06 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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The expiry function compares the timer against current time and does
not expire the timer when the expiry time is >= now. That's wrong. If
the timer is set for now, then it must expire.Make the condition expiry > now for breaking out the loop.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: John Stultz
Cc: stable@kernel.org
14 Sep, 2011
1 commit
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commit 8bc0daf (alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class
interface) did not implement required error checks. Add them.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
11 Aug, 2011
9 commits
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This allows cleaner detection of the RTC device being registered, rather
then probing any time someone calls alarmtimer_get_rtcdev.CC: Thomas Gleixner
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There's a number of edge cases when cancelling a alarm, so
to be sure we accurately do so, introduce try_to_cancel, which
returns proper failure errors if it cannot. Also modify cancel
to spin until the alarm is properly disabled.CC: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: John Stultz -
In order to allow for functionality like try_to_cancel, add
more refined state tracking (similar to hrtimers).CC: Thomas Gleixner
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Now that periodic alarmtimers are managed by the handler function,
remove the period value from the alarm structure and let the handlers
manage the interval on their own.CC: Thomas Gleixner
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Now that the alarmtimers code has been refactored, the interval
cap limit can be removed.CC: Thomas Gleixner
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In order to avoid wasting time expiring and re-adding very high freq
periodic alarmtimers, introduce alarm_forward() which is similar to
hrtimer_forward and moves the timer to the next future expiration time
and returns the number of overruns.CC: Thomas Gleixner
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This patch pushes the periodic alarmtimer re-arming down into the alarmtimer
handler, mimicking how hrtimers handle this.CC: Thomas Gleixner
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In order to properly fix the denial of service issue with high freq
periodic alarm timers, we need to push the re-arming logic into the
alarm timer handler, much as the hrtimer code does.This patch introduces alarmtimer_restart enum and changes the
alarmtimer handler declarations to use it as a return value. Further,
to ease following changes, it extends the alarmtimer handler functions
to also take the time at expiration. No logic is yet modified.CC: Thomas Gleixner
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Its possible to jam up the alarm timers by setting very small interval
timers, which will cause the alarmtimer subsystem to spend all of its time
firing and restarting timers. This can effectivly lock up a box.A deeper fix is needed, closely mimicking the hrtimer code, but for now
just cap the interval to 100us to avoid userland hanging the system.CC: Thomas Gleixner
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz
10 Aug, 2011
2 commits
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Following common_timer_get, zero out the itimerspec passed in.
CC: Thomas Gleixner
CC: stable@kernel.org
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We don't check if old_setting is non null before assigning it, so
correct this.CC: Thomas Gleixner
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz
22 Jun, 2011
2 commits
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Toralf Förster and Richard Weinberger noted that if there is
no RTC device, the alarm timers core prints out an annoying
"ALARM timers will not wake from suspend" message.This warning has been removed in a previous patch, however
the issue still remains: The original idea was to support
alarm timers even if there was no rtc device, as long as the
system didn't go into suspend.However, after further consideration, communicating to the application
that alarmtimers are not fully functional seems like the better
solution.So this patch makes it so we return -ENOTSUPP to any posix _ALARM
clockid calls if there is no backing RTC device on the system.Further this changes the behavior where when there is no rtc device
we will check for one on clock_getres, clock_gettime, timer_create,
and timer_nsleep instead of on suspend.CC: Toralf Förster
CC: Richard Weinberger
CC: Thomas Gleixner
Reported-by: Toralf Förster
Reported by: Richard Weinberger
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The alarmtimers code currently picks a rtc device to use at
late init time. However, if your rtc driver is loaded as a module,
it may be registered after the alarmtimers late init code, leaving
the alarmtimers nonfunctional.This patch moves the the rtcdevice selection to when we actually try
to use it, allowing us to make use of rtc modules that may have been
loaded at any point since bootup.CC: Thomas Gleixner
CC: Meelis Roos
Reported-by: Meelis Roos
Signed-off-by: John Stultz
23 May, 2011
1 commit
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Instead of iterating over all possible timer bases avoid it by marking
the active bases in the cpu base.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra
04 May, 2011
2 commits
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class_find_device() takes a refcount on the rtc device. rtc_open()
takes another one, so we can drop it after the rtc_open() call.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: John Stultz -
alarmtimer_late_init() uses class_find_device() to find a alarm
capable rtc device. The match callback stores a pointer to the name in
the char pointer handed in from the call site. alarmtimer_late_init()
checks the char pointer for NULL, but the pointer is on the stack and
not initialized to NULL before the call. So it can have random content
when the match function did not identify a device, which leads to
random access in the following rtc_open() call where the pointer is
dereferencedInstead of relying on the char pointer, check the return value of
class_find_device. If a device is found then the name pointer is valid
as well.Reported-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: John Stultz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
03 May, 2011
1 commit
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Ingo pointed out that the alarmtimers won't build if CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=n.
