Add a new option flag indicating whether or not the ring buffer is in
'absolute timestamp' mode.
Currently this is only set/unset by hist triggers that make use of a
common_timestamp. As such, there's no reason to make this writeable
for users - its purpose is only to allow users to determine
unequivocally whether or not the ring buffer is in that mode (although
absolute timestamps can coexist with the normal delta timestamps, when
the ring buffer is in absolute mode, timestamps written while absolute
mode is in effect take up more space in the buffer, and are not as
efficient).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8aa7b1cde1cf15014e66545d06ac6ef2ebba456.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP is defined but not used, and from what I can
gather was reserved for something like an absolute timestamp feature
for the ring buffer, if not a complete replacement of the current
time_delta scheme.
This code redefines RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP to implement absolute time
stamps. Another way to look at it is that it essentially forces
extended time_deltas for all events.
The motivation for doing this is to enable time_deltas that aren't
dependent on previous events in the ring buffer, making it feasible to
use the ring_buffer_event timetamps in a more random-access way, for
purposes other than serial event printing.
To set/reset this mode, use tracing_set_timestamp_abs() from the
previous interface patch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/477b362dba1ce7fab9889a1a8e885a62c472f041.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A duplicate in the tracing_map hash table is when 2 different entries
have the same key and, as a result, the key_hash. This is possible due
to a race condition in the algorithm. This race condition is inherent to
the algorithm and not a bug. This was fine because, until now, we were
only interested in the sum of all the values related to a particular
key (the duplicates are dealt with in tracing_map_sort_entries()). But,
with the inclusion of variables[1], we are interested in individual
values. So, it will not be clear what value to choose when
there are duplicates. So, the duplicates need to be removed.
The duplicates can occur in the code in the following scenarios:
- A thread is in the process of adding a new element. It has
successfully executed cmpxchg() and inserted the key. But, it is still
not done acquiring the trace_map_elt struct, populating it and storing
the pointer to the struct in the value field of tracing_map hash table.
If another thread comes in at this time and wants to add an element with
the same key, it will not see the current element and add a new one.
- There are multiple threads trying to execute cmpxchg at the same time,
one of the threads will succeed and the others will fail. The ones which
fail will go ahead increment 'idx' and add a new element there creating
a duplicate.
This patch detects and avoids the first condition by asking the thread
which detects the duplicate to loop one more time. There is also a
possibility of infinite loop if the thread which is trying to insert
goes to sleep indefinitely and the one which is trying to insert a new
element detects a duplicate. Which is why, the thread loops for
map_size iterations before returning NULL.
The second scenario is avoided by preventing the threads which failed
cmpxchg() from incrementing idx. This way, they will loop
around and check if the thread which succeeded in executing cmpxchg()
had the same key.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1498510759.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e178e89ec399240331d383bd5913d649713110f4.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Vedang Patel <vedang.patel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the length of the NTP tick changes significantly, e.g. when an
NTP/PTP application is correcting the initial offset of the clock, a
large value may accumulate in the NTP error before the multiplier
converges to the correct value. It may then take a very long time (hours
or even days) before the error is corrected. This causes the clock to
have an unstable frequency offset, which has a negative impact on the
stability of synchronization with precise time sources (e.g. NTP/PTP
using hardware timestamping or the PTP KVM clock).
Use division to determine the correct multiplier directly from the NTP
tick length and replace the iterative approach. This removes the last
major source of the NTP error. The only remaining source is now limited
resolution of the multiplier, which is corrected by adding 1 to the
multiplier when the system clock is behind the NTP time.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520620971-9567-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently, as reported by Eric, an invalid si_code value 0 is
passed in many signals delivered to userspace in response to faults
and other kernel errors. Typically 0 is passed when the fault is
insufficiently diagnosable or when there does not appear to be any
sensible alternative value to choose.
This appears to violate POSIX, and is intuitively wrong for at
least two reasons arising from the fact that 0 == SI_USER:
1) si_code is a union selector, and SI_USER (and si_code <= 0 in
general) implies the existence of a different set of fields
(siginfo._kill) from that which exists for a fault signal
(siginfo._sigfault). However, the code raising the signal
typically writes only the _sigfault fields, and the _kill
fields make no sense in this case.
Thus when userspace sees si_code == 0 (SI_USER) it may
legitimately inspect fields in the inactive union member _kill
and obtain garbage as a result.
There appears to be software in the wild relying on this,
albeit generally only for printing diagnostic messages.
2) Software that wants to be robust against spurious signals may
discard signals where si_code == SI_USER (or <= 0), or may
filter such signals based on the si_uid and si_pid fields of
siginfo._sigkill. In the case of fault signals, this means
that important (and usually fatal) error conditions may be
silently ignored.
