Timer internals are protected with irq-safe locks but timer execution
isn't, so a timer being dequeued for execution and its execution
aren't atomic against IRQs. This makes it impossible to wait for its
completion from IRQ handlers and difficult to shoot down a timer from
IRQ handlers.
This issue caused some issues for delayed_work interface. Because
there's no way to reliably shoot down delayed_work->timer from IRQ
handlers, __cancel_delayed_work() can't share the logic to steal the
target delayed_work with cancel_delayed_work_sync(), and can only
steal delayed_works which are on queued on timer. Similarly, the
pending mod_delayed_work() can't be used from IRQ handlers.
This patch adds a new timer flag TIMER_IRQSAFE, which makes the timer
to be executed without enabling IRQ after dequeueing such that its
dequeueing and execution are atomic against IRQ handlers.
This makes it safe to wait for the timer's completion from IRQ
handlers, for example, using del_timer_sync(). It can never be
executing on the local CPU and if executing on other CPUs it won't be
interrupted until done.
This will enable simplifying delayed_work cancel/mod interface.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344449428-24962-5-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Over time, timer initializers became messy with unnecessarily
duplicated code which are inconsistently spread across timer.h and
timer.c.
This patch cleans up timer initializers.
* timer.c::__init_timer() is renamed to do_init_timer().
* __TIMER_INITIALIZER() added. It takes @flags and all initializers
are wrappers around it.
* init_timer[_on_stack]_key() now take @flags.
* __init_timer[_on_stack]() added. They take @flags and all init
macros are wrappers around them.
* __setup_timer[_on_stack]() added. It uses __init_timer() and takes
@flags. All setup macros are wrappers around the two.
Note that this patch doesn't add missing init/setup combinations -
e.g. init_timer_deferrable_on_stack(). Adding missing ones is
trivial.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344449428-24962-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To prepare for addition of another flag, generalize timer->base flags
handling.
* Rename from TBASE_*_FLAG to TIMER_* and make them LU constants.
* Define and use TIMER_FLAG_MASK for flags masking so that multiple
flags can be handled correctly.
* Don't dereference timer->base directly even if
!tbase_get_deferrable(). All two such places are already passed in
@base, so use it instead.
* Make sure tvec_base's alignment is large enough for timer->base
flags using BUILD_BUG_ON().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344449428-24962-2-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
On UP try_to_del_timer_sync() is mapped to del_timer() which does not
take the running timer callback into account, so it has different
semantics.
Remove the SMP dependency of try_to_del_timer_sync() by using
base->running_timer in the UP case as well.
[ tglx: Removed set_running_timer() inline and tweaked the changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Currently, you have to just define a delayed_work uninitialised, and then
initialise it before first use. That's a tad clumsy. At risk of playing
mind-games with the compiler, fooling it into doing pointer arithmetic
with compile-time-constants, this lets clients properly initialise delayed
work with deferrable timers statically.
This patch was inspired by the issues which lead Artem Bityutskiy to
commit 8eab945c56 ("sunrpc: make the cache cleaner workqueue
deferrable").
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reorder struct timer_list to remove 8 bytes of alignment padding on 64
bit builds when CONFIG_TIMER_STATS is selected.
timer_list is widely used across the kernel so many structures will
benefit and shrink in size.
For example, with my config on x86_64
per_cpu_dm_data shrinks from 136 to 128 bytes
and
ahci_port_priv shrinks from 1032 to 968 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In some cases (for instance with kernel threads) it may be desireable to
use on-stack deferrable timers to get their power saving benefits. Add
interfaces to support this for the IPS driver.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
While HR timers have had the concept of timer slack for quite some time
now, the legacy timers lacked this concept, and had to make do with
round_jiffies() and friends.
Timer slack is important for power management; grouping timers reduces the
number of wakeups which in turn reduces power consumption.
This patch introduces timer slack to the legacy timers using the following
pieces:
* A slack field in the timer struct
* An api (set_timer_slack) that callers can use to set explicit timer slack
* A default slack of 0.4% of the requested delay for callers that do not set
any explicit slack
* Rounding code that is part of mod_timer() that tries to
group timers around jiffies values every 'power of two'
(so quick timers will group around every 2, but longer timers
will group around every 4, 8, 16, 32 etc)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When the kernel is configured with CONFIG_TIMER_STATS but timer
stats are runtime disabled we still get calls to
__timer_stats_timer_set_start_info which initializes some
fields in the corresponding struct timer_list.
