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2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 01Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-06Allow times and time system calls to return small negative valuesPaul Mackerras
At the moment, the times() system call will appear to fail for a period shortly after boot, while the value it want to return is between -4095 and -1. The same thing will also happen for the time() system call on 32-bit platforms some time in 2106 or so. On some platforms, such as x86, this is unavoidable because of the system call ABI, but other platforms such as powerpc have a separate error indication from the return value, so system calls can in fact return small negative values without indicating an error. On those platforms, force_successful_syscall_return() provides a way to indicate that the system call return value should not be treated as an error even if it is in the range which would normally be taken as a negative error number. This adds a force_successful_syscall_return() call to the time() and times() system calls plus their 32-bit compat versions, so that they don't erroneously indicate an error on those platforms whose system call ABI has a separate error indication. This will not affect anything on other platforms. Joakim Tjernlund added the fix for time() and the compat versions of time() and times(), after I did the fix for times(). Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-05select: add a timespec_add_safe() functionThomas Gleixner
For the select() rework, it's important to be able to add timespec structures in an overflow-safe manner. This patch adds a timespec_add_safe() function for this which is similar in operation to ktime_add_safe(), but works on a struct timespec. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-05-02Make constants in kernel/timeconst.h fixed 64 bitsH. Peter Anvin
Force constants in kernel/timeconst.h (except shift counts) to be 64 bits, using U64_C() constructor macros, and eliminate constants that cannot be represented at all in 64 bits. This avoids warnings with some gcc versions. Drop generating 64-bit constants, since we have no real hope of getting a full set (operation on 64-bit values requires a 128-bit intermediate result, which gcc only supports on 64-bit platforms, and only with libgcc support on some.) Note that the use of these constants does not depend on if we are on a 32- or 64-bit architecture. This resolves Bugzilla 10153. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-05-01remove div_long_long_remRoman Zippel
x86 is the only arch right now, which provides an optimized for div_long_long_rem and it has the downside that one has to be very careful that the divide doesn't overflow. The API is a little akward, as the arguments for the unsigned divide are signed. The signed version also doesn't handle a negative divisor and produces worse code on 64bit archs. There is little incentive to keep this API alive, so this converts the few users to the new API. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01convert a few do_div usersRoman Zippel
This converts a few users of do_div to div_[su]64 and this demonstrates nicely how it can reduce some expressions to one-liners. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29kernel: explicitly include required header files under kernel/Robert P. J. Day
Following an experimental deletion of the unnecessary directive #include <linux/slab.h> from the header file <linux/percpu.h>, these files under kernel/ were exposed as needing to include one of <linux/slab.h> or <linux/gfp.h>, so explicit includes were added where necessary. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-21time: Export set_normalized_timespec.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Sorry I have just realized set_normalized_timespec() (used in timespec_sub()) is not exported, and link will fail because of it... Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-08avoid overflows in kernel/time.cH. Peter Anvin
When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds is not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we currently do a multiply followed by a divide. The intervening result, however, is subject to overflows, especially since the fraction is not simplified (for HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and divide by 1000). This is exposed to the user when passing a large timeout to poll(), for example. This patch replaces the multiply-divide with a reciprocal multiplication on 32-bit platforms. When the input is an unsigned long, there is no portable way to do this on 64-bit platforms there is no portable way to do this since it requires a 128-bit intermediate result (which gcc does support on 64-bit platforms