On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Some embedded systems have no use for them. This removes about > 22KB from the kernel binary size when configured out. > > Corresponding syscalls are routed to a stub logging the attempt to > use those syscalls which should be enough of a clue if they were > disabled without proper consideration. They are: timer_create, > timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, timer_settime, timer_delete, > clock_adjtime. > > The clock_settime, clock_gettime, clock_getres and clock_nanosleep > syscalls are replaced by simple wrappers compatible with CLOCK_REALTIME, > CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only which should cover the vast > majority of use cases with very little code. > > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx> So I have no design objections to the patch overall. I ran this through my timekeeping tests last night and it passed a fair number of the tests, considering. I of course see a lot of failures around timer_creates failing (set-timer-lat), and cases where clockids aren't supported. So I'll need to see about updating the tests to fail more gracefully with this change. One spot of concern is that the tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c test hangs testing virtual itimers. Looking through the code I'm not seeing where an error case is missed. The strace looks like: ... write(1, "Testing posix timers. False nega"..., 66Testing posix timers. False negative may happen on CPU execution ) = 66 write(1, "based timers if other threads ru"..., 48based timers if other threads run on the CPU... ) = 48 write(1, "Check itimer virtual... ", 24Check itimer virtual... ) = 24 rt_sigaction(SIGVTALRM, {0x400a80, [VTALRM], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7fb73306ccb0}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 gettimeofday({1478710402, 937476}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={2, 0}}, NULL) = 0 <Hang> Where as with posix timers enabled: ... write(1, "Testing posix timers. False nega"..., 138Testing posix timers. False negative may happen on CPU execution based timers if other threads run on the CPU... Check itimer virtual... ) = 138 rt_sigaction(SIGVTALRM, {0x400a80, [VTALRM], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f231ba8ccb0}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 gettimeofday({1478626751, 904856}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={2, 0}}, NULL) = 0 --- SIGVTALRM {si_signo=SIGVTALRM, si_code=SI_KERNEL} --- rt_sigreturn() = 0 gettimeofday({1478626753, 906137}, NULL) = 0 write(1, "[OK]\nCheck itimer prof... ", 26[OK] ... So I suspect you were a little too aggressive with the #ifdefs around the itimers/signal code, or we need to make sure we return an error on the setitimer ITIMER_VIRTUAL case as well. thanks -john -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html