In practice, many of the faults for which arm64 passes si_code == 0
are undiagnosable conditions such as exceptions with syndrome
values in ESR_ELx to which the architecture does not yet assign any
meaning, or conditions indicative of a bug or error in the kernel
or system and thus that are unrecoverable and should never occur in
normal operation.
The approach taken in this patch is to translate all such
undiagnosable or "impossible" synchronous fault conditions to
SIGKILL, since these are at least probably localisable to a single
process. Some of these conditions should really result in a kernel
panic, but due to the lack of diagnostic information it is
difficult to be certain: this patch does not add any calls to
panic(), but this could change later if justified.
Although si_code will not reach userspace in the case of SIGKILL,
it is still desirable to pass a nonzero value so that the common
siginfo handling code can detect incorrect use of si_code == 0
without false positives. In this case the si_code dependent
siginfo fields will not be correctly initialised, but since they
are not passed to userspace I deem this not to matter.
A few faults can reasonably occur in realistic userspace scenarios,
and _should_ raise a regular, handleable (but perhaps not
ignorable/blockable) signal: for these, this patch attempts to
choose a suitable standard si_code value for the raised signal in
each case instead of 0.
arm64 was the only arch to define a BUS_FIXME code, so after this
patch nobody defines it. This patch therefore also removes the
relevant code from siginfo_layout().
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
__tasklet_schedule() and __tasklet_hi_schedule() are almost identical.
Move the common code from both function into __tasklet_schedule_common()
and let both functions invoke it with different arguments.
[ bigeasy: Splitted out from RT's "tasklet: Prevent tasklets from going
into infinite spin in RT" and added commit message. Use
this_cpu_ptr(headp) in __tasklet_schedule_common() as suggested
by Julia Cartwright ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Julia Cartwright <juliac@eso.teric.us>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180227164808.10093-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Returning the base of the allocated interrupt range from irq_sim_init() and
devm_irq_sim_init() allows users to handle the logic of associating irq
numbers with any other driver-specific resources without having to use
irq_sim_irqnum().
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180304121018.640-4-brgl@bgdev.pl
As discussed with Marc Zyngier: irq_sim_init() and its devres variant
should return the base of the allocated interrupt range on success rather
than 0.
Make devm_irq_sim_init() check for an error code. This is a preparatory
change for modifying irq_sim_init() itself.
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180304121018.640-3-brgl@bgdev.pl
When running rcutorture with TREE03 config, CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y, and
kernel cmdline argument "rcutorture.gp_exp=1", lockdep reports a
HARDIRQ-safe->HARDIRQ-unsafe deadlock:
================================
WARNING: inconsistent lock state
4.16.0-rc4+ #1 Not tainted
--------------------------------
inconsistent {IN-HARDIRQ-W} -> {HARDIRQ-ON-W} usage.
takes:
__schedule+0xbe/0xaf0
{IN-HARDIRQ-W} state was registered at:
_raw_spin_lock+0x2a/0x40
scheduler_tick+0x47/0xf0
...
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(&rq->lock);
<Interrupt>
lock(&rq->lock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
1 lock held by rcu_torture_rea/724:
rcu_torture_read_lock+0x0/0x70
stack backtrace:
CPU: 2 PID: 724 Comm: rcu_torture_rea Not tainted 4.16.0-rc4+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-20171110_100015-anatol 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
lock_acquire+0x90/0x200
? __schedule+0xbe/0xaf0
_raw_spin_lock+0x2a/0x40
? __schedule+0xbe/0xaf0
__schedule+0xbe/0xaf0
preempt_schedule_irq+0x2f/0x60
retint_kernel+0x1b/0x2d
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x0/0x680
? rcu_torture_read_unlock+0x60/0x60
__rcu_read_unlock+0x64/0x70
rcu_torture_read_unlock+0x17/0x60
rcu_torture_reader+0x275/0x450
? rcutorture_booster_init+0x110/0x110
? rcu_torture_stall+0x230/0x230
? kthread+0x10e/0x130
kthread+0x10e/0x130
? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
? call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x11a/0x150
ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
This happens with the following even sequence:
preempt_schedule_irq();
local_irq_enable();
__schedule():
local_irq_disable(); // irq off
...
rcu_note_context_switch():
rcu_note_preempt_context_switch():
rcu_read_unlock_special():
local_irq_save(flags);
...
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(...,flags); // irq remains off
rt_mutex_futex_unlock():
raw_spin_lock_irq();
...
raw_spin_unlock_irq(); // accidentally set irq on
<return to __schedule()>
rq_lock():
raw_spin_lock(); // acquiring rq->lock with irq on
which means rq->lock becomes a HARDIRQ-unsafe lock, which can cause
deadlocks in scheduler code.
