Core & protocols
----------------
- Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP sockets
and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS.
- Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention,
revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and
implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance by
an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions.
- Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism has
some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW offloads
capabilities.
- Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more than
one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building block for
Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S).
- Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing
the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath.
- Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA hosts,
this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on such HW.
- Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to
better fit modern link speeds.
- Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making dump
operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded synchronize_rcu() on
delete.
- Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per bridge
instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of magnitude
faster on large switches.
- Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO segmentation
time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios.
- Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets.
- Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently
introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting recent
TCP autotuning changes.
- Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is
administratively down.
- Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per
connection and simplify common MPTCP setups.
- Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races.
- A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR, reducing
code duplication.
- Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an XDP
buffer.
Things we sprinkled into general kernel code
--------------------------------------------
- Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated
YAML parser.
Driver API
----------
- Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue
selection.
- Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue, allowing
TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups.
- Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more
easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs
datapath.
- Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide the
number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity in RX
ring queries and RSS configuration.
- Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better
handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause.
- Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average, controlling
the average smoothing factor.
Device drivers
--------------
- Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3).
- Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC.
- Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication devices
(dibps)
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention issues
- support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their
SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs
- support RSS for IPSec offload
- support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5
- support for disabling host PFs.
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link aggregate
- ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs
- ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
- idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support Hyper-V VF ID
- dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE
- Meta (fbnic):
- support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx
- support basic XDP functionalities
- devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions
- expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause
- Wangxun:
- support ethtool coalesce options
- support for multiple RSS contexts
- Ethernet virtual:
- Macsec:
- replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level checks
- Bonding:
- support aggregator selection based on port priority
- Microsoft vNIC:
- use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages to
improve memory efficiency
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC
- Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU
- Freescale
- enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support
- fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM
- Renesas (R-Car S4): support HW offloading for layer 2 switching
- support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs
- Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling
- TI:
- support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth)
- Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS
driver
- Support bcm63268 GPHY power control
- Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP
- Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115
- CAN:
- a large CAN-XL preparation work
- reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory usage
- rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling
- WiFi:
- extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
- S1G channel representation cleanup
- improve S1G support
- WiFi drivers:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- major refactor and cleanup
- Broadcom (brcm80211):
- support for AP isolation
- RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89:
- preparation work for RTL8922DE support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- HW restart improvements
- MLO support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k_
- GTK rekey fixes
- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925
- btintel: support for BlazarIW core
- btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume()
- btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core & protocols:
- Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP
sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS
- Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention,
revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and
implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance
by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions
- Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism
has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW
offloads capabilities
- Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more
than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building
block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
- Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing
the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath
- Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA
hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on
such HW
- Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to
better fit modern link speeds
- Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making
dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded
synchronize_rcu() on delete
- Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per
bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of
magnitude faster on large switches
- Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO
segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios
- Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets
- Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently
introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting
recent TCP autotuning changes
- Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is
administratively down
- Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per
connection and simplify common MPTCP setups
- Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races
- A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR,
reducing code duplication
- Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an
XDP buffer
Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:
- Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML
parser
Driver API:
- Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue
selection
- Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue,
allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups
- Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more
easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs
datapath
- Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide
the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity
in RX ring queries and RSS configuration
- Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better
handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause
- Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average,
controlling the average smoothing factor
Device drivers:
- Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3)
- Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC
- Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication
devices (dibps)
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention
issues
- support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their
SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs
- support RSS for IPSec offload
- support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5
- support for disabling host PFs.
