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<title>timekeeping: contribute wall clock to rng on time change</title>
<updated>2022-08-21T13:16:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-17T21:53:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b8ac29b40183a6038919768b5d189c9bd91ce9b4 ]

The rng's random_init() function contributes the real time to the rng at
boot time, so that events can at least start in relation to something
particular in the real world. But this clock might not yet be set that
point in boot, so nothing is contributed. In addition, the relation
between minor clock changes from, say, NTP, and the cycle counter is
potentially useful entropic data.

This commit addresses this by mixing in a time stamp on calls to
settimeofday and adjtimex. No entropy is credited in doing so, so it
doesn't make initialization faster, but it is still useful input to
have.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b8ac29b40183a6038919768b5d189c9bd91ce9b4 ]

The rng's random_init() function contributes the real time to the rng at
boot time, so that events can at least start in relation to something
particular in the real world. But this clock might not yet be set that
point in boot, so nothing is contributed. In addition, the relation
between minor clock changes from, say, NTP, and the cycle counter is
potentially useful entropic data.

This commit addresses this by mixing in a time stamp on calls to
settimeofday and adjtimex. No entropy is credited in doing so, so it
doesn't make initialization faster, but it is still useful input to
have.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Add raw clock fallback for random_get_entropy()</title>
<updated>2022-05-30T07:33:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-10T14:49:50+00:00</published>
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commit 1366992e16bddd5e2d9a561687f367f9f802e2e4 upstream.

The addition of random_get_entropy_fallback() provides access to
whichever time source has the highest frequency, which is useful for
gathering entropy on platforms without available cycle counters. It's
not necessarily as good as being able to quickly access a cycle counter
that the CPU has, but it's still something, even when it falls back to
being jiffies-based.

In the event that a given arch does not define get_cycles(), falling
back to the get_cycles() default implementation that returns 0 is really
not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling
random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always
needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually.
It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision
or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all
the time is better than returning zero all the time.

Finally, since random_get_entropy_fallback() is used during extremely
early boot when randomizing freelists in mm_init(), it can be called
before timekeeping has been initialized. In that case there really is
nothing we can do; jiffies hasn't even started ticking yet. So just give
up and return 0.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 1366992e16bddd5e2d9a561687f367f9f802e2e4 upstream.

The addition of random_get_entropy_fallback() provides access to
whichever time source has the highest frequency, which is useful for
gathering entropy on platforms without available cycle counters. It's
not necessarily as good as being able to quickly access a cycle counter
that the CPU has, but it's still something, even when it falls back to
being jiffies-based.

In the event that a given arch does not define get_cycles(), falling
back to the get_cycles() default implementation that returns 0 is really
not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling
random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always
needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually.
It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision
or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all
the time is better than returning zero all the time.

Finally, since random_get_entropy_fallback() is used during extremely
early boot when randomizing freelists in mm_init(), it can be called
before timekeeping has been initialized. In that case there really is
nothing we can do; jiffies hasn't even started ticking yet. So just give
up and return 0.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Really make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive</title>
<updated>2021-12-22T08:30:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu Liao</name>
<email>liaoyu15@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-13T13:57:27+00:00</published>
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commit 4e8c11b6b3f0b6a283e898344f154641eda94266 upstream.

Even after commit e1d7ba873555 ("time: Always make sure wall_to_monotonic
isn't positive") it is still possible to make wall_to_monotonic positive
by running the following code:

    int main(void)
    {
        struct timespec time;

        clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &amp;time);
        time.tv_nsec = 0;
        clock_settime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &amp;time);
        return 0;
    }

The reason is that the second parameter of timespec64_compare(), ts_delta,
may be unnormalized because the delta is calculated with an open coded
substraction which causes the comparison of tv_sec to yield the wrong
result:

  wall_to_monotonic = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec =  900000000 }
  ts_delta 	    = { .tv_sec =  -9, .tv_nsec = -900000000 }

That makes timespec64_compare() claim that wall_to_monotonic &lt; ts_delta,
but actually the result should be wall_to_monotonic &gt; ts_delta.

