Merge tag 'timers-core-2023-04-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timers and timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Improve the VDSO build time checks to cover all dynamic relocations

   VDSO does not allow dynamic relocations, but the build time check is
   incomplete and fragile.

   It's based on architectures specifying the relocation types to search
   for and does not handle R_*_NONE relocation entries correctly.
   R_*_NONE relocations are injected by some GNU ld variants if they
   fail to determine the exact .rel[a]/dyn_size to cover trailing zeros.
   R_*_NONE relocations must be ignored by dynamic loaders, so they
   should be ignored in the build time check too.

   Remove the architecture specific relocation types to check for and
   validate strictly that no other relocations than R_*_NONE end up in
   the VSDO .so file.

 - Prefer signal delivery to the current thread for
   CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID based posix-timers

   Such timers prefer to deliver the signal to the main thread of a
   process even if the context in which the timer expires is the current
   task. This has the downside that it might wake up an idle thread.

   As there is no requirement or guarantee that the signal has to be
   delivered to the main thread, avoid this by preferring the current
   task if it is part of the thread group which shares sighand.

   This not only avoids waking idle threads, it also distributes the
   signal delivery in case of multiple timers firing in the context of
   different threads close to each other better.

 - Align the tick period properly (again)

   For a long time the tick was starting at CLOCK_MONOTONIC zero, which
   allowed users space applications to either align with the tick or to
   place a periodic computation so that it does not interfere with the
   tick. The alignement of the tick period was more by chance than by
   intention as the tick is set up before a high resolution clocksource
   is installed, i.e. timekeeping is still tick based and the tick
   period advances from there.

   The early enablement of sched_clock() broke this alignement as the
   time accumulated by sched_clock() is taken into account when
   timekeeping is initialized. So the base value now(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) is
   not longer a multiple of tick periods, which breaks applications
   which relied on that behaviour.

   Cure this by aligning the tick starting point to the next multiple of
   tick periods, i.e 1000ms/CONFIG_HZ.

 - A set of NOHZ fixes and enhancements:

     * Cure the concurrent writer race for idle and IO sleeptime
       statistics

       The statitic values which are exposed via /proc/stat are updated
       from the CPU local idle exit and remotely by cpufreq, but that
       happens without any form of serialization. As a consequence
       sleeptimes can be accounted twice or worse.

       Prevent this by restricting the accumulation writeback to the CPU
       local idle exit and let the remote access compute the accumulated
       value.

     * Protect idle/iowait sleep time with a sequence count

       Reading idle/iowait sleep time, e.g. from /proc/stat, can race
       with idle exit updates. As a consequence the readout may result
       in random and potentially going backwards values.

       Protect this by a sequence count, which fixes the idle time
       statistics issue, but cannot fix the iowait time problem because
       iowait time accounting races with remote wake ups decrementing
       the remote runqueues nr_iowait counter. The latter is impossible
       to fix, so the only way to deal with that is to document it
       properly and to remove the assertion in the selftest which
       triggers occasionally due to that.

     * Restructure struct tick_sched for better cache layout

     * Some small cleanups and a better cache layout for struct
       tick_sched

 - Implement the missing timer_wait_running() callback for POSIX CPU
   timers

   For unknown reason the introduction of the timer_wait_running()
   callback missed to fixup posix CPU timers, which went unnoticed for
   almost four years.

   While initially only targeted to prevent livelocks between a timer
   deletion and the timer expiry function on PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels,
   it turned out that fixing this for mainline is not as trivial as just
   implementing a stub similar to the hrtimer/timer callbacks.

   The reason is that for CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK enabled
   systems there is a livelock issue independent of RT.

   CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK=y moves the expiry of POSIX CPU
   timers out from hard interrupt context to task work, which is handled
   before returning to user space or to a VM. The expiry mechanism moves
   the expired timers to a stack local list head with sighand lock held.
   Once sighand is dropped the task can be preempted and a task which
   wants to delete a timer will spin-wait until the expiry task is
   scheduled back in. In the worst case this will end up in a livelock
   when the preempting task and the expiry task are pinned on the same
   CPU.

   The timer wheel has a timer_wait_running() mechanism for RT, which
   uses a per CPU timer-base expiry lock which is held by the expiry
   code and the task waiting for the timer function to complete blocks
   on that lock.

   This does not work in the same way for posix CPU timers as there is
   no timer base and expiry for process wide timers can run on any task
   belonging to that process, but the concept of waiting on an expiry
   lock can be used too in a slightly different way.

   Add a per task mutex to struct posix_cputimers_work, let the expiry
   task hold it accross the expiry function and let the deleting task
   which waits for the expiry to complete block on the mutex.

   In the non-contended case this results in an extra
   mutex_lock()/unlock() pair on both sides.

   This avoids spin-waiting on a task which is scheduled out, prevents
   the livelock and cures the problem for RT and !RT systems

* tag 'timers-core-2023-04-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  posix-cpu-timers: Implement the missing timer_wait_running callback
  selftests/proc: Assert clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOTTIME) VS /proc/uptime monotonicity
  selftests/proc: Remove idle time monotonicity assertions
  MAINTAINERS: Remove stale email address
  timers/nohz: Remove middle-function __tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick()
  timers/nohz: Add a comment about broken iowait counter update race
  timers/nohz: Protect idle/iowait sleep time under seqcount
  timers/nohz: Only ever update sleeptime from idle exit
  timers/nohz: Restructure and reshuffle struct tick_sched
  tick/common: Align tick period with the HZ tick.
  selftests/timers/posix_timers: Test delivery of signals across threads
  posix-timers: Prefer delivery of signals to the current thread
  vdso: Improve cmd_vdso_check to check all dynamic relocations

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
index 1506a22a4fb6..6a1821bd7d5e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@
 # Building vDSO images for x86.
 #
 
-# Absolute relocation type $(ARCH_REL_TYPE_ABS) needs to be defined before
-# the inclusion of generic Makefile.
-ARCH_REL_TYPE_ABS := R_X86_64_JUMP_SLOT|R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT|R_X86_64_RELATIVE|
-ARCH_REL_TYPE_ABS += R_386_GLOB_DAT|R_386_JMP_SLOT|R_386_RELATIVE
+# Include the generic Makefile to check the built vdso.
 include $(srctree)/lib/vdso/Makefile
 
 # Sanitizer runtimes are unavailable and cannot be linked here.