Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timer fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Three fixes: fix link failure on Alpha, fix a Sparse warning and
  annotate/robustify a lockless access in the NOHZ code"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  tick/sched: Annotate lockless access to last_jiffies_update
  lib/vdso: Make __cvdso_clock_getres() static
  time/posix-stubs: Provide compat itimer supoprt for alpha

Author: torvalds

kernel/time/posix-stubs.c

@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(clock_nanosleep, const clockid_t, which_clock, int, flags,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 COMPAT_SYS_NI(timer_create);
+#endif
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_COMPAT) || defined(CONFIG_ALPHA)
 COMPAT_SYS_NI(getitimer);
 COMPAT_SYS_NI(setitimer);
 #endif

kernel/time/tick-sched.c

@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now)
 
 	/*
 	 * Do a quick check without holding jiffies_lock:
+	 * The READ_ONCE() pairs with two updates done later in this function.
 	 */
-	delta = ktime_sub(now, last_jiffies_update);
+	delta = ktime_sub(now, READ_ONCE(last_jiffies_update));
 	if (delta < tick_period)
 		return;
 
@@ -70,17 +71,20 @@ static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now)
 	if (delta >= tick_period) {
 
 		delta = ktime_sub(delta, tick_period);
-		last_jiffies_update = ktime_add(last_jiffies_update,
-						tick_period);
+		/* Pairs with the lockless read in this function. */
+		WRITE_ONCE(last_jiffies_update,
+			   ktime_add(last_jiffies_update, tick_period));
 
 		/* Slow path for long timeouts */
 		if (unlikely(delta >= tick_period)) {
 			s64 incr = ktime_to_ns(tick_period);
 
 			ticks = ktime_divns(delta, incr);
 
-			last_jiffies_update = ktime_add_ns(last_jiffies_update,
-							   incr * ticks);
+			/* Pairs with the lockless read in this function. */
+			WRITE_ONCE(last_jiffies_update,
+				   ktime_add_ns(last_jiffies_update,
+						incr * ticks));
 		}
 		do_timer(++ticks);
 

lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c

@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ int __cvdso_clock_getres_common(clockid_t clock, struct __kernel_timespec *res)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static __maybe_unused
 int __cvdso_clock_getres(clockid_t clock, struct __kernel_timespec *res)
 {
 	int ret = __cvdso_clock_getres_common(clock, res);