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link
aggregate
- ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs
- ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
- idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support Hyper-V VF ID
- dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE
- Meta (fbnic):
- support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx
- support basic XDP functionalities
- devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions
- expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause
- Wangxun:
- support ethtool coalesce options
- support for multiple RSS contexts
- Ethernet virtual:
- Macsec:
- replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level
checks
- Bonding:
- support aggregator selection based on port priority
- Microsoft vNIC:
- use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages
to improve memory efficiency
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC
- Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU
- Freescale
- enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support
- fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM
- Renesas (R-Car S4):
- support HW offloading for layer 2 switching
- support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs
- Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling
- TI:
- support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth)
- Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS
driver
- Support bcm63268 GPHY power control
- Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP
- Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115
- CAN:
- a large CAN-XL preparation work
- reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory
usage
- rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling
- WiFi:
- extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
- S1G channel representation cleanup
- improve S1G support
- WiFi drivers:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- major refactor and cleanup
- Broadcom (brcm80211):
- support for AP isolation
- RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89:
- preparation work for RTL8922DE support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- HW restart improvements
- MLO support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k):
- GTK rekey fixes
- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925
- btintel: support for BlazarIW core
- btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume()
- btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs"
* tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits)
net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200
dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible
Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API"
octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak
octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak
net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params
net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init
net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values
net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns
net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers
net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs
selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore
Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set"
net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()
net: use llist for sd->defer_list
net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic
selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices
selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS
...
- Further consolidation of the VDSO infrastructure and the common data
store.
- Simplification of the related Kconfig logic
- Improve the VDSO selftest suite
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Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Further consolidation of the VDSO infrastructure and the common data
store
- Simplification of the related Kconfig logic
- Improve the VDSO selftest suite
* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
selftests: vDSO: Drop vdso_test_clock_getres
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Add tests for clock_gettime64()
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Test CPUTIME clocks
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use explicit indices for name array
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Drop clock availability tests
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use ksft_finished()
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Correctly skip whole test with missing vDSO
selftests: vDSO: Fix -Wunitialized in powerpc VDSO_CALL() wrapper
vdso: Add struct __kernel_old_timeval forward declaration to gettime.h
vdso: Gate VDSO_GETRANDOM behind HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO
vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_DATA_STORE
vdso: Drop kconfig GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO
vdso: Drop kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_32
riscv: vdso: Untangle Kconfig logic
time: Build generic update_vsyscall() only with generic time vDSO
vdso/gettimeofday: Remove !CONFIG_TIME_NS stubs
vdso: Move ENABLE_COMPAT_VDSO from core to arm64
ARM: VDSO: Remove cntvct_ok global variable
vdso/datastore: Gate time data behind CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
- Further preparations for modular clocksource/event drivers
- The usual device tree updates to support new chip variants and the
related changes to thise drivers
- Avoid a 64-bit division in the TEGRA186 driver, which caused a build
fail on 32-bit machines.
- Small fixes, improvements and cleanups all over the place
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Merge tag 'timers-clocksource-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull clocksource updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Further preparations for modular clocksource/event drivers
- The usual device tree updates to support new chip variants and the
related changes to thise drivers
- Avoid a 64-bit division in the TEGRA186 driver, which caused a build
fail on 32-bit machines.
- Small fixes, improvements and cleanups all over the place
* tag 'timers-clocksource-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
dt-bindings: timer: exynos4210-mct: Add compatible for ARTPEC-9 SoC
clocksource/drivers/sh_cmt: Split start/stop of clock source and events
clocksource/drivers/clps711x: Fix resource leaks in error paths
clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Add auto-detection for initial prescaler values
clocksource/drivers/ingenic-sysost: Convert from round_rate() to determine_rate()
clocksource/drivers/timer-tegra186: Don't print superfluous errors
clocksource/drivers/timer-rtl-otto: Simplify documentation
clocksource/drivers/timer-rtl-otto: Do not interfere with interrupts
clocksource/drivers/timer-rtl-otto: Drop set_counter function
clocksource/drivers/timer-rtl-otto: Work around dying timers
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm : Capture functionality for OMAP DM timer
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer_mmio: Add MMIO clocksource
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer_mmio: Switch over to standalone driver
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Add standalone MMIO driver
ACPI: GTDT: Generate platform devices for MMIO timers
clocksource/drivers/nxp-pit: Add NXP Automotive s32g2 / s32g3 support
dt: bindings: fsl,vf610-pit: Add compatible for s32g2 and s32g3
clocksource/drivers/vf-pit: Rename the VF PIT to NXP PIT
clocksource/drivers/vf-pit: Unify the function name for irq ack
clocksource/drivers/vf-pit: Consolidate calls to pit_*_disable/enable
...
