linux/kernel/time, branch v6.14

Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2025-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-02-08T19:55:03Z

Pull timer fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Fix a PREEMPT_RT bug in the clocksource verification code that caused false positive warnings. Also fix a timer migration setup bug when new CPUs are added" * tag 'timers-urgent-2025-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: timers/migration: Fix off-by-one root mis-connection clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context

timers/migration: Fix off-by-one root mis-connection

2025-02-07T08:02:16Z

Before attaching a new root to the old root, the children counter of the new root is checked to verify that only the upcoming CPU's top group have been connected to it. However since the recently added commit b729cc1ec21a ("timers/migration: Fix another race between hotplug and idle entry/exit") this check is not valid anymore because the old root is pre-accounted as a child to the new root. Therefore after connecting the upcoming CPU's top group to the new root, the children count to be expected must be 2 and not 1 anymore. This omission results in the old root to not be connected to the new root. Then eventually the system may run with more than one top level, which defeats the purpose of a single idle migrator. Also the old root is pre-accounted but not connected upon the new root creation. But it can be connected to the new root later on. Therefore the old root may be accounted twice to the new root. The propagation of such overcommit can end up creating a double final top-level root with a groupmask incorrectly initialized. Although harmless given that the final top level roots will never have a parent to walk up to, this oddity opportunistically reported the core issue: WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 0 at kernel/time/timer_migration.c:543 tmigr_requires_handle_remote CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8 RIP: 0010:tmigr_requires_handle_remote Call Trace: ? tmigr_requires_handle_remote ? hrtimer_run_queues update_process_times tick_periodic tick_handle_periodic __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt Fix the problem by taking the old root into account in the children count of the new root so the connection is not omitted. Also warn when more than one top level group exists to better detect similar issues in the future. Fixes: b729cc1ec21a ("timers/migration: Fix another race between hotplug and idle entry/exit") Reported-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250205160220.39467-1-frederic@kernel.org

Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2025-02-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-02-03T17:10:56Z

Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner: - Properly cast the input to secs_to_jiffies() to unsigned long as otherwise the result uses the data type of the input variable, which causes result range checks to fail if the input data type is signed and smaller than unsigned long. - Handle late armed hrtimers gracefully on CPU hotplug There are legitimate cases where a hrtimer is (re)armed on an outgoing CPU after the timers have been migrated away. This triggers warnings and caused people to implement horrible workarounds in RCU. But those workarounds are incomplete and do not cover e.g. the scheduler hrtimers. Stop this by force moving timer which are enqueued on the current CPU after timer migration to be queued on a remote online CPU. This allows to undo the workarounds in a seperate step. - Demote a warning level printk() to info level in the clocksource watchdog code as there is no point to emit a warning level message for a purely informational message. - Mark a helper function __always_inline and move it into the existing #ifdef block to avoid 'unused function' warnings from CLANG * tag 'timers-urgent-2025-02-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: jiffies: Cast to unsigned long in secs_to_jiffies() conversion clocksource: Use pr_info() for "Checking clocksource synchronization" message hrtimers: Force migrate away hrtimers queued after CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING hrtimers: Mark is_migration_base() with __always_inline

clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context

2025-02-03T15:18:56Z

The following bug report happened with a PREEMPT_RT kernel: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2012, name: kwatchdog preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 get_random_u32+0x4f/0x110 clocksource_verify_choose_cpus+0xab/0x1a0 clocksource_verify_percpu.part.0+0x6b/0x330 clocksource_watchdog_kthread+0x193/0x1a0 It is due to the fact that clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() is invoked with preemption disabled. This function invokes get_random_u32() to obtain random numbers for choosing CPUs. The batched_entropy_32 local lock and/or the base_crng.lock spinlock in driver/char/random.c will be acquired during the call. In PREEMPT_RT kernel, they are both sleeping locks and so cannot be acquired in atomic context. Fix this problem by using migrate_disable() to allow smp_processor_id() to be reliably used without introducing atomic context. preempt_disable() is then called after clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() but before the clocksource measurement is being run to avoid introducing unexpected latency. Fixes: 7560c02bdffb ("clocksource: Check per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable") Suggested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250131173323.891943-2-longman@redhat.com

treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable

2025-01-28T12:48:37Z

Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls, loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net, drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function. Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata. This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the proc_handlers. Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command: Spatch: virtual patch @ depends on !(file in "net") disable optional_qualifier @ identifier table_name != { watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, iwcm_ctl_table, ucma_ctl_table, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls, loadpin_sysctl_table }; @@ + const struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... }; sed: sed --in-place \ -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \ kernel/utsname_sysctl.c Reviewed-by: Song Liu Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) # for kernel/trace/ Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen # SCSI Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong # xfs Acked-by: Jani Nikula Acked-by: Corey Minyard Acked-by: Wei Liu Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell Acked-by: Baoquan He Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit Acked-by: Anna Schumaker Signed-off-by: Joel Granados

clocksource: Use pr_info() for "Checking clocksource synchronization" message

2025-01-27T09:30:59Z

The "Checking clocksource synchronization" message is normally printed when clocksource_verify_percpu() is called for a given clocksource if both the CLOCK_SOURCE_UNSTABLE and CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU flags are set. It is an informational message and so pr_info() is the correct choice. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: John Stultz Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250125015442.3740588-1-longman@redhat.com

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

timers/migration: Simplify top level detection on group setup

2025-01-16T13:01:09Z

Having a single group on a given level is enough to know this is the top level, because a root has to have at least two children, unless that root is the only group and the children are actual CPUs. Simplify the test in tmigr_setup_groups() accordingly. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250114231507.21672-5-frederic@kernel.org