt tree that made
    the vsyscall gettimeofday() return coarse grained time when the
    vsyscall64 sysctrl was set to 2. However this affects all applications
    on a system.

    With this method, applications can choose the proper speed/granularity
    trade-off for themselves.

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: nikolag@ca.ibm.com
    Cc: Darren Hart
    Cc: arjan@infradead.org
    Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    john stultz
     

15 Aug, 2009

3 commits

  • Add the new function read_boot_clock to get the exact time the system
    has been started. For architectures without support for exact boot
    time a new weak function is added that returns 0. Use the exact boot
    time to initialize wall_to_monotonic, or xtime if the read_boot_clock
    returned 0.

    Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Acked-by: John Stultz
    Cc: Daniel Walker
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Martin Schwidefsky
     
  • The persistent clock of some architectures (e.g. s390) have a
    better granularity than seconds. To reduce the delta between the
    host clock and the guest clock in a virtualized system change the
    read_persistent_clock function to return a struct timespec.

    Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Acked-by: John Stultz
    Cc: Daniel Walker
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Martin Schwidefsky
     
  • Move the adjustment of xtime, wall_to_monotonic and the update of the
    vsyscall variables to the timekeeping code.

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    John Stultz
     

02 May, 2009

1 commit

  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    john stultz
     

27 Mar, 2009

1 commit

  • A number of standard posix types are used in exported headers, which
    is not allowed if __STRICT_KERNEL_NAMES is defined. In order to
    get rid of the non-__STRICT_KERNEL_NAMES part and to make sane headers
    the default, we have to change them all to safe types.

    There are also still some leftovers in reiserfs_fs.h, elfcore.h
    and coda.h, but these files have not compiled in user space for
    a long time.

    This leaves out the various integer types ({u_,u,}int{8,16,32,64}_t),
    which we take care of separately.

    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
    Cc: David Airlie
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
    Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: Jaroslav Kysela
    Cc: Takashi Iwai
    Cc: David Woodhouse
    Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Arnd Bergmann
     

31 Dec, 2008

1 commit

  • Redo:

    5b7dba4: sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards

    which had to be reverted due to s2ram hangs:

    ca7e716: Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards"

    ... this time with resume restoring GTOD later in the sequence
    taken into account as well.

    The "timekeeping_suspended" flag is not very nice but we cannot call into
    GTOD before it has been properly resumed and the scheduler will run very
    early in the resume sequence.

    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Thomas Gleixner
     

22 Oct, 2008

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17 Oct, 2008

1 commit

  • Nothing arch specific in get/settimeofday. The details of the timeval
    conversion varied a little from arch to arch, but all with the same
    results.

    Also add an extern declaration for sys_tz to linux/time.h because externs
    in .c files are fowned upon. I'll kill the externs in various other files
    in a sparate patch.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Acked-by: David S. Miller [ sparc bits ]
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Acked-by: Kyle McMartin
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Grant Grundler
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Hellwig
     

14 Sep, 2008

1 commit

  • Overview

    This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the
    ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling. It was put together
    with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code.

    The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using
    a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads. It appears
    that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was
    at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse.
    Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken
    for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at
    which point things degrade rather quickly.

    This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF."

    Code Changes

    This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it
    run in constant time for a particular machine. (Performance may vary between
    one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single-
    or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of
    running processors.) To do this, at each tick we now update fields in
    signal_struct as well as task_struct. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function
    uses those fields to make its decisions.

    We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and
    scheduler times and use these in appropriate places:

    struct task_cputime {
    cputime_t utime;
    cputime_t stime;
    unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime;
    };

    This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new
    substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus
    multiprocessor kernels. For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as
    a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer:

    struct thread_group_cputime {
    struct task_cputime totals;
    };

    struct thread_group_cputime {
    struct task_cputime *totals;
    };

    We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to
    cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also
    replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration
    of thread timers). The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide
    timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends. In the non-SMP
    case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that
    simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in
    one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than
    the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention). For SMP, the
    thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated
    using alloc_percpu(). The timer functions update only the timer field in
    the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr().

    We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the
    thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP
    implementations from the rest of the kernel. The thread_group_cputime_init()
    function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task.
    The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the
    out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill
    in the per-cpu structures and fields. The thread_group_cputime_free()
    function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures. The
    thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls
    thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been
    allocated. The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime
    structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields;
    in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal
    is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and,
    if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU. Finally, the three
    functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and
    account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the
    respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure.

    Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further.

    The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new
    thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal().
    It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from
    cleanup_signal().

    All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from
    from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to
    snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in
    the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated.

    Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit.
    The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a
    slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread
    timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting.
    With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and
    the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away. All
    summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the
    thread_group_cputime() inline. When process-wide timers are set, the new
    task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest
    expiration; this is checked in the fast path.

    Performance

    The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations. It
    generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in
    which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs
    very significantly better (Case 2 below). Overall it's a wash except in those
    two cases.

    I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system.

    Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed
    kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system,
    all of which was spent in the system. There were twice as many
    voluntary context switches with the fix as without it.

    Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most
    an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in
    eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and
    had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023
    seconds per tick).

    Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an
    interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had
    very nearly the same performance in both cases: 6.3 seconds elapsed
    for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel.

    With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially
    the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus
    5.8 seconds). The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds
    versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per
    tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel.

    Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits.

    Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer
    running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while
    it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of
    wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was
    user time. The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds
    of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system
    time. Really, though, the results were too close to call. The results
    were essentially the same with no itimer running.

    Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds
    (where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running,
    the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified
    kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick. Otherwise,
    performance was almost indistinguishable. With no itimer running this
    test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases.

    In times past I did some limited performance testing. those results are below.

    On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed
    in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s. On
    the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but
    system time dropped to 0.007 seconds. Performance with eight, four and one
    thread were comparable. Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed
    more accurate: The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks
    for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720
    for 0.061 seconds per tick. Both cases were configured for an interval of
    0.01 seconds. Again, the other tests were comparable. Each thread in this
    test computed the primes up to 25,000,000.

    I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is
    impossible without the fix. In this case each thread computed the primes only
    up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable). System time dominated, at
    1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of
    629.938s). It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite
    accurate. There is obviously no comparable test without the fix.

    Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar
    Cc: Roland McGrath
    Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Frank Mayhar
     

06 Sep, 2008

1 commit

  • For the select() rework, it's important to be able to add timespec
    structures in an overflow-safe manner.

    This patch adds a timespec_add_safe() function for this which is similar in
    operation to ktime_add_safe(), but works on a struct timespec.

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven

    Thomas Gleixner
     

21 Aug, 2008

1 commit

  • In talking with Josip Loncaric, and his work on clock synchronization (see
    btime.sf.net), he mentioned that for really close synchronization, it is
    useful to have access to "hardware time", that is a notion of time that is
    not in any way adjusted by the clock slewing done to keep close time sync.

    Part of the issue is if we are using the kernel's ntp adjusted
    representation of time in order to measure how we should correct time, we
    can run into what Paul McKenney aptly described as "Painting a road using
    the lines we're painting as the guide".

    I had been thinking of a similar problem, and was trying to come up with a
    way to give users access to a purely hardware based time representation
    that avoided users having to know the underlying frequency and mask values
    needed to deal with the wide variety of possible underlying hardware
    counters.

    My solution is to introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW. This exposes a
    nanosecond based time value, that increments starting at bootup and has no
    frequency adjustments made to it what so ever.

    The time is accessed from userspace via the posix_clock_gettime() syscall,
    passing CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW as the clock_id.

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    John Stultz
     

12 Jun, 2008

2 commits

  • timespec_add_ns is used from the x86-64 vdso, which cannot call out to
    other kernel code. Make sure that timespec_add_ns is always inlined
    (and only uses always_inlined functions) to make sure there are no
    unexpected calls.

    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Jeremy Fitzhardinge
     
  • We have a few instances of the open-coded iterative div/mod loop, used
    when we don't expcet the dividend to be much bigger than the divisor.
    Unfortunately modern gcc's have the tendency to strength "reduce" this
    into a full mod operation, which isn't necessarily any faster, and
    even if it were, doesn't exist if gcc implements it in libgcc.

    The workaround is to put a dummy asm statement in the loop to prevent
    gcc from performing the transformation.

