Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] time: alarmtimer: Use TASK_FREEZABLE to cleanup freezer handling

From: Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
Date: Fri Feb 24 2023 - 05:34:28 EST


Hi

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 11:02 AM Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
<michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Thomas
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 8:10 AM Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
> <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 1:12 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Michael!
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 20 2023 at 22:32, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 10:18 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >> * alarmtimer_fired - Handles alarm hrtimer being fired.
> > > >> @@ -194,6 +196,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart alarmtimer_f
> > > >> int ret = HRTIMER_NORESTART;
> > > >> int restart = ALARMTIMER_NORESTART;
> > > >>
> > > >> + atomic_inc(&alarmtimer_wakeup);
> > > >> +
> > > >
> > > > ptr->it_active = 0;
> > > > if (ptr->it_interval) {
> > > > atomic_inc(&alarmtimer_wakeup);
> > > > si_private = ++ptr->it_requeue_pending;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > Should I not go to the alarm_handle_timer? and only if it's a periodic
> > > > one?
> > >
> > > Why?
> > >
> >
> > You are right. I will pay more attention to my reply.
> >
>
> I get time to test it and if the system suspend to ram we need to catch:
>
> case PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE:
> case PM_POST_SUSPEND:
>
> Michael
>
> > Michael
> >
> > > Any alarmtimer which hits that window has exactly the same problem.
> > >
> > > It's not restricted to periodic timers. Why would a dropped one-shot
> > > wakeup be acceptable?
> > >
> > > It's neither restricted to posix timers. If a clock_nanosleep(ALARM)
> > > expires in that window then the task wake up will just end up in the
> > > /dev/null bucket for the very same reason. Why would this be correct?
> > >
> > > Hmm?
> > >
> > > <GRMBL>
> > > > Michael
> > > >
> > > >> spin_lock_irqsave(&base->lock, flags);
> > >
[snip]

I have something like this

diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
index b68cb7f02a6b..b5f15e7f76cb 100644
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/suspend.h>
#include <linux/time_namespace.h>

#include "posix-timers.h"
@@ -176,6 +177,7 @@ static void alarmtimer_dequeue(struct alarm_base
*base, struct alarm *alarm)
alarm->state &= ~ALARMTIMER_STATE_ENQUEUED;
}

+static atomic_t alarmtimer_wakeup;

/**
* alarmtimer_fired - Handles alarm hrtimer being fired.
@@ -194,6 +196,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart
alarmtimer_fired(struct hrtimer *timer)
int ret = HRTIMER_NORESTART;
int restart = ALARMTIMER_NORESTART;

+ atomic_inc(&alarmtimer_wakeup);
+
spin_lock_irqsave(&base->lock, flags);
alarmtimer_dequeue(base, alarm);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock, flags);
@@ -263,8 +267,18 @@ static int alarmtimer_suspend(struct device *dev)
}
}
/* No timers to expire */
- if (min == KTIME_MAX)
+ if (min == KTIME_MAX) {
+ /*
+ * Handle wakeups which happened between the start of suspend and
+ * now as those wakeups might have tried to wake up a frozen task
+ * which means they are no longer in the alarm timer list.
+ */
+ if (atomic_read(&alarmtimer_wakeup)) {
+ pm_wakeup_event(dev, 0);
+ return -EBUSY;
+ }
return 0;
+ }

if (ktime_to_ns(min) < 2 * NSEC_PER_SEC) {
pm_wakeup_event(dev, 2 * MSEC_PER_SEC);
@@ -296,6 +310,30 @@ static int alarmtimer_resume(struct device *dev)
return 0;
}

+static int alarmtimer_pm_notifier_fn(struct notifier_block *bl,
unsigned long state,
+ void *unused)
+{
+ switch (state) {
+ case PM_POST_SUSPEND:
+ atomic_set(&alarmtimer_wakeup, 0);
+ break;
+ }
+ return NOTIFY_DONE;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block alarmtimer_pm_notifier = {
+ .notifier_call = alarmtimer_pm_notifier_fn,
+};
+
+static inline int alarmtimer_register_pm_notifier(void)
+{
+ return register_pm_notifier(&alarmtimer_pm_notifier);
+}
+
+static inline void alarmtimer_unregister_pm_notifier(void)
+{
+ unregister_pm_notifier(&alarmtimer_pm_notifier);
+}
#else
static int alarmtimer_suspend(struct device *dev)
{
@@ -306,6 +344,15 @@ static int alarmtimer_resume(struct device *dev)
{
return 0;
}
+
+static inline int alarmtimer_register_pm_notifier(void)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void alarmtimer_unregister_pm_notifier(void)
+{
+}
#endif

static void
@@ -904,11 +951,18 @@ static int __init alarmtimer_init(void)
if (error)
return error;

- error = platform_driver_register(&alarmtimer_driver);
+ error = alarmtimer_register_pm_notifier();
if (error)
goto out_if;

+ error = platform_driver_register(&alarmtimer_driver);
+ if (error)
+ goto out_pm;
+
return 0;
+
+out_pm:
+ alarmtimer_unregister_pm_notifier();
out_if:
alarmtimer_rtc_interface_remove();
return error;