For some frequencies, the clocks_calc_mult_shift() function will
unfortunately select mult values very close to 0xffffffff. This
has the potential to overflow when NTP adjusts the clock, adding
to the mult value.
This patch adds a clocksource.maxadj value, which provides
an approximation of an 11% adjustment(NTP limits adjustments to
500ppm and the tick adjustment is limited to 10%), which could
be made to the clocksource.mult value. This is then used to both
check that the current mult value won't overflow/underflow, as
well as warning us if the timekeeping_adjust() code pushes over
that 11% boundary.
v2: Fix max_adjustment calculation, and improve WARN_ONCE
messages.
v3: Don't warn before maxadj has actually been set
CC: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
CC: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>
CC: zhangfx <zhangfx@lemote.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>
Reported-by: zhangfx <zhangfx@lemote.com>
Tested-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
commit 8bc0daf (alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class
interface) did not implement required error checks. Add them.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
KGDB needs to trylock watchdog_lock when trying to reset the
clocksource watchdog after the system has been stopped to avoid a
potential deadlock. When the trylock fails TSC usually becomes
unstable.
We can be more clever by using an atomic counter and checking it in
the clocksource_watchdog callback. We restart the watchdog whenever
the counter is > 0 and only decrement the counter when we ran through
a full update cycle.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1109121326280.2723@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
There is at least one architecture (s390) with a sane clockevent device
that can be programmed with the equivalent of a ktime. No need to create
a delta against the current time, the ktime can be used directly.
A new clock device function 'set_next_ktime' is introduced that is called
with the unmodified ktime for the timer if the clock event device has the
CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME bit set.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.815350967@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The automatic increase of the min_delta_ns of a clockevents device
should be done in the clockevents code as the minimum delay is an
attribute of the clockevents device.
In addition not all architectures want the automatic adjustment, on a
massively virtualized system it can happen that the programming of a
clock event fails several times in a row because the virtual cpu has
been rescheduled quickly enough. In that case the minimum delay will
erroneously be increased with no way back. The new config symbol
GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST is used to enable the automatic
adjustment. The config option is selected only for x86.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.494157493@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When performing cpu hotplug tests the kernel printk log buffer gets flooded
with pointless "Switched to NOHz mode..." messages. Especially when afterwards
analyzing a dump this might have removed more interesting stuff out of the
buffer.
Assuming that switching to NOHz mode simply works just remove the printk.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823112046.GB2540@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us update idle/iowait counters
unconditionally if the given CPU is in the idle loop.
This doesn't work well outside of CPU governors which are singletons
so nobody (except for IRQ) can race with them.
We will need to use both functions from /proc/stat handler to properly
handle nohz idle/iowait times.
Make the update depend on a non NULL last_update_time argument.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/11f23179472635ce52e78921d47a20216b872f23.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
update_ts_time_stat currently updates idle time even if we are in
iowait loop at the moment. The only real users of the idle counter
(via get_cpu_idle_time_us) are CPU governors and they expect to get
cumulative time for both idle and iowait times.
The value (idle_sleeptime) is also printed to userspace by print_cpu
but it prints both idle and iowait times so the idle part is misleading.
Let's clean this up and fix update_ts_time_stat to account both counters
properly and update consumers of idle to consider iowait time as well.
If we do this we might use get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us from other
contexts as well and we will get expected values.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9c909c221a8da402c4da07e4cd968c3218f8eb1.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This allows cleaner detection of the RTC device being registered, rather
then probing any time someone calls alarmtimer_get_rtcdev.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
In order to allow for functionality like try_to_cancel, add
more refined state tracking (similar to hrtimers).
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Now that the alarmtimers code has been refactored, the interval
cap limit can be removed.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
This patch pushes the periodic alarmtimer re-arming down into the alarmtimer
handler, mimicking how hrtimers handle this.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Following common_timer_get, zero out the itimerspec passed in.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
We don't check if old_setting is non null before assigning it, so
correct this.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Terribly embarassing. Don't know how I committed this, but its
KERN_WARNING not KERN_WARN.
This fixes the following compile error:
kernel/time/timekeeping.c: In function ‘__timekeeping_inject_sleeptime’:
kernel/time/timekeeping.c:608: error: ‘KERN_WARN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/time/timekeeping.c:608: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/time/timekeeping.c:608: error: for each function it appears in.)
kernel/time/timekeeping.c:608: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
make[2]: *** [kernel/time/timekeeping.o] Error 1
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Because the read_persistent_clock interface is usually backed by
only a second granular interface, each time we read from the persistent
clock for suspend/resume, we introduce a half second (on average) of error.