- Address the inconsistent shutdown sequence of per CPU clockevents on
CPU hotplug, which onoly removed it from the core but failed to invoke
the actual device driver shutdown callback. This keeps the timer
active, which prevents power savings and causes pointless noise in
virtualization.
- Encapsulate the open coded access to the hrtimer clock base, which is a
private implementation detail, so that the implementation can be
changed without breaking a lot of usage sites.
- Enhance the debug output of the clocksource watchdog to provide better
information for analysis.
- The usual set of cleanups and enhancements all over the place
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Address the inconsistent shutdown sequence of per CPU clockevents on
CPU hotplug, which only removed it from the core but failed to invoke
the actual device driver shutdown callback. This kept the timer
active, which prevented power savings and caused pointless noise in
virtualization.
- Encapsulate the open coded access to the hrtimer clock base, which is
a private implementation detail, so that the implementation can be
changed without breaking a lot of usage sites.
- Enhance the debug output of the clocksource watchdog to provide
better information for analysis.
- The usual set of cleanups and enhancements all over the place
* tag 'timers-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time: Fix spelling mistakes in comments
clocksource: Print durations for sync check unconditionally
LoongArch: Remove clockevents shutdown call on offlining
tick: Do not set device to detached state in tick_shutdown()
hrtimer: Reorder branches in hrtimer_clockid_to_base()
hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_clock_base:: Get_time
hrtimer: Use hrtimer_cb_get_time() helper
media: pwm-ir-tx: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
ALSA: hrtimer: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
lib: test_objpool: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
sched/core: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
timers/itimer: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
posix-timers: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
jiffies: Remove obsolete SHIFTED_HZ comment
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Merge tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains a larger set of changes around the generic namespace
infrastructure of the kernel.
Each specific namespace type (net, cgroup, mnt, ...) embedds a struct
ns_common which carries the reference count of the namespace and so
on.
We open-coded and cargo-culted so many quirks for each namespace type
that it just wasn't scalable anymore. So given there's a bunch of new
changes coming in that area I've started cleaning all of this up.
The core change is to make it possible to correctly initialize every
namespace uniformly and derive the correct initialization settings
from the type of the namespace such as namespace operations, namespace
type and so on. This leaves the new ns_common_init() function with a
single parameter which is the specific namespace type which derives
the correct parameters statically. This also means the compiler will
yell as soon as someone does something remotely fishy.
The ns_common_init() addition also allows us to remove ns_alloc_inum()
and drops any special-casing of the initial network namespace in the
network namespace initialization code that Linus complained about.
Another part is reworking the reference counting. The reference
counting was open-coded and copy-pasted for each namespace type even
though they all followed the same rules. This also removes all open
accesses to the reference count and makes it private and only uses a
very small set of dedicated helpers to manipulate them just like we do
for e.g., files.
In addition this generalizes the mount namespace iteration
infrastructure introduced a few cycles ago. As reminder, the vfs makes
it possible to iterate sequentially and bidirectionally through all
mount namespaces on the system or all mount namespaces that the caller
holds privilege over. This allow userspace to iterate over all mounts
in all mount namespaces using the listmount() and statmount() system
call.
Each mount namespace has a unique identifier for the lifetime of the
systems that is exposed to userspace. The network namespace also has a
unique identifier working exactly the same way. This extends the
concept to all other namespace types.
The new nstree type makes it possible to lookup namespaces purely by
their identifier and to walk the namespace list sequentially and
bidirectionally for all namespace types, allowing userspace to iterate
through all namespaces. Looking up namespaces in the namespace tree
works completely locklessly.
This also means we can move the mount namespace onto the generic
infrastructure and remove a bunch of code and members from struct
mnt_namespace itself.
There's a bunch of stuff coming on top of this in the future but for
now this uses the generic namespace tree to extend a concept
introduced first for pidfs a few cycles ago. For a while now we have
supported pidfs file handles for pidfds. This has proven to be very
useful.
This extends the concept to cover namespaces as well. It is possible
to encode and decode namespace file handles using the common
name_to_handle_at() and open_by_handle_at() apis.
As with pidfs file handles, namespace file handles are exhaustive,
meaning it is not required to actually hold a reference to nsfs in
able to decode aka open_by_handle_at() a namespace file handle.
