timekeeping: Split jiffies seqlock

seqlock consists of a sequence counter and a spinlock_t which is used to
serialize the writers. spinlock_t is substituted by a "sleeping" spinlock
on PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels which breaks the usage in the timekeeping
code as the writers are executed in hard interrupt and therefore
non-preemptible context even on PREEMPT_RT.

The spinlock in seqlock cannot be unconditionally replaced by a
raw_spinlock_t as many seqlock users have nesting spinlock sections or
other code which is not suitable to run in truly atomic context on RT.

Instead of providing a raw_seqlock API for a single use case, open code the
seqlock for the jiffies use case and implement it with a raw_spinlock_t and
a sequence counter.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.120587764@linutronix.de

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index ca69290bee2a..856280d2cbd4 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -2397,8 +2397,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hardpps);
  */
 void xtime_update(unsigned long ticks)
 {
-	write_seqlock(&jiffies_lock);
+	raw_spin_lock(&jiffies_lock);
+	write_seqcount_begin(&jiffies_seq);
 	do_timer(ticks);
-	write_sequnlock(&jiffies_lock);
+	write_seqcount_end(&jiffies_seq);
+	raw_spin_unlock(&jiffies_lock);
 	update_wall_time();
 }