In order to avoid this error accumulating as the system is suspended
over and over, this patch measures the time delta between the persistent
clock and the system CLOCK_REALTIME.
If the delta is less then 2 seconds from the last suspend, we compensate
by using the previous time delta (keeping it close). If it is larger
then 2 seconds, we assume the clock was set or has been changed, so we
do no correction and update the delta.
Note: If NTP is running, ths could seem to "fight" with the NTP corrected
time, where as if the system time was off by 1 second, and NTP slewed the
value in, a suspend/resume cycle could undo this correction, by trying to
restore the previous offset from the persistent clock. However, without
this patch, since each read could cause almost a full second worth of
error, its possible to get almost 2 seconds of error just from the
suspend/resume cycle alone, so this about equal to any offset added by
the compensation.
Further on systems that suspend/resume frequently, this should keep time
closer then NTP could compensate for if the errors were allowed to
accumulate.
Credits to Arve Hjønnevåg for suggesting this solution.
CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Arve suggested making sure we catch possible negative sleep time
intervals that could be passed into timekeeping_inject_sleeptime.
CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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 <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
CC: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Reported by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Meelis Roos <mroos@ut.ee>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@ut.ee>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
The clocksource watchdog code is interruptible and it has been
observed that this can trigger false positives which disable the TSC.
The reason is that an interrupt storm or a long running interrupt
handler between the read of the watchdog source and the read of the
TSC brings the two far enough apart that the delta is larger than the
unstable treshold. Move both reads into a short interrupt disabled
region to avoid that.
Reported-and-tested-by: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
For UP it's stupid to request an initialized cpumask for the clock
event devices. Though we need the mask set even on UP to avoid a
horrible ifdeffery especially in the broadcast code.
For SMP we can at least try to survive with a warning and set the
cpumask of the cpu we're running on. That gives a decent chance to
bring the machine up and retrieve the debug info.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Instead of iterating over all possible timer bases avoid it by marking
the active bases in the cpu base.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
hrtimer: Make lookup table const
RTC: Disable CONFIG_RTC_CLASS from being built as a module
timers: Fix alarmtimer build issues when CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=n
timers: Remove delayed irqwork from alarmtimers implementation
timers: Improve alarmtimer comments and minor fixes
timers: Posix interface for alarm-timers
timers: Introduce in-kernel alarm-timer interface
timers: Add rb_init_node() to allow for stack allocated rb nodes
time: Add timekeeping_inject_sleeptime
* 'timers-clockevents-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: hpet: Cleanup the clockevents init and register code
x86: Convert PIT to clockevents_config_and_register()
clockevents: Provide interface to reconfigure an active clock event device
clockevents: Provide combined configure and register function
clockevents: Restructure clock_event_device members
clocksource: Get rid of the hardcoded 5 seconds sleep time limit
clocksource: Restructure clocksource struct members
Some ARM SoCs have clock event devices which have their frequency
modified due to frequency scaling. Provide an interface which allows
to reconfigure an active device. After reconfiguration reprogram the
current pending event.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.437459958%40linutronix.de%3E
All clockevent devices have the same open coded initialization
functions. Provide an interface which does all necessary
initialization in the core code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.331975870%40linutronix.de%3E
Slow clocksources can have a way longer sleep time than 5 seconds and
even fast ones can easily cope with 600 seconds and still maintain
proper accuracy.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.109811585%40linutronix.de%3E
The first cpu which switches from periodic to oneshot mode switches
also the broadcast device into oneshot mode. The broadcast device
serves as a backup for per cpu timers which stop in deeper
C-states. To avoid starvation of the cpus which might be in idle and
depend on broadcast mode it marks the other cpus as broadcast active
and sets the brodcast expiry value of those cpus to the next tick.
The oneshot mode broadcast bit for the other cpus is sticky and gets
only cleared when those cpus exit idle. If a cpu was not idle while
the bit got set in consequence the bit prevents that the broadcast
device is armed on behalf of that cpu when it enters idle for the
first time after it switched to oneshot mode.