After normalization, the result of timespec64_compare() is correct because
the tv_sec comparison is not longer misleading:

  wall_to_monotonic = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec =  900000000 }
  ts_delta 	    = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec =  100000000 }

Use timespec64_sub() to ensure that ts_delta is normalized, which fixes the
issue.

Fixes: e1d7ba873555 ("time: Always make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive")
Signed-off-by: Yu Liao &lt;liaoyu15@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211213135727.1656662-1-liaoyu15@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4e8c11b6b3f0b6a283e898344f154641eda94266 upstream.

Even after commit e1d7ba873555 ("time: Always make sure wall_to_monotonic
isn't positive") it is still possible to make wall_to_monotonic positive
by running the following code:

    int main(void)
    {
        struct timespec time;

        clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &amp;time);
        time.tv_nsec = 0;
        clock_settime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &amp;time);
        return 0;
    }

The reason is that the second parameter of timespec64_compare(), ts_delta,
may be unnormalized because the delta is calculated with an open coded
substraction which causes the comparison of tv_sec to yield the wrong
result:

  wall_to_monotonic = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec =  900000000 }
  ts_delta 	    = { .tv_sec =  -9, .tv_nsec = -900000000 }

That makes timespec64_compare() claim that wall_to_monotonic &lt; ts_delta,
but actually the result should be wall_to_monotonic &gt; ts_delta.

After normalization, the result of timespec64_compare() is correct because
the tv_sec comparison is not longer misleading:

  wall_to_monotonic = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec =  900000000 }
  ts_delta 	    = { .tv_sec = -10, .tv_nsec =  100000000 }

Use timespec64_sub() to ensure that ts_delta is normalized, which fixes the
issue.

Fixes: e1d7ba873555 ("time: Always make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive")
Signed-off-by: Yu Liao &lt;liaoyu15@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211213135727.1656662-1-liaoyu15@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-core-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-10-12T20:06:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-12T20:06:20+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "These are the locking updates for v5.10:

   - Add deadlock detection for recursive read-locks.

     The rationale is outlined in commit 224ec489d3cd ("lockdep/
     Documention: Recursive read lock detection reasoning")

     The main deadlock pattern we want to detect is:

           TASK A:                 TASK B:

           read_lock(X);
                                   write_lock(X);
           read_lock_2(X);

   - Add "latch sequence counters" (seqcount_latch_t):

     A sequence counter variant where the counter even/odd value is used
     to switch between two copies of protected data. This allows the
     read path, typically NMIs, to safely interrupt the write side
     critical section.

     We utilize this new variant for sched-clock, and to make x86 TSC
     handling safer.

   - Other seqlock cleanups, fixes and enhancements

   - KCSAN updates

   - LKMM updates

   - Misc updates, cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'locking-core-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  lockdep: Revert "lockdep: Use raw_cpu_*() for per-cpu variables"
  lockdep: Fix lockdep recursion
  lockdep: Fix usage_traceoverflow
  locking/atomics: Check atomic-arch-fallback.h too
  locking/seqlock: Tweak DEFINE_SEQLOCK() kernel doc
  lockdep: Optimize the memory usage of circular queue
  seqlock: Unbreak lockdep
  seqlock: PREEMPT_RT: Do not starve seqlock_t writers
  seqlock: seqcount_LOCKNAME_t: Introduce PREEMPT_RT support
  seqlock: seqcount_t: Implement all read APIs as statement expressions
  seqlock: Use unique prefix for seqcount_t property accessors
  seqlock: seqcount_LOCKNAME_t: Standardize naming convention
  seqlock: seqcount latch APIs: Only allow seqcount_latch_t
  rbtree_latch: Use seqcount_latch_t
  x86/tsc: Use seqcount_latch_t
  timekeeping: Use seqcount_latch_t
  time/sched_clock: Use seqcount_latch_t
  seqlock: Introduce seqcount_latch_t
  mm/swap: Do not abuse the seqcount_t latching API
  time/sched_clock: Use raw_read_seqcount_latch() during suspend
  ...
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "These are the locking updates for v5.10:

   - Add deadlock detection for recursive read-locks.