This problem was introduced by commit 02a7c234e5 ("rcu: Suppress
lockdep false-positive ->boost_mtx complaints"). That brought the user
of rt_mutex_futex_unlock() with irq off.
To fix this, replace the *lock_irq() in rt_mutex_futex_unlock() with
*lock_irq{save,restore}() to make it safe to call rt_mutex_futex_unlock()
with irq off.
Fixes: 02a7c234e5 ("rcu: Suppress lockdep false-positive ->boost_mtx complaints")
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309065630.8283-1-boqun.feng@gmail.com
When pinning a file under the BPF virtual file system (traditionally
/sys/fs/bpf), using a dot in the name of the location to pin at is not
allowed. For example, trying to pin at "/sys/fs/bpf/foo.bar" will be
rejected with -EPERM.
This check was introduced at the same time as the BPF file system
itself, with commit b2197755b2 ("bpf: add support for persistent
maps/progs"). At this time, it was checked in a function called
"bpf_dname_reserved()", which made clear that using a dot was reserved
for future extensions.
This function disappeared and the check was moved elsewhere with commit
0c93b7d85d ("bpf: reject invalid names right in ->lookup()"), and the
meaning of the dot ban was lost.
The present commit simply adds a comment in the source to explain to the
reader that the usage of dots is reserved for future usage.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
In ctx_resched(), EVENT_FLEXIBLE should be sched_out when EVENT_PINNED is
added. However, ctx_resched() calculates ctx_event_type before checking
this condition. As a result, pinned events will NOT get higher priority
than flexible events.
The following shows this issue on an Intel CPU (where ref-cycles can
only use one hardware counter).
1. First start:
perf stat -C 0 -e ref-cycles -I 1000
2. Then, in the second console, run:
perf stat -C 0 -e ref-cycles:D -I 1000
The second perf uses pinned events, which is expected to have higher
priority. However, because it failed in ctx_resched(). It is never
run.
This patch fixes this by calculating ctx_event_type after re-evaluating
event_type.
Reported-by: Ephraim Park <ephiepark@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: <kernel-team@fb.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Fixes: 487f05e18a ("perf/core: Optimize event rescheduling on active contexts")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180306055504.3283731-1-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The primary observation is that nohz enter/exit is always from the
current CPU, therefore NOHZ_TICK_STOPPED does not in fact need to be
an atomic.
Secondary is that we appear to have 2 nearly identical hooks in the
nohz enter code, set_cpu_sd_state_idle() and
nohz_balance_enter_idle(). Fold the whole set_cpu_sd_state thing into
nohz_balance_{enter,exit}_idle.
Removes an atomic op from both enter and exit paths.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Audit link denied events generate duplicate PATH records which disagree
in different ways from symlink and hardlink denials.
audit_log_link_denied() should not directly generate PATH records.
See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/21
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
otherwise kernel can oops later in seq_release() due to dereferencing null
file->private_data which is only set if seq_open() succeeds.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
IP: seq_release+0xc/0x30
Call Trace:
close_pdeo+0x37/0xd0
proc_reg_release+0x5d/0x60
__fput+0x9d/0x1d0
____fput+0x9/0x10
task_work_run+0x75/0x90
do_exit+0x252/0xa00
do_group_exit+0x36/0xb0
SyS_exit_group+0xf/0x10
Fixes: 516fb7f2e7 ("/proc/module: use the same logic as /proc/kallsyms for address exposure")
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.15+
Signed-off-by: Leon Yu <chianglungyu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Pull MIPS fixes from James Hogan:
"A miscellaneous pile of MIPS fixes for 4.16:
- move put_compat_sigset() to evade hardened usercopy warnings (4.16)
- select ARCH_HAVE_PC_{SERIO,PARPORT} for Loongson64 platforms (4.16)
- fix kzalloc() failure handling in ath25 (3.19) and Octeon (4.0)
- fix disabling of IPIs during BMIPS suspend (3.19)"
* tag 'mips_fixes_4.16_4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/mips:
MIPS: BMIPS: Do not mask IPIs during suspend
MIPS: Loongson64: Select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO
MIPS: Loongson64: Select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
signals: Move put_compat_sigset to compat.h to silence hardened usercopy
MIPS: OCTEON: irq: Check for null return on kzalloc allocation
MIPS: ath25: Check for kzalloc allocation failure
This commit adds new field "addr" to bpf_perf_event_data which could be
read and used by bpf programs attached to perf events. The value of the
field is copied from bpf_perf_event_data_kern.addr and contains the
address value recorded by specifying sample_type with PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR
when calling perf_event_open.
