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Eric Dumazet
8af088710d posix-timers: RCU conversion
Ben Nagy reported a scalability problem with KVM/QEMU that hit very hard
a single spinlock (idr_lock) in posix-timers code, on its 48 core
machine.

Even on a 16 cpu machine (2x4x2), a single test can show 98% of cpu time
used in ticket_spin_lock, from lock_timer

Ref: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg51526.html

Switching to RCU is quite easy, IDR being already RCU ready. idr_lock
should be locked only for an insert/delete, not a lookup.

Benchmark on a 2x4x2 machine, 16 processes calling timer_gettime().

Before :

real    1m18.669s
user    0m1.346s
sys     1m17.180s

After :

real    0m3.296s
user    0m1.366s
sys     0m1.926s

Reported-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-05-24 12:10:51 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
ab8177bc53 hrtimers: Avoid touching inactive timer bases
Instead of iterating over all possible timer bases avoid it by marking
the active bases in the cpu base.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2011-05-23 13:59:54 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
John Stultz
7fdd7f8900 timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface
This patch exports CLOCK_BOOTTIME through the posix timers interface

CC: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-02-21 12:53:09 -08:00
Richard Cochran
0606f422b4 posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks
This patch adds support for adding and removing posix clocks. The
clock lifetime cycle is patterned after usb devices. Each clock is
represented by a standard character device. In addition, the driver
may optionally implement custom character device operations.

The posix clock and timer system calls listed below now work with
dynamic posix clocks, as well as the traditional static clocks.
The following system calls are affected:

   - clock_adjtime (brand new syscall)
   - clock_gettime
   - clock_getres
   - clock_settime
   - timer_create
   - timer_delete
   - timer_gettime
   - timer_settime

[ tglx: Adapted to the posix-timer cleanup. Moved clock_posix_dynamic
  	to posix-clock.c and made all referenced functions static ]

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134420.164172635@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:20 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
527087374f posix-timers: Cleanup namespace
Rename register_posix_clock() to posix_timers_register_clock(). That's
what the function really does. As a side effect this cleans up the
posix_clock namespace for the upcoming dynamic posix_clock
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1102021222240.31804@localhost6.localdomain6>
2011-02-02 15:28:19 +01:00
Richard Cochran
81e294cba2 posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks
Extend the negative clockids which are currently used by posix cpu
timers to encode the PID with a file descriptor based type which
encodes the fd in the upper bits.

Originally-from: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134420.062860200@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:19 +01:00
Richard Cochran
f1f1d5ebd1 posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning.
A new syscall is introduced that allows tuning of a POSIX clock. The
new call, clock_adjtime, takes two parameters, the clock ID and a
pointer to a struct timex. Any ADJTIMEX(2) operation may be requested
via this system call, but various POSIX clocks may or may not support
tuning.

[ tglx: Adapted to the posix-timer cleanup series. Avoid copy_to_user
  	in the error case ]

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.869804645@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:19 +01:00
Richard Cochran
0061748dd2 posix-timer: Update comment
Pick the cleanup to the comment in posix-timers.c from Richards all in
one conversion patch.

Originally-from: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.487708516@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:18 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
0aa3975f02 posix-timers: Remove CLOCK_DISPATCH leftovers
All users gone. Remove the cruft.

Huge thanks to Richard Cochran who tackled that maze first.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.294620613@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:17 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
6761c6702e posix-timers: Convert timer_delete() to clockid_to_kclock()
Set the common function for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME kclocks
and use the new decoding function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.198999420@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:17 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
a7319fa253 posix-timers: Convert timer_gettime() to clockid_to_kclock()
Set the common function for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME kclocks
and use the new decoding function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.101243181@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:16 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
27722df16e posix-timers: Convert timer_settime() to clockid_to_kclock()
Set the common function for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME kclocks
and use the new decoding function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.001863714@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:16 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
838394fbf9 posix-timers: Convert timer_create() to clockid_to_kclock()
Setup timer_create for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME kclocks and
remove the no_timer_create() implementation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.903604289@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:15 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
ebaac757ac posix-timers: Remove useless res field from k_clock
The res member of kclock is only used by mmtimer.c, but even there it
contains redundant information. Remove the field and fixup mmtimer.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.808714587@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:15 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
e5e542eea9 posix-timers: Convert clock_getres() to clockid_to_kclock()
Use the new kclock decoding. Fixup the fallout in mmtimer.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.709802797@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:15 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
4359ac0ace posix-timers: Make clock_getres and clock_get mandatory
Richard said: "I would think that we can require k_clocks to provide
the read function. This could be checked and enforced in
register_posix_clock()."

Add checks for clock_getres and clock_get in the register function.

