Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the
various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on
xtime_lock.
Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens
since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition,
this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on
many-core systems.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100727210210.58d3118c@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Norbert reported that nohz_ratelimit() causes his laptop to burn about
4W (40%) extra. For now back out the change and see if we can adjust
the power management code to make better decisions.
Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Commit 0224cf4c5e (sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us())
broke things by not making sure preemption was indeed disabled
by the callers of nr_iowait_cpu() which took the iowait value of
the current cpu.
This resulted in a heap of preempt warnings. Cure this by making
nr_iowait_cpu() take a cpu number and fix up the callers to pass
in the right number.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1277968037.1868.120.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Chris Wedgwood reports that 39c0cbe (sched: Rate-limit nohz) causes a
serial console regression, unresponsiveness, and indeed it does. The
reason is that the nohz code is skipped even when the tick was already
stopped before the nohz_ratelimit(cpu) condition changed.
Move the nohz_ratelimit() check to the other conditions which prevent
long idle sleeps.
Reported-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Tested-by: Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be>
LKML-Reference: <1276790557.27822.516.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In the new push model, all idle CPUs indeed go into nohz mode. There is
still the concept of idle load balancer (performing the load balancing
on behalf of all the idle cpu's in the system). Busy CPU kicks the nohz
balancer when any of the nohz CPUs need idle load balancing.
The kickee CPU does the idle load balancing on behalf of all idle CPUs
instead of the normal idle balance.
This addresses the below two problems with the current nohz ilb logic:
* the idle load balancer continued to have periodic ticks during idle and
wokeup frequently, even though it did not have any rebalancing to do on
behalf of any of the idle CPUs.
* On x86 and CPUs that have APIC timer stoppage on idle CPUs, this
periodic wakeup can result in a periodic additional interrupt on a CPU
doing the timer broadcast.
Also currently we are migrating the unpinned timers from an idle to the cpu
doing idle load balancing (when all the cpus in the system are idle,
there is no idle load balancing cpu and timers get added to the same idle cpu
where the request was made. So the existing optimization works only on semi idle
system).
And In semi idle system, we no longer have periodic ticks on the idle load
balancer CPU. Using that cpu will add more delays to the timers than intended
(as that cpu's timer base may not be uptodate wrt jiffies etc). This was
causing mysterious slowdowns during boot etc.
For now, in the semi idle case, use the nearest busy cpu for migrating timers
from an idle cpu. This is good for power-savings anyway.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1274486981.2840.46.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For the ondemand cpufreq governor, it is desired that the iowait
time is microaccounted in a similar way as idle time is.
This patch introduces the infrastructure to account and expose
this information via the get_cpu_iowait_time_us() function.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NO_HZ=n build]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20100509082523.284feab6@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that the only user of ts->idle_lastupdate is
update_ts_time_stats(), the entire field can be eliminated.
In update_ts_time_stats(), idle_lastupdate is first set to
"now", and a few lines later, the only user is an if() statement
that assigns a variable either to "now" or to
ts->idle_lastupdate, which has the value of "now" at that point.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20100509082439.2fab0b4f@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch folds the updating of the last_update_time into the
update_ts_time_stats() function, and updates the callers.
This allows for further cleanups that are done in the next
patch.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20100509082403.60072967@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Right now, get_cpu_idle_time_us() only reports the idle
statistics upto the point the CPU entered last idle; not what is
valid right now.
This patch adds an update of the idle statistics to
get_cpu_idle_time_us(), so that calling this function always
returns statistics that are accurate at the point of the call.
This includes resetting the start of the idle time for
accounting purposes to avoid double accounting.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20100509082323.2d2f1945@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently, two places update the idle statistics (and more to
come later in this series).
This patch creates a helper function for updating these
statistics.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20100509082245.163e67ed@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The exported function get_cpu_idle_time_us() has no comment
describing it; add a kerneldoc comment
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20100509082208.7cb721f0@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Entering nohz code on every micro-idle is costing ~10% throughput for netperf
TCP_RR when scheduling cross-cpu. Rate limiting entry fixes this, but raises
ticks a bit. On my Q6600, an idle box goes from ~85 interrupts/sec to 128.
The higher the context switch rate, the more nohz entry costs. With this patch
and some cycle recovery patches in my tree, max cross cpu context switch rate is
improved by ~16%, a large portion of which of which is this ratelimiting.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301003.6785.28.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timers, init: Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootup messages
posix-cpu-timers: optimize and document timer_create callback
clockevents: Add missing include to pacify sparse
x86: vmiclock: Fix printk format
x86: Fix printk format due to variable type change
sparc: fix printk for change of variable type
clocksource/events: Fix fallout of generic code changes
nohz: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds
nohz: Track last do_timer() cpu
nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle
nohz: Type cast printk argument
mips: Use generic mult/shift factor calculation for clocks
clocksource: Provide a generic mult/shift factor calculation
clockevents: Use u32 for mult and shift factors
nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu
nohz: Reuse ktime in sub-functions of tick_check_idle.
time: Remove xtime_cache
time: Implement logarithmic time accumulation
The previous patch which limits the sleep time to the maximum
deferment time of the time keeping clocksource has some limitations on
SMP machines: if all CPUs are idle then for all CPUs the maximum sleep
time is limited.
Solve this by keeping track of which cpu had the do_timer() duty
assigned last and limit the sleep time only for this cpu.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
The dynamic tick allows the kernel to sleep for periods longer than a
single tick, but it does not limit the sleep time currently. In the
worst case the kernel could sleep longer than the wrap around time of
the time keeping clock source which would result in losing track of
time.
Prevent this by limiting it to the safe maximum sleep time of the
current time keeping clock source. The value is calculated when the
clock source is registered.
[ tglx: simplified the code a bit and massaged the commit msg ]
Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-2-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
On some archs local_softirq_pending() has a data type of unsigned long
on others its unsigned int. Type cast it to (unsigned int) in the
printk to avoid the compiler warning.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Allow the architecture to request a normal jiffy tick when the system
goes idle and tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick is called . On s390 the hook is
used to prevent the system going fully idle if there has been an
interrupt other than a clock comparator interrupt since the last wakeup.
On s390 the HiperSockets response time for 1 connection ping-pong goes
down from 42 to 34 microseconds. The CPU cost decreases by 27%.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.402715150@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
On a system with NOHZ=y tick_check_idle calls tick_nohz_stop_idle and
tick_nohz_update_jiffies. Given the right conditions (ts->idle_active
and/or ts->tick_stopped) both function get a time stamp with ktime_get.
The same time stamp can be reused if both function require one.
On s390 this change has the additional benefit that gcc inlines the
tick_nohz_stop_idle function into tick_check_idle. The number of
instructions to execute tick_check_idle drops from 225 to 144
(without the ktime_get optimization it is 367 vs 215 instructions).
before:
0) | tick_check_idle() {
0) | tick_nohz_stop_idle() {
0) | ktime_get() {
0) | read_tod_clock() {
0) 0.601 us | }
0) 1.765 us | }
0) 3.047 us | }
0) | ktime_get() {
0) | read_tod_clock() {
0) 0.570 us | }
0) 1.727 us | }
0) | tick_do_update_jiffies64() {
0) 0.609 us | }
0) 8.055 us | }
after:
0) | tick_check_idle() {
0) | ktime_get() {
0) | read_tod_clock() {
0) 0.617 us | }
0) 1.773 us | }
0) | tick_do_update_jiffies64() {
0) 0.593 us | }
0) 4.477 us | }
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.206589318@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Commit f2e21c9610 had unfortunate side
effects with cpufreq governors on some systems.
If the system did not switch into NOHZ mode ts->inidle is not set when
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() is called from the idle routine. Therefor
all subsequent calls from irq_exit() to tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
fail to call tick_nohz_start_idle(). This results in bogus idle
accounting information which is passed to cpufreq governors.
Set the inidle flag unconditionally of the NOHZ active state to keep
the idle time accounting correct in any case.
[ tglx: Added comment and tweaked the changelog ]
Reported-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Eero Nurkkala <ext-eero.nurkkala@nokia.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1254907901.30157.93.camel@eenurkka-desktop>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
A call from irq_exit() may occasionally pause the timing
info for cpufreq ondemand governor. This results in the
cpufreq ondemand governor to fail to calculate the
system load properly. Thus, relocate the checks for this
particular case to keep the governor always functional.
Signed-off-by: Eero Nurkkala <ext-eero.nurkkala@nokia.com>
Reported-by: Tero Kristo <tero.kristo@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:
The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked:
1)sched_rt_period_timer
2)tick_sched_timer
3)stack_trace_timer_fn
[ tglx: fixup the hrtimer pinned mode ]
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: cleanup, reduce kernel size a bit, avoid sparse warning
Fixes sparse warning:
kernel/time/tick-sched.c:137:6: warning: symbol 'tick_nohz_update_jiffies' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is
currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures
that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the
time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first
is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time.
The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not
the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle
process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true
idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time
instead of just testing for the idle process.
To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture
primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context
points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu.
In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process.
This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should
be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as
every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle
time.
This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to
distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with
support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The utimescaled / stimescaled fields in the task structure and the
global cpustat should be set on all architectures. On s390 the calls
to account_user_time_scaled and account_system_time_scaled never have
been added. In addition system time that is accounted as guest time
to the user time of a process is accounted to the scaled system time
instead of the scaled user time.
To fix the bugs and to prevent future forgetfulness this patch merges
account_system_time_scaled into account_system_time and
account_user_time_scaled into account_user_time.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
In my device I get many interrupts from a high speed USB device in a very
short period of time. The system spends a lot of time reprogramming the
hardware timer which is in a slower timing domain as compared to the CPU.
This results in the CPU spending a huge amount of time waiting for the
timer posting to be done. All of this reprogramming is useless as the
wake up time has not changed.
As measured using ETM trace this drops my reprogramming penalty from
almost 60% CPU load down to 15% during high interrupt rate. I can send
traces to show this.
Suppress setting of duplicate timer event when timer already stopped.
Timer programming can be very costly and can result in long cpu stall/wait
times.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[tglx@linutronix.de: move the check to the right place and avoid raising
the softirq for nothing]
Signed-off-by: Richard Woodruff <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: remove false positive warning
After a cpu was taken down during cpu hotplug (read: disabled for interrupts)
it still might have pending softirqs. However take_cpu_down makes sure
that the idle task will run next instead of ksoftirqd on the taken down cpu.
The idle task will call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick which might warn about
pending softirqs just before the cpu kills itself completely.
However the pending softirqs on the dead cpu aren't a problem because they
will be moved to an online cpu during CPU_DEAD handling.
So make sure we warn only for online cpus.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, move all hrtimer processing into hardirq context
This is an attempt at removing some of the hrtimer complexity by
reducing the number of callback modes to 1.
This means that all hrtimer callback functions will be ran from HARD-irq
context.
I went through all the 30 odd hrtimer callback functions in the kernel
and saw only one that I'm not quite sure of, which is the one in
net/can/bcm.c - hence I'm CC-ing the folks responsible for that code.
Furthermore, the hrtimer core now calls callbacks directly with IRQs
disabled in case you try to enqueue an expired timer. If this timer is a
periodic timer (which should use hrtimer_forward() to advance its time)
then it might be possible to end up in an inf. recursive loop due to the
fact that hrtimer_forward() doesn't round up to the next timer
granularity, and therefore keeps on calling the callback - obviously
this needs a fix.
Aside from that, this seems to compile and actually boot on my dual core
test box - although I'm sure there are some bugs in, me not hitting any
makes me certain :-)
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.
Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: nohz powersavings and wakeup regression
commit fb02fbc14d (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter()) causes a serious wakeup regression.
While the patch is correct it does not take into account that spurious
wakeups happen on x86. A fix for this issue is available, but we just
revert to the .27 behaviour and let long running softirqs screw
themself.
Disable it for now.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
commit fb02fbc14d (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter())
solves the problem of stale jiffies when long running softirqs happen
in a long idle sleep period, but it has a major thinko in it:
When the interrupt which came in _is_ the timer interrupt which should
expire ts->sched_timer then we cancel and rearm the timer _before_ it
gets expired in hrtimer_interrupt() to the next period. That means the
call back function is not called. This game can go on for ever :(
Prevent this by making sure to only rearm the timer when the expiry
time is more than one tick_period away. Otherwise keep it running as
it is either already expired or will expiry at the right point to
update jiffies.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Venkatesch Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
We did not restart the tick device from irq_enter() to avoid double
reprogramming and extra events in the return immediate to idle case.
But long lasting softirqs can lead to a situation where jiffies become
stale:
idle()
tick stopped (reprogrammed to next pending timer)
halt()
interrupt
jiffies updated from irq_enter()
interrupt handler
softirq function 1 runs 20ms
softirq function 2 arms a 10ms timer with a stale jiffies value
jiffies updated from irq_exit()
timer wheel has now an already expired timer
(the one added in function 2)
timer fires and timer softirq runs
This was discovered when debugging a timer problem which happend only
when the ath5k driver is active. The debugging proved that there is a
softirq function running for more than 20ms, which is a bug by itself.
To solve this we restart the tick timer right from irq_enter(), but do
not go through the other functions which are necessary to return from
idle when need_resched() is set.
Reported-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
We have two separate nohz function calls in irq_enter() for no good
reason. Just call a single NOHZ function from irq_enter() and call
the bits in the tick code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
export get_cpu_idle_time_us() for it to be used in ondemand governor.
Last update time can be current time when the CPU is currently non-idle,
accounting for the busy time since last idle.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU
The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to
prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is
active at migration time.
Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable
mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which
is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: possible hang on CPU onlining in timer one shot mode.
The tick_next_period variable is only used during boot on nohz/highres
enabled systems, but for CPU onlining it needs to be maintained when
the per cpu clock events device operates in one shot mode.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: rare hang which can be triggered on CPU online.
tick_do_timer_cpu keeps track of the CPU which updates jiffies
via do_timer. The value -1 is used to signal, that currently no
CPU is doing this. There are two cases, where the variable can
have this state:
boot:
necessary for systems where the boot cpu id can be != 0
nohz long idle sleep:
When the CPU which did the jiffies update last goes into
a long idle sleep it drops the update jiffies duty so
another CPU which is not idle can pick it up and keep
jiffies going.
Using the same value for both situations is wrong, as the CPU online
code can see the -1 state when the timer of the newly onlined CPU is
setup. The setup for a newly onlined CPU goes through periodic mode
and can pick up the do_timer duty without being aware of the nohz /
highres mode of the already running system.
Use two separate states and make them constants to avoid magic
numbers confusion.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In order to be able to do range hrtimers we need to use accessor functions
to the "expire" member of the hrtimer struct.
This patch converts kernel/* to these accessors.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
If HLT stops the TSC, we'll fail to account idle time, thereby inflating the
actual process times. Fix this by re-calibrating the clock against GTOD when
leaving nohz mode.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On the tickless system(CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n), after
I made an offlined cpu online, I found this cpu's event handler was
tick_handle_periodic, not tick_nohz_handler.
After debuging, I found this bug was caused by the wrong tick mode. the
tick mode is not changed to NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE when the cpu is offline.
This patch fixes this bug.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Avoid deadlocks against rq->lock and xtime_lock by deferring the klogd
wakeup by polling from the timer tick.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Found an interactivity problem on a quad core test-system - simple
CPU loops would occasionally delay the system un an unacceptable way.
After much debugging with Peter Zijlstra it turned out that the problem
is caused by the string of sched_clock() changes - they caused the CPU
clock to jump backwards a bit - which confuses the scheduler arithmetics.
(which is unsigned for performance reasons)
So revert:
# c300ba2: sched_clock: and multiplier for TSC to gtod drift
# c0c8773: sched_clock: only update deltas with local reads.
# af52a90: sched_clock: stop maximum check on NO HZ
# f7cce27: sched_clock: widen the max and min time
This solves the interactivity problems.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
nohz: adjust tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() call of s390 as well
nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loop
Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
problem in the NOHZ code:
scheduler switch to idle task
enable interrupts
Window starts here
----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
irq_exit() stops the tick
----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)
return from schedule()
cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();
Window ends here
The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
disabled.
The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.
Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
that we can not run into such a situation ever again.
cpu_idle()
{
preempt_disable();
while(1) {
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we
are in the idle loop
while (!need_resched())
halt();
tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode
preempt_enable_no_resched();
schedule();
preempt_disable();
}
}
In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ...
/me grabs a large brown paperbag.
Debugged-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com>,
Debugged-by: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'timers/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: add PCI ID for 6300ESB force hpet
x86: add another PCI ID for ICH6 force-hpet
kernel-paramaters: document pmtmr= command line option
acpi_pm clccksource: fix printk format warning
nohz: don't stop idle tick if softirqs are pending.
pmtmr: allow command line override of ioport
nohz: reduce jiffies polling overhead
hrtimer: Remove unused variables in ktime_divns()
hrtimer: remove warning in hres_timers_resume
posix-timers: print RT watchdog message
Working with ftrace I would get large jumps of 11 millisecs or more with
the clock tracer. This killed the latencing timings of ftrace and also
caused the irqoff self tests to fail.
What was happening is with NO_HZ the idle would stop the jiffy counter and
before the jiffy counter was updated the sched_clock would have a bad
delta jiffies to compare with the gtod with the maximum.
The jiffies would stop and the last sched_tick would record the last gtod.
On wakeup, the sched clock update would compare the gtod + delta jiffies
(which would be zero) and compare it to the TSC. The TSC would have
correctly (with a stable TSC) moved forward several jiffies. But because the
jiffies has not been updated yet the clock would be prevented from moving
forward because it would appear that the TSC jumped too far ahead.
The clock would then virtually stop, until the jiffies are updated. Then
the next sched clock update would see that the clock was very much behind
since the delta jiffies is now correct. This would then jump the clock
forward by several jiffies.
This caused ftrace to report several milliseconds of interrupts off
latency at every resume from NO_HZ idle.
This patch adds hooks into the nohz code to disable the checking of the
maximum clock update when nohz is in effect. It resumes the max check
when nohz has updated the jiffies again.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In case a cpu goes idle but softirqs are pending only an error message is
printed to the console. It may take a very long time until the pending
softirqs will finally be executed. Worst case would be a hanging system.
With this patch the timer tick just continues and the softirqs will be
executed after the next interrupt. Still a delay but better than a
hanging system.
Currently we have at least two device drivers on s390 which under certain
circumstances schedule a tasklet from process context. This is a reason
why we can end up with pending softirqs when going idle. Fixing these
drivers seems to be non-trivial.
However there is no question that the drivers should be fixed.
This patch shouldn't be considered as a bug fix. It just is intended to
keep a system running even if device drivers are buggy.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix (probably theoretical only) rq->clock update bug:
in tick_nohz_update_jiffies() [which is called on all irq
entry on all cpus where the irq entry hits an idle cpu] we
call touch_softlockup_watchdog() before we update jiffies.
That works fine most of the time when idle timeouts are within
60 seconds. But when an idle timeout is beyond 60 seconds,
jiffies is updated with a jump of more than 60 seconds,
which causes a jump in cpu-clock of more than 60 seconds,
triggering a false positive.
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
David Miller reported:
|--------------->
the following commit:
| commit 27ec440779
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| Date: Thu Feb 28 21:00:21 2008 +0100
|
| sched: make cpu_clock() globally synchronous
|
| Alexey Zaytsev reported (and bisected) that the introduction of
| cpu_clock() in printk made the timestamps jump back and forth.
|
| Make cpu_clock() more reliable while still keeping it fast when it's
| called frequently.
|
| Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
causes watchdog triggers when a cpu exits NOHZ state when it has been
there for >= the soft lockup threshold, for example here are some
messages from a 128 cpu Niagara2 box:
[ 168.106406] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#11 stuck for 128s! [dd:3239]
[ 168.989592] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#21 stuck for 86s! [swapper:0]
[ 168.999587] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#29 stuck for 91s! [make:4511]
[ 168.999615] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 85s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.020514] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#37 stuck for 91s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.020514] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#45 stuck for 91s! [sh:4515]
[ 169.020515] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#69 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.020515] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#77 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.020515] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#61 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.112554] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#85 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.112554] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#101 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.112554] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#109 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.112554] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#117 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.171483] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#40 stuck for 80s! [dd:3239]
[ 169.331483] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#13 stuck for 86s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.351500] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#43 stuck for 101s! [dd:3239]
[ 169.531482] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 129s! [mkdir:4565]
[ 169.595754] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#20 stuck for 93s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.626787] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#52 stuck for 93s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.626787] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#84 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[ 169.636812] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#116 stuck for 94s! [swapper:0]
It's simple enough to trigger this by doing a 10 minute sleep after a
fresh bootup then starting a parallel kernel build.
I suspect this might be reintroducing a problem we've had and fixed
before, see the thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119546414004065&w=2
<---------------|
touch the softlockup watchdog when exiting NOHZ state - we are
obviously not locked up.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Various SMP balancing algorithms require that the bandwidth period
run in sync.
Possible improvements are moving the rt_bandwidth thing into root_domain
and keeping a span per rt_bandwidth which marks throttled cpus.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Call
ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
and
cpu = smp_processor_id();
once instead of twice.
No functional change done, as changed code runs with local irq off.
Reduces source lines and text size (20bytes on x86_64).
[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: Build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Silences WARN_ONs in rcu_enter_nohz() and rcu_exit_nohz(), which appeared
before caused by (repeated) calls to:
$ echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
$ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The PREEMPT-RCU can get stuck if a CPU goes idle and NO_HZ is set. The
idle CPU will not progress the RCU through its grace period and a
synchronize_rcu my get stuck. Without this patch I have a box that will
not boot when PREEMPT_RCU and NO_HZ are set. That same box boots fine
with this patch.
This patch comes from the -rt kernel where it has been tested for
several months.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Function timekeeping_is_continuous() no longer checks flag
CLOCK_IS_CONTINUOUS, and it checks CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES now. So rename
the function accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
To allow better diagnosis of tick-sched related, especially NOHZ
related problems, we need to know when the last wakeup via an irq
happened and when the CPU left the idle state.
Add two fields (idle_waketime, idle_exittime) to the tick_sched
structure and add them to the timer_list output.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Current idle time in kstat is based on jiffies and is coarse grained.
tick_sched.idle_sleeptime is making some attempt to keep track of idle time
in a fine grained manner. But, it is not handling the time spent in
interrupts fully.
Make tick_sched.idle_sleeptime accurate with respect to time spent on
handling interrupts and also add tick_sched.idle_lastupdate, which keeps
track of last time when idle_sleeptime was updated.
This statistics will be crucial for cpufreq-ondemand governor, which can
shed some conservative gaurd band that is uses today while setting the
frequency. The ondemand changes that uses the exact idle time is coming
soon.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
I was confused by FSEC = 10^15 NSEC statement, plus small whitespace
fixes. When there's copyright, there should be GPL.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Small cleanups to tick-related code. Wrong preempt count is followed
by BUG(), so it is hardly KERN_WARNING.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In order to more easily allow for the scheduler to use timers, clean up
the locking a bit.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We need to teach no_hz about the rt throttling because its tick driven.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
David Miller reported soft lockup false-positives that trigger
on NOHZ due to CPUs idling for more than 10 seconds.
The solution is touch the softlockup watchdog when we return from
idle. (by definition we are not 'locked up' when we were idle)
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9409
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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>
This patch removes the unused
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_get_sleep_length).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (41 commits)
ACPICA: hw: Don't carry spinlock over suspend
ACPICA: hw: remove use_lock flag from acpi_hw_register_{read, write}
ACPI: cpuidle: port idle timer suspend/resume workaround to cpuidle
ACPI: clean up acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep
Hibernation: Make sure that ACPI is enabled in acpi_hibernation_finish
ACPI: suppress uninitialized var warning
cpuidle: consolidate 2.6.22 cpuidle branch into one patch
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: skip blanks before the data when parsing sysfs
ACPI: AC: Add sysfs interface
ACPI: SBS: Add sysfs alarm
ACPI: SBS: Add ACPI_PROCFS around procfs handling code.
ACPI: SBS: Add support for power_supply class (and sysfs)
ACPI: SBS: Make SBS reads table-driven.
ACPI: SBS: Simplify data structures in SBS
ACPI: SBS: Split host controller (ACPI0001) from SBS driver (ACPI0002)
ACPI: EC: Add new query handler to list head.
ACPI: Add acpi_bus_generate_event4() function
ACPI: Battery: add sysfs alarm
ACPI: Battery: Add sysfs support
ACPI: Battery: Misc clean-ups, no functional changes
...
Fix up conflicts in drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.[ch] manually
To avoid lock contention, we distribute the sched_timer calls across the
cpus so they do not trigger at the same instant. However, I used NR_CPUS,
which can cause needless grouping on small smp systems depending on your
kernel config. This patch converts to using num_possible_cpus() so we
spread it as evenly as possible on every machine.
Briefly tested w/ NR_CPUS=255 and verified reduced contention.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
commit e5a16b1f9eec0af7cfa0830304b41c1c0833cf9f
Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Date: Tue Oct 2 23:44:44 2007 -0400
cpuidle: shrink diff
processor_idle.c | 440 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 429 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit dfbb9d5aedfb18848a3e0d6f6e3e4969febb209c
Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Date: Wed Sep 26 02:17:55 2007 -0400
cpuidle: reduce diff size
Reduces the cpuidle processor_idle.c diff vs 2.6.22 from this
processor_idle.c | 2006 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 1219 insertions(+), 787 deletions(-)
to this:
processor_idle.c | 502 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 458 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
...for the purpose of making the cpuilde patch less invasive
and easier to review.
no functional changes. build tested only.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 889172fc915f5a7fe20f35b133cbd205ce69bf6c
Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Thu Sep 13 13:40:05 2007 -0700
cpuidle: Retain old ACPI policy for !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
Retain the old policy in processor_idle, so that when CPU_IDLE is not
configured, old C-state policy will still be used. This provides a
clean gradual migration path from old ACPI policy to new cpuidle
based policy.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 9544a8181edc7ecc33b3bfd69271571f98ed08bc
Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Thu Sep 13 13:39:17 2007 -0700
cpuidle: Configure governors by default
Quoting Len "Do not give an option to users to shoot themselves in the foot".
Remove the configurability of ladder and menu governors as they are
needed for default policy of cpuidle. That way users will not be able to
have cpuidle without any policy loosing all C-state power savings.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 8975059a2c1e56cfe83d1bcf031bcf4cb39be743
Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Date: Tue Aug 21 18:27:07 2007 -0400
CPUIDLE: load ACPI properly when CPUIDLE is disabled
Change the registration return codes for when CPUIDLE
support is not compiled into the kernel. As a result, the ACPI
processor driver will load properly even if CPUIDLE is unavailable.
However, it may be possible to cleanup the ACPI processor driver further
and eliminate some dead code paths.
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit e0322e2b58dd1b12ec669bf84693efe0dc2414a8
Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Date: Tue Aug 21 18:26:06 2007 -0400
CPUIDLE: remove cpuidle_get_bm_activity()
Remove cpuidle_get_bm_activity() and updates governors
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 18a6e770d5c82ba26653e53d240caa617e09e9ab
Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Date: Tue Aug 21 18:25:58 2007 -0400
CPUIDLE: max_cstate fix
Currently max_cstate is limited to 0, resulting in no idle processor
power management on ACPI platforms. This patch restores the value to
the array size.
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 1fdc0887286179b40ce24bcdbde663172e205ef0
Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Date: Tue Aug 21 18:25:40 2007 -0400
CPUIDLE: handle BM detection inside the ACPI Processor driver
Update the ACPI processor driver to detect BM activity and
limit state entry depth internally, rather than exposing such
requirements to CPUIDLE. As a result, CPUIDLE can drop this
ACPI-specific interface and become more platform independent. BM
activity is now handled much more aggressively than it was in the
original implementation, so some testing coverage may be needed to
verify that this doesn't introduce any DMA buffer under-run issues.
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 0ef38840db666f48e3cdd2b769da676c57228dd9
Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Date: Tue Aug 21 18:25:14 2007 -0400
CPUIDLE: menu governor updates
Tweak the menu governor to more effectively handle non-timer
break events. Non-timer break events are detected by comparing the
actual sleep time to the expected sleep time. In future revisions, it
may be more reliable to use the timer data structures directly.
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit bb4d74fca63fa96cf3ace644b15ae0f12b7df5a1
Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Date: Tue Aug 21 18:24:40 2007 -0400
CPUIDLE: fix 'current_governor' sysfs entry
Allow the "current_governor" sysfs entry to properly handle
input terminated with '\n'.
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit df3c71559bb69b125f1a48971bf0d17f78bbdf47
Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Date: Sun Aug 12 02:00:45 2007 -0400
cpuidle: fix IA64 build (again)
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit a02064579e3f9530fd31baae16b1fc46b5a7bca8
Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Sun Aug 12 01:39:27 2007 -0400
cpuidle: Remove support for runtime changing of max_cstate
Remove support for runtime changeability of max_cstate. Drivers can use
use latency APIs.
max_cstate can still be used as a boot time option and dmi override.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 0912a44b13adf22f5e3f607d263aed23b4910d7e
Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Sun Aug 12 01:39:16 2007 -0400
cpuidle: Remove ACPI cstate_limit calls from ipw2100
ipw2100 already has code to use accetable_latency interfaces to limit the
C-state. Remove the calls to acpi_set_cstate_limit and acpi_get_cstate_limit
as they are redundant.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit c649a76e76be6bff1fd770d0a775798813a3f6e0
Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Sun Aug 12 01:35:39 2007 -0400
cpuidle: compile fix for pause and resume functions
Fix the compilation failure when cpuidle is not compiled in.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Adam Belay <adam.belay@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 2305a5920fb8ee6ccec1c62ade05aa8351091d71
Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Date: Thu Jul 19 00:49:00 2007 -0400
cpuidle: re-write
Some portions have been rewritten to make the code cleaner and lighter
weight. The following is a list of changes:
1.) the state name is now included in the sysfs interface
2.) detection, hotplug, and available state modifications are handled by
CPUIDLE drivers directly
3.) the CPUIDLE idle handler is only ever installed when at least one
cpuidle_device is enabled and ready
4.) the menu governor BM code no longer overflows
5.) the sysfs attributes are now printed as unsigned integers, avoiding
negative values
6.) a variety of other small cleanups
Also, Idle drivers are no longer swappable during runtime through the
CPUIDLE sysfs inteface. On i386 and x86_64 most idle handlers (e.g.
poll, mwait, halt, etc.) don't benefit from an infrastructure that
supports multiple states, so I think using a more general case idle
handler selection mechanism would be cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit df25b6b56955714e6e24b574d88d1fd11f0c3ee5
Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Date: Tue Jul 24 17:08:21 2007 -0400
cpuidle: fix IA64 buid
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit fd6ada4c14488755ff7068860078c437431fbccd
Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Date: Mon Jul 9 11:33:13 2007 -0700
cpuidle: static
make cpuidle_replace_governor() static
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit c1d4a2cebcadf2429c0c72e1d29aa2a9684c32e0
Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Date: Tue Jul 3 00:54:40 2007 -0400
cpuidle: static
This patch makes the needlessly global struct menu_governor static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit dbf8780c6e8d572c2c273da97ed1cca7608fd999
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue Jul 3 00:49:14 2007 -0400
export symbol tick_nohz_get_sleep_length
ERROR: "tick_nohz_get_sleep_length" [drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "tick_nohz_get_idle_jiffies" [drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.ko] undefined!
And please be sure to get your changes to core kernel suitably reviewed.
Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: 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: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 29f0e248e7017be15f99febf9143a2cef00b2961
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue Jul 3 00:43:04 2007 -0400
tick.h needs hrtimer.h
It uses hrtimers.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit e40cede7d63a029e92712a3fe02faee60cc38fb4
Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Tue Jul 3 00:40:34 2007 -0400
cpuidle: first round of documentation updates
Documentation changes based on Pavel's feedback.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 83b42be2efece386976507555c29e7773a0dfcd1
Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Tue Jul 3 00:39:25 2007 -0400
cpuidle: add rating to the governors and pick the one with highest rating by default
Introduce a governor rating scheme to pick the right governor by default.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit d2a74b8c5e8f22def4709330d4bfc4a29209b71c
Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Tue Jul 3 00:38:08 2007 -0400
cpuidle: make cpuidle sysfs driver governor switch off by default
Make default cpuidle sysfs to show current_governor and current_driver in
read-only mode. More elaborate available_governors and available_drivers with
writeable current_governor and current_driver interface only appear with
"cpuidle_sysfs_switch" boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 1f60a0e80bf83cf6b55c8845bbe5596ed8f6307b
Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Tue Jul 3 00:37:00 2007 -0400
cpuidle: menu governor: change the early break condition
Change the C-state early break out algorithm in menu governor.
We only look at early breakouts that result in wakeups shorter than idle
state's target_residency. If such a breakout is frequent enough, eliminate
the particular idle state upto a timeout period.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 45a42095cf64b003b4a69be3ce7f434f97d7af51
Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Tue Jul 3 00:35:38 2007 -0400
cpuidle: fix uninitialized variable in sysfs routine
Fix the uninitialized usage of ret.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 80dca7cdba3e6ee13eae277660873ab9584eb3be
Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Tue Jul 3 00:34:16 2007 -0400
cpuidle: reenable /proc/acpi//power interface for the time being
Keep /proc/acpi/processor/CPU*/power around for a while as powertop depends
on it. It will be marked deprecated and removed in future. powertop can use
cpuidle interfaces instead.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 589c37c2646c5e3813a51255a5ee1159cb4c33fc
Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Tue Jul 3 00:32:37 2007 -0400
cpuidle: menu governor and hrtimer compile fix
Compile fix for menu governor.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 0ba80bd9ab3ed304cb4f19b722e4cc6740588b5e
Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Date: Thu May 31 22:51:43 2007 -0400
cpuidle: build fix - cpuidle vs ipw2100 module
ERROR: "acpi_set_cstate_limit" [drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.ko] undefined!
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit d7d8fa7f96a7f7682be7c6cc0cc53fa7a18c3b58
Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Date: Sat Mar 24 03:47:07 2007 -0400
cpuidle: add the 'menu' governor
Here is my first take at implementing an idle PM governor that takes
full advantage of NO_HZ. I call it the 'menu' governor because it
considers the full list of idle states before each entry.
I've kept the implementation fairly simple. It attempts to guess the
next residency time and then chooses a state that would meet at least
the break-even point between power savings and entry cost. To this end,
it selects the deepest idle state that satisfies the following
constraints:
1. If the idle time elapsed since bus master activity was detected
is below a threshold (currently 20 ms), then limit the selection
to C2-type or above.
2. Do not choose a state with a break-even residency that exceeds
the expected time remaining until the next timer interrupt.
3. Do not choose a state with a break-even residency that exceeds
the elapsed time between the last pair of break events,
excluding timer interrupts.
This governor has an advantage over "ladder" governor because it
proactively checks how much time remains until the next timer interrupt
using the tick infrastructure. Also, it handles device interrupt
activity more intelligently by not including timer interrupts in break
event calculations. Finally, it doesn't make policy decisions using the
number of state entries, which can have variable residency times (NO_HZ
makes these potentially very large), and instead only considers sleep
time deltas.
The menu governor can be selected during runtime using the cpuidle sysfs
interface like so:
"echo "menu" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_governor"
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit a4bec7e65aa3b7488b879d971651cc99a6c410fe
Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Date: Sat Mar 24 03:47:03 2007 -0400
cpuidle: export time until next timer interrupt using NO_HZ
Expose information about the time remaining until the next
timer interrupt expires by utilizing the dynticks infrastructure.
Also modify the main idle loop to allow dynticks to handle
non-interrupt break events (e.g. DMA). Finally, expose sleep ticks
information to external code. Thomas Gleixner is responsible for much
of the code in this patch. However, I've made some additional changes,
so I'm probably responsible if there are any bugs or oversights :)
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 2929d8996fbc77f41a5ff86bb67cdde3ca7d2d72
Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Date: Sat Mar 24 03:46:58 2007 -0400
cpuidle: governor API changes
This patch prepares cpuidle for the menu governor. It adds an optional
stage after idle state entry to give the governor an opportunity to
check why the state was exited. Also it makes sure the idle loop
returns after each state entry, allowing the appropriate dynticks code
to run.
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 3a7fd42f9825c3b03e364ca59baa751bb350775f
Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Thu Apr 26 00:03:59 2007 -0700
cpuidle: hang fix
Prevent hang on x86-64, when ACPI processor driver is added as a module on
a system that does not support C-states.
x86-64 expects all idle handlers to enable interrupts before returning from
idle handler. This is due to enter_idle(), exit_idle() races. Make
cpuidle_idle_call() confirm to this when there is no pm_idle_old.
Also, cpuidle look at the return values of attch_driver() and set
current_driver to NULL if attach fails on all CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 4893339a142afbd5b7c01ffadfd53d14746e858e
Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Date: Thu Apr 26 10:40:09 2007 +0800
cpuidle: add support for max_cstate limit
With CPUIDLE framework, the max_cstate (to limit max cpu c-state)
parameter is ingored. Some systems require it to ignore C2/C3
and some drivers like ipw require it too.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 43bbbbe1cb998cbd2df656f55bb3bfe30f30e7d1
Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Date: Thu Apr 26 10:40:13 2007 +0800
cpuidle: add cpuidle_fore_redetect_devices API
add cpuidle_force_redetect_devices API,
which forces all CPU redetect idle states.
Next patch will use it.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit d1edadd608f24836def5ec483d2edccfb37b1d19
Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Date: Thu Apr 26 10:40:01 2007 +0800
cpuidle: fix sysfs related issue
Fix the cpuidle sysfs issue.
a. make kobject dynamicaly allocated
b. fixed sysfs init issue to avoid suspend/resume issue
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 7169a5cc0d67b263978859672e86c13c23a5570d
Author: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date: Wed Mar 28 22:52:53 2007 -0400
cpuidle: 1-bit field must be unsigned
A 1-bit bitfield has no room for a sign bit.
drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c:54:16: error: dubious bitfield without explicit `signed' or `unsigned'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 4658620158dc2fbd9e4bcb213c5b6fb5d05ba7d4
Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Wed Mar 28 22:52:41 2007 -0400
cpuidle: fix boot hang
Patch for cpuidle boot hang reported by Larry Finger here.
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0703.2/2025.html
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit c17e168aa6e5fe3851baaae8df2fbc1cf11443a9
Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Date: Wed Mar 7 04:37:53 2007 -0500
cpuidle: ladder does not depend on ACPI
build fix for CONFIG_ACPI=n
In file included from drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c:21:
include/acpi/processor.h:88: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before âacpi_integerâ
include/acpi/processor.h:106: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before âacpi_integerâ
include/acpi/processor.h:168: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before âacpi_handleâ
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 8c91d958246bde68db0c3f0c57b535962ce861cb
Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Date: Tue Mar 6 02:29:40 2007 -0800
cpuidle: make code static
This patch makes the following needlessly global code static:
- driver.c: __cpuidle_find_driver()
- governor.c: __cpuidle_find_governor()
- ladder.c: struct ladder_governor
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 0c39dc3187094c72c33ab65a64d2017b21f372d2
Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Wed Mar 7 02:38:22 2007 -0500
cpu_idle: fix build break
This patch fixes a build breakage with !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU and
CONFIG_CPU_IDLE.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 8112e3b115659b07df340ef170515799c0105f82
Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Tue Mar 6 02:29:39 2007 -0800
cpuidle: build fix for !CPU_IDLE
Fix the compile issues when CPU_IDLE is not configured.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 1eb4431e9599cd25e0d9872f3c2c8986821839dd
Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Thu Feb 22 13:54:57 2007 -0800
cpuidle take2: Basic documentation for cpuidle
Documentation for cpuidle infrastructure
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit ef5f15a8b79123a047285ec2e3899108661df779
Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Thu Feb 22 13:54:03 2007 -0800
cpuidle take2: Hookup ACPI C-states driver with cpuidle
Hookup ACPI C-states onto generic cpuidle infrastructure.
drivers/acpi/procesor_idle.c is now a ACPI C-states driver that registers as
a driver in cpuidle infrastructure and the policy part is removed from
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c. We use governor in cpuidle instead.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
commit 987196fa82d4db52c407e8c9d5dec884ba602183
Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Thu Feb 22 13:52:57 2007 -0800
cpuidle take2: Core cpuidle infrastructure
Announcing 'cpuidle', a new CPU power management infrastructure to manage
idle CPUs in a clean and efficient manner.
cpuidle separates out the drivers that can provide support for multiple types
of idle states and policy governors that decide on what idle state to use
at run time.
A cpuidle driver can support multiple idle states based on parameters like
varying power consumption, wakeup latency, etc (ACPI C-states for example).
A cpuidle governor can be usage model specific (laptop, server,
laptop on battery etc).
Main advantage of the infrastructure being, it allows independent development
of drivers and governors and allows for better CPU power management.
A huge thanks to Adam Belay and Shaohua Li who were part of this mini-project
since its beginning and are greatly responsible for this patchset.
This patch:
Core cpuidle infrastructure.
Introduces a new abstraction layer for cpuidle:
* which manages drivers that can support multiple idles states. Drivers
can be generic or particular to specific hardware/platform
* allows pluging in multiple policy governors that can take idle state policy
decision
* The core also has a set of sysfs interfaces with which administrato can know
about supported drivers and governors and switch them at run time.
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Taking a cpu offline removes the cpu from the online mask before the
CPU_DEAD notification is done. The clock events layer does the cleanup
of the dead CPU from the CPU_DEAD notifier chain. tick_do_timer_cpu is
used to avoid xtime lock contention by assigning the task of jiffies
xtime updates to one CPU. If a CPU is taken offline, then this
assignment becomes stale. This went unnoticed because most of the time
the offline CPU went dead before the online CPU reached __cpu_die(),
where the CPU_DEAD state is checked. In the case that the offline CPU did
not reach the DEAD state before we reach __cpu_die(), the code in there
goes to sleep for 100ms. Due to the stale time update assignment, the
system is stuck forever.
Take the assignment away when a cpu is not longer in the cpu_online_mask.
We do this in the last call to tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() when the offline
CPU is on the way to the final play_dead() idle entry.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
After discussing w/ Thomas over IRC, it seems the issue is the sched tick
fires on every cpu at the same time, causing extra lock contention.
This smaller change, adds an extra offset per cpu so the ticks don't line up.
This patch also drops the idle latency from 40us down to under 20us.
Signed-off-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
The warning in the NOHZ code, which triggers when a CPU goes idle with
softirqs pending can fill up the logs quite quickly. Rate limit the output
until we found the root cause of that problem.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix the process idle load balancing in the presence of dynticks. cpus for
which ticks are stopped will sleep till the next event wakes it up.
Potentially these sleeps can be for large durations and during which today,
there is no periodic idle load balancing being done.
This patch nominates an owner among the idle cpus, which does the idle load
balancing on behalf of the other idle cpus. And once all the cpus are
completely idle, then we can stop this idle load balancing too. Checks added
in fast path are minimized. Whenever there are busy cpus in the system, there
will be an owner(idle cpu) doing the system wide idle load balancing.
Open items:
1. Intelligent owner selection (like an idle core in a busy package).
2. Merge with rcu's nohz_cpu_mask?
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While the !highres/!dyntick code assigns the duty of the do_timer() call to
one specific CPU, this was dropped in the highres/dyntick part during
development.
Steven Rostedt discovered the xtime lock contention on highres/dyntick due
to several CPUs trying to update jiffies.
Add the single CPU assignement back. In the dyntick case this needs to be
handled carefully, as the CPU which has the do_timer() duty must drop the
assignement and let it be grabbed by another CPU, which is active.
Otherwise the do_timer() calls would not happen during the long sleep.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The BUG_ON() in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() triggers on some boxen.
Remove the BUG_ON and print information about the pending softirq
to allow better debugging of the problem.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When a CPU is needed for RCU the tick has to continue even when it was
stopped before.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add functions to provide dynamic ticks and high resolution timers. The code
which keeps track of jiffies and handles the long idle periods is shared
between tick based and high resolution timer based dynticks. The dyntick
functionality can be disabled on the kernel commandline. Provide also the
infrastructure to support high resolution timers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arjan van de Ven