     The rationale is outlined in commit 224ec489d3cd ("lockdep/
     Documention: Recursive read lock detection reasoning")

     The main deadlock pattern we want to detect is:

           TASK A:                 TASK B:

           read_lock(X);
                                   write_lock(X);
           read_lock_2(X);

   - Add "latch sequence counters" (seqcount_latch_t):

     A sequence counter variant where the counter even/odd value is used
     to switch between two copies of protected data. This allows the
     read path, typically NMIs, to safely interrupt the write side
     critical section.

     We utilize this new variant for sched-clock, and to make x86 TSC
     handling safer.

   - Other seqlock cleanups, fixes and enhancements

   - KCSAN updates

   - LKMM updates

   - Misc updates, cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'locking-core-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  lockdep: Revert "lockdep: Use raw_cpu_*() for per-cpu variables"
  lockdep: Fix lockdep recursion
  lockdep: Fix usage_traceoverflow
  locking/atomics: Check atomic-arch-fallback.h too
  locking/seqlock: Tweak DEFINE_SEQLOCK() kernel doc
  lockdep: Optimize the memory usage of circular queue
  seqlock: Unbreak lockdep
  seqlock: PREEMPT_RT: Do not starve seqlock_t writers
  seqlock: seqcount_LOCKNAME_t: Introduce PREEMPT_RT support
  seqlock: seqcount_t: Implement all read APIs as statement expressions
  seqlock: Use unique prefix for seqcount_t property accessors
  seqlock: seqcount_LOCKNAME_t: Standardize naming convention
  seqlock: seqcount latch APIs: Only allow seqcount_latch_t
  rbtree_latch: Use seqcount_latch_t
  x86/tsc: Use seqcount_latch_t
  timekeeping: Use seqcount_latch_t
  time/sched_clock: Use seqcount_latch_t
  seqlock: Introduce seqcount_latch_t
  mm/swap: Do not abuse the seqcount_t latching API
  time/sched_clock: Use raw_read_seqcount_latch() during suspend
  ...
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Use seqcount_latch_t</title>
<updated>2020-09-10T09:19:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ahmed S. Darwish</name>
<email>a.darwish@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-27T11:40:41+00:00</published>
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Latch sequence counters are a multiversion concurrency control mechanism
where the seqcount_t counter even/odd value is used to switch between
two data storage copies. This allows the seqcount_t read path to safely
interrupt its write side critical section (e.g. from NMIs).

Initially, latch sequence counters were implemented as a single write
function, raw_write_seqcount_latch(), above plain seqcount_t. The read
path was expected to use plain seqcount_t raw_read_seqcount().

A specialized read function was later added, raw_read_seqcount_latch(),
and became the standardized way for latch read paths. Having unique read
and write APIs meant that latch sequence counters are basically a data
type of their own -- just inappropriately overloading plain seqcount_t.
The seqcount_latch_t data type was thus introduced at seqlock.h.

Use that new data type instead of seqcount_raw_spinlock_t. This ensures
that only latch-safe APIs are to be used with the sequence counter.

Note that the use of seqcount_raw_spinlock_t was not very useful in the
first place. Only the "raw_" subset of seqcount_t APIs were used at
timekeeping.c. This subset was created for contexts where lockdep cannot
be used. seqcount_LOCKTYPE_t's raison d'être -- verifying that the
seqcount_t writer serialization lock is held -- cannot thus be done.

References: 0c3351d451ae ("seqlock: Use raw_ prefix instead of _no_lockdep")
References: 55f3560df975 ("seqlock: Extend seqcount API with associated locks")
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;a.darwish@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114044.11173-6-a.darwish@linutronix.de
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Latch sequence counters are a multiversion concurrency control mechanism
where the seqcount_t counter even/odd value is used to switch between
two data storage copies. This allows the seqcount_t read path to safely
interrupt its write side critical section (e.g. from NMIs).

