linux/kernel/time/hrtimer.c, branch v6.14

hrtimers: Force migrate away hrtimers queued after CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING

2025-01-23T19:06:35Z

hrtimers are migrated away from the dying CPU to any online target at the CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING stage in order not to delay bandwidth timers handling tasks involved in the CPU hotplug forward progress. However wakeups can still be performed by the outgoing CPU after CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING. Those can result again in bandwidth timers being armed. Depending on several considerations (crystal ball power management based election, earliest timer already enqueued, timer migration enabled or not), the target may eventually be the current CPU even if offline. If that happens, the timer is eventually ignored. The most notable example is RCU which had to deal with each and every of those wake-ups by deferring them to an online CPU, along with related workarounds: _ e787644caf76 (rcu: Defer RCU kthreads wakeup when CPU is dying) _ 9139f93209d1 (rcu/nocb: Fix RT throttling hrtimer armed from offline CPU) _ f7345ccc62a4 (rcu/nocb: Fix rcuog wake-up from offline softirq) The problem isn't confined to RCU though as the stop machine kthread (which runs CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING) reports its completion at the end of its work through cpu_stop_signal_done() and performs a wake up that eventually arms the deadline server timer: WARNING: CPU: 94 PID: 588 at kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1086 hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x289/0x2d0 CPU: 94 UID: 0 PID: 588 Comm: migration/94 Not tainted Stopper: multi_cpu_stop+0x0/0x120 <- stop_machine_cpuslocked+0x66/0xc0 RIP: 0010:hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x289/0x2d0 Call Trace: start_dl_timer enqueue_dl_entity dl_server_start enqueue_task_fair enqueue_task ttwu_do_activate try_to_wake_up complete cpu_stopper_thread Instead of providing yet another bandaid to work around the situation, fix it in the hrtimers infrastructure instead: always migrate away a timer to an online target whenever it is enqueued from an offline CPU. This will also allow to revert all the above RCU disgraceful hacks. Fixes: 5c0930ccaad5 ("hrtimers: Push pending hrtimers away from outgoing CPU earlier") Reported-by: Vlad Poenaru Reported-by: Usama Arif Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250117232433.24027-1-frederic@kernel.org Closes: 20241213203739.1519801-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com

hrtimers: Mark is_migration_base() with __always_inline

2025-01-23T19:06:35Z

When is_migration_base() is unused, it prevents kernel builds with clang, `make W=1` and CONFIG_WERROR=y: kernel/time/hrtimer.c:156:20: error: unused function 'is_migration_base' [-Werror,-Wunused-function] 156 | static inline bool is_migration_base(struct hrtimer_clock_base *base) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fix this by marking it with __always_inline. [ tglx: Use __always_inline instead of __maybe_unused and move it into the usage sites conditional ] Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250116160745.243358-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com

Merge tag 'timers-core-2025-01-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-01-21T21:16:00Z

Pull timer and timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Just boring cleanups, typo and comment fixes and trivial optimizations * tag 'timers-core-2025-01-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: timers/migration: Simplify top level detection on group setup timers: Optimize get_timer_[this_]cpu_base() timekeeping: Remove unused ktime_get_fast_timestamps() timer/migration: Fix kernel-doc warnings for union tmigr_state tick/broadcast: Add kernel-doc for function parameters hrtimers: Update the return type of enqueue_hrtimer() clocksource/wdtest: Print time values for short udelay(1) posix-timers: Fix typo in __lock_timer() vdso: Correct typo in PAGE_SHIFT comment

hrtimers: Handle CPU state correctly on hotplug

2025-01-16T12:06:14Z

Consider a scenario where a CPU transitions from CPUHP_ONLINE to halfway through a CPU hotunplug down to CPUHP_HRTIMERS_PREPARE, and then back to CPUHP_ONLINE: Since hrtimers_prepare_cpu() does not run, cpu_base.hres_active remains set to 1 throughout. However, during a CPU unplug operation, the tick and the clockevents are shut down at CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING. On return to the online state, for instance CFS incorrectly assumes that the hrtick is already active, and the chance of the clockevent device to transition to oneshot mode is also lost forever for the CPU, unless it goes back to a lower state than CPUHP_HRTIMERS_PREPARE once. This round-trip reveals another issue; cpu_base.online is not set to 1 after the transition, which appears as a WARN_ON_ONCE in enqueue_hrtimer(). Aside of that, the bulk of the per CPU state is not reset either, which means there are dangling pointers in the worst case. Address this by adding a corresponding startup() callback, which resets the stale per CPU state and sets the online flag. [ tglx: Make the new callback unconditionally available, remove the online modification in the prepare() callback and clear the remaining state in the starting callback instead of the prepare callback ] Fixes: 5c0930ccaad5 ("hrtimers: Push pending hrtimers away from outgoing CPU earlier") Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241220134421.3809834-1-koichiro.den@canonical.com

hrtimers: Update the return type of enqueue_hrtimer()

2025-01-15T18:49:14Z

The return type should be 'bool' instead of 'int' according to the calling context in the kernel, and its internal implementation, i.e. : return timerqueue_add(); which is a bool-return function. [ tglx: Adjust function arguments ] Signed-off-by: Richard Clark Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z2ppT7me13dtxm1a@MBC02GN1V4Q05P