but may generate libgcc calls, e.g. on 64-bit s390), but since the output is a 32-bit integer in the cases affected, just simplify the multiply-divide (*3/10 instead of *300/1000). The reciprocal multiply used can have off-by-one errors in the upper half of the valid output range. This could be avoided at the expense of having to deal with a potential 65-bit intermediate result. Since the intent is to avoid overflow problems and most of the other time conversions are only semiexact, the off-by-one errors were considered an acceptable tradeoff. At Ralf Baechle's suggestion, this version uses a Perl script to compute the necessary constants. We already have dependencies on Perl for kernel compiles. This does, however, require the Perl module Math::BigInt, which is included in the standard Perl distribution starting with version 5.8.0. In order to support older versions of Perl, include a table of canned constants in the script itself, and structure the script so that Math::BigInt isn't required if pulling values from said table. Running the script requires that the HZ value is available from the Makefile. Thus, this patch also adds the Kconfig variable CONFIG_HZ to the architectures which didn't already have it (alpha, cris, frv, h8300, m32r, m68k, m68knommu, sparc, v850, and xtensa.) It does *not* touch the sh or sh64 architectures, since Paul Mundt has dealt with those separately in the sh tree. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>, Cc: Michael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>, Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>, Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>, Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, Cc: William L. Irwin <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>, Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>, Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>, Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08time: fix typo in commentsLi Zefan
Fix typo in comments. BTW: I have to fix coding style in arch/ia64/kernel/time.c also, otherwise checkpatch.pl will be complaining. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06speed up jiffies conversion functions if HZ==USER_HZAndrew Morton
Avoid calling do_div(x, 1) in this case. Cc: David Fries <david@fries.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06system timer: fix crash in <100Hz system timerDavid Fries
The kernel has a divide by zero crash when trying to run the system timer less than 100Hz. The problem is x/(HZ/USER_HZ) and related. Now x*(USER_HZ/HZ) will be used if HZ<USER_HZ. I'm running the Linux kernel under qemu and went to run a slower system timer to take less CPU (and battery) on the host. I found that the kernel paniced under emulation because of a divide by zero in three places. Here is the patch. The base git was updated today 01-05-2008. I went for a 20Hz system time by adding config HZ_20 etc to kernel/Kconfig.hz. With this patch I verified the system timer by looking at /proc/interrupts. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: partially clean up the macro maze] Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-01timekeeping: update xtime_cache when time(zone) changesThomas Gleixner
xtime_cache needs to be updated whenever xtime and or wall_to_monotic are changed. Otherwise users of xtime_cache might see a stale (and in the case of timezone changes utterly wrong) value until the next update happens. Fixup the obvious places, which miss this update. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-18whitespace fixes: time syscallsDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18Fix discrepancy between VDSO based gettimeofday() and sys_gettimeofday().Tony Breeds
On platforms that copy sys_tz into the vdso (currently only x86_64, soon to include powerpc), it is possible for the vdso to get out of sync if a user calls (admittedly unusual) settimeofday(NULL, ptr). This patch adds a hook for architectures that set CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL to ensure when sys_tz is updated they can also updatee their copy in the vdso. Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Clean up duplicate includes in kernel/Jesper Juhl
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in kernel/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16time: introduce xtime_secondsIngo Molnar
improve performance of sys_time(). sys_time() returns time in seconds, but it does so by calling do_gettimeofday() and then returning the tv_sec portion of the GTOD time. But the data structure "xtime", which is updated by every timer/scheduler tick, already offers HZ granularity time. the patch improves the sysbench oltp macrobenchmark by 4-5% on an AMD dual-core system: v2.6.23: #threads 1: transactions: 4073 (407.23 per sec.) 2: transactions: 8530 (852.81 per sec.) 3: transactions: 8321 (831.88 per sec.) 4: transactions: 8407 (840.58 per sec.) 5: transactions: 8070 (806.74 per sec.) v2.6.23 + sys_time-speedup.patch: 1: transactions: 4281 (428.09 per sec.) 2: transactions: 8910 (890.85 per sec.) 3: transactions: 8659 (865.79 per sec.) 4: transactions: 8676 (867.34 per sec.) 5: transactions: 8532 (852.91 per sec.) and by 4-5% on an Intel dual-core system too: 2.6.23: 1: transactions: 4560 (455.94 per sec.) 2: transactions: 10094 (1009.30 per sec.) 3: transactions: 9755 (975.36 per sec.) 4: transactions: 9859 (985.78 per sec.) 5: transactions: 9701 (969.72 per sec.) 2.6.23 + sys_time-speedup.patch: 1: transactions: 4779 (477.84 per sec.) 2: transactions: 10103 (1010.14 per sec.) 3: transactions: 10141 (1013.93 per sec.) 4: transactions: 10371 (1036.89 per sec.) 5: transactions: 10178 (1017.50 per sec.) (the more CPUs the system has, the more speedup this patch gives for this particular workload.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-25Cleanup non-arch xtime uses, use get_seconds() or current_kernel_time().john stultz
This avoids use of the kernel-internal "xtime" variable directly outside of the actual time-related functions. Instead, use the helper functions that we already have available to us. This doesn't actually change any behaviour, but this will allow us to fix the fact that "xtime" isn't updated very often with CONFIG_NO_HZ (because much of the realtime information is maintained as separate offsets to 'xtime'), which has caused interfaces that use xtime directly to get a time that is out of sync with the real-time clock by up to a third of a second or so. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-20Revert "sys_time() speedup"Linus Torvalds
This basically reverts commit 4e44f3497d41db4c3b9051c61410dee8ae4fb49c, while waiting for it to be re-done more completely. There are cases of people mixing "time()" with higher-resolution time sources, and we need to take the nanosecond offsets into account. Ingo has a patch that does that, but it's still under some discussion. In the meantime, just revert back to the old simple situation of just doing the whole exact timesource calculations. But rather than using do_gettimeofday(), use the internal nanosecond resolution getnstimeofday(), which at least avoids one unnecessary conversion (since we really don't care about whether the fractional seconds are nanoseconds or microseconds - we'll just throw them away). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-20[IA64] remove time interpolatorBob Picco
Remove time_interpolator code (This is generic code, but only user was ia64. It has been superseded by the CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME code). Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Keilty <peter.keilty@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-07-16sys_time() speedupIngo Molnar
Improve performance of sys_time(). sys_time() returns time in seconds, but it does so by calling do_gettimeofday() and then returning the tv_sec portion of the GTOD time. But the data structure "xtime", which is updated by every timer/scheduler tick, already offers HZ granularity time. The patch improves the sysbench OLTP macrobenchmark significantly: 2.6.22-rc6: #threads 1: transactions: 3733 (373.21 per sec.) 2: transactions: 6676 (667.46 per sec.) 3: transactions: 6957 (695.50 per sec.) 4: transactions: 7055 (705.48 per sec.) 5: transactions: 6596 (659.33 per sec.) 2.6.22-rc6 + sys_time.patch: 1: transactions: 4005 (400.47 per sec.) 2: transactions: 7379 (737.77 per sec.) 3: transactions: 7347 (734.49 per sec.) 4: transactions: 7468 (746.65 per sec.) 5: transactions: 7428 (742.47 per sec.) Mixed API uses of gettimeofday() and time() are guaranteed to be coherent via the use of a at-most-once-per-second slowpath that updates xtime. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08Optimize timespec_trunc()Eric Dumazet
The first thing done by timespec_trunc() is : if (gran <= jiffies_to_usecs(1) * 1000) This should really be a test against a constant known at compile time. Alas, it isnt. jiffies_to_usec() was unilined so C compiler emits a function call and a multiply to compute : a CONSTANT. mov $0x1,%edi mov %rbx,0xffffffffffffffe8(%rbp) mov %r12,0xfffffffffffffff0(%rbp) mov %edx,%ebx mov %rsi,0xffffffffffffffc8(%rbp) mov %rsi,%r12 callq ffffffff80232010 <jiffies_to_usecs> imul $0x3e8,%eax,%eax cmp %ebx,%eax This patch reorders kernel/time.c a bit so that jiffies_to_usecs() is defined before timespec_trunc() so that compiler now generates : cmp $0x3d0900,%edx (HZ=250 on my machine) This gives a better code (timespec_trunc() becoming a leaf function), and shorter kernel size as well. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-25[TCP] tcp_probe: improvements for net-2.6.22Stephen Hemminger