Initially, latch sequence counters were implemented as a single write
function, raw_write_seqcount_latch(), above plain seqcount_t. The read
path was expected to use plain seqcount_t raw_read_seqcount().

A specialized read function was later added, raw_read_seqcount_latch(),
and became the standardized way for latch read paths. Having unique read
and write APIs meant that latch sequence counters are basically a data
type of their own -- just inappropriately overloading plain seqcount_t.
The seqcount_latch_t data type was thus introduced at seqlock.h.

Use that new data type instead of seqcount_raw_spinlock_t. This ensures
that only latch-safe APIs are to be used with the sequence counter.

Note that the use of seqcount_raw_spinlock_t was not very useful in the
first place. Only the "raw_" subset of seqcount_t APIs were used at
timekeeping.c. This subset was created for contexts where lockdep cannot
be used. seqcount_LOCKTYPE_t's raison d'être -- verifying that the
seqcount_t writer serialization lock is held -- cannot thus be done.

References: 0c3351d451ae ("seqlock: Use raw_ prefix instead of _no_lockdep")
References: 55f3560df975 ("seqlock: Extend seqcount API with associated locks")
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;a.darwish@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114044.11173-6-a.darwish@linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Provide multi-timestamp accessor to NMI safe timekeeper</title>
<updated>2020-08-23T08:38:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-14T10:19:35+00:00</published>
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printk wants to store various timestamps (MONOTONIC, REALTIME, BOOTTIME) to
make correlation of dmesg from several systems easier.

Provide an interface to retrieve all three timestamps in one go.

There are some caveats:

1) Boot time and late sleep time injection

  Boot time is a racy access on 32bit systems if the sleep time injection
  happens late during resume and not in timekeeping_resume(). That could be
  avoided by expanding struct tk_read_base with boot offset for 32bit and
  adding more overhead to the update. As this is a hard to observe once per
  resume event which can be filtered with reasonable effort using the
  accurate mono/real timestamps, it's probably not worth the trouble.

  Aside of that it might be possible on 32 and 64 bit to observe the
  following when the sleep time injection happens late:

  CPU 0				         CPU 1
  timekeeping_resume()
  ktime_get_fast_timestamps()
    mono, real = __ktime_get_real_fast()
  					 inject_sleep_time()
  					   update boot offset
  	boot = mono + bootoffset;
  
  That means that boot time already has the sleep time adjustment, but
  real time does not. On the next readout both are in sync again.
  
  Preventing this for 64bit is not really feasible without destroying the
  careful cache layout of the timekeeper because the sequence count and
  struct tk_read_base would then need two cache lines instead of one.

2) Suspend/resume timestamps

   Access to the time keeper clock source is disabled accross the innermost
   steps of suspend/resume. The accessors still work, but the timestamps
   are frozen until time keeping is resumed which happens very early.

   For regular suspend/resume there is no observable difference vs. sched
   clock, but it might affect some of the nasty low level debug printks.

   OTOH, access to sched clock is not guaranteed accross suspend/resume on
   all systems either so it depends on the hardware in use.

   If that turns out to be a real problem then this could be mitigated by
   using sched clock in a similar way as during early boot. But it's not as
   trivial as on early boot because it needs some careful protection
   against the clock monotonic timestamp jumping backwards on resume.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814115512.159981360@linutronix.de

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printk wants to store various timestamps (MONOTONIC, REALTIME, BOOTTIME) to
make correlation of dmesg from several systems easier.

Provide an interface to retrieve all three timestamps in one go.

There are some caveats:

1) Boot time and late sleep time injection

  Boot time is a racy access on 32bit systems if the sleep time injection
  happens late during resume and not in timekeeping_resume(). That could be
  avoided by expanding struct tk_read_base with boot offset for 32bit and
  adding more overhead to the update. As this is a hard to observe once per
  resume event which can be filtered with reasonable effort using the
  accurate mono/real timestamps, it's probably not worth the trouble.

