Revert: Unify CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME

Revert commits

92af4dcb4e1c ("tracing: Unify the "boot" and "mono" tracing clocks")
127bfa5f4342 ("hrtimer: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior")
7250a4047aa6 ("posix-timers: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior")
d6c7270e913d ("timekeeping: Remove boot time specific code")
f2d6fdbfd238 ("Input: Evdev - unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior")
d6ed449afdb3 ("timekeeping: Make the MONOTONIC clock behave like the BOOTTIME clock")
72199320d49d ("timekeeping: Add the new CLOCK_MONOTONIC_ACTIVE clock")

As stated in the pull request for the unification of CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
CLOCK_BOOTTIME, it was clear that we might have to revert the change.

As reported by several folks systemd and other applications rely on the
documented behaviour of CLOCK_MONOTONIC on Linux and break with the above
changes. After resume daemons time out and other timeout related issues are
observed. Rafael compiled this list:

* systemd kills daemons on resume, after >WatchdogSec seconds
  of suspending (Genki Sky).  [Verified that that's because systemd uses
  CLOCK_MONOTONIC and expects it to not include the suspend time.]

* systemd-journald misbehaves after resume:
  systemd-journald[7266]: File /var/log/journal/016627c3c4784cd4812d4b7e96a34226/system.journal
corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing.
  (Mike Galbraith).

* NetworkManager reports "networking disabled" and networking is broken
  after resume 50% of the time (Pavel).  [May be because of systemd.]

* MATE desktop dims the display and starts the screensaver right after
  system resume (Pavel).

* Full system hang during resume (me).  [May be due to systemd or NM or both.]

That happens on debian and open suse systems.

It's sad, that these problems were neither catched in -next nor by those
folks who expressed interest in this change.

Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Reported-by: Genki Sky <sky@genki.is>,
Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
index e45f0786f3f9..67d9c38e95eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
@@ -461,9 +461,17 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
 		and ticks at the same rate as the hardware clocksource.
 
 	boot:
-		Same as mono. Used to be a separate clock which accounted
-		for the time spent in suspend while CLOCK_MONOTONIC did
-		not.
+		This is the boot clock (CLOCK_BOOTTIME) and is based on the
+		fast monotonic clock, but also accounts for time spent in
+		suspend. Since the clock access is designed for use in
+		tracing in the suspend path, some side effects are possible
+		if clock is accessed after the suspend time is accounted before
+		the fast mono clock is updated. In this case, the clock update
+		appears to happen slightly sooner than it normally would have.
+		Also on 32-bit systems, it's possible that the 64-bit boot offset
+		sees a partial update. These effects are rare and post
+		processing should be able to handle them. See comments in the
+		ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() function for more information.
 
 	To set a clock, simply echo the clock name into this file::