- Core:
- The timer_shutdown[_sync]() infrastructure:
Tearing down timers can be tedious when there are circular
dependencies to other things which need to be torn down. A prime
example is timer and workqueue where the timer schedules work and the
work arms the timer.
What needs to prevented is that pending work which is drained via
destroy_workqueue() does not rearm the previously shutdown
timer. Nothing in that shutdown sequence relies on the timer being
functional.
The conclusion was that the semantics of timer_shutdown_sync() should
be:
- timer is not enqueued
- timer callback is not running
- timer cannot be rearmed
Preventing the rearming of shutdown timers is done by discarding rearm
attempts silently. A warning for the case that a rearm attempt of a
shutdown timer is detected would not be really helpful because it's
entirely unclear how it should be acted upon. The only way to address
such a case is to add 'if (in_shutdown)' conditionals all over the
place. This is error prone and in most cases of teardown not required
all.
- The real fix for the bluetooth HCI teardown based on
timer_shutdown_sync().
A larger scale conversion to timer_shutdown_sync() is work in
progress.
- Consolidation of VDSO time namespace helper functions
- Small fixes for timer and timerqueue
- Drivers:
- Prevent integer overflow on the XGene-1 TVAL register which causes
an never ending interrupt storm.
- The usual set of new device tree bindings
- Small fixes and improvements all over the place
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2022-12-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Updates for timers, timekeeping and drivers:
Core:
- The timer_shutdown[_sync]() infrastructure:
Tearing down timers can be tedious when there are circular
dependencies to other things which need to be torn down. A prime
example is timer and workqueue where the timer schedules work and
the work arms the timer.
What needs to prevented is that pending work which is drained via
destroy_workqueue() does not rearm the previously shutdown timer.
Nothing in that shutdown sequence relies on the timer being
functional.
The conclusion was that the semantics of timer_shutdown_sync()
should be:
- timer is not enqueued
- timer callback is not running
- timer cannot be rearmed
Preventing the rearming of shutdown timers is done by discarding
rearm attempts silently.
A warning for the case that a rearm attempt of a shutdown timer is
detected would not be really helpful because it's entirely unclear
how it should be acted upon. The only way to address such a case is
to add 'if (in_shutdown)' conditionals all over the place. This is
error prone and in most cases of teardown not required all.
- The real fix for the bluetooth HCI teardown based on
timer_shutdown_sync().
A larger scale conversion to timer_shutdown_sync() is work in
progress.
- Consolidation of VDSO time namespace helper functions
- Small fixes for timer and timerqueue
Drivers:
- Prevent integer overflow on the XGene-1 TVAL register which causes
an never ending interrupt storm.
- The usual set of new device tree bindings
- Small fixes and improvements all over the place"
* tag 'timers-core-2022-12-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
dt-bindings: timer: renesas,cmt: Add r8a779g0 CMT support
dt-bindings: timer: renesas,tmu: Add r8a779g0 support
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool()
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix missing clk_disable_unprepare in dmtimer_systimer_init_clock()
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Clear settings on probe and free
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Make timer_get_irq static
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix warning for omap_timer_match
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Fix XGene-1 TVAL register math error
clocksource/drivers/timer-npcm7xx: Enable timer 1 clock before use
dt-bindings: timer: nuvoton,npcm7xx-timer: Allow specifying all clocks
dt-bindings: timer: rockchip: Add rockchip,rk3128-timer
clockevents: Repair kernel-doc for clockevent_delta2ns()
clocksource/drivers/ingenic-ost: Define pm functions properly in platform_driver struct
clocksource/drivers/sh_cmt: Access registers according to spec
vdso/timens: Refactor copy-pasted find_timens_vvar_page() helper into one copy
Bluetooth: hci_qca: Fix the teardown problem for real
timers: Update the documentation to reflect on the new timer_shutdown() API
timers: Provide timer_shutdown[_sync]()
timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions
timers: Split [try_to_]del_timer[_sync]() to prepare for shutdown mode
...