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Jiri Bohac
98a01e779f timer: Prevent overflow in apply_slack
On architectures with sizeof(int) < sizeof (long), the
computation of mask inside apply_slack() can be undefined if the
computed bit is > 32.

E.g. with: expires = 0xffffe6f5 and slack = 25, we get:

expires_limit = 0x20000000e
bit = 33
mask = (1 << 33) - 1  /* undefined */

On x86, mask becomes 1 and and the slack is not applied properly.
On s390, mask is -1, expires is set to 0 and the timer fires immediately.

Use 1UL << bit to solve that issue.

Suggested-by: Deborah Townsend <dstownse@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140418152310.GA13654@midget.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-04-30 13:46:17 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1ead658124 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer changes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This assorted collection provides:

   - A new timer based timer broadcast feature for systems which do not
     provide a global accessible timer device.  That allows those
     systems to put CPUs into deep idle states where the per cpu timer
     device stops.

   - A few NOHZ_FULL related improvements to the timer wheel

   - The usual updates to timer devices found in ARM SoCs

   - Small improvements and updates all over the place"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  tick: Remove code duplication in tick_handle_periodic()
  tick: Fix spelling mistake in tick_handle_periodic()
  x86: hpet: Use proper destructor for delayed work
  workqueue: Provide destroy_delayed_work_on_stack()
  clocksource: CMT, MTU2, TMU and STI should depend on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
  timer: Remove code redundancy while calling get_nohz_timer_target()
  hrtimer: Rearrange comments in the order struct members are declared
  timer: Use variable head instead of &work_list in __run_timers()
  clocksource: exynos_mct: silence a static checker warning
  arm: zynq: Add support for cpufreq
  arm: zynq: Don't use arm_global_timer with cpufreq
  clocksource/cadence_ttc: Overhaul clocksource frequency adjustment
  clocksource/cadence_ttc: Call clockevents_update_freq() with IRQs enabled
  clocksource: Add Kconfig entries for CMT, MTU2, TMU and STI
  sh: Remove Kconfig entries for TMU, CMT and MTU2
  ARM: shmobile: Remove CMT, TMU and STI Kconfig entries
  clocksource: armada-370-xp: Use atomic access for shared registers
  clocksource: orion: Use atomic access for shared registers
  clocksource: timer-keystone: Delete unnecessary variable
  clocksource: timer-keystone: introduce clocksource driver for Keystone
  ...
2014-04-01 11:00:07 -07:00
Viresh Kumar
6201b4d61f timer: Remove code redundancy while calling get_nohz_timer_target()
There are only two users of get_nohz_timer_target(): timer and hrtimer. Both
call it under same circumstances, i.e.

	#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
	       if (!pinned && get_sysctl_timer_migration() && idle_cpu(this_cpu))
	               return get_nohz_timer_target();
	#endif

So, it makes more sense to get all this as part of get_nohz_timer_target()
instead of duplicating code at two places. For this another parameter is
required to be passed to this routine, pinned.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1e1b53537217d58d48c2d7a222a9c3ac47d5b64c.1395140107.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-03-20 12:35:46 +01:00
Viresh Kumar
c41eba7de1 timer: Use variable head instead of &work_list in __run_timers()
We already have a variable 'head' that points to '&work_list', and so
we should use that instead wherever possible.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0d8645a6efc8360c4196c9797d59343abbfdcc5e.1395129136.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-03-20 12:35:45 +01:00
Viresh Kumar
38edbb0b91 timer: Make sure TIMER_FLAG_MASK bits are free in allocated base
Currently we are using two lowest bit of base for internal purpose and
so they both should be zero in the allocated address. The code was
doing the right thing before this patch came in: commit c5f66e99b
(timer: Implement TIMER_IRQSAFE)

Tejun probably forgot to update this piece of code which checks if the
lowest 'n' bits are zero or not and so wasn't updated according to the
new flag. Lets use TIMER_FLAG_MASK in the calculations here.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9144e10d7e854a0aa8a673332adec356d81a923c.1393576981.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-03-04 12:30:29 +01:00
Viresh Kumar
c24a4a3694 timer: Check failure of timer_cpu_notify() before calling init_timer_stats()
timer_cpu_notify() should return NOTIFY_OK and nothing else. Anything else would
trigger a BUG_ON(). Return value of this routine is already checked correctly
but is done after issuing a call to init_timer_stats(). The right order would be
to check the error case first and then call init_timer_stats(). Lets do it.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c439f5b6bbc2047e1662f4d523350531425bcf9d.1393576981.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-03-04 12:30:29 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
bce1936951 Merge branch 'timers.2014.02.25a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into timers/core
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-28 11:53:48 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
aea369b959 timers: Make internal_add_timer() update ->next_timer if ->active_timers == 0
The internal_add_timer() function updates base->next_timer only if
timer->expires < base->next_timer. This is correct, but it also makes
sense to do the same if we add the first non-deferrable timer.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
2014-02-25 12:39:01 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
18d8cb64c9 timers: Reduce future __run_timers() latency for first add to empty list
The __run_timers() function currently steps through the list one jiffy at
a time in order to update the timer wheel.  However, if the timer wheel
is empty, no adjustment is needed other than updating ->timer_jiffies.
Therefore, just before we add a timer to an empty timer wheel, we should
mark the timer wheel as being up to date.  This marking will reduce (and
perhaps eliminate) the jiffy-stepping that a future __run_timers() call
will need to do in response to some future timer posting or migration.
This commit therefore updates ->timer_jiffies for this case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
2014-02-25 12:39:00 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
16d937f880 timers: Reduce future __run_timers() latency for newly emptied list
The __run_timers() function currently steps through the list one jiffy at
a time in order to update the timer wheel.  However, if the timer wheel
is empty, no adjustment is needed other than updating ->timer_jiffies.
Therefore, if we just emptied the timer wheel, for example, by deleting
the last timer, we should mark the timer wheel as being up to date.
This marking will reduce (and perhaps eliminate) the jiffy-stepping that
a future __run_timers() call will need to do in response to some future
timer posting or migration.  This commit therefore catches ->timer_jiffies
for this case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
2014-02-25 12:39:00 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
d550e81dc0 timers: Reduce __run_timers() latency for empty list
The __run_timers() function currently steps through the list one jiffy at
a time in order to update the timer wheel.  However, if the timer wheel
is empty, no adjustment is needed other than updating ->timer_jiffies.
In this case, which is likely to be common for NO_HZ_FULL kernels, the
kernel currently incurs a large latency for no good reason.  This commit
therefore short-circuits this case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
2014-02-25 12:39:00 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
fff421580f timers: Track total number of timers in list
Currently, the tvec_base structure's ->active_timers field tracks only
the non-deferrable timers, which means that even if ->active_timers is
zero, there might well be deferrable timers in the list.  This commit
therefore adds an ->all_timers field to track all the timers, whether
deferrable or not.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
2014-02-25 12:38:59 -08:00
Viresh Kumar
8ba1465428 timer: Spare IPI when deferrable timer is queued on idle remote targets
When a timer is enqueued or modified on a remote target, the latter is
expected to see and handle this timer on its next tick. However if the
target is idle and CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y, the CPU may be sleeping tickless
and the timer may be ignored.

wake_up_nohz_cpu() takes care of that by setting TIF_NEED_RESCHED and
sending an IPI to idle targets so that the tick is reevaluated on the
idle loop through the tick_nohz_idle_*() APIs.

Now this is all performed regardless of the power properties of the
timer. If the timer is deferrable, idle targets don't need to be woken
up. Only the next buzy tick needs to care about it, and no IPI kick
is needed for that to happen.

So lets spare the IPI on idle targets when the timer is deferrable.

Meanwhile we keep the current behaviour on full dynticks targets. We can
spare IPIs on idle full dynticks targets as well but some tricky races
against idle_cpu() must be dealt all along to make sure that the timer
is well handled after idle exit. We can deal with that later since
NO_HZ_FULL already has more important powersaving issues.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAKohpomMZ0TAN2e6N76_g4ZRzxd5vZ1XfuZfxrP7GMxfTNiLVw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2014-02-14 17:59:14 +01:00
Andi Kleen
40747ffa5a asmlinkage: Make jiffies visible
Jiffies is referenced by the linker script, so it has to be visible.

