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  1. 12 Jun, 2015 3 commits
    • John Stultz's avatar
      time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge · 833f32d7
      John Stultz authored 
      Currently, leapsecond adjustments are done at tick time. As a result,
the leapsecond was applied at the first timer tick *after* the
leapsecond (~1-10ms late depending on HZ), rather then exactly on the
second edge.

This was in part historical from back when we were always tick based,
but correcting this since has been avoided since it adds extra
conditional checks in the gettime fastpath, which has performance
overhead.

However, it was recently pointed out that ABS_TIME CLOCK_REALTIME
timers set for right after the leapsecond could fire a second early,
since some timers may be expired before we trigger the timekeeping
timer, which then applies the leapsecond.

This isn't quite as bad as it sounds, since behaviorally it is similar
to what is possible w/ ntpd made leapsecond adjustments done w/o using
the kernel discipline. Where due to latencies, timers may fire just
prior to the settimeofday call. (Also, one should note that all
applications using CLOCK_REALTIME timers should always be careful,
since they are prone to quirks from settimeofday() disturbances.)

However, the purpose of having the kernel do the leap adjustment is to
avoid such latencies, so I think this is worth fixing.

So in order to properly keep those timers from firing a second early,
this patch modifies the ntp and timekeeping logic so that we keep
enough state so that the update_base_offsets_now accessor, which
provides the hrtimer core the current time, can check and apply the
leapsecond adjustment on the second edge. This prevents the hrtimer
core from expiring timers too early.

This patch does not modify any other time read path, so no additional
overhead is incurred. However, this also means that the leap-second
continues to be applied at tick time for all other read-paths.

Apologies to Richard Cochran, who pushed for similar changes years
ago, which I resisted due to the concerns about the performance
overhead.

While I suspect this isn't extremely critical, folks who care about
strict leap-second correctness will likely want to watch
this. Potentially a -stable candidate eventually.
Originally-suggested-by: default avatarRichard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDaniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434063297-28657-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      833f32d7
    • John Stultz's avatar
      ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400 · 90bf361c
      John Stultz authored 
      Currently the leapsecond logic uses what looks like magic values.

Improve this by defining SECS_PER_DAY and using that macro
to make the logic more clear.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434063297-28657-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      90bf361c
    • John Stultz's avatar
      time: Move clock_was_set_seq update before updating shadow-timekeeper · d1518326
      John Stultz authored 
      It was reported that 868a3e91 (hrtimer: Make offset
update smarter) was causing timer problems after suspend/resume.

The problem with that change is the modification to
clock_was_set_seq in timekeeping_update is done prior to
mirroring the time state to the shadow-timekeeper. Thus the
next time we do update_wall_time() the updated sequence is
overwritten by whats in the shadow copy.

This patch moves the shadow-timekeeper mirroring to the end
of the function, after all updates have been made, so all data
is kept in sync.

(This patch also affects the update_fast_timekeeper calls which
were also problematically done prior to the mirroring).
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarJeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434063297-28657-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      d1518326
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