- Time namespace support:
If a container migrates from one host to another then it expects that
clocks based on MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME are not subject to
disruption. Due to different boot time and non-suspended runtime these
clocks can differ significantly on two hosts, in the worst case time
goes backwards which is a violation of the POSIX requirements.
The time namespace addresses this problem. It allows to set offsets for
clock MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME once after creation and before tasks are
associated with the namespace. These offsets are taken into account by
timers and timekeeping including the VDSO.
Offsets for wall clock based clocks (REALTIME/TAI) are not provided by
this mechanism. While in theory possible, the overhead and code
complexity would be immense and not justified by the esoteric potential
use cases which were discussed at Plumbers '18.
The overhead for tasks in the root namespace (host time offsets = 0) is
in the noise and great effort was made to ensure that especially in the
VDSO. If time namespace is disabled in the kernel configuration the
code is compiled out.
Kudos to Andrei Vagin and Dmitry Sofanov who implemented this feature
and kept on for more than a year addressing review comments, finding
better solutions. A pleasant experience.
- Overhaul of the alarmtimer device dependency handling to ensure that
the init/suspend/resume ordering is correct.
- A new clocksource/event driver for Microchip PIT64
- Suspend/resume support for the Hyper-V clocksource
- The usual pile of fixes, updates and improvements mostly in the
driver code.
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2020-01-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The timekeeping and timers departement provides:
- Time namespace support:
If a container migrates from one host to another then it expects
that clocks based on MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME are not subject to
disruption. Due to different boot time and non-suspended runtime
these clocks can differ significantly on two hosts, in the worst
case time goes backwards which is a violation of the POSIX
requirements.
The time namespace addresses this problem. It allows to set offsets
for clock MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME once after creation and before
tasks are associated with the namespace. These offsets are taken
into account by timers and timekeeping including the VDSO.
Offsets for wall clock based clocks (REALTIME/TAI) are not provided
by this mechanism. While in theory possible, the overhead and code
complexity would be immense and not justified by the esoteric
potential use cases which were discussed at Plumbers '18.
The overhead for tasks in the root namespace (ie where host time
offsets = 0) is in the noise and great effort was made to ensure
that especially in the VDSO. If time namespace is disabled in the
kernel configuration the code is compiled out.
Kudos to Andrei Vagin and Dmitry Sofanov who implemented this
feature and kept on for more than a year addressing review
comments, finding better solutions. A pleasant experience.
- Overhaul of the alarmtimer device dependency handling to ensure
that the init/suspend/resume ordering is correct.
- A new clocksource/event driver for Microchip PIT64
- Suspend/resume support for the Hyper-V clocksource
- The usual pile of fixes, updates and improvements mostly in the
driver code"
* tag 'timers-core-2020-01-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
alarmtimer: Make alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() a stub when CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=n
alarmtimer: Use wakeup source from alarmtimer platform device
alarmtimer: Make alarmtimer platform device child of RTC device
alarmtimer: Update alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() docs to reflect reality
hrtimer: Add missing sparse annotation for __run_timer()
lib/vdso: Only read hrtimer_res when needed in __cvdso_clock_getres()
MIPS: vdso: Define BUILD_VDSO32 when building a 32bit kernel
clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Set TSC clocksource as default w/ InvariantTSC
clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Untangle stimers and timesync from clocksources
clocksource/drivers/timer-microchip-pit64b: Fix sparse warning
clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Rename Exynos to lowercase
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix uninitialized pointer access
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Switch to platform_get_irq
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Convert to devm_platform_ioremap_resource
clocksource/drivers/em_sti: Fix variable declaration in em_sti_probe
clocksource/drivers/em_sti: Convert to devm_platform_ioremap_resource
clocksource/drivers/bcm2835_timer: Fix memory leak of timer
clocksource/drivers/cadence-ttc: Use ttc driver as platform driver
clocksource/drivers/timer-microchip-pit64b: Add Microchip PIT64B support
clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Reserve PAGE_SIZE space for tsc page
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