In most cases that goes unnoticed as one of the other cpus has usually
a timer pending which keeps the broadcast device armed with a short
timeout. Now if the only cpu which has a short timer active has the
bit set then the broadcast device will not be armed on behalf of that
cpu and will fire way after the expected timer expiry. In the case of
Christians bug report it took ~145 seconds which is about half of the
wrap around time of HPET (the limit for that device) due to the fact
that all other cpus had no timers armed which expired before the 145
seconds timeframe.
The solution is simply to clear the broadcast active bit
unconditionally when a cpu switches to oneshot mode after the first
cpu switched the broadcast device over. It's not idle at that point
otherwise it would not be executing that code.
[ I fundamentally hate that broadcast crap. Why the heck thought some
folks that when going into deep idle it's a brilliant concept to
switch off the last device which brings the cpu back from that
state? ]
Thanks to Christian for providing all the valuable debug information!
Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Hoffmann <email@christianhoffmann.info>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Calpine.LFD.2.02.1105161105170.3078%40ionos%3E
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Avoid taking broadcast_lock in the idle path for systems where the
timer doesn't stop in C3.
[ tglx: Removed the stale label and added comment ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <dkleikamp@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110504234806.GF2925%40one.firstfloor.org%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Christian Hoffmann reported that the command line clocksource override
with acpi_pm timer fails:
Kernel command line: <SNIP> clocksource=acpi_pm
hpet clockevent registered
Switching to clocksource hpet
Override clocksource acpi_pm is not HRT compatible.
Cannot switch while in HRT/NOHZ mode.
The watchdog code is what enables CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES, but we
actually end up selecting the clocksource before we enqueue it into
the watchdog list, so that's why we see the warning and fail to switch
to acpi_pm timer as requested. That's particularly bad when we want to
debug timekeeping related problems in early boot.
Put the selection call last.
Reported-by: Christian Hoffmann <email@christianhoffmann.info>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 32...
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C1304558210.2943.24.camel%40work-vm%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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
dereferenced
Instead 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 <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Some applications must be aware of clock realtime being set
backward. A simple example is a clock applet which arms a timer for
the next minute display. If clock realtime is set backward then the
applet displays a stale time for the amount of time which the clock
was set backwards. Due to that applications poll the time because we
don't have an interface.
Extend the timerfd interface by adding a flag which puts the timer
onto a different internal realtime clock. All timers on this clock are
expired whenever the clock was set.
The timerfd core records the monotonic offset when the timer is
created. When the timer is armed, then the current offset is compared
to the previous recorded offset. When it has changed, then
timerfd_settime returns -ECANCELED. When a timer is read the offset is
compared and if it changed -ECANCELED returned to user space. Periodic
timers are not rearmed in the cancelation case.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
Tested-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Calpine.LFD.2.02.1104271359580.3323%40ionos%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Make clock_was_set() unconditional and rename hres_timers_resume to
hrtimers_resume. This is a preparatory patch for hrtimers which are
cancelled when clock realtime was set.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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 <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
This patch addresses a number of minor comment improvements and
other minor issues from Thomas' review of the alarmtimers code.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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 <arve@android.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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 <arve@android.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Some platforms cannot implement read_persistent_clock, as
their RTC devices are only accessible when interrupts are enabled.
This keeps them from being used by the timekeeping code on resume
to measure the time in suspend.
The RTC layer tries to work around this, by calling do_settimeofday
on resume after irqs are reenabled to set the time properly. However,
this only corrects CLOCK_REALTIME, and does not properly adjust
the sleep time value. This causes btime in /proc/stat to be incorrect
as well as making the new CLOCK_BOTTTIME inaccurate.
This patch resolves the issue by introducing a new timekeeping hook
to allow the RTC layer to inject the sleep time on resume.
The code also checks to make sure that read_persistent_clock is
nonfunctional before setting the sleep time, so that should the RTC's
HCTOSYS option be configured in on a system that does support
read_persistent_clock we will not increase the total_sleep_time twice.
CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
A dynamic posix clock is protected from asynchronous removal by a mutex.
However, using a mutex has the unwanted effect that a long running clock
operation in one process will unnecessarily block other processes.
For example, one process might call read() to get an external time stamp
coming in at one pulse per second. A second process calling clock_gettime
would have to wait for almost a whole second.
This patch fixes the issue by using a reader/writer semaphore instead of
a mutex.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110330132421.GA31771%40riccoc20.at.omicron.at%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
