[GIT PULL] timer fix

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Oct 26 2013 - 08:27:16 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest timers-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-urgent-for-linus

# HEAD: 97b9410643475d6557d2517c2aff9fd2221141a9 clockevents: Sanitize ticks to nsec conversion

This tree contains a clockevents regression fix for certain ARM
subarchitectures.

Thanks,

Ingo

------------------>
Thomas Gleixner (1):
clockevents: Sanitize ticks to nsec conversion


kernel/time/clockevents.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index 38959c8..662c579 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -33,29 +33,64 @@ struct ce_unbind {
int res;
};

-/**
- * clockevents_delta2ns - Convert a latch value (device ticks) to nanoseconds
- * @latch: value to convert
- * @evt: pointer to clock event device descriptor
- *
- * Math helper, returns latch value converted to nanoseconds (bound checked)
- */
-u64 clockevent_delta2ns(unsigned long latch, struct clock_event_device *evt)
+static u64 cev_delta2ns(unsigned long latch, struct clock_event_device *evt,
+ bool ismax)
{
u64 clc = (u64) latch << evt->shift;
+ u64 rnd;

if (unlikely(!evt->mult)) {
evt->mult = 1;
WARN_ON(1);
}
+ rnd = (u64) evt->mult - 1;
+
+ /*
+ * Upper bound sanity check. If the backwards conversion is
+ * not equal latch, we know that the above shift overflowed.
+ */
+ if ((clc >> evt->shift) != (u64)latch)
+ clc = ~0ULL;
+
+ /*
+ * Scaled math oddities:
+ *
+ * For mult <= (1 << shift) we can safely add mult - 1 to
+ * prevent integer rounding loss. So the backwards conversion
+ * from nsec to device ticks will be correct.
+ *
+ * For mult > (1 << shift), i.e. device frequency is > 1GHz we
+ * need to be careful. Adding mult - 1 will result in a value
+ * which when converted back to device ticks can be larger
+ * than latch by up to (mult - 1) >> shift. For the min_delta
+ * calculation we still want to apply this in order to stay
+ * above the minimum device ticks limit. For the upper limit
+ * we would end up with a latch value larger than the upper
+ * limit of the device, so we omit the add to stay below the
+ * device upper boundary.
+ *
+ * Also omit the add if it would overflow the u64 boundary.
+ */
+ if ((~0ULL - clc > rnd) &&
+ (!ismax || evt->mult <= (1U << evt->shift)))
+ clc += rnd;

do_div(clc, evt->mult);
- if (clc < 1000)
- clc = 1000;
- if (clc > KTIME_MAX)
- clc = KTIME_MAX;

- return clc;
+ /* Deltas less than 1usec are pointless noise */
+ return clc > 1000 ? clc : 1000;
+}
+
+/**
+ * clockevents_delta2ns - Convert a latch value (device ticks) to nanoseconds
+ * @latch: value to convert
+ * @evt: pointer to clock event device descriptor
+ *
+ * Math helper, returns latch value converted to nanoseconds (bound checked)
+ */
+u64 clockevent_delta2ns(unsigned long latch, struct clock_event_device *evt)
+{
+ return cev_delta2ns(latch, evt, false);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clockevent_delta2ns);

@@ -380,8 +415,8 @@ void clockevents_config(struct clock_event_device *dev, u32 freq)
sec = 600;

clockevents_calc_mult_shift(dev, freq, sec);
- dev->min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(dev->min_delta_ticks, dev);
- dev->max_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(dev->max_delta_ticks, dev);
+ dev->min_delta_ns = cev_delta2ns(dev->min_delta_ticks, dev, false);
+ dev->max_delta_ns = cev_delta2ns(dev->max_delta_ticks, dev, true);
}

/**
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