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, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/jiffies.c b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
index d23b434c2ca7..eddcf4970444 100644
--- a/kernel/time/jiffies.c
+++ b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_jiffies = {
 	.max_cycles	= 10,
 };
 
-__cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SEQLOCK(jiffies_lock);
+__cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(jiffies_lock);
+__cacheline_aligned_in_smp seqcount_t jiffies_seq;
 
 #if (BITS_PER_LONG < 64)
 u64 get_jiffies_64(void)
@@ -67,9 +68,9 @@ u64 get_jiffies_64(void)
 	u64 ret;
 
 	do {
-		seq = read_seqbegin(&jiffies_lock);
+		seq = read_seqcount_begin(&jiffies_seq);
 		ret = jiffies_64;
-	} while (read_seqretry(&jiffies_lock, seq));
+	} while (read_seqcount_retry(&jiffies_seq, seq));
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_jiffies_64);