History log of /kernel/time/posix-clock.c
Revision Date Author Comments
6e5fdeedca610df600aabc393c4b1f44b128fe49 26-May-2011 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> kernel: Fix files explicitly needing EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure

These files were getting <linux/module.h> via an implicit non-obvious
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason. Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
1791f881435fab951939ad700e947b66c062e083 30-Mar-2011 Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> posix clocks: Replace mutex with reader/writer semaphore

A dynamic posix clock is protected from asynchronous removal by a mutex.
However, using a mutex has the unwanted effect that a long running clock
operation in one process will unnecessarily block other processes.

For example, one process might call read() to get an external time stamp
coming in at one pulse per second. A second process calling clock_gettime
would have to wait for almost a whole second.

This patch fixes the issue by using a reader/writer semaphore instead of
a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110330132421.GA31771%40riccoc20.at.omicron.at%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
6e6823d17b157f185be09f4c70181299f9273f0b 03-Mar-2011 Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls

pc_clock_settime() and pc_clock_adjtime() do not check whether the fd
was opened in write mode, so a clock can be set with a read only fd.

[ tglx: We deliberately do not return -EPERM as we want this to be
distingushable from the capability based permission check ]

Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1299173174-348-4-git-send-email-torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
0606f422b453f76c31ab2b1bd52943ff06a2dcf2 01-Feb-2011 Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks

This patch adds support for adding and removing posix clocks. The
clock lifetime cycle is patterned after usb devices. Each clock is
represented by a standard character device. In addition, the driver
may optionally implement custom character device operations.

The posix clock and timer system calls listed below now work with
dynamic posix clocks, as well as the traditional static clocks.
The following system calls are affected:

- clock_adjtime (brand new syscall)
- clock_gettime
- clock_getres
- clock_settime
- timer_create
- timer_delete
- timer_gettime
- timer_settime

[ tglx: Adapted to the posix-timer cleanup. Moved clock_posix_dynamic
to posix-clock.c and made all referenced functions static ]

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134420.164172635@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>