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    • Waiman Long's avatar
      tick/common: Make tick_periodic() check for missing ticks · d441dceb
      Waiman Long authored 
      The tick_periodic() function is used at the beginning part of the
bootup process for time keeping while the other clock sources are
being initialized.

The current code assumes that all the timer interrupts are handled in
a timely manner with no missing ticks. That is not actually true. Some
ticks are missed and there are some discrepancies between the tick time
(jiffies) and the timestamp reported in the kernel log.  Some systems,
however, are more prone to missing ticks than the others.  In the extreme
case, the discrepancy can actually cause a soft lockup message to be
printed by the watchdog kthread. For example, on a Cavium ThunderX2
Sabre arm64 system:

 [   25.496379] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#14 stuck for 22s!

On that system, the missing ticks are especially prevalent during the
smp_init() phase of the boot process. With an instrumented kernel,
it was found that it took about 24s as reported by the timestamp for
the tick to accumulate 4s of time.

Investigation and bisection done by others seemed to point to the
commit 73f38166 ("arm64: Advertise mitigation of Spectre-v2, or
lack thereof") as the culprit. It could also be a firmware issue as
new firmware was promised that would fix the issue.

To properly address this problem, stop assuming that there will be no
missing tick in tick_periodic(). Modify it to follow the example of
tick_do_update_jiffies64() by using another reference clock to check for
missing ticks. Since the watchdog timer uses running_clock(), it is used
here as the reference. With this applied, the soft lockup problem in the
affected arm64 system is gone and tick time tracks much more closely to the
timestamp time.
Signed-off-by: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207193929.27308-1-longman@redhat.com
      d441dceb
    • Wen Yang's avatar
      hrtimer: Cast explicitely to u32t in __ktime_divns() · 38f7b0b1
      Wen Yang authored 
      do_div() does a 64-by-32 division at least on 32bit platforms, while the
divisor 'div' is explicitly casted to unsigned long, thus 64-bit on 64-bit
platforms.

The code already ensures that the divisor is less than 2^32. Hence the
proper cast type is u32.
Signed-off-by: default avatarWen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200130130851.29204-1-wenyang@linux.alibaba.com
      38f7b0b1
    • Wen Yang's avatar
      timekeeping: Prevent 32bit truncation in scale64_check_overflow() · 4cbbc3a0
      Wen Yang authored 
      While unlikely the divisor in scale64_check_overflow() could be >= 32bit in
scale64_check_overflow(). do_div() truncates the divisor to 32bit at least
on 32bit platforms.

Use div64_u64() instead to avoid the truncation to 32-bit.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarWen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200120100523.45656-1-wenyang@linux.alibaba.com
      4cbbc3a0
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      posix-cpu-timers: Stop disabling timers on mt-exec · b95e31c0
      Eric W. Biederman authored 
      The reasons why the extra posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() invocation has been
added are not entirely clear from the commit message.  Today all that
posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() does is stop timers that are tracking the
task from firing.  Every other operation on those timers is still allowed.

The practical implication of this is posix_cpu_timer_del() which could
not get the siglock after the thread group leader has exited (because
sighand == NULL) would be able to run successfully because the timer
was already dequeued.

With that locking issue fixed there is no point in disabling all of the
timers.  So remove this ``tempoary'' hack.

Fixes: e0a70217 ("posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec")
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87o8tityzs.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org
      b95e31c0
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task · 55e8c8eb
      Eric W. Biederman authored 
      posix cpu timers do not handle the death of a process well.

This is most clearly seen when a multi-threaded process calls exec from a
thread that is not the leader of the thread group.  The posix cpu timer code
continues to pin the old thread group leader and is unable to find the
siglock from there.

This results in posix_cpu_timer_del being unable to delete a timer,
posix_cpu_timer_set being unable to set a timer.  Further to compensate for
the problems in posix_cpu_timer_del on a multi-threaded exec all timers
that point at the multi-threaded task are stopped.

The code for the timers fundamentally needs to check if the target
process/thread is alive.  This needs an extra level of indirection. This
level of indirection is already available in struct pid.

So replace cpu.task with cpu.pid to get the needed extra layer of
indirection.

In addition to handling things more cleanly this reduces the amount of
memory a timer can pin when a process exits and then is reaped from
a task_struct to the vastly smaller struct pid.

Fixes: e0a70217 ("posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec")
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87wo86tz6d.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org
      55e8c8eb
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