  Aside of that it might be possible on 32 and 64 bit to observe the
  following when the sleep time injection happens late:

  CPU 0				         CPU 1
  timekeeping_resume()
  ktime_get_fast_timestamps()
    mono, real = __ktime_get_real_fast()
  					 inject_sleep_time()
  					   update boot offset
  	boot = mono + bootoffset;
  
  That means that boot time already has the sleep time adjustment, but
  real time does not. On the next readout both are in sync again.
  
  Preventing this for 64bit is not really feasible without destroying the
  careful cache layout of the timekeeper because the sequence count and
  struct tk_read_base would then need two cache lines instead of one.

2) Suspend/resume timestamps

   Access to the time keeper clock source is disabled accross the innermost
   steps of suspend/resume. The accessors still work, but the timestamps
   are frozen until time keeping is resumed which happens very early.

   For regular suspend/resume there is no observable difference vs. sched
   clock, but it might affect some of the nasty low level debug printks.

   OTOH, access to sched clock is not guaranteed accross suspend/resume on
   all systems either so it depends on the hardware in use.

   If that turns out to be a real problem then this could be mitigated by
   using sched clock in a similar way as during early boot. But it's not as
   trivial as on early boot because it needs some careful protection
   against the clock monotonic timestamp jumping backwards on resume.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814115512.159981360@linutronix.de

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Utilize local_clock() for NMI safe timekeeper during early boot</title>
<updated>2020-08-23T08:38:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-14T10:19:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=71419b30cab099f7ca37e61bf41028d8b7d4984d'/>
<id>71419b30cab099f7ca37e61bf41028d8b7d4984d</id>
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During early boot the NMI safe timekeeper returns 0 until the first
clocksource becomes available.

This prevents it from being used for printk or other facilities which today
use sched clock. sched clock can be available way before timekeeping is
initialized.

The obvious workaround for this is to utilize the early sched clock in the
default dummy clock read function until a clocksource becomes available.

After switching to the clocksource clock MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME will not
jump because the timekeeping_init() bases clock MONOTONIC on sched clock
and the offset between clock MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME is zero during boot.

Clock REALTIME cannot provide useful timestamps during early boot up to
the point where a persistent clock becomes available, which is either in
timekeeping_init() or later when the RTC driver which might depend on I2C
or other subsystems is initialized.

There is a minor difference to sched_clock() vs. suspend/resume. As the
timekeeper clock source might not be accessible during suspend, after
timekeeping_suspend() timestamps freeze up to the point where
timekeeping_resume() is invoked. OTOH this is true for some sched clock
implementations as well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814115512.041422402@linutronix.de

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During early boot the NMI safe timekeeper returns 0 until the first
clocksource becomes available.

This prevents it from being used for printk or other facilities which today
use sched clock. sched clock can be available way before timekeeping is
initialized.

The obvious workaround for this is to utilize the early sched clock in the
default dummy clock read function until a clocksource becomes available.

After switching to the clocksource clock MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME will not
jump because the timekeeping_init() bases clock MONOTONIC on sched clock
and the offset between clock MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME is zero during boot.

Clock REALTIME cannot provide useful timestamps during early boot up to
the point where a persistent clock becomes available, which is either in
timekeeping_init() or later when the RTC driver which might depend on I2C
or other subsystems is initialized.

There is a minor difference to sched_clock() vs. suspend/resume. As the
timekeeper clock source might not be accessible during suspend, after
timekeeping_suspend() timestamps freeze up to the point where
timekeeping_resume() is invoked. OTOH this is true for some sched clock
implementations as well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814115512.041422402@linutronix.de

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-08-14T21:26:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-14T21:26:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=b923f1247b72fc100b87792fd2129d026bb10e66'/>
<id>b923f1247b72fc100b87792fd2129d026bb10e66</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of timekeeping/VDSO updates:

   - Preparatory work to allow S390 to switch over to the generic VDSO
     implementation.

     S390 requires that the VDSO data pointer is handed in to the
     counter read function when time namespace support is enabled.
     Adding the pointer is a NOOP for all other architectures because
     the compiler is supposed to optimize that out when it is unused in
     the architecture specific inline. The change also solved a similar
     problem for MIPS which fortunately has time namespaces not yet
     enabled.