Instead the FD_NSFS_ROOT constant can be passed which will let the
kernel grab a reference to the root of nsfs internally and thus decode
the file handle.
Namespaces file descriptors can already be derived from pidfds which
means they aren't subject to overmount protection bugs. IOW, it's
irrelevant if the caller would not have access to an appropriate
/proc/<pid>/ns/ directory as they could always just derive the
namespace based on a pidfd already.
It has the same advantage as pidfds. It's possible to reliably and for
the lifetime of the system refer to a namespace without pinning any
resources and to compare them trivially.
Permission checking is kept simple. If the caller is located in the
namespace the file handle refers to they are able to open it otherwise
they must hold privilege over the owning namespace of the relevant
namespace.
The namespace file handle layout is exposed as uapi and has a stable
and extensible format. For now it simply contains the namespace
identifier, the namespace type, and the inode number. The stable
format means that userspace may construct its own namespace file
handles without going through name_to_handle_at() as they are already
allowed for pidfs and cgroup file handles"
* tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (65 commits)
ns: drop assert
ns: move ns type into struct ns_common
nstree: make struct ns_tree private
ns: add ns_debug()
ns: simplify ns_common_init() further
cgroup: add missing ns_common include
ns: use inode initializer for initial namespaces
selftests/namespaces: verify initial namespace inode numbers
ns: rename to __ns_ref
nsfs: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
net: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
uts: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
ipv4: use check_net()
net: use check_net()
net-sysfs: use check_net()
user: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
time: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
pid: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
ipc: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
cgroup: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
...
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Merge tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull copy_process updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the changes to enable support for clone3() on nios2
which apparently is still a thing.
The more exciting part of this is that it cleans up the inconsistency
in how the 64-bit flag argument is passed from copy_process() into the
various other copy_*() helpers"
[ Fixed up rv ltl_monitor 32-bit support as per Sasha Levin in the merge ]
* tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
nios2: implement architecture-specific portion of sys_clone3
arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64
copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) < sizeof(u64)
It's misplaced in struct proc_ns_operations and ns->ops might be NULL if
the namespace is compiled out but we still want to know the type of the
namespace for the initial namespace struct.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The timer drivers could be converted into modules. The different
functions to register the clocksource or the clockevent are already
exporting their symbols for modules but the sched_clock_register()
function is missing.
Export the symbols so the drivers using this function can be converted
into modules.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250602151853.1942521-8-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Simply derive the ns operations from the namespace type.
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Correct several typos found in comments across various files in the
kernel/time directory.
No functional changes are introduced by these corrections.
Signed-off-by: Haofeng Li <lihaofeng@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
And drop ns_free_inum(). Anything common that can be wasted centrally
should be wasted in the new common helper.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
There's a lot of information that namespace implementers don't need to
know about at all. Encapsulate this all in the initialization helper.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Every namespace type has a container_of(ns, <ns_type>, ns) static inline
function that is currently not exposed in the header. So we have a bunch
of places that open-code it via container_of(). Move it to the headers
so we can use it directly.
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Support the generic ns lookup infrastructure to support file handles for
namespaces.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Don't cargo-cult the same thing over and over.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc7).
No conflicts.
Adjacent changes:
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/fs.h
9536fbe10c ("net/mlx5e: Add PSP steering in local NIC RX")
7601a0a462 ("net/mlx5e: Add a miss level for ipsec crypto offload")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc6).
Conflicts:
net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c
net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo_avx2.c
c4eaca2e10 ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: don't check genbit from packetpath lookups")
84c1da7b38 ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: use avx2 algorithm for insertions too")
Only trivial adjacent changes (in a doc and a Makefile).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
A typical set of messages that gets printed as a result of the clocksource
watchdog finding the TSC unstable usually does not contain messages
indicating CPUs being ahead of or behind the CPU from which the check is
carried out. That fact suggests that the TSC does not experience time skew
between CPUs (if the clocksource.verify_n_cpus parameter is set to a
negative value) but quantitative information is missing.