Signed-off-by: Teng Qin <qinteng@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
commit d178bc3a70 ("user namespace: usb:
make usb urbs user namespace aware (v2)") changed kill_pid_info_as_uid
to kill_pid_info_as_cred, saving and passing a cred structure instead of
uids. Since the secid can be obtained from the cred, drop the secid fields
from the usb_dev_state and async structures, and drop the secid argument to
kill_pid_info_as_cred. Replace the secid argument to security_task_kill
with the cred. Update SELinux, Smack, and AppArmor to use the cred, which
avoids the need for Smack and AppArmor to use a secid at all in this hook.
Further changes to Smack might still be required to take full advantage of
this change, since it should now be possible to perform capability
checking based on the supplied cred. The changes to Smack and AppArmor
have only been compile-tested.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
devm_memremap_pages() was re-worked in e8d5134833 "memremap: change
devm_memremap_pages interface to use struct dev_pagemap" to take a
caller allocated struct dev_pagemap as a function parameter. A call to
devres_free() was left in the error cleanup path which results in a
kernel panic if the remap fails for some reason. Remove it to fix the
panic and let devm_memremap_pages() fail gracefully.
Fixes: e8d5134833 ("memremap: change devm_memremap_pages interface...")
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
If you pass in an invalid audit boot parameter value, e.g. "audit=off",
the kernel panics very early in boot before the regular console is
initialized. Unless you have earlyprintk enabled, there is no
indication of what the problem is on the console.
Convert the panic() calls to pr_err(), and leave auditing enabled if an
invalid parameter value was passed in.
Modify the parameter to also accept "on" or "off" as valid values, and
update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <gedwards@ddn.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
All of the conflicts were cases of overlapping changes.
In net/core/devlink.c, we have to make care that the
resouce size_params have become a struct member rather
than a pointer to such an object.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Use an appropriate TSQ pacing shift in mac80211, from Toke
Høiland-Jørgensen.
2) Just like ipv4's ip_route_me_harder(), we have to use skb_to_full_sk
in ip6_route_me_harder, from Eric Dumazet.
3) Fix several shutdown races and similar other problems in l2tp, from
James Chapman.
4) Handle missing XDP flush properly in tuntap, for real this time.
From Jason Wang.
5) Out-of-bounds access in powerpc ebpf tailcalls, from Daniel
Borkmann.
6) Fix phy_resume() locking, from Andrew Lunn.
7) IFLA_MTU values are ignored on newlink for some tunnel types, fix
from Xin Long.
8) Revert F-RTO middle box workarounds, they only handle one dimension
of the problem. From Yuchung Cheng.
9) Fix socket refcounting in RDS, from Ka-Cheong Poon.
10) Don't allow ppp unit registration to an unregistered channel, from
Guillaume Nault.
11) Various hv_netvsc fixes from Stephen Hemminger.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (98 commits)
hv_netvsc: propagate rx filters to VF
hv_netvsc: filter multicast/broadcast
hv_netvsc: defer queue selection to VF
hv_netvsc: use napi_schedule_irqoff
hv_netvsc: fix race in napi poll when rescheduling
hv_netvsc: cancel subchannel setup before halting device
hv_netvsc: fix error unwind handling if vmbus_open fails
hv_netvsc: only wake transmit queue if link is up
hv_netvsc: avoid retry on send during shutdown
virtio-net: re enable XDP_REDIRECT for mergeable buffer
ppp: prevent unregistered channels from connecting to PPP units
tc-testing: skbmod: fix match value of ethertype
mlxsw: spectrum_switchdev: Check success of FDB add operation
net: make skb_gso_*_seglen functions private
net: xfrm: use skb_gso_validate_network_len() to check gso sizes
net: sched: tbf: handle GSO_BY_FRAGS case in enqueue
net: rename skb_gso_validate_mtu -> skb_gso_validate_network_len
rds: Incorrect reference counting in TCP socket creation
net: ethtool: don't ignore return from driver get_fecparam method
vrf: check forwarding on the original netdevice when generating ICMP dest unreachable
...
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of fixes from the timer departement:
- Add a missing timer wheel clock forward when migrating timers off a
unplugged CPU to prevent operating on a stale clock base and
missing timer deadlines.
- Use the proper shift count to extract data from a register value to
prevent evaluating unrelated bits
- Make the error return check in the FSL timer driver work correctly.
Checking an unsigned variable for less than zero does not really
work well.
- Clarify the confusing comments in the ARC timer code"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timers: Forward timer base before migrating timers
clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Update some comments
clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Use correct shift count to extract data
clocksource/drivers/fsl_ftm_timer: Fix error return checking
