The PPS (Pulse-Per-Second) line discipline has developed a number of
unhealthy attachments to core tty data and functions, ultimately leading
to its breakage.
The previous patches fixed the crashing. This one reduces coupling further
by eliminating the timestamp parameter from the dcd_change ldisc method.
This reduces header file linkage and makes the extension more generic,
and the timestamp read is delayed only slightly, from just before the
ldisc->ops->dcd_change method call to just after.
Fix attendant build breakage in
drivers/tty/n_tty.c
drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c
drivers/staging/dgrp/dgrp_*.c
Cc: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Cc: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
PPS is not really the must-have subsystem that warrants crashing
the machine if the ldisc interface is broken.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Remove the cdev from the system (with cdev_del) *before* deallocating it
(in pps_device_destruct, called via kobject_put from device_destroy).
Also prevent deallocating a device with open file handles.
A better long-term fix is probably to remove the cdev from the pps_device
entirely, and instead have all devices reference one global cdev. Then
the deallocation ordering becomes simpler.
But that's more complex and invasive change, so we leave that
for later.
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now that N_TTY uses tty->disc_data for its private data,
'subclass' ldiscs cannot use ->disc_data for their own private data.
(This is a regression is v3.8-rc1)
Use pps_lookup_dev to associate the tty with the pps source instead.
This fixes a crashing regression in 3.8-rc1.
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The PPS serial line discipline wants to attach a PPS device to a tty
without changing the tty code to add a struct pps_device * pointer.
Since the number of PPS devices in a typical system is generally very low
(n=1 is by far the most common), it's practical to search the entire list
of allocated pps devices. (We capture the timestamp before the lookup,
so the timing isn't affected.)
It is a bit ugly that this function, which is part of the in-kernel
PPS API, has to be in pps.c as opposed to kapi,c, but that's not
something that affects users.
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This
saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway.
bloat-o-meter output is below.
The bulk of this patch consists of Kconfig changes adding "depends on
TTY" to various serial devices and similar drivers that require the TTY
layer. Ideally, these dependencies would occur on a common intermediate
symbol such as SERIO, but most drivers "select SERIO" rather than
"depends on SERIO", and "select" does not respect dependencies.
bloat-o-meter output comparing our previous minimal to new minimal by
removing TTY. The list is filtered to not show removed entries with awk
'$3 != "-"' as the list was very long.
add/remove: 0/226 grow/shrink: 2/14 up/down: 6/-35356 (-35350)
function old new delta
chr_dev_init 166 170 +4
allow_signal 80 82 +2
static.__warned 143 142 -1
disallow_signal 63 62 -1
__set_special_pids 95 94 -1
unregister_console 126 121 -5
start_kernel 546 541 -5
register_console 593 588 -5
copy_from_user 45 40 -5
sys_setsid 128 120 -8
sys_vhangup 32 19 -13
do_exit 1543 1526 -17
bitmap_zero 60 40 -20
arch_local_irq_save 137 117 -20
release_task 674 652 -22
static.spin_unlock_irqrestore 308 260 -48
Signed-off-by: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option. As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.
This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata,
__devinitconst, and __devexit from these drivers.
Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
These are now established subsystems, and we want drivers to be able
to select PPS and PTP_1588_CLOCK without depending on EXPERIMENTAL.
Further, the use of EXPERIMENTAL is now deprecated in general.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To avoid name conflicts:
drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c:281:9: sparse: preprocessor token MAX_LEVEL redefined
While at it, also make the other names more consistent and add
parentheses.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair fallout]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: IB/mlx4: fix for MAX_ID_MASK to MAX_IDR_MASK name change]
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should return PTR_ERR if the call to the device_create function fails.
Without this patch we instead return the value from a successful call to
cdev_add if the call to device_create fails.
Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add "depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS" to avoid compile breakage on s390:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `pps_gpio_remove':
linux-next/drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c:189: undefined reference to `free_irq'
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: James Nuss <jamesnuss@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This client driver allows you to use a GPIO pin as a source for PPS
signals. Platform data [1] are used to specify the GPIO pin number,
label, assert event edge type, and whether clear events are captured.
This driver is based on the work by Ricardo Martins who submitted an
initial implementation [2] of a PPS IRQ client driver to the linuxpps
mailing-list on Dec 3 2010.
[1] include/linux/pps-gpio.h
[2] http://ml.enneenne.com/pipermail/linuxpps/2010-December/004155.html
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded cast of void*]
Signed-off-by: James Nuss <jamesnuss@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: Ricardo Martins <rasm@fe.up.pt>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martins <rasm@fe.up.pt>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Igor Plyatov <plyatov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A default echo function has been provided so it is no longer an error when
you specify PPS_ECHOASSERT or PPS_ECHOCLEAR without an explicit echo
function. This allows some code re-use and also makes it easier to write
client drivers since the default echo function does not normally need to
change.
Signed-off-by: James Nuss <jamesnuss@nanometrics.ca>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: Ricardo Martins <rasm@fe.up.pt>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Igor Plyatov <plyatov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove code enabled only when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is turned on because it is
not used in the vanilla kernel.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace EXTRA_CFLAGS with ccflags-y.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This driver causes hard lockups, when the active clock soure is jiffies.