Merge tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2024-11-20T00:35:06Z

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A rather large update for timekeeping and timers: - The final step to get rid of auto-rearming posix-timers posix-timers are currently auto-rearmed by the kernel when the signal of the timer is ignored so that the timer signal can be delivered once the corresponding signal is unignored. This requires to throttle the timer to prevent a DoS by small intervals and keeps the system pointlessly out of low power states for no value. This is a long standing non-trivial problem due to the lock order of posix-timer lock and the sighand lock along with life time issues as the timer and the sigqueue have different life time rules. Cure this by: - Embedding the sigqueue into the timer struct to have the same life time rules. Aside of that this also avoids the lookup of the timer in the signal delivery and rearm path as it's just a always valid container_of() now. - Queuing ignored timer signals onto a seperate ignored list. - Moving queued timer signals onto the ignored list when the signal is switched to SIG_IGN before it could be delivered. - Walking the ignored list when SIG_IGN is lifted and requeue the signals to the actual signal lists. This allows the signal delivery code to rearm the timer. This also required to consolidate the signal delivery rules so they are consistent across all situations. With that all self test scenarios finally succeed. - Core infrastructure for VFS multigrain timestamping This is required to allow the kernel to use coarse grained time stamps by default and switch to fine grained time stamps when inode attributes are actively observed via getattr(). These changes have been provided to the VFS tree as well, so that the VFS specific infrastructure could be built on top. - Cleanup and consolidation of the sleep() infrastructure - Move all sleep and timeout functions into one file - Rework udelay() and ndelay() into proper documented inline functions and replace the hardcoded magic numbers by proper defines. - Rework the fsleep() implementation to take the reality of the timer wheel granularity on different HZ values into account. Right now the boundaries are hard coded time ranges which fail to provide the requested accuracy on different HZ settings. - Update documentation for all sleep/timeout related functions and fix up stale documentation links all over the place - Fixup a few usage sites - Rework of timekeeping and adjtimex(2) to prepare for multiple PTP clocks A system can have multiple PTP clocks which are participating in seperate and independent PTP clock domains. So far the kernel only considers the PTP clock which is based on CLOCK TAI relevant as that's the clock which drives the timekeeping adjustments via the various user space daemons through adjtimex(2). The non TAI based clock domains are accessible via the file descriptor based posix clocks, but their usability is very limited. They can't be accessed fast as they always go all the way out to the hardware and they cannot be utilized in the kernel itself. As Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) gains traction it is required to provide fast user and kernel space access to these clocks. The approach taken is to utilize the timekeeping and adjtimex(2) infrastructure to provide this access in a similar way how the kernel provides access to clock MONOTONIC, REALTIME etc. Instead of creating a duplicated infrastructure this rework converts timekeeping and adjtimex(2) into generic functionality which operates on pointers to data structures instead of using static variables. This allows to provide time accessors and adjtimex(2) functionality for the independent PTP clocks in a subsequent step. - Consolidate hrtimer initialization hrtimers are set up by initializing the data structure and then seperately setting the callback function for historical reasons. That's an extra unnecessary step and makes Rust support less straight forward than it should be. Provide a new set of hrtimer_setup*() functions and convert the core code and a few usage sites of the less frequently used interfaces over. The bulk of the htimer_init() to hrtimer_setup() conversion is already prepared and scheduled for the next merge window. - Drivers: - Ensure that the global timekeeping clocksource is utilizing the cluster 0 timer on MIPS multi-cluster systems. Otherwise CPUs on different clusters use their cluster specific clocksource which is not guaranteed to be synchronized with other clusters. - Mostly boring cleanups, fixes, improvements and code movement" * tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (140 commits) posix-timers: Fix spurious warning on double enqueue versus do_exit() clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties clocksource/drivers/gpx: Remove redundant casts clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix child node refcount handling dt-bindings: timer: actions,owl-timer: convert to YAML clocksource/drivers/ralink: Add Ralink System Tick Counter driver clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Always use cluster 0 counter as clocksource clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Don't fail probe if int not found clocksource/drivers:sp804: Make user selectable clocksource/drivers/dw_apb: Remove unused dw_apb_clockevent functions hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_on_stack() alarmtimer: Switch to use hrtimer_setup() and hrtimer_setup_on_stack() io_uring: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack() sched/idle: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack() hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack() wait: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() timers: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() net: pktgen: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() futex: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() fs/aio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() ...

hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_on_stack()

2024-11-07T01:47:07Z

hrtimer_init_on_stack() is now unused. Delete it. Signed-off-by: Nam Cao Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/510ce0d2944c4a382ea51e51d03dcfb73ba0f4f7.1730386209.git.namcao@linutronix.de

hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack()

2024-11-07T01:47:06Z

hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack() is now unused. Delete it. Signed-off-by: Nam Cao Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/52549846635c0b3a2abf82101f539efdabcd9778.1730386209.git.namcao@linutronix.de

timers: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()

2024-11-07T01:47:06Z

hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() replaces hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack() to keep the naming convention consistent. Convert the usage sites over to it. The conversion was done with Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Nam Cao Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/299c07f0f96af8ab3a7631b47b6ca22b06b20577.1730386209.git.namcao@linutronix.de

hrtimers: Introduce hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()

2024-11-07T01:47:05Z

The hrtimer_init*() API is replaced by hrtimer_setup*() variants to initialize the timer including the callback function at once. hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack() does not need user to setup the callback function separately, so a new variant would not be strictly necessary. Nonetheless, to keep the naming convention consistent, introduce hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack(). hrtimer_init_on_stack() will be removed once all users are converted. Signed-off-by: Nam Cao Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7b5e18e6dd0ace9eaa211201528cb9dc23752454.1730386209.git.namcao@linutronix.de