ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in
scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec
variant for 32bit machines. The Y2038 cleanup removed the timespec variant
and switched everything to scalar nanoseconds. The union remained, but
become completely pointless.
Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64.
The conversion was done with coccinelle and some manual mopping up.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
When a disfunctional timer, e.g. dummy timer, is installed, the tick core
tries to setup the broadcast timer.
If no broadcast device is installed, the kernel crashes with a NULL pointer
dereference in tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot() because the function has no
sanity check.
Reported-by: Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Cc: Richard Cochran <rcochran@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Cc: Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net>
Cc: Thibaud Cornic <thibaud_cornic@sigmadesigns.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1147ef90-7877-e4d2-bb2b-5c4fa8d3144b@free.fr
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control got moved from tick-broadcast to
tick-common, but the export stayed in the old place. Fix it up.
Fixes: f32dd11705 'tick/broadcast: Make idle check independent from mode and config'
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Dan reported that the recent changes to the broadcast code introduced
a potential NULL dereference.
Add the proper check.
Fixes: e045431190 "tick/broadcast: Sanity check the shutdown of the local clock_event"
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Andriy reported that on a virtual machine the warning about negative
expiry time in the clock events programming code triggered:
hpet: hpet0 irq 40 for MSI
hpet: hpet1 irq 41 for MSI
Switching to clocksource hpet
WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c:239
[<ffffffff810ce6eb>] clockevents_program_event+0xdb/0xf0
[<ffffffff810cf211>] tick_handle_periodic_broadcast+0x41/0x50
[<ffffffff81016525>] timer_interrupt+0x15/0x20
When the second hpet is installed as a per cpu timer the broadcast
event is not longer required and stopped, which sets the next_evt of
the broadcast device to KTIME_MAX.
If after that a spurious interrupt happens on the broadcast device,
then the current code blindly handles it and tries to reprogram the
broadcast device afterwards, which adds the period to
next_evt. KTIME_MAX + period results in a negative expiry value
causing the WARN_ON in the clockevents code to trigger.
Add a proper check for the state of the broadcast device into the
interrupt handler and return if the interrupt is spurious.
[ Folded in pointer fix from Sudeep ]
Reported-by: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150705205221.802094647@linutronix.de
If the current cpu is the one which has the hrtimer based broadcast
queued then we better return busy immediately instead of going through
loops and hoops to figure that out.
[ Split out from a larger combo patch ]
Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos
Tell the idle code not to go deep if the broadcast IPI is about to
arrive.
[ Split out from a larger combo patch ]
Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos
If the system is in periodic mode and the broadcast device is hrtimer
based, return busy as we have no proper handling for this.
[ Split out from a larger combo patch ]
Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos
We need to check more than the periodic mode for proper operation in
all runtime combinations. To avoid code duplication move the check
into the enter state handling.
No functional change.
[ Split out from a larger combo patch ]
Reported-and-tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos
Add a check for a installed broadcast device to the oneshot control
function and return busy if not.
[ Split out from a larger combo patch ]
Reported-and-tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos
Currently the broadcast busy check, which prevents the idle code from
going into deep idle, works only in one shot mode.
If NOHZ and HIGHRES are off (config or command line) there is no
sanity check at all, so under certain conditions cpus are allowed to
go into deep idle, where the local timer stops, and are not woken up
again because there is no broadcast timer installed or a hrtimer based
broadcast device is not evaluated.
Move tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() into the common code and provide
proper subfunctions for the various config combinations.
The common check in tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() is for the C3STOP
misfeature flag of the local clock event device. If its not set, idle
can proceed. If set, further checks are necessary.
Provide checks for the trivial cases:
- If broadcast is disabled in the config, then return busy
- If oneshot mode (NOHZ/HIGHES) is disabled in the config, return
busy if the broadcast device is hrtimer based.
- If oneshot mode is enabled in the config call the original
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() function. That function needs
extra checks which will be implemented in seperate patches.
[ Split out from a larger combo patch ]
Reported-and-tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos
The broadcast code shuts down the local clock event unconditionally
even if no broadcast device is installed or if the broadcast device is
hrtimer based.
Add proper sanity checks.
