tree 78e85dfdcbcdc724bc8017e3689275176f674fd8
parent 5c7a3a3d20a4e175304c0e23809e3d70be8fed8a
author Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1497289189 +0200
committer Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1497294461 +0200

posix-timers: Handle relative posix-timers correctly

The recent rework of the posix timer internals broke the magic posix
mechanism, which requires that relative timers are not affected by
modifications of the underlying clock. That means relative CLOCK_REALTIME
timers cannot use CLOCK_REALTIME, because that can be set and adjusted. The
underlying hrtimer switches the clock for these timers to CLOCK_MONOTONIC.

That still works, but reading the remaining time of such a timer has been
broken in the rework. The old code used the hrtimer internals directly and
avoided the posix clock callbacks. Now common_timer_get() uses the
underlying kclock->timer_get() callback, which is still CLOCK_REALTIME
based. So the remaining time of such a timer is calculated against the
wrong time base.

Handle it by switching the k_itimer->kclock pointer according to the
resulting hrtimer mode. k_itimer->it_clock still contains CLOCK_REALTIME
because the timer might be set with ABSTIME later and then it needs to
switch back to the realtime posix clock implementation.

Fixes: eae1c4ae275f ("posix-timers: Make use of cancel/arm callbacks")
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170609201156.GB21491@outlook.office365.com