timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when clock was set

Some applications must be aware of clock realtime being set
backward. A simple example is a clock applet which arms a timer for
the next minute display. If clock realtime is set backward then the
applet displays a stale time for the amount of time which the clock
was set backwards. Due to that applications poll the time because we
don't have an interface.

Extend the timerfd interface by adding a flag which puts the timer
onto a different internal realtime clock. All timers on this clock are
expired whenever the clock was set.

The timerfd core records the monotonic offset when the timer is
created. When the timer is armed, then the current offset is compared
to the previous recorded offset. When it has changed, then
timerfd_settime returns -ECANCELED. When a timer is read the offset is
compared and if it changed -ECANCELED returned to user space. Periodic
timers are not rearmed in the cancelation case.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
Tested-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Calpine.LFD.2.02.1104271359580.3323%40ionos%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
index c145ed643bc..eabcbd78143 100644
--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer_cpu_base, hrtimer_bases) =
                         .get_time = &ktime_get_boottime,
                         .resolution = KTIME_LOW_RES,
                 },
+                {
+                        .index = CLOCK_REALTIME_COS,
+                        .get_time = &ktime_get_real,
+                        .resolution = KTIME_LOW_RES,
+                },
         }
 };
 
@@ -85,6 +90,7 @@ static const int hrtimer_clock_to_base_table[MAX_CLOCKS] = {
         [CLOCK_REALTIME]        = HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME,
         [CLOCK_MONOTONIC]       = HRTIMER_BASE_MONOTONIC,
         [CLOCK_BOOTTIME]        = HRTIMER_BASE_BOOTTIME,
+        [CLOCK_REALTIME_COS]    = HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME_COS,
 };
 
 static inline int hrtimer_clockid_to_base(clockid_t clock_id)
@@ -110,6 +116,7 @@ static void hrtimer_get_softirq_time(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base)
         base->clock_base[HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME].softirq_time = xtim;
         base->clock_base[HRTIMER_BASE_MONOTONIC].softirq_time = mono;
         base->clock_base[HRTIMER_BASE_BOOTTIME].softirq_time = boot;
+        base->clock_base[HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME_COS].softirq_time = xtim;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -479,6 +486,8 @@ static inline void debug_deactivate(struct hrtimer *timer)
         trace_hrtimer_cancel(timer);
 }
 
+static void hrtimer_expire_cancelable(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *cpu_base);
+
 /* High resolution timer related functions */
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
 
@@ -715,9 +724,14 @@ static void retrigger_next_event(void *arg)
         struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base = &__get_cpu_var(hrtimer_bases);
         struct timespec realtime_offset, xtim, wtm, sleep;
 
-        if (!hrtimer_hres_active())
+        if (!hrtimer_hres_active()) {
+                raw_spin_lock(&base->lock);
+                hrtimer_expire_cancelable(base);
+                raw_spin_unlock(&base->lock);
                 return;
+        }
 
+        /* Optimized out for !HIGH_RES */
         get_xtime_and_monotonic_and_sleep_offset(&xtim, &wtm, &sleep);
         set_normalized_timespec(&realtime_offset, -wtm.tv_sec, -wtm.tv_nsec);
 
@@ -727,6 +741,10 @@ static void retrigger_next_event(void *arg)
                 timespec_to_ktime(realtime_offset);
         base->clock_base[HRTIMER_BASE_BOOTTIME].offset =
                 timespec_to_ktime(sleep);
+        base->clock_base[HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME_COS].offset =
+                timespec_to_ktime(realtime_offset);
+
+        hrtimer_expire_cancelable(base);
 
         hrtimer_force_reprogram(base, 0);
         raw_spin_unlock(&base->lock);
@@ -1222,6 +1240,22 @@ static void __run_hrtimer(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t *now)
         timer->state &= ~HRTIMER_STATE_CALLBACK;
 }
 
+static void hrtimer_expire_cancelable(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *cpu_base)
+{
+        struct timerqueue_node *node;
+        struct hrtimer_clock_base *base;
+        ktime_t now = ktime_get_real();
+
+        base = &cpu_base->clock_base[HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME_COS];
+
+        while ((node = timerqueue_getnext(&base->active))) {
+                        struct hrtimer *timer;
+
+                        timer = container_of(node, struct hrtimer, node);
+                        __run_hrtimer(timer, &now);
+        }
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
 
 /*