linux/kernel/time, branch v2.6.24

clockevents: fix reprogramming decision in oneshot broadcast

2007-12-18T17:05:58Z

Resolve the following regression of a choppy, almost unusable laptop: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/299 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9525 A previous version of the code did the reprogramming of the broadcast device in the return from idle code. This was removed, but the logic in tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() was kept the same. When a broadcast interrupt happens we signal the expiry to all CPUs which have an expired event. If none of the CPUs has an expired event, which can happen in dyntick mode, then we reprogram the broadcast device. We do not reprogram otherwise, but this is only correct if all CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state have been woken up. The code ignores, that there might be pending not yet expired events on other CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state. So the delivery of those events can be delayed for quite a time. Change the tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() function to check for CPUs, which are in broadcast state and are not woken up by the current event, and enforce the rearming of the broadcast device for those CPUs. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

clockevents: warn once when program_event() is called with negative expiry

2007-12-07T18:16:17Z

The hrtimer problem with large relative timeouts resulting in a negative expiry time went unnoticed as there is no check in the clockevents_program_event() code. Put a check there with a WARN_ONCE to avoid such problems in the future. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

softlockup: fix false positives on CONFIG_NOHZ

2007-11-28T14:52:56Z

David Miller reported soft lockup false-positives that trigger on NOHZ due to CPUs idling for more than 10 seconds. The solution is touch the softlockup watchdog when we return from idle. (by definition we are not 'locked up' when we were idle) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9409 Reported-by: David Miller Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

time: add ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ

2007-11-26T19:42:19Z

Michael Kerrisk reported that a long standing bug in the adjtimex() system call causes glibc's adjtime(3) function to deliver the wrong results if 'delta' is NULL. add the ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ API detail, which will be used by glibc to fix this API compatibility bug. Also see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761 [ mingo@elte.hu: added patch description and made it backwards compatible ] NOTE: the new flag is defined 0xa001 so that it returns -EINVAL on older kernels - this way glibc can use it safely. Suggested by Ulrich Drepper. Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

ntp: fix typo that makes sync_cmos_clock erratic

2007-11-17T15:27:01Z

Fix a typo in ntp.c that has caused updating of the persistent (RTC) clock when synced to NTP to behave erratically. When debugging a freeze that arises on my AMD64 machines when I run the ntpd service, I added a number of printk's to monitor the sync_cmos_clock procedure. I discovered that it was not syncing to cmos RTC every 11 minutes as documented, but instead would keep trying every second for hours at a time. The reason turned out to be a typo in sync_cmos_clock, where it attempts to ensure that update_persistent_clock is called very close to 500 msec. after a 1 second boundary (required by the PC RTC's spec). That typo referred to "xtime" in one spot, rather than "now", which is derived from "xtime" but not equal to it. This makes the test erratic, creating a "coin-flip" that decides when update_persistent_clock is called - when it is called, which is rarely, it may be at any time during the one second period, rather than close to 500 msec, so the value written is needlessly incorrect, too. Signed-off-by: David P. Reed Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: fix inconsistent function names in comments

2007-11-05T23:12:33Z

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: john stultz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

timer_list: Fix printk format strings

2007-10-29T08:39:38Z

This makes sure printk format strings contain no more than a single line. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

clockevents: unexport tick_nohz_get_sleep_length

2007-10-29T08:39:38Z

This patch removes the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_get_sleep_length). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6

2007-10-19T20:12:46Z

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (41 commits) ACPICA: hw: Don't carry spinlock over suspend ACPICA: hw: remove use_lock flag from acpi_hw_register_{read, write} ACPI: cpuidle: port idle timer suspend/resume workaround to cpuidle ACPI: clean up acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep Hibernation: Make sure that ACPI is enabled in acpi_hibernation_finish ACPI: suppress uninitialized var warning cpuidle: consolidate 2.6.22 cpuidle branch into one patch ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: skip blanks before the data when parsing sysfs ACPI: AC: Add sysfs interface ACPI: SBS: Add sysfs alarm ACPI: SBS: Add ACPI_PROCFS around procfs handling code. ACPI: SBS: Add support for power_supply class (and sysfs) ACPI: SBS: Make SBS reads table-driven. ACPI: SBS: Simplify data structures in SBS ACPI: SBS: Split host controller (ACPI0001) from SBS driver (ACPI0002) ACPI: EC: Add new query handler to list head. ACPI: Add acpi_bus_generate_event4() function ACPI: Battery: add sysfs alarm ACPI: Battery: Add sysfs support ACPI: Battery: Misc clean-ups, no functional changes ... Fix up conflicts in drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.[ch] manually

kernel/time/clocksource.c: Use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each

2007-10-19T18:53:38Z

kernel/time/clocksource.c: Convert list_for_each to list_for_each_entry in clocksource_resume(), sysfs_override_clocksource() and show_available_clocksources() Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: john stultz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds