linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.12 5/5] timekeeping: Always check for negative motion

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Message-ID: <20241124124623.3337983-5-sashal@kernel.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 07:46:17 -0500
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
	mingo@...hat.com,
	bp@...en8.de,
	dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
	x86@...nel.org,
	rdunlap@...radead.org,
	paulmck@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.12 5/5] timekeeping: Always check for negative motion

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

[ Upstream commit c163e40af9b2331b2c629fd4ec8b703ed4d4ae39 ]

clocksource_delta() has two variants. One with a check for negative motion,
which is only selected by x86. This is a historic leftover as this function
was previously used in the time getter hot paths.

Since 135225a363ae timekeeping_cycles_to_ns() has unconditional protection
against this as a by-product of the protection against 64bit math overflow.

clocksource_delta() is only used in the clocksource watchdog and in
timekeeping_advance(). The extra conditional there is not hurting anyone.

Remove the config option and unconditionally prevent negative motion of the
readout.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241031120328.599430157@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig                   | 1 -
 kernel/time/Kconfig                | 5 -----
 kernel/time/timekeeping_internal.h | 7 -------
 3 files changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 7b9a7e8f39acc..171be04eca1f5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ config X86
 	select ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH
 	select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
 	select CLKEVT_I8253
-	select CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
 	select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
 	# Word-size accesses may read uninitialized data past the trailing \0
 	# in strings and cause false KMSAN reports.
diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
index 8ebb6d5a106be..b0b97a60aaa6f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -17,11 +17,6 @@ config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
 config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_INIT
 	bool
 
-# Clocksources require validation of the clocksource against the last
-# cycle update - x86/TSC misfeature
-config CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
-	bool
-
 # Timekeeping vsyscall support
 config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
 	bool
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping_internal.h b/kernel/time/timekeeping_internal.h
index 4ca2787d1642e..1d4854d5c386e 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping_internal.h
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping_internal.h
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ extern void tk_debug_account_sleep_time(const struct timespec64 *t);
 #define tk_debug_account_sleep_time(x)
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
 static inline u64 clocksource_delta(u64 now, u64 last, u64 mask)
 {
 	u64 ret = (now - last) & mask;
@@ -26,12 +25,6 @@ static inline u64 clocksource_delta(u64 now, u64 last, u64 mask)
 	 */
 	return ret & ~(mask >> 1) ? 0 : ret;
 }
-#else
-static inline u64 clocksource_delta(u64 now, u64 last, u64 mask)
-{
-	return (now - last) & mask;
-}
-#endif
 
 /* Semi public for serialization of non timekeeper VDSO updates. */
 extern raw_spinlock_t timekeeper_lock;
-- 
2.43.0