[ Split out from a larger combo patch ]
Reported-and-tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos
The hrtimer based broadcast vehicle can cause a hrtimer recursion
which went unnoticed until we changed the hrtimer expiry code to keep
track of the currently running timer.
local_timer_interrupt()
local_handler()
hrtimer_interrupt()
expire_hrtimers()
broadcast_hrtimer()
send_ipis()
local_handler()
hrtimer_interrupt()
....
Solution is simple: Prevent the local handler call from the broadcast
code when the broadcast 'device' is hrtimer based.
[ Split out from a larger combo patch ]
Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos
We want to rename dev->state, so provide proper get and set
functions. Rename clockevents_set_state() to
clockevents_switch_state() to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Simplify the oneshot logic by avoiding the reprogramming loops. That
also allows to call the cpu local handler outside of the
broadcast_lock held region.
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
With the removal of the hrtimer softirq the switch to highres/nohz
mode happens in the tick interrupt. That leads to a livelock when the
per cpu event handler is directly called from the broadcast handler
under broadcast lock because broadcast lock needs to be taken for the
highres/nohz switch as well.
Solve this by calling the cpu local handler outside the broadcast_lock
held region.
Fixes: c6eb3f70d4 "hrtimer: Get rid of hrtimer softirq"
Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit
calls instead of this monstrosity.
Split out the cleanup function for a dead cpu and invoke it
directly from the cpu down code. Make it conditional on
CPU_HOTPLUG as well.
Temporary change, will be refined in the future.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ Rebased, added clockevents_notify() removal ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1735025.raBZdQHM3m@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit
calls instead of this monstrosity.
Split out the broadcast oneshot control into a separate function
and provide inline helpers. Switch clockevents_notify() over.
This will go away once all callers are converted.
This also gets rid of the nested locking of clockevents_lock and
broadcast_lock. The broadcast oneshot control functions do not
require clockevents_lock. Only the managing functions
(setup/shutdown/suspend/resume of the broadcast device require
clockevents_lock.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/13000649.8qZuEDV0OA@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit
calls instead of this monstrosity.
Split out the broadcast control into a separate function and
provide inline helpers. Switch clockevents_notify() over. This
will go away once all callers are converted.
This also gets rid of the nested locking of clockevents_lock and
broadcast_lock. The broadcast control functions do not require
clockevents_lock. Only the managing functions
(setup/shutdown/suspend/resume of the broadcast device require
clockevents_lock.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8086559.ttsuS0n1Xr@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It was found when doing a hotplug stress test on POWER, that the
machine either hit softlockups or rcu_sched stall warnings. The
issue was traced to commit:
7cba160ad7 ("powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management")
which exposed the cpu_down() race with hrtimer based broadcast mode:
5d1638acb9 ("tick: Introduce hrtimer based broadcast")
The race is the following:
Assume CPU1 is the CPU which holds the hrtimer broadcasting duty
before it is taken down.
CPU0 CPU1
cpu_down() take_cpu_down()
disable_interrupts()
cpu_die()
while (CPU1 != CPU_DEAD) {
msleep(100);
switch_to_idle();
stop_cpu_timer();
schedule_broadcast();
}
tick_cleanup_cpu_dead()
take_over_broadcast()
So after CPU1 disabled interrupts it cannot handle the broadcast
hrtimer anymore, so CPU0 will be stuck forever.
Fix this by explicitly taking over broadcast duty before cpu_die().
This is a temporary workaround. What we really want is a callback
in the clockevent device which allows us to do that from the dying
CPU by pushing the hrtimer onto a different cpu. That might involve
an IPI and is definitely more complex than this immediate fix.
Changelog was picked up from:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/16/213
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Preeti U. Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Fixes: http://linuxppc.10917.n7.nabble.com/offlining-cpus-breakage-td88619.html
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150330092410.24979.59887.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
[ Merged it to the latest timer tree, renamed the callback, tidied up the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Xen calls on every cpu into tick_resume() which is just wrong.
tick_resume() is for the syscore global suspend/resume
invocation. What XEN really wants is a per cpu local resume
function.
Provide a tick_resume_local() function and use it in XEN.
Also provide a complementary tick_suspend_local() and modify
tick_unfreeze() and tick_freeze(), respectively, to use the
new local tick resume/suspend functions.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ Combined two patches, rebased, modified subject/changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1698741.eezk9tnXtG@vostro.rjw.lan
[ Merged to latest timers/core. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Solely used in tick-broadcast.c and the return value is
hardcoded 0. Make it static and void.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1689058.QkHYDJSRKu@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
'enum clock_event_mode' is used for two purposes today:
- to pass mode to the driver of clockevent device::set_mode().
- for managing state of the device for clockevents core.
For supporting new modes/states we have moved away from the
legacy set_mode() callback to new per-mode/state callbacks. New
modes/states shouldn't be exposed to the legacy (now OBSOLOTE)
callbacks and so we shouldn't add new states to 'enum
clock_event_mode'.
Lets have separate enums for the two use cases mentioned above.
Keep using the earlier enum for legacy set_mode() callback and
mark it OBSOLETE. And add another enum to clearly specify the
possible states of a clockevent device.
This also renames the newly added per-mode callbacks to reflect
state changes.
We haven't got rid of 'mode' member of 'struct
clock_event_device' as it is used by some of the clockevent
drivers and it would automatically die down once we migrate
those drivers to the new interface. It ('mode') is only updated
now for the drivers using the legacy interface.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linaro-networking@linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6b0143a8a57bd58352ad35e08c25424c879c0cb.1425037853.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Upcoming patch will redefine possible states of a clockevent
device. The RESUME mode is a special case only for tick's
clockevent devices. In future it can be replaced by ->resume()
callback already available for clockevent devices.
Lets handle it separately so that clockevents_set_mode() only
handles states valid across all devices. This also renames
set_mode_resume() to tick_resume() to make it more explicit.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linaro-networking@linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c1b0112410870f49e7bf06958e1483eac6c15e20.1425037853.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Convert uses of __get_cpu_var for creating a address from a percpu
offset to this_cpu_ptr.
The two cases where get_cpu_var is used to actually access a percpu
variable are changed to use this_cpu_read/raw_cpu_read.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull timer changes from Thomas Gleixner:
"This assorted collection provides:
- A new timer based timer broadcast feature for systems which do not
provide a global accessible timer device. That allows those
systems to put CPUs into deep idle states where the per cpu timer
device stops.
- A few NOHZ_FULL related improvements to the timer wheel
- The usual updates to timer devices found in ARM SoCs
- Small improvements and updates all over the place"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
tick: Remove code duplication in tick_handle_periodic()
tick: Fix spelling mistake in tick_handle_periodic()
x86: hpet: Use proper destructor for delayed work
workqueue: Provide destroy_delayed_work_on_stack()
clocksource: CMT, MTU2, TMU and STI should depend on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
timer: Remove code redundancy while calling get_nohz_timer_target()
hrtimer: Rearrange comments in the order struct members are declared
timer: Use variable head instead of &work_list in __run_timers()
clocksource: exynos_mct: silence a static checker warning
arm: zynq: Add support for cpufreq
arm: zynq: Don't use arm_global_timer with cpufreq
clocksource/cadence_ttc: Overhaul clocksource frequency adjustment
clocksource/cadence_ttc: Call clockevents_update_freq() with IRQs enabled
clocksource: Add Kconfig entries for CMT, MTU2, TMU and STI
sh: Remove Kconfig entries for TMU, CMT and MTU2
ARM: shmobile: Remove CMT, TMU and STI Kconfig entries
clocksource: armada-370-xp: Use atomic access for shared registers
clocksource: orion: Use atomic access for shared registers
clocksource: timer-keystone: Delete unnecessary variable
clocksource: timer-keystone: introduce clocksource driver for Keystone
...
AMD systems which use the C1E workaround in the amd_e400_idle routine
trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE in the broadcast code when onlining a CPU.
The reason is that the idle routine of those AMD systems switches the
cpu into forced broadcast mode early on before the newly brought up
CPU can switch over to high resolution / NOHZ mode. The timer related
CPU1 bringup looks like this:
clockevent_register_device(local_apic);
tick_setup(local_apic);
...
idle()
tick_broadcast_on_off(FORCE);
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(ENTER)
cpumask_set(cpu, broadcast_oneshot_mask);
halt();
Now the broadcast interrupt on CPU0 sets CPU1 in the
broadcast_pending_mask and wakes CPU1. So CPU1 continues:
local_apic_timer_interrupt()
tick_handle_periodic();
softirq()
tick_init_highres();
cpumask_clr(cpu, broadcast_oneshot_mask);
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(ENTER)
WARN_ON(cpumask_test(cpu, broadcast_pending_mask);
So while we remove CPU1 from the broadcast_oneshot_mask when we switch
over to highres mode, we do not clear the pending bit, which then
triggers the warning when we go back to idle.
The reason why this is only visible on C1E affected AMD systems is
that the other machines enter the deep sleep states via
acpi_idle/intel_idle and exit the broadcast mode before executing the
remote triggered local_apic_timer_interrupt. So the pending bit is
already cleared when the switch over to highres mode is clearing the
oneshot mask.
The solution is simple: Clear the pending bit together with the mask
bit when we switch over to highres mode.
Stanislaw came up independently with the same patch by enforcing the
C1E workaround and debugging the fallout. I picked mine, because mine
has a changelog :)
Reported-by: poma <pomidorabelisima@gmail.com>
Debugged-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1402111434180.21991@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
On some architectures, in certain CPU deep idle states the local timers stop.
An external clock device is used to wakeup these CPUs. The kernel support for the
wakeup of these CPUs is provided by the tick broadcast framework by using the
external clock device as the wakeup source.
However not all implementations of architectures provide such an external
clock device. This patch includes support in the broadcast framework to handle
the wakeup of the CPUs in deep idle states on such systems by queuing a hrtimer
on one of the CPUs, which is meant to handle the wakeup of CPUs in deep idle states.
This patchset introduces a pseudo clock device which can be registered by the
archs as tick_broadcast_device in the absence of a real external clock
device. Once registered, the broadcast framework will work as is for these
architectures as long as the archs take care of the BROADCAST_ENTER
notification failing for one of the CPUs. This CPU is made the stand by CPU to
handle wakeup of the CPUs in deep idle and it *must not enter deep idle states*.
The CPU with the earliest wakeup is chosen to be this CPU. Hence this way the
stand by CPU dynamically moves around and so does the hrtimer which is queued
to trigger at the next earliest wakeup time. This is consistent with the case where
an external clock device is present. The smp affinity of this clock device is
set to the CPU with the earliest wakeup. This patchset handles the hotplug of
the stand by CPU as well by moving the hrtimer on to the CPU handling the CPU_DEAD
notification.
Originally-from: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140207080632.17187.80532.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We can identify the broadcast device in the core and serialize all
callers including interrupts on a different CPU against the update.
Also, disabling interrupts is moved into the core allowing callers to
leave interrutps enabled when calling clockevents_update_freq().
Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Soeren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391466877-28908-2-git-send-email-soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
A few functions use remote per CPU access APIs when they
deal with local values.
Just do the right conversion to improve performance, code
readability and debug checks.
While at it, lets extend some of these function names with *_this_cpu()
suffix in order to display their purpose more clearly.
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>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
On most ARM systems the per-cpu clockevents are truly per-cpu in
the sense that they can't be controlled on any other CPU besides
the CPU that they interrupt. If one of these clockevents were to
become a broadcast source we will run into a lot of trouble
because the broadcast source is enabled on the first CPU to go
into deep idle (if that CPU suffers from FEAT_C3_STOP) and that
could be a different CPU than what the clockevent is interrupting
(or even worse the CPU that the clockevent interrupts could be
offline).
Theoretically it's possible to support per-cpu clockevents as the
broadcast source but so far we haven't needed this and supporting
it is rather complicated. Let's just deny the possibility for now
until this becomes a reality (let's hope it never does!).
Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
On ARM systems the dummy clockevent is registered with the cpu
hotplug notifier chain before any other per-cpu clockevent. This
has the side-effect of causing the dummy clockevent to be
registered first in every hotplug sequence. Because the dummy is
first, we'll try to turn the broadcast source on but the code in
tick_device_uses_broadcast() assumes the broadcast source is in
periodic mode and calls tick_broadcast_start_periodic()
unconditionally.
On boot this isn't a problem because we typically haven't
switched into oneshot mode yet (if at all). During hotplug, if
the broadcast source isn't in periodic mode we'll replace the
broadcast oneshot handler with the broadcast periodic handler and
start emulating oneshot mode when we shouldn't. Due to the way
the broadcast oneshot handler programs the next_event it's
possible for it to contain KTIME_MAX and cause us to hang the
system when the periodic handler tries to program the next tick.
