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2011-09-14alarmtimers: Fix error handlingThomas Gleixner
commit 8bc0daf (alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interface) did not implement required error checks. Add them. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interfaceJohn Stultz
This allows cleaner detection of the RTC device being registered, rather then probing any time someone calls alarmtimer_get_rtcdev. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionalityJohn Stultz
There's a number of edge cases when cancelling a alarm, so to be sure we accurately do so, introduce try_to_cancel, which returns proper failure errors if it cannot. Also modify cancel to spin until the alarm is properly disabled. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state trackingJohn Stultz
In order to allow for functionality like try_to_cancel, add more refined state tracking (similar to hrtimers). CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structureJohn Stultz
Now that periodic alarmtimers are managed by the handler function, remove the period value from the alarm structure and let the handlers manage the interval on their own. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hackJohn Stultz
Now that the alarmtimers code has been refactored, the interval cap limit can be removed. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Add alarm_forward functionalityJohn Stultz
In order to avoid wasting time expiring and re-adding very high freq periodic alarmtimers, introduce alarm_forward() which is similar to hrtimer_forward and moves the timer to the next future expiration time and returns the number of overruns. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Push rearming peroidic timers down into alamrtimer handlerJohn Stultz
This patch pushes the periodic alarmtimer re-arming down into the alarmtimer handler, mimicking how hrtimers handle this. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Change alarmtimer functions to return alarmtimer_restart valuesJohn Stultz
In order to properly fix the denial of service issue with high freq periodic alarm timers, we need to push the re-arming logic into the alarm timer handler, much as the hrtimer code does. This patch introduces alarmtimer_restart enum and changes the alarmtimer handler declarations to use it as a return value. Further, to ease following changes, it extends the alarmtimer handler functions to also take the time at expiration. No logic is yet modified. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Avoid possible denial of service with high freq periodic timersJohn Stultz
Its possible to jam up the alarm timers by setting very small interval timers, which will cause the alarmtimer subsystem to spend all of its time firing and restarting timers. This can effectivly lock up a box. A deeper fix is needed, closely mimicking the hrtimer code, but for now just cap the interval to 100us to avoid userland hanging the system. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Memset itimerspec passed into alarm_timer_getJohn Stultz
Following common_timer_get, zero out the itimerspec passed in. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Avoid possible null pointer traversalJohn Stultz
We don't check if old_setting is non null before assigning it, so correct this. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-06-21alarmtimers: Return -ENOTSUPP if no RTC device is presentJohn Stultz
Toralf Förster and Richard Weinberger noted that if there is no RTC device, the alarm timers core prints out an annoying "ALARM timers will not wake from suspend" message. This warning has been removed in a previous patch, however the issue still remains: The original idea was to support alarm timers even if there was no rtc device, as long as the system didn't go into suspend. However, after further consideration, communicating to the application that alarmtimers are not fully functional seems like the better solution. So this patch makes it so we return -ENOTSUPP to any posix _ALARM clockid calls if there is no backing RTC device on the system. Further this changes the behavior where when there is no rtc device we will check for one on clock_getres, clock_gettime, timer_create, and timer_nsleep instead of on suspend. CC: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> CC: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Reported by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-06-21alarmtimers: Handle late rtc module loadingJohn Stultz
The alarmtimers code currently picks a rtc device to use at late init time. However, if your rtc driver is loaded as a module, it may be registered after the alarmtimers late init code, leaving the alarmtimers nonfunctional. This patch moves the the rtcdevice selection to when we actually try to use it, allowing us to make use of rtc modules that may have been loaded at any point since bootup. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Meelis Roos <mroos@ut.ee> Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@ut.ee> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-05-23hrtimers: Avoid touching inactive timer basesThomas Gleixner
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>
2011-05-04alarmtimer: Drop device refcount after rtc_open()Thomas Gleixner
