[GIT PULL] timers fixes

* [GIT PULL] timers fixes
@ 2020-01-18 18:47 Ingo Molnar
  2020-01-18 21:05 ` pr-tracker-bot
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Molnar @ 2020-01-18 18:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds
  Cc: linux-kernel, Thomas Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra, Andrew Morton

Linus,

Please pull the latest timers-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-urgent-for-linus

   # HEAD: de95a991bb72e009f47e0c4bbc90fc5f594588d5 tick/sched: Annotate lockless access to last_jiffies_update

Three fixes: fix link failure on Alpha, fix a Sparse warning and 
annotate/robustify a lockless access in the NOHZ code.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Arnd Bergmann (1):
      time/posix-stubs: Provide compat itimer supoprt for alpha

Eric Dumazet (1):
      tick/sched: Annotate lockless access to last_jiffies_update

Vincenzo Frascino (1):
      lib/vdso: Make __cvdso_clock_getres() static


 kernel/time/posix-stubs.c |  3 +++
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c  | 14 +++++++++-----
 lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-stubs.c b/kernel/time/posix-stubs.c
index 67df65f887ac..20c65a7d4e3a 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-stubs.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-stubs.c
@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(clock_nanosleep, const clockid_t, which_clock, int, flags,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 COMPAT_SYS_NI(timer_create);
+#endif
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_COMPAT) || defined(CONFIG_ALPHA)
 COMPAT_SYS_NI(getitimer);
 COMPAT_SYS_NI(setitimer);
 #endif
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 8b192e67aabc..a792d21cac64 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now)
 
 	/*
 	 * Do a quick check without holding jiffies_lock:
+	 * The READ_ONCE() pairs with two updates done later in this function.
 	 */
-	delta = ktime_sub(now, last_jiffies_update);
+	delta = ktime_sub(now, READ_ONCE(last_jiffies_update));
 	if (delta < tick_period)
 		return;
 
@@ -70,8 +71,9 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now)
 	if (delta >= tick_period) {
 
 		delta = ktime_sub(delta, tick_period);
-		last_jiffies_update = ktime_add(last_jiffies_update,
-						tick_period);
+		/* Pairs with the lockless read in this function. */
+		WRITE_ONCE(last_jiffies_update,
+			   ktime_add(last_jiffies_update, tick_period));
 
 		/* Slow path for long timeouts */
 		if (unlikely(delta >= tick_period)) {
@@ -79,8 +81,10 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now)
 
 			ticks = ktime_divns(delta, incr);
 
-			last_jiffies_update = ktime_add_ns(last_jiffies_update,
-							   incr * ticks);
+			/* Pairs with the lockless read in this function. */
+			WRITE_ONCE(last_jiffies_update,
+				   ktime_add_ns(last_jiffies_update,
+						incr * ticks));
 		}
 		do_timer(++ticks);
 
diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
index 9ecfd3b547ba..42bd8ab955fa 100644
--- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
+++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ int __cvdso_clock_getres_common(clockid_t clock, struct __kernel_timespec *res)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static __maybe_unused
 int __cvdso_clock_getres(clockid_t clock, struct __kernel_timespec *res)
 {
 	int ret = __cvdso_clock_getres_common(clock, res);

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