linux/kernel/timer.c, branch v2.6.19

[PATCH] kill wall_jiffies

2006-10-01T07:39:27Z

With 2.6.18-rc4-mm2, now wall_jiffies will always be the same as jiffies. So we can kill wall_jiffies completely. This is just a cleanup and logically should not change any real behavior except for one thing: RTC updating code in (old) ppc and xtensa use a condition "jiffies - wall_jiffies == 1". This condition is never met so I suppose it is just a bug. I just remove that condition only instead of kill the whole "if" block. [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 build fix and cleanup] Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Russell King Cc: Ian Molton Cc: Mikael Starvik Cc: David Howells Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Hirokazu Takata Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Kazumoto Kojima Cc: Richard Curnow Cc: William Lee Irwin III Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Cc: Miles Bader Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Roman Zippel Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ntp: add time_adjust to tick length

2006-10-01T07:39:26Z

This folds update_ntp_one_tick() into second_overflow() and adds time_adjust to the tick length, this makes time_next_adjust unnecessary. This slightly changes the adjtime() behaviour, instead of applying it to the next tick, it's applied to the next second. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel Cc: john stultz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ntp: add ntp_update_frequency

2006-10-01T07:39:26Z

This introduces ntp_update_frequency() and deinlines ntp_clear() (as it's not performance critical). ntp_update_frequency() calculates the base tick length using tick_usec and adds a base adjustment, in case the frequency doesn't divide evenly by HZ. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel Cc: john stultz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] NTP: Move all the NTP related code to ntp.c

2006-10-01T07:39:26Z

Move all the NTP related code to ntp.c [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, build fix] Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Roman Zippel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem)

2006-09-29T16:18:15Z

Pass ticks to do_timer() and update_times(), and adjust x86_64 and s390 timer interrupt handler with this change. Currently update_times() calculates ticks by "jiffies - wall_jiffies", but callers of do_timer() should know how many ticks to update. Passing ticks get rid of this redundant calculation. Also there are another redundancy pointed out by Martin Schwidefsky. This cleanup make a barrier added by 5aee405c662ca644980c184774277fc6d0769a84 needless. So this patch removes it. As a bonus, this cleanup make wall_jiffies can be removed easily, since now wall_jiffies is always synced with jiffies. (This patch does not really remove wall_jiffies. It would be another cleanup patch) Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: john stultz Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Acked-by: Russell King Cc: Ian Molton Cc: Mikael Starvik Acked-by: David Howells Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Hirokazu Takata Acked-by: Ralf Baechle Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Kazumoto Kojima Cc: Richard Curnow Cc: William Lee Irwin III Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Cc: Miles Bader Cc: Chris Zankel Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Roman Zippel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] check return value of cpu_callback

2006-09-29T16:18:14Z

Spawing ksoftirqd, migration, or watchdog, and calling init_timers_cpu() may fail with small memory. If it happens in initcalls, kernel NULL pointer dereference happens later. This patch makes crash happen immediately in such cases. It seems a bit better than getting kernel NULL pointer dereference later. Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Fix kerneldoc comments in kernel/timer.c

2006-09-29T16:18:10Z

Some of the kerneldoc comments in this file are ignored since the lead-in is malformed, using either "/*" or "/***" instead of "/**". [rdunlap@xenotime.net: kerneldoc fixes] Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] timer: add lock annotation to lock_timer_base

2006-09-29T16:18:09Z

lock_timer_base acquires a lock and returns with that lock held. Add a lock annotation to this function so that sparse can check callers for lock pairing, and so that sparse will not complain about this function since it intentionally uses the lock in this manner. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sys_getppid oopses on debug kernel

2006-08-14T19:54:29Z

sys_getppid() optimization can access a freed memory. On kernels with DEBUG_SLAB turned ON, this results in Oops. As Dave Hansen noted, this optimization is also unsafe for memory hotplug. So this patch always takes the lock to be safe. [oleg@tv-sign.ru: simplifications] Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev Cc: Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] timer: Fix tvec_bases initializer

2006-07-31T20:28:44Z

kernel/timer.c defines a (per-cpu) pointer to tvec_base_t, but initializes it using { &a_tvec_base_t }, which sparse warns about; change this to just &a_tvec_base_t. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds