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* alarmtimers: Return -ENOTSUPP if no RTC device is presentJohn Stultz2011-06-211-1/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* alarmtimers: Handle late rtc module loadingJohn Stultz2011-06-211-70/+67
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* hrtimers: Avoid touching inactive timer basesThomas Gleixner2011-05-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | 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>
* alarmtimer: Drop device refcount after rtc_open()Thomas Gleixner2011-05-041-1/+7
| | | | | | | | 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>
* alarmtimer: Check return value of class_find_device()Thomas Gleixner2011-05-041-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* timers: Fix alarmtimer build issues when CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=nJohn Stultz2011-05-021-2/+18
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* timers: Remove delayed irqwork from alarmtimers implementationJohn Stultz2011-04-281-23/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* timers: Improve alarmtimer comments and minor fixesJohn Stultz2011-04-281-40/+27
| | | | | | | | 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>
* timers: Posix interface for alarm-timersJohn Stultz2011-04-261-0/+330
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* timers: Introduce in-kernel alarm-timer interfaceJohn Stultz2011-04-261-0/+375
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>
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