This patch adds proper ifdefs to the alarmtimer code to disable the rtc
usage if it is not built in.Reported-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: John Stultz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
29 Apr, 2011
2 commits
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Thomas asked about the delayed irq work in the alarmtimers code,
and I realized that it was a legacy from when the alarmtimer base
lock was a mutex (due to concerns that we'd be interacting with
the RTC device, which is protected by mutexes).Since the alarmtimer base is now protected by a spinlock, we can
simply execute alarmtimer functions directly from the hrtimer
callback. Should any future alarmtimer functions sleep, they can
simply manage scheduling any delayed work themselves.CC: Thomas Gleixner
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This patch addresses a number of minor comment improvements and
other minor issues from Thomas' review of the alarmtimers code.CC: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: John Stultz
27 Apr, 2011
2 commits
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This patch exposes alarm-timers to userland via the posix clock
and timers interface, using two new clockids: CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM
and CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM. Both clockids behave identically to
CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME, respectively, but timers
set against the _ALARM suffixed clockids will wake the system if
it is suspended.Some background can be found here:
https://lwn.net/Articles/429925/The concept for Alarm-timers was inspired by the Android Alarm
driver (by Arve Hjønnevåg) found in the Android kernel tree.See: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=blob;f=drivers/rtc/alarm.c;h=1250edfbdf3302f5e4ea6194847c6ef4bb7beb1c;hb=android-2.6.36
While the in-kernel interface is pretty similar between
alarm-timers and Android alarm driver, the user-space interface
for the Android alarm driver is via ioctls to a new char device.
As mentioned above, I've instead chosen to export this functionality
via the posix interface, as it seemed a little simpler and avoids
creating duplicate interfaces to things like CLOCK_REALTIME and
CLOCK_MONOTONIC under alternate names (ie:ANDROID_ALARM_RTC and
ANDROID_ALARM_SYSTEMTIME).The semantics of the Android alarm driver are different from what
this posix interface provides. For instance, threads other then
the thread waiting on the Android alarm driver are able to modify
the alarm being waited on. Also this interface does not allow
the same wakelock semantics that the Android driver provides
(ie: kernel takes a wakelock on RTC alarm-interupt, and holds it
through process wakeup, and while the process runs, until the
process either closes the char device or calls back in to wait
on a new alarm).One potential way to implement similar semantics may be via
the timerfd infrastructure, but this needs more research.There may also need to be some sort of sysfs system level policy
hooks that allow alarm timers to be disabled to keep them
from firing at inappropriate times (ie: laptop in a well insulated
bag, mid-flight).CC: Arve Hjønnevåg
CC: Thomas Gleixner
CC: Alessandro Zummo
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
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This provides the in kernel interface and infrastructure for
alarm-timers.Alarm-timers are a hybrid style timer, similar to hrtimers,
but when the system is suspended, the RTC device is set to
fire and wake the system for when the soonest alarm-timer
expires.The concept for Alarm-timers was inspired by the Android Alarm
driver (by Arve Hjønnevåg) found in the Android kernel tree.See: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=blob;f=drivers/rtc/alarm.c;h=1250edfbdf3302f5e4ea6194847c6ef4bb7beb1c;hb=android-2.6.36
This in-kernel interface should be fairly compatible with the
Android alarm driver in-kernel interface, but has the advantage
of utilizing the new RTC timerqueue code instead of doing direct
RTC manipulation.CC: Arve Hjønnevåg
CC: Thomas Gleixner
CC: Alessandro Zummo
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: John Stultz