Change tcp_probe to use ktime (needed to add one export). Add option to only get events when cwnd changes - from Doug Leith Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NET]: convert network timestamps to ktime_tEric Dumazet
We currently use a special structure (struct skb_timeval) and plain 'struct timeval' to store packet timestamps in sk_buffs and struct sock. This has some drawbacks : - Fixed resolution of micro second. - Waste of space on 64bit platforms where sizeof(struct timeval)=16 I suggest using ktime_t that is a nice abstraction of high resolution time services, currently capable of nanosecond resolution. As sizeof(ktime_t) is 8 bytes, using ktime_t in 'struct sock' permits a 8 byte shrink of this structure on 64bit architectures. Some other structures also benefit from this size reduction (struct ipq in ipv4/ip_fragment.c, struct frag_queue in ipv6/reassembly.c, ...) Once this ktime infrastructure adopted, we can more easily provide nanosecond resolution on top of it. (ioctl SIOCGSTAMPNS and/or SO_TIMESTAMPNS/SCM_TIMESTAMPNS) Note : this patch includes a bug correction in compat_sock_get_timestamp() where a "err = 0;" was missing (so this syscall returned -ENOENT instead of 0) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> CC: John find <linux.kernel@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-04[PATCH] kernel/time.c: add missing symbol exportsThomas Bittermann
This patch adds 2 missing symbol exports: jiffies_to_timeval() and timeval_to_jiffies(). The (not yet merged) dm-raid4-5 module will need them, and they used to be indirectly exported by virtue of being inline functions. Commit 8b9365d753d9870bb6451504c13570b81923228f ("[PATCH] Uninline jiffies.h functions") uninlined them, and thus modules now need them explicitly exported to use them. Signed-off-by: Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@online.de> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] Fix multiple conversion bugs in msecs_to_jiffiesIngo Molnar
Fix multiple conversion bugs in msecs_to_jiffies(). The main problem is that this condition: if (m > jiffies_to_msecs(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET)) overflows if HZ is smaller than 1000! This change is user-visible: for HZ=250 SUS-compliant poll()-timeout value of -20 is mistakenly converted to 'immediate timeout'. (The new dyntick code also triggered this, that's how we noticed.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] Uninline jiffies.h functionsIngo Molnar
There are loads of fat functions hidden in jiffies.h. Uninline them. No code changes. [jeremy@goop.org: export fix] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-10-01[PATCH] NTP: Move all the NTP related code to ntp.cjohn stultz
Move all the NTP related code to ntp.c [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, build fix] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] Time: Introduce arch generic time accessorsjohn stultz
Introduces clocksource switching code and the arch generic time accessor functions that use the clocksource infrastructure. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-01Fix comments: s/granuality/granularity/Kalin KOZHUHAROV
I was grepping through the code and some `grep ganularity -R .` didn't catch what I thought. Then looking closer I saw the term "granuality" used in only four places (in comments) and granularity in many more places describing the same idea. Some other facts: dictionary.com does not know such a word define:granuality on google is not found (and pages for granuality are mostly related to patches to the kernel) it has not been discussed as a term on LKML, AFAICS (=Can Search) To be consistent, I think granularity should be used everywhere. Signed-off-by: Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-26[PATCH] hrtimers: remove nsec_t typedefRoman Zippel
nsec_t predates ktime_t and has mostly been superseded by it. In the few places that are left it's better to make it explicit that we're dealing with 64 bit values here. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] remove pps supportRoman Zippel
This removes the support for pps. It's completely unused within the kernel and is basically in the way for further cleanups. It should be easier to readd proper support for it after the rest has been converted to NTP4 (where the pps mechanisms are quite different from NTP3 anyway). Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] Normalize timespec for negative values in ns_to_timespecGeorge Anzinger