     S390 needs to update clock related VDSO data independent of the
     timekeeping updates. This was solved so far with yet another
     sequence counter in the S390 implementation. A better solution is
     to utilize the already existing VDSO sequence count for this. The
     core code now exposes helper functions which allow to serialize
     against the timekeeper code and against concurrent readers.

     S390 needs extra data for their clock readout function. The initial
     common VDSO data structure did not provide a way to add that. It
     now has an embedded architecture specific struct embedded which
     defaults to an empty struct.

     Doing this now avoids tree dependencies and conflicts post rc1 and
     allows all other architectures which work on generic VDSO support
     to work from a common upstream base.

   - A trivial comment fix"

* tag 'timers-urgent-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Delete repeated words in comments
  lib/vdso: Allow to add architecture-specific vdso data
  timekeeping/vsyscall: Provide vdso_update_begin/end()
  vdso/treewide: Add vdso_data pointer argument to __arch_get_hw_counter()
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Pull timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of timekeeping/VDSO updates:

   - Preparatory work to allow S390 to switch over to the generic VDSO
     implementation.

     S390 requires that the VDSO data pointer is handed in to the
     counter read function when time namespace support is enabled.
     Adding the pointer is a NOOP for all other architectures because
     the compiler is supposed to optimize that out when it is unused in
     the architecture specific inline. The change also solved a similar
     problem for MIPS which fortunately has time namespaces not yet
     enabled.

     S390 needs to update clock related VDSO data independent of the
     timekeeping updates. This was solved so far with yet another
     sequence counter in the S390 implementation. A better solution is
     to utilize the already existing VDSO sequence count for this. The
     core code now exposes helper functions which allow to serialize
     against the timekeeper code and against concurrent readers.

     S390 needs extra data for their clock readout function. The initial
     common VDSO data structure did not provide a way to add that. It
     now has an embedded architecture specific struct embedded which
     defaults to an empty struct.

     Doing this now avoids tree dependencies and conflicts post rc1 and
     allows all other architectures which work on generic VDSO support
     to work from a common upstream base.

   - A trivial comment fix"

* tag 'timers-urgent-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Delete repeated words in comments
  lib/vdso: Allow to add architecture-specific vdso data
  timekeeping/vsyscall: Provide vdso_update_begin/end()
  vdso/treewide: Add vdso_data pointer argument to __arch_get_hw_counter()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2020-08-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-08-11T02:07:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-11T02:07:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=97d052ea3fa853b9aabcc4baca1a605cb1188611'/>
<id>97d052ea3fa853b9aabcc4baca1a605cb1188611</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull locking updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of locking fixes and updates:

   - Untangle the header spaghetti which causes build failures in
     various situations caused by the lockdep additions to seqcount to
     validate that the write side critical sections are non-preemptible.

   - The seqcount associated lock debug addons which were blocked by the
     above fallout.

     seqcount writers contrary to seqlock writers must be externally
     serialized, which usually happens via locking - except for strict
     per CPU seqcounts. As the lock is not part of the seqcount, lockdep
     cannot validate that the lock is held.

     This new debug mechanism adds the concept of associated locks.
     sequence count has now lock type variants and corresponding
     initializers which take a pointer to the associated lock used for
     writer serialization. If lockdep is enabled the pointer is stored
     and write_seqcount_begin() has a lockdep assertion to validate that
     the lock is held.

     Aside of the type and the initializer no other code changes are
     required at the seqcount usage sites. The rest of the seqcount API
     is unchanged and determines the type at compile time with the help
     of _Generic which is possible now that the minimal GCC version has
     been moved up.

     Adding this lockdep coverage unearthed a handful of seqcount bugs
     which have been addressed already independent of this.