    This patch creates a single implementation of this loop, and uses it
    to replace the open-coded versions I know about.

    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: john stultz
    Cc: Segher Boessenkool
    Cc: Christian Kujau
    Cc: Robert Hancock
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Jeremy Fitzhardinge
     

09 Mar, 2008

1 commit


09 Feb, 2008

1 commit


02 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • xtime_cache needs to be updated whenever xtime and or wall_to_monotic
    are changed. Otherwise users of xtime_cache might see a stale (and in
    the case of timezone changes utterly wrong) value until the next
    update happens.

    Fixup the obvious places, which miss this update.

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Acked-by: John Stultz
    Tested-by: Dhaval Giani
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Thomas Gleixner
     

17 Oct, 2007

1 commit

  • - remove the no longer required __attribute__((weak)) of xtime_lock
    - remove the following no longer used EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
    - xtime
    - xtime_lock

    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: john stultz
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Adrian Bunk
     

26 Jul, 2007

2 commits

  • This avoids xtime lag seen with dynticks, because while 'xtime' itself
    is still not updated often, we keep a 'xtime_cache' variable around that
    contains the approximate real-time that _is_ updated each time we do a
    'update_wall_time()', and is thus never off by more than one tick.

    IOW, this restores the original semantics for 'xtime' users, as long as
    you use the proper abstraction functions (ie 'current_kernel_time()' or
    'get_seconds()' depending on whether you want a timespec or just the
    seconds field).

    [ Updated Patch. As penance for my sins I've also yanked another #ifdef
    that was added to avoid the xtime lag w/ hrtimers. ]

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    john stultz
     
  • This avoids use of the kernel-internal "xtime" variable directly outside
    of the actual time-related functions. Instead, use the helper functions
    that we already have available to us.

    This doesn't actually change any behaviour, but this will allow us to
    fix the fact that "xtime" isn't updated very often with CONFIG_NO_HZ
    (because much of the realtime information is maintained as separate
    offsets to 'xtime'), which has caused interfaces that use xtime directly
    to get a time that is out of sync with the real-time clock by up to a
    third of a second or so.

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    john stultz
     

22 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • i386 and sparc64 have the identical code to update the cmos clock. Move it
    into kernel/time/ntp.c as there are other architectures coming along with the
    same requirements.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Chris Wright
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: john stultz
    Cc: David Miller
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Thomas Gleixner
     

18 Jul, 2007

1 commit


17 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • The commits

    411187fb05cd11676b0979d9fbf3291db69dbce2 (GTOD: persistent clock support)
    c1d370e167d66b10bca3b602d3740405469383de (i386: use GTOD persistent clock
    support)

    changed the monotonic time so that it no longer jumps after resume, but it's
    not possible to use it for boot time and process start time calculations then.
    Also, the uptime no longer increases during suspend.

    I add a variable to track the wall_to_monotonic changes, a function to get the
    real boot time and a function to get the boot based time from the monotonic
    one.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove exports, add comment]
    Signed-off-by: Tomas Janousek
    Cc: Tomas Smetana
    Cc: John Stultz
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Tomas Janousek
     

09 May, 2007

2 commits

  • Implement utimensat(2) which is an extension to futimesat(2) in that it

    a) supports nano-second resolution for the timestamps
    b) allows to selectively ignore the atime/mtime value
    c) allows to selectively use the current time for either atime or mtime
    d) supports changing the atime/mtime of a symlink itself along the lines
    of the BSD lutimes(3) functions

    For this change the internally used do_utimes() functions was changed to
    accept a timespec time value and an additional flags parameter.

    Additionally the sys_utime function was changed to match compat_sys_utime
    which already use do_utimes instead of duplicating the work.

    Also, the completely missing futimensat() functionality is added. We have
    such a function in glibc but we have to resort to using /proc/self/fd/* which
    not everybody likes (chroot etc).