The cs_nsec_max value printed by the "CPU %d check durations" message
actually provides a worst case estimate of the time skew. If all CPUs have
been checked, the cs_nsec_max value multiplied by 2 is the maximum
possible time skew between the TSCs of any two CPUs on the system. The
worst case estimate is derived from two boundary cases:
1. No time is consumed to execute instructions between csnow_begin and
csnow_mid while all the cs_nsec_max time is consumed by the code between
csnow_mid and csnow_end. In this case, the maximum undetectable time skew
of a CPU being ahead would be cs_nsec_max.
2. All the cs_nsec_max time is consumed to execute instructions between
csnow_begin and csnow_mid while no time is consumed by the code between
csnow_mid and csnow_end. In this case, the maximum undetectable time skew
of a CPU being behind would be cs_nsec_max.
The worst case estimate assumes a system experiencing a corner case
consisting of the two boundary cases.
Always print the "CPU %d check durations" message so that the maximum
possible time skew measured by the TSC sync check can be compared to the
time skew measured by the clocksource watchdog.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Wiesner <jwiesner@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aIuXXfdITXdI0lLp@incl
When testing softirq based hrtimers on an ARM32 board, with high resolution
mode and NOHZ inactive, softirq based hrtimers fail to expire after being
moved away from an offline CPU:
CPU0 CPU1
hrtimer_start(..., HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT);
cpu_down(CPU1) ...
hrtimers_cpu_dying()
// Migrate timers to CPU0
smp_call_function_single(CPU0, returgger_next_event);
retrigger_next_event()
if (!highres && !nohz)
return;
As retrigger_next_event() is a NOOP when both high resolution timers and
NOHZ are inactive CPU0's hrtimer_cpu_base::softirq_expires_next is not
updated and the migrated softirq timers never expire unless there is a
softirq based hrtimer queued on CPU0 later.
Fix this by removing the hrtimer_hres_active() and tick_nohz_active() check
in retrigger_next_event(), which enforces a full update of the CPU base.
As this is not a fast path the extra cost does not matter.
[ tglx: Massaged change log ]
Fixes: 5c0930ccaa ("hrtimers: Push pending hrtimers away from outgoing CPU earlier")
Co-developed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250805081025.54235-1-wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com
tick_shutdown() sets the state of the clockevent device to detached
first and the invokes clockevents_exchange_device(), which in turn
invokes clockevents_switch_state().
But clockevents_switch_state() returns without invoking the device shutdown
callback as the device is already in detached state. As a consequence the
timer device is not shutdown when a CPU goes offline.
tick_shutdown() does this because it was originally invoked on a online CPU
and not on the outgoing CPU. It therefore could not access the clockevent
device of the already offlined CPU and just set the state.
Since commit 3b1596a21f tick_shutdown() is called on the outgoing CPU, so
the hardware device can be accessed.
Remove the state set before calling clockevents_exchange_device(), so that
the subsequent clockevents_switch_state() handles the state transition and
invokes the shutdown callback of the clockevent device.
[ tglx: Massaged change log ]
Fixes: 3b1596a21f ("clockevents: Shutdown and unregister current clockevents at CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING")
Signed-off-by: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250906064952.3749122-2-maobibo@loongson.cn
The get_time() callbacks always need to match the bases clockid.
Instead of maintaining that association twice in hrtimer_bases,
use a helper.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250821-hrtimer-cleanup-get_time-v2-8-3ae822e5bfbd@linutronix.de
The field timer->base->get_time is a private implementation detail and
should not be accessed outside of the hrtimer core.
Switch to the equivalent helper.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250821-hrtimer-cleanup-get_time-v2-2-3ae822e5bfbd@linutronix.de
The field timer->base->get_time is a private implementation detail and
should not be accessed outside of the hrtimer core.
Switch to the equivalent helpers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250821-hrtimer-cleanup-get_time-v2-1-3ae822e5bfbd@linutronix.de
The generic vDSO can be used without the time-related functionality.
In that case the generic update_vsyscall() from kernel/time/vsyscall.c
should not be built.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250826-vdso-cleanups-v1-5-d9b65750e49f@linutronix.de
Export the timespec64_add_safe() symbol so that this function can be used
in modules where computation of time related is done.
Signed-off-by: Gatien Chevallier <gatien.chevallier@foss.st.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250901-relative_flex_pps-v4-1-b874971dfe85@foss.st.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The call to __iter_div_u64_rem() in vdso_time_update_aux() is a wrapper
around subtraction. It cannot be used to divide large numbers, as that
introduces long, computationally expensive delays. A regular u64 division
is also not possible in the timekeeper update path as it can be too slow.
Instead of splitting the ktime_t offset into into second and subsecond
components during the timekeeper update fast-path, do it together with the
adjustment of tk->offs_aux in the slow-path. Equivalent to the handling of
offs_boot and monotonic_to_boot.
Reuse the storage of monotonic_to_boot for the new field, as it is not used
by auxiliary timekeepers.
Fixes: 380b84e168 ("vdso/vsyscall: Update auxiliary clock data in the datapage")
Reported-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250825-vdso-auxclock-division-v1-1-a1d32a16a313@linutronix.de
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aKwsNNWsHJg8IKzj@localhost/
With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd3 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.
While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.
Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of callees to
sys_clone3/copy_process (excluding the architecture-specific
copy_thread) to consistently pass clone_flags as u64, so that
no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on 32-bit architectures.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The current algorithm of picking a random CPU works OK for dense online
cpumask, but if cpumask is non-dense, the distribution of picked CPUs
is skewed.
For example, on 8-CPU board with CPUs 4-7 offlined, the probability of
selecting CPU 0 is 5/8. Accordingly, cpus 1, 2 and 3 are chosen with
probability 1/8 each. The proper algorithm should pick each online CPU
with probability 1/4.
Switch it to cpumask_random(), which has better statistical
characteristics.
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: "Yury Norov [NVIDIA]" <yury.norov@gmail.com>
- Introduce support for auxiliary timekeepers
PTP clocks can be disconnected from the universal CLOCK_TAI reality
for various reasons including regularatory requirements for
functional safety redundancy.
The kernel so far only supports a single notion of time, which means
that all clocks are correlated in frequency and only differ by
offset to each other.
Access to non-correlated PTP clocks has been available so far only
through the file descriptor based "POSIX clock IDs", which are
subject to locking and have to go all the way out to the hardware.
The access is not only horribly slow, as it has to go all the way out
to the NIC/PTP hardware, but that also prevents the kernel to read
the time of such clocks e.g. from the network stack, where it is
required for TSN networking both on the transmit and receive side
unless the hardware provides offloading.
The auxiliary clocks provide a mechanism to support arbitrary clocks
which are not correlated to the system clock. This is not restricted
to the PTP use case on purpose as there is no kernel side association
of these clocks to a particular PTP device because that's a pure user
space configuration decision. Having them independent allows to
utilize them for other purposes and also enables them to be tested
without hardware dependencies.
To avoid pointless overhead these clocks have to be enabled
individualy via a new sysfs interface to reduce the overhead to a
single compare in the hotpath if they are enabled at the Kconfig
level at all.
These clocks utilize the existing timekeeping/NTP infrastructures,
which has been made possible over the recent releases by incrementaly
converting these infrastructures over from a single static instance
to a multi-instance pointer based implementation without any
performance regression reported.
The auxiliary clocks provide the same "emulation" of a "correct"
clock as the existing CLOCK_* variants do with an independent
instance of data and provide the same steering mechanism through the
existing sys_clock_adjtime() interface, which has been confirmed to
work by the chronyd(8) maintainer.
That allows to provide lockless kernel internal and VDSO support so
that applications and kernel internal functionalities can access
these clocks without restrictions and at the same performance as the
existing system clocks.
- Avoid double notifications in the adjtimex() syscall. Not a big issue,
but a trivial to avoid latency source.
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Merge tag 'timers-ptp-2025-07-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timekeeping and VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Introduce support for auxiliary timekeepers
PTP clocks can be disconnected from the universal CLOCK_TAI reality
for various reasons including regularatory requirements for
functional safety redundancy.
The kernel so far only supports a single notion of time, which means
that all clocks are correlated in frequency and only differ by offset
to each other.
Access to non-correlated PTP clocks has been available so far only
through the file descriptor based "POSIX clock IDs", which are
subject to locking and have to go all the way out to the hardware.
The access is not only horribly slow, as it has to go all the way out
to the NIC/PTP hardware, but that also prevents the kernel to read
the time of such clocks e.g. from the network stack, where it is
required for TSN networking both on the transmit and receive side
unless the hardware provides offloading.