So add some quick checks in the the timer stats setup functions
to avoid function calls to __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info
when timer stats are disabled.
In an artificial workload that does nothing but playing ping
pong with a single tcp packet via loopback this decreases cpu
consumption by 1 - 1.5%.
This is part of a modified function trace output on SLES11:
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732388 [+ 125]: sk_reset_timer <-tcp_v4_rcv
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732513 [+ 125]: mod_timer <-sk_reset_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732638 [+ 125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-mod_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732763 [+ 125]: __mod_timer <-mod_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732888 [+ 125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-__mod_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177733013 [+ 93]: lock_timer_base <-__mod_timer
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mustafa Mesanovic <mustafa.mesanovic@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090623153811.GA4641@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:
This patch creates a new framework for identifying cpu-pinned timers
and hrtimers.
This framework is needed because pinned timers are expected to fire on
the same CPU on which they are queued. So it is essential to identify
these and not migrate them, in case there are any.
For regular timers, the currently existing add_timer_on() can be used
queue pinned timers and subsequently mod_timer_pinned() can be used
to modify the 'expires' field.
For hrtimers, new modes HRTIMER_ABS_PINNED and HRTIMER_REL_PINNED are
added to queue cpu-pinned hrtimer.
[ tglx: use .._PINNED mode argument instead of creating tons of new
functions ]
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: new timer API
Based on an idea from Martin Josefsson with the help of
Patrick McHardy and Stephen Hemminger:
introduce the mod_timer_pending() API which is a mod_timer()
offspring that is an invariant on already removed timers.
(regular mod_timer() re-activates non-pending timers.)
This is useful for the networking code in that it can
allow unserialized mod_timer_pending() timer-forwarding
calls, but a single del_timer*() will stop the timer
from being reactivated again.
Also while at it:
- optimize the regular mod_timer() path some more, the
timer-stat and a debug check was needlessly duplicated
in __mod_timer().
- make the exports come straight after the function, as
most other exports in timer.c already did.
- eliminate __mod_timer() as an external API, change the
users to mod_timer().
The regular mod_timer() code path is not impacted
significantly, due to inlining optimizations and due to
the simplifications.
Based-on-patch-from: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This modifies the timer code in a way to allow lockdep to detect
deadlocks resulting from a lock being taken in the timer function
as well as around the del_timer_sync() call.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
This patch (as1158b) adds round_jiffies_up() and friends. These
routines work like the analogous round_jiffies() functions, except
that they will never round down.
The new routines will be useful for timeouts where we don't care
exactly when the timer expires, provided it doesn't expire too soon.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Add a flag in /proc/timer_stats to indicate deferrable timers. This will
let developers/users to differentiate between types of tiemrs in
/proc/timer_stats.
Deferrable timer and normal timer will appear in /proc/timer_stats as below.
10D, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
10, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
Also version of timer_stats changes from v0.1 to v0.2
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the obviously unnecessary includes of <linux/spinlock.h> under the
include/linux/ directory, and fix the couple errors that are introduced as
a result of that.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
get_next_timer_interrupt() returns a delta of (LONG_MAX > 1) in case
there is no timer pending. On 64 bit machines this results in a
multiplication overflow in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick().
Reported by: Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make the return value a constant and limit the return value to a 32 bit
value.
When the max timeout value is returned, we can safely stop the tick
timer device. The max jiffies delta results in a 12 days timeout for
HZ=1000.
In the long term the get_next_timer_interrupt() code needs to be
reworked to return ktime instead of jiffies, but we have to wait until
the last users of the original NO_IDLE_HZ code are converted.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce a new flag for timers - deferrable: Timers that work normally
when system is busy. But, will not cause CPU to come out of idle (just to
service this timer), when CPU is idle. Instead, this timer will be
serviced when CPU eventually wakes up with a subsequent non-deferrable
timer.
The main advantage of this is to avoid unnecessary timer interrupts when
CPU is idle. If the routine currently called by a timer can wait until
next event without any issues, this new timer can be used to setup timer
event for that routine. This, with dynticks, allows CPUs to be lazy,
allowing them to stay in idle for extended period of time by reducing
unnecesary wakeup and thereby reducing the power consumption.
This patch:
Builds this new timer on top of existing timer infrastructure. It uses
last bit in 'base' pointer of timer_list structure to store this deferrable
timer flag. __next_timer_interrupt() function skips over these deferrable
timers when CPU looks for next timer event for which it has to wake up.
This is exported by a new interface init_timer_deferrable() that can be
called in place of regular init_timer().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Privatise a #define]
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