    Test application (the syscall number will need per-arch editing):

    #include
    #include
    #include
    #include
    #include
    #include

    #define __NR_utimensat 280

    #define UTIME_NOW ((1l << 30) - 1l)
    #define UTIME_OMIT ((1l << 30) - 2l)

    int
    main(void)
    {
    int status = 0;

    int fd = open("ttt", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666);
    if (fd == -1)
    error (1, errno, "failed to create test file \"ttt\"");

    struct stat64 st1;
    if (fstat64 (fd, &st1) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

    struct timespec t[2];
    t[0].tv_sec = 0;
    t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
    t[1].tv_sec = 0;
    t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
    if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

    struct stat64 st2;
    if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

    if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
    puts ("atim not reset to zero");
    status = 1;
    }
    if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
    puts ("mtim not reset to zero");
    status = 1;
    }
    if (status != 0)
    goto out;

    t[0] = st1.st_atim;
    t[1].tv_sec = 0;
    t[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
    if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

    if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

    if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != st1.st_atim.tv_sec
    || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != st1.st_atim.tv_nsec)
    {
    puts ("atim not set");
    status = 1;
    }
    if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
    puts ("mtim changed from zero");
    status = 1;
    }
    if (status != 0)
    goto out;

    t[0].tv_sec = 0;
    t[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
    t[1] = st1.st_mtim;
    if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

    if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

    if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != st1.st_atim.tv_sec
    || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != st1.st_atim.tv_nsec)
    {
    puts ("mtim changed from original time");
    status = 1;
    }
    if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != st1.st_mtim.tv_sec
    || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != st1.st_mtim.tv_nsec)
    {
    puts ("mtim not set");
    status = 1;
    }
    if (status != 0)
    goto out;

    sleep (2);

    t[0].tv_sec = 0;
    t[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
    t[1].tv_sec = 0;
    t[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
    if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

    if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

    struct timeval tv;
    gettimeofday(&tv,NULL);

    if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec tv.tv_sec)
    {
    puts ("atim not set to NOW");
    status = 1;
    }
    if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec tv.tv_sec)
    {
    puts ("mtim not set to NOW");
    status = 1;
    }

    if (symlink ("ttt", "tttsym") != 0)
    error (1, errno, "cannot create symlink");

    t[0].tv_sec = 0;
    t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
    t[1].tv_sec = 0;
    t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
    if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "tttsym", t, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

    if (lstat64 ("tttsym", &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "lstat failed");

    if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
    puts ("symlink atim not reset to zero");
    status = 1;
    }
    if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
    puts ("symlink mtim not reset to zero");
    status = 1;
    }
    if (status != 0)
    goto out;

    t[0].tv_sec = 1;
    t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
    t[1].tv_sec = 1;
    t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
    if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, fd, NULL, t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

    if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

    if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 1 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
    puts ("atim not reset to one");
    status = 1;
    }
    if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 1 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
    puts ("mtim not reset to one");
    status = 1;
    }

    if (status == 0)
    puts ("all OK");

    out:
    close (fd);
    unlink ("ttt");
    unlink ("tttsym");

    return status;
    }

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing i386 syscall table entry]
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper
    Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
    Cc: Michael Kerrisk
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ulrich Drepper
     
  • Move the timekeeping code out of kernel/timer.c and into
    kernel/time/timekeeping.c. I made no cleanups or other changes in transit.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    john stultz
     

17 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • Persistent clock support: do proper timekeeping across suspend/resume.

    [bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Cc: Adrian Bunk
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    John Stultz
     

13 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK is used by x86_64 arch . This arch needs to place a
    read only copy of xtime_lock into vsyscall page. This read only copy is
    named __xtime_lock, and xtime_lock is defined in
    arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S as an alias. So the declaration of
    xtime_lock in kernel/timer.c was guarded by ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK define,
    defined to true on x86_64.

    We can get same result with _attribute__((weak)) in the declaration. linker
    should do the job.

    Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
    Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

    Eric Dumazet
     

12 Feb, 2007

1 commit


15 Jul, 2006

1 commit

  • Initialization code related to collection of per-task "delay" statistics which
    measure how long it had to wait for cpu, sync block io, swapping etc. The
    collection of statistics and the interface are in other patches. This patch
    sets up the data structures and allows the statistics collection to be
    disabled through a kernel boot parameter.

    Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar
    Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh
    Cc: Jes Sorensen
    Cc: Peter Chubb
    Cc: Erich Focht
    Cc: Levent Serinol
    Cc: Jay Lan
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Shailabh Nagar