linux/kernel/time
Karsten Blees de4a95faf1 time: Fix nanosecond file time rounding in timespec_trunc()
timespec_trunc() avoids rounding if granularity <= nanoseconds-per-jiffie
(or TICK_NSEC). This optimization assumes that:

 1. current_kernel_time().tv_nsec is already rounded to TICK_NSEC (i.e.
    with HZ=1000 you'd get 1000000, 2000000, 3000000... but never 1000001).
    This is no longer true (probably since hrtimers introduced in 2.6.16).

 2. TICK_NSEC is evenly divisible by all possible granularities. This may
    be true for HZ=100, 250, 1000, but obviously not for HZ=300 /
    TICK_NSEC=3333333 (introduced in 2.6.20).

Thus, sub-second portions of in-core file times are not rounded to on-disk
granularity. I.e. file times may change when the inode is re-read from disk
or when the file system is remounted.

This affects all file systems with file time granularities > 1 ns and < 1s,
e.g. CEPH (1000 ns), UDF (1000 ns), CIFS (100 ns), NTFS (100 ns) and FUSE
(configurable from user mode via struct fuse_init_out.time_gran).

Steps to reproduce with e.g. UDF:

  $ dd if=/dev/zero of=udfdisk count=10000 && mkudffs udfdisk
  $ mkdir udf && mount udfdisk udf
  $ touch udf/test && stat -c %y udf/test
  2015-06-09 10:22:56.130006767 +0200
  $ umount udf && mount udfdisk udf
  $ stat -c %y udf/test
  2015-06-09 10:22:56.130006000 +0200

Remounting truncates the mtime to 1 µs.

Fix the rounding in timespec_trunc() and update the documentation.

timespec_trunc() is exclusively used to calculate inode's [acm]time (mostly
via current_fs_time()), and always with super_block.s_time_gran as second
argument. So this can safely be changed without side effects.

Note: This does _not_ fix the issue for FAT's 2 second mtime resolution,
as super_block.s_time_gran isn't prepared to handle different ctime /
mtime / atime resolutions nor resolutions > 1 second.

Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2015-08-17 11:23:46 -07:00
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alarmtimer.c alarmtimer: Get rid of unused return value 2015-04-22 17:06:52 +02:00
clockevents.c clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path 2015-06-18 09:27:02 +02:00
clocksource.c clocksource: Use current logging style 2015-06-10 11:31:14 +02:00
hrtimer.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 18:57:44 -07:00
itimer.c time/timers: Move all time(r) related files into kernel/time 2014-06-23 11:22:35 +02:00
jiffies.c tick: Move clocksource related stuff to timekeeping.h 2015-04-01 14:22:58 +02:00
Kconfig clockevents: Remove CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD 2015-04-01 14:22:57 +02:00
Makefile time: Remove development rules from Kbuild/Makefile 2015-07-01 09:57:35 +02:00
ntp_internal.h time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge 2015-06-12 11:15:49 +02:00
ntp.c ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path 2015-06-12 11:15:49 +02:00
posix-clock.c kernel: Fix files explicitly needing EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure 2011-10-31 19:30:05 -04:00
posix-cpu-timers.c sched, timer: Use the atomic task_cputime in thread_group_cputimer 2015-05-08 12:17:46 +02:00
posix-timers.c hrtimer: Get rid of hrtimer_get_res() 2015-04-22 17:06:49 +02:00
sched_clock.c timers, sched/clock: Clean up the code a bit 2015-03-27 08:34:01 +01:00
test_udelay.c time: Rename udelay_test.c to test_udelay.c 2014-11-21 11:59:55 -08:00
tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c tick: hrtimer-broadcast: Prevent endless restarting when broadcast device is unused 2015-05-05 15:34:21 +02:00
tick-broadcast.c clockevents: Provide functions to set and get the state 2015-06-02 14:40:47 +02:00
tick-common.c Power management and ACPI material for v4.2-rc1 2015-06-23 14:18:07 -07:00
tick-internal.h timer: Minimize nohz off overhead 2015-06-19 15:18:28 +02:00
tick-oneshot.c clockevents: Provide functions to set and get the state 2015-06-02 14:40:47 +02:00
tick-sched.c timer: Minimize nohz off overhead 2015-06-19 15:18:28 +02:00
tick-sched.h tick: Nohz: Rework next timer evaluation 2015-04-22 17:06:50 +02:00
time.c time: Fix nanosecond file time rounding in timespec_trunc() 2015-08-17 11:23:46 -07:00
timeconst.bc time: Move timeconst.h into include/generated 2015-05-19 15:13:45 +02:00
timeconv.c time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universal use 2009-09-24 07:20:56 -07:00
timecounter.c timecounter: keep track of accumulated fractional nanoseconds 2014-12-30 18:29:27 -05:00
timekeeping_debug.c timekeeping: Convert timekeeping core to use timespec64s 2014-07-23 10:17:54 -07:00
timekeeping_internal.h clocksource: Move cycle_last validation to core code 2014-07-23 15:01:51 -07:00
timekeeping.c Minor merge needed, due to function move. 2015-07-01 10:49:25 -07:00
timekeeping.h hrtimer: Make offset update smarter 2015-04-22 17:06:49 +02:00
timer_list.c timer_list: Add the base offset so remaining nsecs are accurate for non monotonic timers 2015-08-17 11:23:31 -07:00
timer_stats.c timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling 2015-06-19 15:18:27 +02:00
timer.c timer: Fix hotplug regression 2015-06-26 22:58:06 +02:00