The auxiliary clocks provide a mechanism to support arbitrary clocks
which are not correlated to the system clock. This is not restricted
to the PTP use case on purpose as there is no kernel side association
of these clocks to a particular PTP device because that's a pure user
space configuration decision. Having them independent allows to
utilize them for other purposes and also enables them to be tested
without hardware dependencies.
To avoid pointless overhead these clocks have to be enabled
individualy via a new sysfs interface to reduce the overhead to a
single compare in the hotpath if they are enabled at the Kconfig
level at all.
These clocks utilize the existing timekeeping/NTP infrastructures,
which has been made possible over the recent releases by incrementaly
converting these infrastructures over from a single static instance
to a multi-instance pointer based implementation without any
performance regression reported.
The auxiliary clocks provide the same "emulation" of a "correct"
clock as the existing CLOCK_* variants do with an independent
instance of data and provide the same steering mechanism through the
existing sys_clock_adjtime() interface, which has been confirmed to
work by the chronyd(8) maintainer.
That allows to provide lockless kernel internal and VDSO support so
that applications and kernel internal functionalities can access
these clocks without restrictions and at the same performance as the
existing system clocks.
- Avoid double notifications in the adjtimex() syscall. Not a big
issue, but a trivial to avoid latency source.
* tag 'timers-ptp-2025-07-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
vdso/gettimeofday: Add support for auxiliary clocks
vdso/vsyscall: Update auxiliary clock data in the datapage
vdso: Introduce aux_clock_resolution_ns()
vdso/gettimeofday: Introduce vdso_get_timestamp()
vdso/gettimeofday: Introduce vdso_set_timespec()
vdso/gettimeofday: Introduce vdso_clockid_valid()
vdso/gettimeofday: Return bool from clock_gettime() helpers
vdso/gettimeofday: Return bool from clock_getres() helpers
vdso/helpers: Add helpers for seqlocks of single vdso_clock
vdso/vsyscall: Split up __arch_update_vsyscall() into __arch_update_vdso_clock()
vdso/vsyscall: Introduce a helper to fill clock configurations
timekeeping: Remove the temporary CLOCK_AUX workaround
timekeeping: Provide ktime_get_clock_ts64()
timekeeping: Provide interface to control auxiliary clocks
timekeeping: Provide update for auxiliary timekeepers
timekeeping: Provide adjtimex() for auxiliary clocks
timekeeping: Prepare do_adtimex() for auxiliary clocks
timekeeping: Make do_adjtimex() reusable
timekeeping: Add auxiliary clock support to __timekeeping_inject_offset()
timekeeping: Make timekeeping_inject_offset() reusable
...
- Simplify the logic in the timer migration code
- Simplify the clocksource code by utilizing the more modern cpumask+*()
interfaces
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2025-07-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Simplify the logic in the timer migration code
- Simplify the clocksource code by utilizing the more modern
cpumask+*() interfaces
* tag 'timers-core-2025-07-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clocksource: Use cpumask_next_wrap() in clocksource_watchdog()
clocksource: Use cpumask_any_but() in clocksource_verify_choose_cpus()
timers/migration: Clean up the loop in tmigr_quick_check()
The initial idea of making them const was correct as they were seperate
instances. When they got embedded into larger data structures, which are
even modified by the callback this got moot. The only reason why this went
unnoticed is that the required container_of() casts the const attribute
forcefully away.
Stop pretending that it is const.
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Merge tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-07-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"A treewide cleanup of struct cycle_counter const annotations.
The initial idea of making them const was correct as they were
seperate instances. When they got embedded into larger data
structures, which are even modified by the callback this got moot. The
only reason why this went unnoticed is that the required
container_of() casts the const attribute forcefully away.
Stop pretending that it is const"
* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-07-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time/timecounter: Fix the lie that struct cyclecounter is const
Most drivers only populate the fields cycles and cs_id of system_counterval
in their get_time_fn() callback for get_device_system_crosststamp(), unless
they explicitly provide nanosecond values.
