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>
The full dynticks feature only shows up when all its
Kconfig dependencies are met (RCU nocbs, RCU user mode, ...)
This is far from being user friendly as those who want to
activate this feature need to look into the Kconfig files
and iterate through each dependency then activate these
by hand in order to show and select the full dynticks
Kconfig option.
So process the other way around: show up the Kconfig option
if the minimal low level dependencies are met and activate
the high level ones when we enable the feature.
Note there is one exception in the picture:
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN is part of a Kconfig choice
menu and it appears we can't select it from another Kconfig
selection when it's under such layout. So for now this
particular item stays as a passive dependency.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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>
This way the full nohz CPUs can safely run with the tick
stopped with a guarantee that somebody else is taking
care of the jiffies and GTOD progression.
Once the duty is attributed to a CPU, it won't change. Also that
CPU can't enter into dyntick idle mode or be hot unplugged.
This may later be improved from a power consumption POV. At
least we should be able to share the duty amongst all CPUs
outside the full dynticks range. Then the duty could even be
shared with full dynticks CPUs when those can't stop their
tick for any reason.
But let's start with that very simple approach first.
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>
[fix have_nohz_full_mask offcase]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
For extreme usecases such as Real Time or HPC, having
the ability to shutdown the tick when a single task runs
on a CPU is a desired feature:
* Reducing the amount of interrupts improves throughput
for CPU-bound tasks. The CPU is less distracted from its
real job, from an execution time and from the cache point
of views.
* This also improve latency response as we have less critical
sections.
Start with introducing a very simple interface to define
full dynticks CPU: use a boot time option defined cpumask
through the "nohz_extended=" kernel parameter. CPUs that
are part of this range will have their tick shutdown
whenever possible: provided they run a single task and
they don't do kernel activity that require the periodic
tick. These details will be later documented in
Documentation/*
An online CPU must be kept outside this range to handle the
timekeeping.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>
Pull thermal management updates from Zhang Rui:
"Highlights:
- introduction of Dove thermal sensor driver.
- introduction of Kirkwood thermal sensor driver.
- introduction of intel_powerclamp thermal cooling device driver.
- add interrupt and DT support for rcar thermal driver.
- add thermal emulation support which allows platform thermal driver
to do software/hardware emulation for thermal issues."
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux: (36 commits)
thermal: rcar: remove __devinitconst
thermal: return an error on failure to register thermal class
Thermal: rename thermal governor Kconfig option to avoid generic naming
thermal: exynos: Use the new thermal trend type for quick cooling action.
Thermal: exynos: Add support for temperature falling interrupt.
Thermal: Dove: Add Themal sensor support for Dove.
thermal: Add support for the thermal sensor on Kirkwood SoCs
thermal: rcar: add Device Tree support
thermal: rcar: remove machine_power_off() from rcar_thermal_notify()
thermal: rcar: add interrupt support
thermal: rcar: add read/write functions for common/priv data
thermal: rcar: multi channel support
thermal: rcar: use mutex lock instead of spin lock
thermal: rcar: enable CPCTL to use hardware TSC deciding
thermal: rcar: use parenthesis on macro
Thermal: fix a build warning when CONFIG_THERMAL_EMULATION cleared
Thermal: fix a wrong comment
thermal: sysfs: Add a new sysfs node emul_temp for thermal emulation
PM: intel_powerclamp: off by one in start_power_clamp()
thermal: exynos: Miscellaneous fixes to support falling threshold interrupt
...
Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change is the rwsem lock-steal improvements, both to the
assembly optimized and the spinlock based variants.
The other notable change is the clean up of the seqlock implementation
to be based on the seqcount infrastructure.
The rest is assorted smaller debuggability, cleanup and continued -rt
locking changes."
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rwsem-spinlock: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
futex: Revert "futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated"
generic: Use raw local irq variant for generic cmpxchg
lockdep: Selftest: convert spinlock to raw spinlock
seqlock: Use seqcount infrastructure
seqlock: Remove unused functions
ntp: Make ntp_lock raw
intel_idle: Convert i7300_idle_lock to raw_spinlock
locking: Various static lock initializer fixes
lockdep: Print more info when MAX_LOCK_DEPTH is exceeded
rwsem: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
lockdep: Silence warning if CONFIG_LOCKDEP isn't set
watchdog: Use local_clock for get_timestamp()
lockdep: Rename print_unlock_inbalance_bug() to print_unlock_imbalance_bug()
locking/stat: Fix a typo
A large number of cleanups, all over the platforms. This is dominated
largely by the Samsung platforms (s3c, s5p, exynos) and a few of the
others moving code out of arch/arm into more appropriate subsystems.
The clocksource and irqchip drivers are now abstracted to the point
where platforms that are already cleaned up do not need to even specify
the driver they use, it can all get configured from the device tree
as we do for normal device drivers. The clocksource changes basically
touch every single platform in the process.
We further clean up the use of platform specific header files here,
with the goal of turning more of the platforms over to being
"multiplatform" enabled, which implies that they cannot expose
their headers to architecture independent code any more.
It is expected that no functional changes are part of the cleanup.
The overall reduction in total code lines is mostly the result of
removing broken and obsolete code.
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Merge tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
"A large number of cleanups, all over the platforms. This is dominated
largely by the Samsung platforms (s3c, s5p, exynos) and a few of the
others moving code out of arch/arm into more appropriate subsystems.
The clocksource and irqchip drivers are now abstracted to the point
where platforms that are already cleaned up do not need to even
specify the driver they use, it can all get configured from the device
tree as we do for normal device drivers. The clocksource changes
basically touch every single platform in the process.
We further clean up the use of platform specific header files here,
with the goal of turning more of the platforms over to being
"multiplatform" enabled, which implies that they cannot expose their
headers to architecture independent code any more.
It is expected that no functional changes are part of the cleanup.
The overall reduction in total code lines is mostly the result of
removing broken and obsolete code."
* tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (133 commits)
ARM: mvebu: correct gated clock documentation
ARM: kirkwood: add missing include for nsa310
ARM: exynos: move exynos4210-combiner to drivers/irqchip
mfd: db8500-prcmu: update resource passing
drivers/db8500-cpufreq: delete dangling include
ARM: at91: remove NEOCORE 926 board
sunxi: Cleanup the reset code and add meaningful registers defines
ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-mem.h local
ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-power.h local
ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-s3c2412-mem.h local
ARM: S3C24XX: Remove plat-s3c24xx directory in arch/arm/
ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2443 subirqs into new structure
ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2443 irq init to initialize all irqs
ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2443 irq code to irq.c
ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2416 irqs into new structure
ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2416 irq init to initialize all irqs
ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2416 irq init to common irq code
ARM: S3C24XX: Modify s3c_irq_wake to use the hwirq property
ARM: S3C24XX: Move irq syscore-ops to irq-pm
clocksource: always define CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE
...
Pull timer changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- ntp: Add CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC: a generic RTC driver facility
complementing the existing CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS, which uses NTP to
keep the hardware clock updated.
- posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on
success. This is changing the ABI, but no breakage was expected
and found - caution is warranted nevertheless.
- platform persistent clock improvements/cleanups.
- clockevents: refactor timer broadcast handling to be more generic
and less duplicated with matching architecture code (mostly ARM
motivated.)
- various fixes and cleanups"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timers/x86/hpet: Use HPET_COUNTER to specify the hpet counter in vread_hpet()
posix-cpu-timers: Fix nanosleep task_struct leak
clockevents: Fix generic broadcast for FEAT_C3STOP
time, Fix setting of hardware clock in NTP code
hrtimer: Prevent hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram race
clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function
clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast receiver
timekeeping: Switch HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK to ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK
x86/time/rtc: Don't print extended CMOS year when reading RTC
x86: Select HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK on x86
timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK option
rtc: Skip the suspend/resume handling if persistent clock exist
timekeeping: Add persistent_clock_exist flag
posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on success
Round the calculated scale factor in set_cyc2ns_scale()
NTP: Add a CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC configuration
MAINTAINERS: Update John Stultz's email
time: create __getnstimeofday for WARNless calls
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed
and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic
Weisbecker.
- Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams
- select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith:
" 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:
pre 15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs "
- sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change. We think this detail is not
used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it
under observation.
- misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
sched/rt: Add <linux/sched/rt.h> header to <linux/init_task.h>
cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers
sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure
cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64
sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file
sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice
sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header
sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task()
sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt()
cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs
kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks
cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats
cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting
cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting
cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file
cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions
cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling
context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime
...
Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.
seconds_overflow() is called from hard interrupt context even on
Preempt-RT. This requires the lock to be a raw_spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit 12ad100046: "clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function"
made tick_device_uses_broadcast set up the generic broadcast function
for dummy devices (where !tick_device_is_functional(dev)), but neglected
to set up the broadcast function for devices that stop in low power
states (with the CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP flag).
When these devices enter low power states they will not have the generic
broadcast function assigned, and will bring down the system when an
attempt is made to broadcast to them.
This patch ensures that the broadcast function is also assigned for
devices which require broadcast in low power states.
Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org
Cc: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com
Cc: Will.Deacon@arm.com
Cc: santosh.shilimkar@ti.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
At init time, if the system time is "warped" forward in warp_clock()
it will differ from the hardware clock by sys_tz.tz_minuteswest. This time
difference is not taken into account when ntp updates the hardware clock,
and this causes the system time to jump forward by this offset every reboot.
The kernel must take this offset into account when writing the system time
to the hardware clock in the ntp code. This patch adds
persistent_clock_is_local which indicates that an offset has been applied
in warp_clock() and accounts for the "warp" before writing the hardware
clock.
x86 does not have this problem as rtc writes are software limited to a
+/-15 minute window relative to the current rtc time. Other arches, such
as powerpc, however do a full synchronization of the system time to the
rtc and will see this problem.
[v2]: generated against tip/timers/core
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Conflicts:
kernel/irq_work.c
Add support for printk in full dynticks CPU.
* Don't stop tick with irq works pending. This
fix is generally useful and concerns archs that
can't raise self IPIs.
* Flush irq works before CPU offlining.
* Introduce "lazy" irq works that can wait for the
next tick to be executed, unless it's stopped.
* Implement klogd wake up using irq work. This
removes the ad-hoc printk_tick()/printk_needs_cpu()
hooks and make it working even in dynticks mode.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Currently, the timer broadcast mechanism is defined by a function
pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental mechanism for
broadcast is architecture-specific, this means that clock_event_device
drivers cannot be shared across multiple architectures.
This patch adds an (optional) architecture-specific function for timer
tick broadcast, allowing drivers which may require broadcast
functionality to be shared across multiple architectures.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org
Cc: Will.Deacon@arm.com
Cc: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358183124-28461-3-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Currently the broadcast mechanism used for timers is abstracted by a
function pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental
mechanism for broadcast is architecture-specific, this ties each
clock_event_device driver to a single architecture, even where the
driver is otherwise generic.
This patch adds a standard path for the receipt of timer broadcasts, so
drivers and/or architecture backends need not manage redundant lists of
timers for the purpose of routing broadcast timer ticks.
[tglx: Made the implementation depend on the config switch as well ]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org
Cc: Will.Deacon@arm.com
Cc: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358183124-28461-2-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Jason pointed out the HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK name isn't
quite accurate for the config, as some systems may have
the persistent_clock in some cases, but not always.
So change the config name to the more clear
ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Allow to dynamically switch between tick and virtual based
cputime accounting. This way we can provide a kind of "on-demand"
virtual based cputime accounting. In this mode, the kernel relies
on the context tracking subsystem to dynamically probe on kernel
boundaries.
This is in preparation for being able to stop the timer tick in
more places than just the idle state. Doing so will depend on
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN which makes it possible to account
the cputime without the tick by hooking on kernel/user boundaries.
Depending whether the tick is stopped or not, we can switch between
tick and vtime based accounting anytime in order to minimize the
overhead associated to user hooks.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.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>
Allow drivers such as intel_powerclamp to use these apis for
turning on/off ticks during idle.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Make the persistent clock check a kernel config option, so that some
platform can explicitely select it, also make CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and
RTC_SYSTOHC depend on its non-existence, which could prevent the
persistent clock and RTC code from doing similar thing twice during
system's init/suspend/resume phases.
If the CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK=n, then no change happens for kernel
which still does the persistent clock check in timekeeping_init().
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
[jstultz: Added dependency for RTC_SYSTOHC as well]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
In current kernel, there are several places which need to check
whether there is a persistent clock for the platform. Current check
is done by calling the read_persistent_clock() and validating its
return value.
So one optimization is to do the check only once in timekeeping_init(),
and use a flag persistent_clock_exist to record it.
v2: Add a has_persistent_clock() helper function, as suggested by John.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
The purpose of this option is to allow ARM/etc systems that rely on the
class RTC subsystem to have the same kind of automatic NTP based
synchronization that we have on PC platforms. Today ARM does not
implement update_persistent_clock and makes extensive use of the class
RTC system.
When enabled CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC will provide a generic
rtc_update_persistent_clock that stores the current time in the RTC and
is intended complement the existing CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS option that loads
the RTC at boot.
Like with RTC_HCTOSYS the platform's update_persistent_clock is used
first, if it works. Platforms with mixed class RTC and non-RTC drivers
need to return ENODEV when class RTC should be used. Such an update for
PPC is included in this patch.
Long term, implementations of update_persistent_clock should migrate to
proper class RTC drivers and use CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC instead.
Tested on ARM kirkwood and PPC405
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
The pstore RAM backend can get called during resume, and must be defensive
against a suspended time source. Expose getnstimeofday logic that returns
an error instead of a WARN. This can be detected and the timestamp can
be zeroed out.
Reported-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Clockevent cleanup series from Shawn Guo.
Resolved move/change conflict in mach-pxa/time.c due to the sys_timer
cleanup.
* clocksource/cleanup:
clocksource: use clockevents_config_and_register() where possible
ARM: use clockevents_config_and_register() where possible
clockevents: export clockevents_config_and_register for module use
+ sync to Linux 3.8-rc3
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-pxa/time.c
clockevents_config_and_register is a handy helper for clockevent
drivers, some of which might support module build, so export the symbol.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Currently, whenever CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET is enabled, each
arch core provides a single implementation of arch_gettimeoffset(). In
many cases, different sub-architectures, different machines, or
different timer providers exist, and so the arch ends up implementing
arch_gettimeoffset() as a call-through-pointer anyway. Examples are
ARM, Cris, M68K, and it's arguable that the remaining architectures,
M32R and Blackfin, should be doing this anyway.
Modify arch_gettimeoffset so that it itself is a function pointer, which
the arch initializes. This will allow later changes to move the
initialization of this function into individual machine support or timer
drivers. This is particularly useful for code in drivers/clocksource
which should rely on an arch-independant mechanism to register their
implementation of arch_gettimeoffset().
This patch also converts the Cris architecture to set arch_gettimeoffset
directly to the final implementation in time_init(), because Cris already
had separate time_init() functions per sub-architecture. M68K and ARM
are converted to set arch_gettimeoffset to the final implementation in
later patches, because they already have function pointers in place for
this purpose.
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Pull KVM updates from Marcelo Tosatti:
"Considerable KVM/PPC work, x86 kvmclock vsyscall support,
IA32_TSC_ADJUST MSR emulation, amongst others."
Fix up trivial conflict in kernel/sched/core.c due to cross-cpu
migration notifier added next to rq migration call-back.
* tag 'kvm-3.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (156 commits)
KVM: emulator: fix real mode segment checks in address linearization
VMX: remove unneeded enable_unrestricted_guest check
KVM: VMX: fix DPL during entry to protected mode
x86/kexec: crash_vmclear_local_vmcss needs __rcu
kvm: Fix irqfd resampler list walk
KVM: VMX: provide the vmclear function and a bitmap to support VMCLEAR in kdump
x86/kexec: VMCLEAR VMCSs loaded on all cpus if necessary
KVM: MMU: optimize for set_spte
KVM: PPC: booke: Get/set guest EPCR register using ONE_REG interface
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add EPCR support in mtspr/mfspr emulation
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add guest computation mode for irq delivery
KVM: PPC: Make EPCR a valid field for booke64 and bookehv
KVM: PPC: booke: Extend MAS2 EPN mask for 64-bit
KVM: PPC: e500: Mask MAS2 EPN high 32-bits in 32/64 tlbwe emulation
KVM: PPC: Mask ea's high 32-bits in 32/64 instr emulation
KVM: PPC: e500: Add emulation helper for getting instruction ea
KVM: PPC: bookehv64: Add support for interrupt handling
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Remove GET_VCPU macro from exception handler
KVM: PPC: booke: Fix get_tb() compile error on 64-bit
KVM: PPC: e500: Silence bogus GCC warning in tlb code
...
Pull networking changes from David Miller:
1) Allow to dump, monitor, and change the bridge multicast database
using netlink. From Cong Wang.
2) RFC 5961 TCP blind data injection attack mitigation, from Eric
Dumazet.
3) Networking user namespace support from Eric W. Biederman.
4) tuntap/virtio-net multiqueue support by Jason Wang.
5) Support for checksum offload of encapsulated packets (basically,
tunneled traffic can still be checksummed by HW). From Joseph
Gasparakis.
6) Allow BPF filter access to VLAN tags, from Eric Dumazet and
Daniel Borkmann.
7) Bridge port parameters over netlink and BPDU blocking support
from Stephen Hemminger.
8) Improve data access patterns during inet socket demux by rearranging
socket layout, from Eric Dumazet.
9) TIPC protocol updates and cleanups from Ying Xue, Paul Gortmaker, and
Jon Maloy.
10) Update TCP socket hash sizing to be more in line with current day
realities. The existing heurstics were choosen a decade ago.
From Eric Dumazet.
11) Fix races, queue bloat, and excessive wakeups in ATM and
associated drivers, from Krzysztof Mazur and David Woodhouse.
12) Support DOVE (Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet) extensions
in VXLAN driver, from David Stevens.
13) Add "oops_only" mode to netconsole, from Amerigo Wang.
14) Support set and query of VEB/VEPA bridge mode via PF_BRIDGE, also
allow DCB netlink to work on namespaces other than the initial
namespace. From John Fastabend.
15) Support PTP in the Tigon3 driver, from Matt Carlson.
16) tun/vhost zero copy fixes and improvements, plus turn it on
by default, from Michael S. Tsirkin.
17) Support per-association statistics in SCTP, from Michele
Baldessari.
And many, many, driver updates, cleanups, and improvements. Too
numerous to mention individually.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1722 commits)
net/mlx4_en: Add support for destination MAC in steering rules
net/mlx4_en: Use generic etherdevice.h functions.
net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API
bridge: add support of adding and deleting mdb entries
bridge: notify mdb changes via netlink
ndisc: Unexport ndisc_{build,send}_skb().
uapi: add missing netconf.h to export list
pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible
solos-pci: fix double-free of TX skb in DMA mode
bnx2: Fix accidental reversions.
bna: Driver Version Updated to 3.1.2.1
bna: Firmware update
bna: Add RX State
bna: Rx Page Based Allocation
bna: TX Intr Coalescing Fix
bna: Tx and Rx Optimizations
bna: Code Cleanup and Enhancements
ath9k: check pdata variable before dereferencing it
ath5k: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame
ath9k_htc: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame
...
Pull core timer changes from Ingo Molnar:
"It contains continued generic-NOHZ work by Frederic and smaller
cleanups."
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time: Kill xtime_lock, replacing it with jiffies_lock
clocksource: arm_generic: use this_cpu_ptr per-cpu helper
clocksource: arm_generic: use integer math helpers
time/jiffies: Make clocksource_jiffies static
clocksource: clean up parse_pmtmr()
tick: Correct the comments for tick_sched_timer()
tick: Conditionally build nohz specific code in tick handler
tick: Consolidate tick handling for high and low res handlers
tick: Consolidate timekeeping handling code
Pull trivial fix branches from Ingo Molnar.
Cleanup in __get_key_name, and a timer comment fixlet.
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
lockdep: Use KSYM_NAME_LEN'ed buffer for __get_key_name()
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timers, sched: Correct the comments for tick_sched_timer()
As suggested by John, export time data similarly to how its
done by vsyscall support. This allows KVM to retrieve necessary
information to implement vsyscall support in KVM guests.
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
klogd is woken up asynchronously from the tick in order
to do it safely.
However if printk is called when the tick is stopped, the reader
won't be woken up until the next interrupt, which might not fire
for a while. As a result, the user may miss some message.
To fix this, lets implement the printk tick using a lazy irq work.
This subsystem takes care of the timer tick state and can
fix up accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Don't stop the tick if we have pending irq works on the
queue, otherwise if the arch can't raise self-IPIs, we may not
find an opportunity to execute the pending works for a while.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
We need some quick way to check if the CPU has stopped
its tick. This will be useful to implement the printk tick
using the irq work subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The prediction for future is difficult and when the cpuidle governor prediction
fails and govenor possibly choose the shallower C-state than it should. How to
quickly notice and find the failure becomes important for power saving.
cpuidle menu governor has a method to predict the repeat pattern if there are 8
C-states residency which are continuous and the same or very close, so it will
predict the next C-states residency will keep same residency time.
There is a real case that turbostat utility (tools/power/x86/turbostat)
at kernel 3.3 or early. turbostat utility will read 10 registers one by one at
Sandybridge, so it will generate 10 IPIs to wake up idle CPUs. So cpuidle menu
governor will predict it is repeat mode and there is another IPI wake up idle
CPU soon, so it keeps idle CPU stay at C1 state even though CPU is totally
idle. However, in the turbostat, following 10 registers reading is sleep 5
seconds by default, so the idle CPU will keep at C1 for a long time though it is
idle until break event occurs.
In a idle Sandybridge system, run "./turbostat -v", we will notice that deep
C-state dangles between "70% ~ 99%". After patched the kernel, we will notice
deep C-state stays at >99.98%.
In the patch, a timer is added when menu governor detects a repeat mode and
choose a shallow C-state. The timer is set to a time out value that greater
than predicted time, and we conclude repeat mode prediction failure if timer is
triggered. When repeat mode happens as expected, the timer is not triggered
and CPU waken up from C-states and it will cancel the timer initiatively.
When repeat mode does not happen, the timer will be time out and menu governor
will quickly notice that the repeat mode prediction fails and then re-evaluates
deeper C-states possibility.
Below is another case which will clearly show the patch much benefit:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <pthread.h>
volatile int * shutdown;
volatile long * count;
int delay = 20;
int loop = 8;
void usage(void)
{
fprintf(stderr,
"Usage: idle_predict [options]\n"
" --help -h Print this help\n"
" --thread -n Thread number\n"
" --loop -l Loop times in shallow Cstate\n"
" --delay -t Sleep time (uS)in shallow Cstate\n");
}
void *simple_loop() {
int idle_num = 1;
while (!(*shutdown)) {
*count = *count + 1;
if (idle_num % loop)
usleep(delay);
else {
/* sleep 1 second */
usleep(1000000);
idle_num = 0;
}
idle_num++;
}
}
static void sighand(int sig)
{
*shutdown = 1;
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
sigset_t sigset;
int signum = SIGALRM;
int i, c, er = 0, thread_num = 8;
pthread_t pt[1024];
static char optstr[] = "n:l:t:h:";
while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, optstr)) != EOF)
switch (c) {
case 'n':
thread_num = atoi(optarg);
break;
case 'l':
loop = atoi(optarg);
break;
case 't':
delay = atoi(optarg);
break;
case 'h':
default:
usage();
exit(1);
}
printf("thread=%d,loop=%d,delay=%d\n",thread_num,loop,delay);
count = malloc(sizeof(long));
shutdown = malloc(sizeof(int));
*count = 0;
*shutdown = 0;
sigemptyset(&sigset);
sigaddset(&sigset, signum);
sigprocmask (SIG_BLOCK, &sigset, NULL);
signal(SIGINT, sighand);
signal(SIGTERM, sighand);
for(i = 0; i < thread_num ; i++)
pthread_create(&pt[i], NULL, simple_loop, NULL);
for (i = 0; i < thread_num; i++)
pthread_join(pt[i], NULL);
exit(0);
}
Get powertop V2 from git://github.com/fenrus75/powertop, build powertop.
After build the above test application, then run it.
Test plaform can be Intel Sandybridge or other recent platforms.
#./idle_predict -l 10 &
#./powertop
We will find that deep C-state will dangle between 40%~100% and much time spent
on C1 state. It is because menu governor wrongly predict that repeat mode
is kept, so it will choose the C1 shallow C-state even though it has chance to
sleep 1 second in deep C-state.
While after patched the kernel, we find that deep C-state will keep >99.6%.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Now that timekeeping is protected by its own locks, rename
the xtime_lock to jifffies_lock to better describe what it
protects.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Commit f1b8274 ("clocksource: Cleanup clocksource selection") removed all
external references to clocksource_jiffies so there is no need to have the
symbol globally visible.
Fixes the following sparse warning:
CHECK kernel/time/jiffies.c kernel/time/jiffies.c:61:20: warning: symbol 'clocksource_jiffies' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
This patch removes the timecompare code from the kernel. The top five
reasons to do this are:
1. There are no more users of this code.
2. The original idea was a bit weak.
3. The original author has disappeared.
4. The code was not general purpose but tuned to a particular hardware,
5. There are better ways to accomplish clock synchronization.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the comments of function tick_sched_timer(), the sentence
"timer->base->cpu_base->lock held" is not right.
In function __run_hrtimer(), before call timer->function(),
the cpu_base->lock has been unlocked.
Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: fei.li@intel.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351098455.15558.1421.camel@cliu38-desktop-build
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In the comments of function tick_sched_timer(), the sentence
"timer->base->cpu_base->lock held" is not right.
In function __run_hrtimer(), before call timer->function(),
the cpu_base->lock has been unlocked.
Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: fei.li@intel.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351098455.15558.1421.camel@cliu38-desktop-build
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This optimize a bit the high res tick sched handler.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Besides unifying code, this also adds the idle check before
processing idle accounting specifics on the low res handler.
This way we also generalize this part of the nohz code for
!CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS to prepare for the adaptive tickless
features.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Unify the duplicated timekeeping handling code of low and high res tick
sched handlers.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Pull timer core update from Thomas Gleixner:
- Bug fixes (one for a longstanding dead loop issue)
- Rework of time related vsyscalls
- Alarm timer updates
- Jiffies updates to remove compile time dependencies
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timekeeping: Cast raw_interval to u64 to avoid shift overflow
timers: Fix endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer()
time/jiffies: bring back unconditional LATCH definition
time: Convert x86_64 to using new update_vsyscall
time: Only do nanosecond rounding on GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD systems
time: Introduce new GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
time: Convert CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL to CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
time: Move update_vsyscall definitions to timekeeper_internal.h
time: Move timekeeper structure to timekeeper_internal.h for vsyscall changes
jiffies: Remove compile time assumptions about CLOCK_TICK_RATE
jiffies: Kill unused TICK_USEC_TO_NSEC
alarmtimer: Rename alarmtimer_remove to alarmtimer_dequeue
alarmtimer: Remove unused helpers & defines
alarmtimer: Use hrtimer per-alarm instead of per-base
alarmtimer: Implement minimum alarm interval for allowing suspend
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A CPU hotplug related crash fix and a nohz accounting fixlet."
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Update sched_domains_numa_masks[][] when new cpus are onlined
sched: Ensure 'sched_domains_numa_levels' is safe to use in other functions
nohz: Fix one jiffy count too far in idle cputime
We fixed a bunch of integer overflows in timekeeping code during the 3.6
cycle. I did an audit based on that and found this potential overflow.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121009071823.GA19159@elgon.mountain
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
When we stop the tick in idle, we save the current jiffies value
in ts->idle_jiffies. This snapshot is substracted from the later
value of jiffies when the tick is restarted and the resulting
delta is accounted as idle cputime. This is how we handle the
idle cputime accounting without the tick.
But sometimes we need to schedule the next tick to some time in
the future instead of completely stopping it. In this case, a
tick may happen before we restart the periodic behaviour and
from that tick we account one jiffy to idle cputime as usual but
we also increment the ts->idle_jiffies snapshot by one so that
when we compute the delta to account, we substract the one jiffy
we just accounted.
To prepare for stopping the tick outside idle, we introduced a
check that prevents from fixing up that ts->idle_jiffies if we
are not running the idle task. But we use idle_cpu() for that
and this is a problem if we run the tick while another CPU
remotely enqueues a ttwu to our runqueue:
CPU 0: CPU 1:
tick_sched_timer() { ttwu_queue_remote()
if (idle_cpu(CPU 0))
ts->idle_jiffies++;
}
Here, idle_cpu() notes that &rq->wake_list is not empty and
hence won't consider the CPU as idle. As a result,
ts->idle_jiffies won't be incremented. But this is wrong because
we actually account the current jiffy to idle cputime. And that
jiffy won't get substracted from the nohz time delta. So in the
end, this jiffy is accounted twice.
Fix this by changing idle_cpu(smp_processor_id()) with
is_idle_task(current). This way the jiffy is substracted
correctly even if a ttwu operation is enqueued on the CPU.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.5+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349308004-3482-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Frederic Weisbecker