Suggested-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:15 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
4228577763 posix-timers: Convert clock_gettime() to clockid_to_kclock()
Use the new kclock decoding mechanism and rename the misnomed
common_clock_get() to posix_clock_realtime_get().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.611097203@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:14 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
26f9a4796a posix-timers: Convert clock_settime to clockid_to_kclock()
Use the new kclock decoding function in clock_settime and cleanup all
kclocks which use the default functions. Rename the misnomed
common_clock_set() to posix_clock_realtime_set().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.518851246@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:14 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
3751f9f29b posix-timers: Cleanup restart_block usage
posix timers still use the legacy arg0-arg3 members of
restart_block. Use restart_block.nanosleep instead

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.232288779@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:13 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
59bd5bc24a posix-timers: Convert clock_nanosleep_restart to clockid_to_kclock()
Use the new kclock decoding function in clock_nanosleep_restart.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.131263211@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:13 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
a5cd288010 posix-timers: Convert clock_nanosleep to clockid_to_kclock()
Use the new kclock decoding function in clock_nanosleep and cleanup all
kclocks which use the default functions.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.034175556@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:13 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
cc785ac22b posix-timers: Introduce clockid_to_kclock()
New function to find the kclock for a given clockid.

Returns a pointer to clock_posix_cpu if clockid < 0. If clockid >=
MAXCLOCK or if the clock_getres pointer is not set it returns
NULL. For valid clocks it returns a pointer to the matching
posix_clock.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134417.938447839@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:12 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
2fd1f04089 posix-timers: Cleanup struct initializers
Cosmetic. No functional change

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134417.745627057@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:12 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
65da528d7c posix-timers: Define nanosleep not supported error separate
Define the conditional nanosleep not supported error value outside of
do_posix_clock_nonanosleep(). Preparatory patch for further cleanups. 

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134417.643486574@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:11 +01:00
Richard Cochran
1e6d767924 time: Correct the *settime* parameters
Both settimeofday() and clock_settime() promise with a 'const'
attribute not to alter the arguments passed in. This patch adds the
missing 'const' attribute into the various kernel functions
implementing these calls.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134417.545698637@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-02 15:28:11 +01:00
Namhyung Kim
20f33a03f0 posix-timers: Annotate lock_timer()
lock_timer() conditionally grabs it_lock in case of returning non-NULL
but unlock_timer() releases it unconditionally. This leads sparse to
complain about the lock context imbalance. Rename and wrap lock_timer
using __cond_lock() macro to make sparse happy.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-10-21 17:30:06 +02:00
Andrey Vagin
2b08de0073 posix_timer: Move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create()
According to Oleg Nesterov:
We can move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down after
"if (timer_event_spec)" block too. (but before CLOCK_DISPATCH(),
of course).

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-23 15:08:12 +02:00
Andrey Vagin
45e0fffc8a posix_timer: Fix error path in timer_create
Move CLOCK_DISPATCH(which_clock, timer_create, (new_timer)) after all
posible EFAULT erros.

*_timer_create may allocate/get resources.
(for example posix_cpu_timer_create does get_task_struct)

[ tglx: fold the remove crappy comment patch into this ]

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-05-27 22:38:15 +02:00
H Hartley Sweeten
6622e670b2 posix-timers.c: Don't export local functions
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-02-05 14:54:10 +01:00
john stultz
da15cfdae0 time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE
After talking with some application writers who want very fast, but not
fine-grained timestamps, I decided to try to implement new clock_ids
to clock_gettime(): CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE
which returns the time at the last tick. This is very fast as we don't
have to access any hardware (which can be very painful if you're using
something like the acpi_pm clocksource), and we can even use the vdso
clock_gettime() method to avoid the syscall. The only trade off is you
only get low-res tick grained time resolution.

This isn't a new idea, I know Ingo has a patch in the -rt tree that made
the vsyscall gettimeofday() return coarse grained time when the
vsyscall64 sysctrl was set to 2. However this affects all applications
on a system.

With this method, applications can choose the proper speed/granularity
trade-off for themselves.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: nikolag@ca.ibm.com
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org
Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org
LKML-Reference: <1250734414.6897.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-21 21:43:46 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
70d715fd05 posix-timers: Fix oops in clock_nanosleep() with CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW
Prevent calling do_nanosleep() with clockid
CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, it may cause oops, such as NULL pointer
dereference.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A764FF3.50607@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-04 10:16:41 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
362e9c07c7 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 05
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:20 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
32e8d18683 Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hpet', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/rtc' into timers/core 2008-12-25 18:02:25 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
3d44cc3e01 Null pointer deref with hrtimer_try_to_cancel()
Impact: Prevent kernel crash with posix timer clockid CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW

commit 2d42244ae7 (clocksource:
introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW) introduced a new clockid, which is only
available to read out the raw not NTP adjusted system time.

The above commit did not prevent that a posix timer can be created
with that clockid. The timer_create() syscall succeeds and initializes
the timer to a non existing hrtimer base. When the timer is deleted
either by timer_delete() or by the exit() cleanup the kernel crashes.

Prevent the creation of timers for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW by setting the
posix clock function to no_timer_create which returns an error code.

Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-20 14:13:45 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
899921025b posix-timers: check ->it_signal instead of ->it_pid to validate the timer
Impact: clean up, speed up

->it_pid (was ->it_process) has also a special meaning: if it is NULL,
the timer is under deletion or it wasn't initialized yet. We can check
->it_signal != NULL instead, this way we can

	- simplify sys_timer_create() a bit

	- remove yet another check from lock_timer()

	- move put_pid(->it_pid) into release_posix_timer() which
	  runs outside of ->it_lock

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-12-12 17:00:34 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
27af4245b6 posix-timers: use "struct pid*" instead of "struct task_struct*"
Impact: restructure, clean up code

k_itimer holds the ref to the ->it_process until sys_timer_delete(). This
allows to pin up to RLIMIT_SIGPENDING dead task_struct's. Change the code
to use "struct pid *" instead.

The patch doesn't kill ->it_process, it places ->it_pid into the union.
->it_process is still used by do_cpu_nanosleep() as before. It would be
trivial to change the nanosleep code as well, but since it uses it_process
in a special way I think it is better to keep this field for grep.

The patch bloats the kernel by 104 bytes and it also adds the new pointer,
->it_signal, to k_itimer. It is used by lock_timer() to verify that the
found timer was not created by another process. It is not clear why do we
use the global database (and thus the global idr_lock) for posix timers.
We still need the signal_struct->posix_timers which contains all useable
timers, perhaps it is better to use some form of per-process array
instead.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-12-12 17:00:07 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
268a3dcfea Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2
Conflicts:

	kernel/time/tick-sched.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-22 09:48:06 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
c465a76af6 Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/debug' into v28-timers-for-linus 2008-10-20 13:14:06 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
651dab4264 Merge commit 'linus/master' into merge-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
2008-10-17 09:20:26 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
aa94fbd5cc fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer()
Found by static checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-02 15:53:13 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
31d9284569 posix-timers: lock_timer: make it readable
Cleanup.  Imho makes the code much more understandable.  At least this
patch lessens both the source and compiled code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
5a51b713cc posix-timers: lock_timer: kill the bogus ->it_id check
lock_timer() checks that the timer found by idr_find(timer_id) has ->it_id
== timer_id.  This buys nothing.  This check can fail only if
sys_timer_create() unlocked idr_lock after idr_get_new(), but didn't set
->it_id = new_timer_id yet.  But in that case ->it_process == NULL so
lock_timer() can't succeed anyway.

Also remove a couple of unneeded typecasts.

Note that with or without this patch we have a small problem. 
sys_timer_create() doesn't ensure that the result of setting (say)
->it_sigev_notify must be visible if lock_timer() succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
5a9fa73072 posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value
With the recent changes ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value are only
used in sys_timer_create(), kill them.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
ef864c9588 posix-timers: sys_timer_create: cleanup the error handling
Cleanup.

- sys_timer_create() is big and complicated. The code above the "out:"
  label relies on the fact that "error" must be == 0. This is not very
  robust, make the code more explicit. Remove the unneeded initialization
  of error.

- If idr_get_new() succeeds (as it normally should), we check the returned
  value twice. Move the "-EAGAIN" check under "if (error)".

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
717835d94d posix-timers: move the initialization of timer->sigq from send to create path
posix_timer_event() always populates timer->sigq with the same numbers,
move this code into sys_timer_create().

Note that with this patch we can kill it_sigev_signo and it_sigev_value.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
36b2f04600 posix-timers: sys_timer_create: simplify and s/tasklist/rcu/
- Change the code to do rcu_read_lock() instead of taking tasklist_lock,
  it is safe to get_task_struct(p) if p was found under RCU.

  However, now we must not use process's sighand/signal, they may be NULL.
  We can use current->sighand/signal instead, this "process" must belong
  to the current's thread-group.

- Factor out the common code for 2 "if (timer_event_spec)" branches, the
  !timer_event_spec case can use current too.

- use spin_lock_irq() instead of _irqsave(), kill "flags".

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
2cd499e38e posix-timers: sys_timer_create: remove the buggy PF_EXITING check
sys_timer_create() return -EINVAL if the target thread has PF_EXITING.

This doesn't really make sense, the sub-thread can die right after unlock.
And in fact, this is just wrong.  Without SIGEV_THREAD_ID good_sigevent()
returns ->group_leader, and it is very possible that the leader is already
dead.  This is OK, we shouldn't return the error in this case.

Remove this check and the comment.  Note that the "process" was found
under tasklist_lock, it must have ->sighand != NULL.

Also, remove a couple of unneeded initializations.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
918fc03728 posix-timers: always do get_task_struct(timer->it_process)
Change the code to get/put timer->it_process regardless of
SIGEV_THREAD_ID.  This streamlines the create/destroy paths and allows us
to simplify the usage of exit_itimers() in de_thread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
4aa7361179 posix-timers: don't switch to ->group_leader if ->it_process dies
posix_timer_event() drops SIGEV_THREAD_ID and switches to ->group_leader
if send_sigqueue() fails.

This is not very useful and doesn't work reliably.  send_sigqueue() can
only fail if ->it_process is dead.  But it can die before it dequeues the
SI_TIMER signal, in that case the timer stops anyway.

Remove this code.  I guess it was needed a long ago to ensure that the
timer is not destroyed when when its creator thread dies.

Q: perhaps it makes sense to change sys_timer_settime() to return an error
if ->it_process is dead?

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00