When the use_nsecs field was added to struct system_counterval, most
drivers did not care. Clock sources other than CSID_GENERIC could then get
converted in convert_base_to_cs() based on an uninitialized use_nsecs field,
which usually results in -EINVAL during the following range check.
Pass in a fully zero initialized system_counterval_t to cure that.
Fixes: 6b2e299775 ("timekeeping: Provide infrastructure for converting to/from a base clock")
Signed-off-by: Markus Blöchl <markus@blochl.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250720-timekeeping_uninit_crossts-v2-1-f513c885b7c2@blochl.de
Expose the auxiliary clock data so it can be read from the vDSO.
Architectures not using the generic vDSO time framework,
namely SPARC64, are not supported.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250701-vdso-auxclock-v1-11-df7d9f87b9b8@linutronix.de
The upcoming auxiliary clocks need this hook, too.
To separate the architecture hooks from the timekeeper internals, refactor
the hook to only operate on a single vDSO clock.
While at it, use a more robust #define for the hook override.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250701-vdso-auxclock-v1-3-df7d9f87b9b8@linutronix.de
The logic to configure a 'struct vdso_clock' from a
'struct tk_read_base' is copied two times.
Split it into a shared function to reduce the duplication,
especially as another user will be added for auxiliary clocks.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250701-vdso-auxclock-v1-2-df7d9f87b9b8@linutronix.de
allow integration of depending changes into the networking tree.
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Merge tag 'ktime-get-clock-ts64-for-ptp' into timers/ptp
Pull the base implementation of ktime_get_clock_ts64() for PTP, which
contains a temporary CLOCK_AUX* workaround. That was created to allow
integration of depending changes into the networking tree. The workaround
is going to be removed in a subsequent change in the timekeeping tree.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
PTP implements an inline switch case for taking timestamps from various
POSIX clock IDs, which already consumes quite some text space. Expanding it
for auxiliary clocks really becomes too big for inlining.
Provide a out of line version.
The function invalidates the timestamp in case the clock is invalid. The
invalidation allows to implement a validation check without the need to
propagate a return value through deep existing call chains.
Due to merge logistics this temporarily defines CLOCK_AUX[_LAST] if
undefined, so that the plain branch, which does not contain any of the core
timekeeper changes, can be pulled into the networking tree as prerequisite
for the PTP side changes. These temporary defines are removed after that
branch is merged into the tip::timers/ptp branch. That way the result in
-next or upstream in the next merge window has zero dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250701132628.357686408@linutronix.de
In both the read callback for struct cyclecounter, and in struct
timecounter, struct cyclecounter is declared as a const pointer.
Unfortunatly, a number of users of this pointer treat it as a non-const
pointer as it is burried in a larger structure that is heavily modified by
the callback function when accessed. This lie had been hidden by the fact
that container_of() "casts away" a const attribute of a pointer without any
compiler warning happening at all.
Fix this all up by removing the const attribute in the needed places so
that everyone can see that the structure really isn't const, but can,
and is, modified by the users of it.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025070124-backyard-hurt-783a@gregkh
Auxiliary clocks are disabled by default and attempts to access them
fail.
Provide an interface to enable/disable them at run-time.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625183758.444626478@linutronix.de
Update the auxiliary timekeepers periodically. For now this is tied to the system
timekeeper update from the tick. This might be revisited and moved out of the tick.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625183758.382451331@linutronix.de
The behaviour is close to clock_adtime(CLOCK_REALTIME) with the
following differences:
1) ADJ_SETOFFSET adjusts the auxiliary clock offset
2) ADJ_TAI is not supported
3) Leap seconds are not supported
4) PPS is not supported
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625183758.317946543@linutronix.de
Exclude ADJ_TAI, leap seconds and PPS functionality as they make no sense
in the context of auxiliary clocks and provide a time stamp based on the
actual clock.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625183758.253203783@linutronix.de
Split out the actual functionality of adjtimex() and make do_adjtimex() a
wrapper which feeds the core timekeeper into it and handles the result
including audit at the call site.
This allows to reuse the actual functionality for auxiliary clocks.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625183758.187322876@linutronix.de
Redirect the relative offset adjustment to the auxiliary clock offset
instead of modifying CLOCK_REALTIME, which has no meaning in context of
these clocks.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625183758.124057787@linutronix.de
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