[GIT pull] timers/urgent for 5.6-rc1

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Jan 27 2020 - 19:06:29 EST


Linus,

please pull the latest timers/urgent branch from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-urgent-2020-01-27

up to: 9f24c540f7f8: lib/vdso: Update coarse timekeeper unconditionally


Two fixes for the generic VDSO code which missed 5.5:

- Make the update to the coarse timekeeper unconditional. This is required
because the coarse timekeeper interfaces in the VDSO do not depend on a
VDSO capable clocksource. If the system does not have a VDSO capable
clocksource and the update is depending on the VDSO capable clocksource,
the coarse VDSO interfaces would operate on stale data forever.

- Invert the logic of __arch_update_vdso_data() to avoid further head
scratching. Tripped over this several times while analyzing the update
problem above.

Thanks,

tglx

------------------>
Thomas Gleixner (2):
lib/vdso: Make __arch_update_vdso_data() logic understandable
lib/vdso: Update coarse timekeeper unconditionally


arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h | 4 ++--
include/asm-generic/vdso/vsyscall.h | 4 ++--
kernel/time/vsyscall.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++-------------------
3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h
index c4166f317071..cff87d8d30da 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ struct vdso_data *__arm_get_k_vdso_data(void)
#define __arch_get_k_vdso_data __arm_get_k_vdso_data

static __always_inline
-int __arm_update_vdso_data(void)
+bool __arm_update_vdso_data(void)
{
- return !cntvct_ok;
+ return cntvct_ok;
}
#define __arch_update_vdso_data __arm_update_vdso_data

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vdso/vsyscall.h b/include/asm-generic/vdso/vsyscall.h
index ce4103208619..cec543d9e87b 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vdso/vsyscall.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vdso/vsyscall.h
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ static __always_inline struct vdso_data *__arch_get_k_vdso_data(void)
#endif /* __arch_get_k_vdso_data */

#ifndef __arch_update_vdso_data
-static __always_inline int __arch_update_vdso_data(void)
+static __always_inline bool __arch_update_vdso_data(void)
{
- return 0;
+ return true;
}
#endif /* __arch_update_vdso_data */

diff --git a/kernel/time/vsyscall.c b/kernel/time/vsyscall.c
index 5ee0f7709410..9577c89179cd 100644
--- a/kernel/time/vsyscall.c
+++ b/kernel/time/vsyscall.c
@@ -28,11 +28,6 @@ static inline void update_vdso_data(struct vdso_data *vdata,
vdata[CS_RAW].mult = tk->tkr_raw.mult;
vdata[CS_RAW].shift = tk->tkr_raw.shift;

- /* CLOCK_REALTIME */
- vdso_ts = &vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].basetime[CLOCK_REALTIME];
- vdso_ts->sec = tk->xtime_sec;
- vdso_ts->nsec = tk->tkr_mono.xtime_nsec;
-
/* CLOCK_MONOTONIC */
vdso_ts = &vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].basetime[CLOCK_MONOTONIC];
vdso_ts->sec = tk->xtime_sec + tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec;
@@ -70,12 +65,6 @@ static inline void update_vdso_data(struct vdso_data *vdata,
vdso_ts = &vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].basetime[CLOCK_TAI];
vdso_ts->sec = tk->xtime_sec + (s64)tk->tai_offset;
vdso_ts->nsec = tk->tkr_mono.xtime_nsec;
-
- /*
- * Read without the seqlock held by clock_getres().
- * Note: No need to have a second copy.
- */
- WRITE_ONCE(vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].hrtimer_res, hrtimer_resolution);
}

void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk)
@@ -84,20 +73,17 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk)
struct vdso_timestamp *vdso_ts;
u64 nsec;

- if (__arch_update_vdso_data()) {
- /*
- * Some architectures might want to skip the update of the
- * data page.
- */
- return;
- }
-
/* copy vsyscall data */
vdso_write_begin(vdata);

vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].clock_mode = __arch_get_clock_mode(tk);
vdata[CS_RAW].clock_mode = __arch_get_clock_mode(tk);

+ /* CLOCK_REALTIME also required for time() */
+ vdso_ts = &vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].basetime[CLOCK_REALTIME];
+ vdso_ts->sec = tk->xtime_sec;
+ vdso_ts->nsec = tk->tkr_mono.xtime_nsec;
+
/* CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE */
vdso_ts = &vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].basetime[CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE];
vdso_ts->sec = tk->xtime_sec;
@@ -110,7 +96,18 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk)
nsec = nsec + tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec;
vdso_ts->sec += __iter_div_u64_rem(nsec, NSEC_PER_SEC, &vdso_ts->nsec);

- update_vdso_data(vdata, tk);
+ /*
+ * Read without the seqlock held by clock_getres().
+ * Note: No need to have a second copy.
+ */
+ WRITE_ONCE(vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].hrtimer_res, hrtimer_resolution);
+
+ /*
+ * Architectures can opt out of updating the high resolution part
+ * of the VDSO.
+ */
+ if (__arch_update_vdso_data())
+ update_vdso_data(vdata, tk);

__arch_update_vsyscall(vdata, tk);