Handled both the generic and the x86 version.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391845930-28580-3-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-02-13 18:12:09 -08:00
Joe Perches
da554eba2e timer: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...)
Use the helper function instead of __GFP_ZERO.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-11-19 14:59:50 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
4a2b4b2227 sched: Introduce preempt_count accessor functions
Replace the single preempt_count() 'function' that's an lvalue with
two proper functions:

 preempt_count() - returns the preempt_count value as rvalue
 preempt_count_set() - Allows setting the preempt-count value

Also provide preempt_count_ptr() as a convenience wrapper to implement
all modifying operations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-orxrbycjozopqfhb4dxdkdvb@git.kernel.org
[ Fixed build failure. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-25 14:07:32 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker
0db0628d90 kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
Bart Van Assche
9e04d3804d timer: Fix jiffies wrap behavior of round_jiffies_common()
Direct compare of jiffies related values does not work in the wrap
around case. Replace it with time_is_after_jiffies().

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/519BC066.5080600@acm.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-06-28 17:10:11 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
cc51bf6e6d Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Cure for not using zalloc in the first place, which leads to random
   crashes with CPUMASK_OFF_STACK.

 - Revert a user space visible change which broke udev

 - Add a missing cpu_online early return introduced by the new full
   dyntick conversions

 - Plug a long standing race in the timer wheel cpu hotplug code.
   Sigh...

 - Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down to prevent stale data on cpu
   up.

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Revert ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK compile time optimizaitons
  timer: Don't reinitialize the cpu base lock during CPU_UP_PREPARE
  tick: Don't invoke tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() if the cpu is offline
  tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down
  tick: Use zalloc_cpumask_var for allocating offstack cpumasks
2013-05-15 14:05:17 -07:00
Tirupathi Reddy
42a5cf46cd timer: Don't reinitialize the cpu base lock during CPU_UP_PREPARE
An inactive timer's base can refer to a offline cpu's base.

In the current code, cpu_base's lock is blindly reinitialized each
time a CPU is brought up. If a CPU is brought online during the period
that another thread is trying to modify an inactive timer on that CPU
with holding its timer base lock, then the lock will be reinitialized
under its feet. This leads to following SPIN_BUG().

<0> BUG: spinlock already unlocked on CPU#3, kworker/u:3/1466
<0> lock: 0xe3ebe000, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: kworker/u:3/1466, .owner_cpu: 1
<4> [<c0013dc4>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x11c) from [<c026e794>] (do_raw_spin_unlock+0x40/0xcc)
<4> [<c026e794>] (do_raw_spin_unlock+0x40/0xcc) from [<c076c160>] (_raw_spin_unlock+0x8/0x30)
<4> [<c076c160>] (_raw_spin_unlock+0x8/0x30) from [<c009b858>] (mod_timer+0x294/0x310)
<4> [<c009b858>] (mod_timer+0x294/0x310) from [<c00a5e04>] (queue_delayed_work_on+0x104/0x120)
<4> [<c00a5e04>] (queue_delayed_work_on+0x104/0x120) from [<c04eae00>] (sdhci_msm_bus_voting+0x88/0x9c)
<4> [<c04eae00>] (sdhci_msm_bus_voting+0x88/0x9c) from [<c04d8780>] (sdhci_disable+0x40/0x48)
<4> [<c04d8780>] (sdhci_disable+0x40/0x48) from [<c04bf300>] (mmc_release_host+0x4c/0xb0)
<4> [<c04bf300>] (mmc_release_host+0x4c/0xb0) from [<c04c7aac>] (mmc_sd_detect+0x90/0xfc)
<4> [<c04c7aac>] (mmc_sd_detect+0x90/0xfc) from [<c04c2504>] (mmc_rescan+0x7c/0x2c4)
<4> [<c04c2504>] (mmc_rescan+0x7c/0x2c4) from [<c00a6a7c>] (process_one_work+0x27c/0x484)
<4> [<c00a6a7c>] (process_one_work+0x27c/0x484) from [<c00a6e94>] (worker_thread+0x210/0x3b0)
<4> [<c00a6e94>] (worker_thread+0x210/0x3b0) from [<c00aad9c>] (kthread+0x80/0x8c)
<4> [<c00aad9c>] (kthread+0x80/0x8c) from [<c000ea80>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)