     While generally useful this comes with a Trojan Horse twist: On RT
     kernels the write side critical section can become preemtible if
     the writers are serialized by an associated lock, which leads to
     the well known reader preempts writer livelock. RT prevents this by
     storing the associated lock pointer independent of lockdep in the
     seqcount and changing the reader side to block on the lock when a
     reader detects that a writer is in the write side critical section.

   - Conversion of seqcount usage sites to associated types and
     initializers"

* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-08-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
  locking/seqlock, headers: Untangle the spaghetti monster
  locking, arch/ia64: Reduce &lt;asm/smp.h&gt; header dependencies by moving XTP bits into the new &lt;asm/xtp.h&gt; header
  x86/headers: Remove APIC headers from &lt;asm/smp.h&gt;
  seqcount: More consistent seqprop names
  seqcount: Compress SEQCNT_LOCKNAME_ZERO()
  seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_init() definition
  seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_t definition
  seqlock: s/__SEQ_LOCKDEP/__SEQ_LOCK/g
  hrtimer: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
  kvm/eventfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  userfaultfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  NFSv4: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  iocost: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  raid5: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  vfs: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  timekeeping: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
  xfrm: policy: Use sequence counters with associated lock
  netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Use sequence counter with associated rwlock
  netfilter: conntrack: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  sched: tasks: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull locking updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of locking fixes and updates:

   - Untangle the header spaghetti which causes build failures in
     various situations caused by the lockdep additions to seqcount to
     validate that the write side critical sections are non-preemptible.

   - The seqcount associated lock debug addons which were blocked by the
     above fallout.

     seqcount writers contrary to seqlock writers must be externally
     serialized, which usually happens via locking - except for strict
     per CPU seqcounts. As the lock is not part of the seqcount, lockdep
     cannot validate that the lock is held.

     This new debug mechanism adds the concept of associated locks.
     sequence count has now lock type variants and corresponding
     initializers which take a pointer to the associated lock used for
     writer serialization. If lockdep is enabled the pointer is stored
     and write_seqcount_begin() has a lockdep assertion to validate that
     the lock is held.

     Aside of the type and the initializer no other code changes are
     required at the seqcount usage sites. The rest of the seqcount API
     is unchanged and determines the type at compile time with the help
     of _Generic which is possible now that the minimal GCC version has
     been moved up.

     Adding this lockdep coverage unearthed a handful of seqcount bugs
     which have been addressed already independent of this.

     While generally useful this comes with a Trojan Horse twist: On RT
     kernels the write side critical section can become preemtible if
     the writers are serialized by an associated lock, which leads to
     the well known reader preempts writer livelock. RT prevents this by
     storing the associated lock pointer independent of lockdep in the
     seqcount and changing the reader side to block on the lock when a
     reader detects that a writer is in the write side critical section.

   - Conversion of seqcount usage sites to associated types and
     initializers"

* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-08-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
  locking/seqlock, headers: Untangle the spaghetti monster
  locking, arch/ia64: Reduce &lt;asm/smp.h&gt; header dependencies by moving XTP bits into the new &lt;asm/xtp.h&gt; header
  x86/headers: Remove APIC headers from &lt;asm/smp.h&gt;
  seqcount: More consistent seqprop names
  seqcount: Compress SEQCNT_LOCKNAME_ZERO()
  seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_init() definition
  seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_t definition
  seqlock: s/__SEQ_LOCKDEP/__SEQ_LOCK/g
  hrtimer: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
  kvm/eventfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  userfaultfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  NFSv4: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  iocost: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  raid5: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  vfs: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  timekeeping: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
  xfrm: policy: Use sequence counters with associated lock
  netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Use sequence counter with associated rwlock
  netfilter: conntrack: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  sched: tasks: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  ...
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Delete repeated words in comments</title>
<updated>2020-08-10T20:14:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-07T03:32:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=b0294f30256bb6023b2044fd607855123863d98f'/>
<id>b0294f30256bb6023b2044fd607855123863d98f</id>
<content type='text'>
Drop repeated words in kernel/time/.  {when, one, into}

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200807033248.8452-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
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Drop repeated words in kernel/time/.  {when, one, into}

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200807033248.8452-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
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