The reason is that it loops with interrupts disabled waiting for a
timestamp to be reached by polling getnstimeofday(). Though with a
jiffies clocksource, when that code runs on the same CPU which is
responsible for updating jiffies, then we loop in circles for ever
simply because the timer interrupt cannot update jiffies. So both UP
and SMP can be affected.
There is no easy fix for that problem so make it depend on BROKEN for
now.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Initialize ts_real.flags to fix compiler warning about possible
uninitialized use of this field.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Both pps_parport and pps_gen_parport are written in a way that they
can't share a port with any other driver. This can result in locking up
the process that loads modules or even the whole kernel if the modules
are compiled in. Use PARPORT_FLAG_EXCL to indicate this.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add PPS signal generator which utilizes STROBE pin of a parallel port to
send PPS signals. It uses parport abstraction layer and hrtimers to
precisely control the signal.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add PPS signal generator which utilizes STROBE pin of a parallel port to
send PPS signals. It uses parport abstraction layer and hrtimers to
precisely control the signal.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add parallel port PPS client. It uses a standard method for capturing
timestamps for assert edge transitions: getting a timestamp soon after an
interrupt has happened.
This is not a very precise source of time information due to interrupt
handling delays. However, timestamps for clear edge transitions are much
more precise because the interrupt handler continuously polls hardware
port until the transition is done.
Hardware port operations require only about 1us so the maximum error
should not exceed this value. This was my primary goal when developing
this client.
Clear edge capture could be disabled using clear_wait parameter.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit adds hardpps() implementation based upon the original one from
the NTPv4 reference kernel code from David Mills. However, it is highly
optimized towards very fast syncronization and maximum stickness to PPS
signal. The typical error is less then a microsecond.
To make it sync faster I had to throw away exponential phase filter so
that the full phase offset is corrected immediately. Then I also had to
throw away median phase filter because it gives a bigger error itself if
used without exponential filter.
Maybe we will find an appropriate filtering scheme in the future but it's
not necessary if the signal quality is ok.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the code that gatheres timestamp in pps_tty_dcd_change() in case
passed ts parameter is NULL because it never happens in the current code.
Fix comments as well.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bitwise conjunction is distributive so we can simplify some conditions.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This way less overhead is involved when running production kernel. If you
want to debug a pps client module please define DEBUG to enable the
checks.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now pps_idr_lock is never used in interrupt context so we can replace
spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq with plain spin_lock/spin_unlock. But
there is also a potential race condition when someone can steal an id
which was allocated by idr_pre_get before it is used. So convert spin
lock to mutex and protect the whole id generation process.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since now idr is only used to manage char device id's and not used in
kernel API anymore it should be moved to pps.c. This also makes it
possible to release id only at actual device freeing so nobody can
register a pps device with the same id while our device is not freed yet.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since we now have direct pointers to struct pps_device everywhere it's
easy to use dev_* functions to print messages instead of plain printks.
Where dev_* cannot be used printks are converted to pr_*.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Using device index as a pointer needs some unnecessary work to be done
every time the pointer is needed (in irq handler for example). Using a
direct pointer is much more easy (and safe as well).
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a helper function to gather timestamps. This way clients don't have
to duplicate it.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There was a race in PPS_FETCH ioctl handler when several processes want to
obtain PPS data simultaneously using sleeping PPS_FETCH. They all sleep
most of the time in the system call.
With the old approach when the first process waiting on the pps queue is
waken up it makes new system call right away and zeroes pps->go. So other
processes continue to sleep. This is a clear race condition because of
the global 'go' variable.
With the new approach pps->last_ev holds some value increasing at each PPS
event. PPS_FETCH ioctl handler saves current value to the local variable
at the very beginning so it can safely check that there is a new event by
just comparing both variables.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move variable declarations where they are used in pps_cdev_ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Here are some very trivial fixes combined:
- add macro definitions to protect header file from including several times
- remove declaration for an unexistent array
- fix typos
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Adds support, by using the PPS line discipline, for the PPS sources
connected with the CD (Carrier Detect) pin of a serial port.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cast size warnings]
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Each PPS source can be registered/deregistered into the system by using
special modules called "clients". They simply define the PPS sources'
attributes and implement the time signal registration mechanism.
This patch adds a special directory for such clients and adds a dummy
client that can be useful to test system integrity on real systems.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
PPS events must be recorded according to PPS's mode settings.
If a process asks for (i.e.) capture-assert events only, when the PPS
client calls the pps_event() function to save the current PPS event, we
should verify the event type and then discard unwanted ones.
Also, without this patch userland processes waiting for a specific PPS
event (assert or clear but not both) may be awakened at wrong time.
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Tested-by: William S. Brasher <billb958@door.net>
Tested-by: Reg Clemens <clemens@dwf.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Userland programs may read/write PPS parameters at same time and these
operations may corrupt PPS data.
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Tested-by: Reg Clemens <clemens@dwf.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds the kernel side of the PPS support currently named
"LinuxPPS".
PPS means "pulse per second" and a PPS source is just a device which
provides a high precision signal each second so that an application can
use it to adjust system clock time.
Common use is the combination of the NTPD as userland program with a GPS
receiver as PPS source to obtain a wallclock-time with sub-millisecond
synchronisation to UTC.
To obtain this goal the userland programs shoud use the PPS API
specification (RFC 2783 - Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating
Systems, Version 1.0) which in part is implemented by this patch. It
provides a set of chars devices, one per PPS source, which can be used to
get the time signal. The RFC's functions can be implemented by accessing
to these char devices.
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