As an example, this particular crash occurred when CPU #3 is executing
mod_timer() on an inactive timer whose base is refered to offlined CPU
#2.  The code locked the timer_base corresponding to CPU #2. Before it
could proceed, CPU #2 came online and reinitialized the spinlock
corresponding to its base. Thus now CPU #3 held a lock which was
reinitialized. When CPU #3 finally ended up unlocking the old cpu_base
corresponding to CPU #2, we hit the above SPIN_BUG().

CPU #0		CPU #3				       CPU #2
------		-------				       -------
.....		 ......				      <Offline>
		mod_timer()
		 lock_timer_base
		   spin_lock_irqsave(&base->lock)

cpu_up(2)	 .....				        ......
							init_timers_cpu()
....		 .....				    	spin_lock_init(&base->lock)
.....		   spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock)  ......
		   <spin_bug>

Allocation of per_cpu timer vector bases is done only once under
"tvec_base_done[]" check. In the current code, spinlock_initialization
of base->lock isn't under this check. When a CPU is up each time the
base lock is reinitialized. Move base spinlock initialization under
the check.

Signed-off-by: Tirupathi Reddy <tirupath@codeaurora.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368520142-4136-1-git-send-email-tirupath@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-05-14 17:59:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
534c97b095 Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
  kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
  or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.

  This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
  idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
  reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.

  This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
  the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
  that:

   - HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
     to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power.  A periodic timer tick at
     HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%.  This feature
     removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
     typical distro configs even on modern systems.

   - Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
     should experience as little jitter as possible.  The last remaining
     source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.

   - A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
     especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
     helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.

  The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
  reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
  slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.

  Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
  two NOHZ kconfig modes:

   - CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
     as a config option.  This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
     design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
     whether a CPU is idle or not.

   - CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
     periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.

   - CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
     tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
     timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
     CPU.

  The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
  CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
  user having to configure anything.  CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
  default.

  This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
  steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
  and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.

  This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature.  The pull
  request is marked RFC because:

   - it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
     small but did not get ready in time.

   - it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
     window.  The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
     merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
     marked it RFC.

   - it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
     while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
     combination is still not very widely used.  That it's default-off
     should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
     known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.

   - the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
     equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick.  In
     particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
     on scheduler load-balancing and statistics.  This should not impact
     correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
     feature at this point.

   - it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
     enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
     its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
     Without flaming us to crisp! :-)

  Future plans:

   - there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
     the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
     CPU.  We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
     for the 0 Hz target though.

   - once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
     nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
     as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
     once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.

  I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
  v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
  but the final word is up to you as usual.

  More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"

* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
  sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
  rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
  nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
  nohz_full: Add documentation.
  cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
  nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
  nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
  nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
  nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
  nohz: Add basic tracing
  nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
  nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
  nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
  nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
  nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
  nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
  sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
  sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
  perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
  perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
  ...
2013-05-05 13:23:27 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
4a22f16636 kernel/timer.c: move some non timer related syscalls to kernel/sys.c
Andrew Morton noted:

	akpm3:/usr/src/25> grep SYSCALL kernel/timer.c
	SYSCALL_DEFINE1(alarm, unsigned int, seconds)
	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getpid)
	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getppid)
	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getuid)
	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(geteuid)
	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getgid)
	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getegid)
	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(gettid)
	SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysinfo, struct sysinfo __user *, info)
	COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysinfo, struct compat_sysinfo __user *, info)

	Only one of those should be in kernel/timer.c.  Who wrote this thing?

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
1043f65a57 kernel/timer.c: convert compat_sys_sysinfo to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
1a0df59444 kernel/compat.c: make do_sysinfo() static
The only use outside of kernel/timer.c was in kernel/compat.c, so move
compat_sys_sysinfo() next to sys_sysinfo() in kernel/timer.c.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
3451d0243c nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.

As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.

It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.

On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.

But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:

1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
   CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE

We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.

So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.

Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-03 13:56:03 +02:00