- In case of a negative nsec value the result of the division must be normalized. - Remove inline from an exported function. Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@wildturkeyranch.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-31Don't try to "validate" a non-existing timeval.Linus Torvalds
settime() with a NULL timeval is silly but legal. Noticed by Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11[PATCH] move capable() to capability.hRandy.Dunlap
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h; - Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used (in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/, mm/, security/, & sound/; many more drivers/ to go) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] Remove getnstimestamp()Matt Helsley
Remove getnstimestamp() in favor of ktime.h's ktime_get_ts() Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] hrtimer: introduce nsec_t type and conversion functionsThomas Gleixner
- introduce the nsec_t type - basic nsec conversion routines: timespec_to_ns(), timeval_to_ns(), ns_to_timespec(), ns_to_timeval(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] hrtimer: validate timespec of do_sys_settimeofdayThomas Gleixner
Check if the timespec which is provided from user space is normalized. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] hrtimer: export deinlined mktimeAndrew Morton
This is now uninlined, but some modules use it. Make it a non-GPL export, since the inlined mktime() was also available that way. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] hrtimer: clean up mktime and make arguments constIngo Molnar
add 'const' to mktime arguments, and clean it up a bit Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] hrtimer: deinline mktime and set_normalized_timespecThomas Gleixner
mktime() and set_normalized_timespec() are large inline functions used in many places: deinline them. From: George Anzinger, off-by-1 bugfix Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-12[PATCH] Add getnstimestamp functionMatt Helsley
There are several functions that might seem appropriate for a timestamp: get_cycles() current_kernel_time() do_gettimeofday() <read jiffies/jiffies_64> Each has problems with combinations of SMP-safety, low resolution, and monotonicity. This patch adds a new function that returns a monotonic SMP-safe timestamp with nanosecond resolution where available. Changes: Split timestamp into separate patch Moved to kernel/time.c Renamed to getnstimestamp Fixed unintended-pointer-arithmetic bug Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30[PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanupjohn stultz
Create a macro shift_right() that avoids the numerous ugly conditionals in the NTP code that look like: if(a < 0) b = -(-a >> shift); else b = a >> shift; Replacing it with: b = shift_right(a, shift); This should have zero effect on the logic, however it should probably have a bit of testing just to be sure. Also replace open-coded min/max with the macros. Signed-off-by : John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29[PATCH] missing exports of do_settimeofday() variantsAl Viro
frv, sh64, ia64 and sparc64 do not have do_settimeofday() exported (the last two are using variant in kernel/time.c). Exports added to match the rest of architectures. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-14[PATCH] Add missing export of getnstimeofday()Takashi Iwai
Adds the missing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for getnstimeofday() when CONFIG_TIME_INTERPOLATION isn't set. Needed by drivers/char/mmtimer.c Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] clean up inline static vs static inlineJesper Juhl
`gcc -W' likes to complain if the static keyword is not at the beginning of the declaration. This patch fixes all remaining occurrences of "inline static" up with "static inline" in the entire kernel tree (140 occurrences in 47 files). While making this change I came across a few lines with trailing whitespace that I also fixed up, I have also added or removed a blank line or two here and there, but there are no functional changes in the patch. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-28[PATCH] time interpolator: Fix settimeofday inaccuracyChristoph Lameter
settimeofday will set the time a little bit too early on systems using time interpolation since it subtracts the current interpolator offset from the time. This used to be necessary with the code in 2.6.9 and earlier but the new code resets the time interpolator after setting the time. Thus the time is set too early and gettimeofday will return a time slightly before the time specified with settimeofday if invoked immeditely after settimeofday. This removes the obsolete subtraction of the time interpolator offset and makes settimeofday set the time accurately. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!