class_find_device() takes a refcount on the rtc device. rtc_open() takes another one, so we can drop it after the rtc_open() call. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-05-04alarmtimer: Check return value of class_find_device()Thomas Gleixner
alarmtimer_late_init() uses class_find_device() to find a alarm capable rtc device. The match callback stores a pointer to the name in the char pointer handed in from the call site. alarmtimer_late_init() checks the char pointer for NULL, but the pointer is on the stack and not initialized to NULL before the call. So it can have random content when the match function did not identify a device, which leads to random access in the following rtc_open() call where the pointer is dereferenced Instead of relying on the char pointer, check the return value of class_find_device. If a device is found then the name pointer is valid as well. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-05-02timers: Fix alarmtimer build issues when CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=nJohn Stultz
Ingo pointed out that the alarmtimers won't build if CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=n. This patch adds proper ifdefs to the alarmtimer code to disable the rtc usage if it is not built in. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-04-28timers: Remove delayed irqwork from alarmtimers implementationJohn Stultz
Thomas asked about the delayed irq work in the alarmtimers code, and I realized that it was a legacy from when the alarmtimer base lock was a mutex (due to concerns that we'd be interacting with the RTC device, which is protected by mutexes). Since the alarmtimer base is now protected by a spinlock, we can simply execute alarmtimer functions directly from the hrtimer callback. Should any future alarmtimer functions sleep, they can simply manage scheduling any delayed work themselves. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-04-28timers: Improve alarmtimer comments and minor fixesJohn Stultz
This patch addresses a number of minor comment improvements and other minor issues from Thomas' review of the alarmtimers code. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-04-26timers: Posix interface for alarm-timersJohn Stultz
This patch exposes alarm-timers to userland via the posix clock and timers interface, using two new clockids: CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM and CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM. Both clockids behave identically to CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME, respectively, but timers set against the _ALARM suffixed clockids will wake the system if it is suspended. Some background can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/429925/ The concept for Alarm-timers was inspired by the Android Alarm driver (by Arve Hjønnevåg) found in the Android kernel tree. See: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=blob;f=drivers/rtc/alarm.c;h=1250edfbdf3302f5e4ea6194847c6ef4bb7beb1c;hb=android-2.6.36 While the in-kernel interface is pretty similar between alarm-timers and Android alarm driver, the user-space interface for the Android alarm driver is via ioctls to a new char device. As mentioned above, I've instead chosen to export this functionality via the posix interface, as it seemed a little simpler and avoids creating duplicate interfaces to things like CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC under alternate names (ie:ANDROID_ALARM_RTC and ANDROID_ALARM_SYSTEMTIME). The semantics of the Android alarm driver are different from what this posix interface provides. For instance, threads other then the thread waiting on the Android alarm driver are able to modify the alarm being waited on. Also this interface does not allow the same wakelock semantics that the Android driver provides (ie: kernel takes a wakelock on RTC alarm-interupt, and holds it through process wakeup, and while the process runs, until the process either closes the char device or calls back in to wait on a new alarm). One potential way to implement similar semantics may be via the timerfd infrastructure, but this needs more research. There may also need to be some sort of sysfs system level policy hooks that allow alarm timers to be disabled to keep them from firing at inappropriate times (ie: laptop in a well insulated bag, mid-flight). CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-04-26timers: Introduce in-kernel alarm-timer interfaceJohn Stultz
This provides the in kernel interface and infrastructure for alarm-timers. Alarm-timers are a hybrid style timer, similar to hrtimers, but when the system is suspended, the RTC device is set to fire and wake the system for when the soonest alarm-timer expires. The concept for Alarm-timers was inspired by the Android Alarm driver (by Arve Hjønnevåg) found in the Android kernel tree. See: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=blob;f=drivers/rtc/alarm.c;h=1250edfbdf3302f5e4ea6194847c6ef4bb7beb1c;hb=android-2.6.36 This in-kernel interface should be fairly compatible with the Android alarm driver in-kernel interface, but has the advantage of utilizing the new RTC timerqueue code instead of doing direct RTC manipulation. CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>