Fix this by using the appropriate function to start the broadcast
source.
Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: ARM kernel mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Joseph Lo <josephl@nvidia.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130711140059.GA27430@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/core
Frederic sayed: "Most of these patches have been hanging around for
several month now, in -mmotm for a significant chunk. They already
missed a few releases."
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The recent implementation of a generic dummy timer resulted in a
different registration order of per cpu local timers which made the
broadcast control logic go belly up.
If the dummy timer is the first clock event device which is registered
for a CPU, then it is installed, the broadcast timer is initialized
and the CPU is marked as broadcast target.
If a real clock event device is installed after that, we can fail to
take the CPU out of the broadcast mask. In the worst case we end up
with two periodic timer events firing for the same CPU. One from the
per cpu hardware device and one from the broadcast.
Now the problem is that we have no way to distinguish whether the
system is in a state which makes broadcasting necessary or the
broadcast bit was set due to the nonfunctional dummy timer
installment.
To solve this we need to keep track of the system state seperately and
provide a more detailed decision logic whether we keep the CPU in
broadcast mode or not.
The old decision logic only clears the broadcast mode, if the newly
installed clock event device is not affected by power states.
The new logic clears the broadcast mode if one of the following is
true:
- The new device is not affected by power states.
- The system is not in a power state affected mode
- The system has switched to oneshot mode. The oneshot broadcast is
controlled from the deep idle state. The CPU is not in idle at
this point, so it's safe to remove it from the mask.
If we clear the broadcast bit for the CPU when a new device is
installed, we also shutdown the broadcast device when this was the
last CPU in the broadcast mask.
If the broadcast bit is kept, then we leave the new device in shutdown
state and rely on the broadcast to deliver the timer interrupts via
the broadcast ipis.
Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When the system switches from periodic to oneshot mode, the broadcast
logic causes a possibility that a CPU which has not yet switched to
oneshot mode puts its own clock event device into oneshot mode without
updating the state and the timer handler.
CPU0 CPU1
per cpu tickdev is in periodic mode
and switched to broadcast
Switch to oneshot mode
tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot()
cpumask_copy(tick_oneshot_broacast_mask,
tick_broadcast_mask);
broadcast device mode = oneshot
Timer interrupt
irq_enter()
tick_check_oneshot_broadcast()
dev->set_mode(ONESHOT);
tick_handle_periodic()
if (dev->mode == ONESHOT)
dev->next_event += period;
FAIL.
We fail, because dev->next_event contains KTIME_MAX, if the device was
in periodic mode before the uncontrolled switch to oneshot happened.
We must copy the broadcast bits over to the oneshot mask, because
otherwise a CPU which relies on the broadcast would not been woken up
anymore after the broadcast device switched to oneshot mode.
So we need to verify in tick_check_oneshot_broadcast() whether the CPU
has already switched to oneshot mode. If not, leave the device
untouched and let the CPU switch controlled into oneshot mode.
This is a long standing bug, which was never noticed, because the main
user of the broadcast x86 cannot run into that scenario, AFAICT. The
nonarchitected timer mess of ARM creates a gazillion of differently
broken abominations which trigger the shortcomings of that broadcast
code, which better had never been necessary in the first place.
Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In periodic mode we remove offline cpus from the broadcast propagation
mask. In oneshot mode we fail to do so. This was not a problem so far,
but the recent changes to the broadcast propagation introduced a
constellation which can result in a NULL pointer dereference.
What happens is:
CPU0 CPU1
idle()
arch_idle()
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(OFF);
set cpu1 in tick_broadcast_force_mask
if (cpu_offline())
arch_cpu_dead()
cpu_dead_cleanup(cpu1)
cpu1 tickdevice pointer = NULL
broadcast interrupt
dereference cpu1 tickdevice pointer -> OOPS
We dereference the pointer because cpu1 is still set in
tick_broadcast_force_mask and tick_do_broadcast() expects a valid
cpumask and therefor lacks any further checks.
Remove the cpu from the tick_broadcast_force_mask before we set the
tick device pointer to NULL. Also add a sanity check to the oneshot
broadcast function, so we can detect such issues w/o crashing the
machine.
Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: athorlton@sgi.com
Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1306261303260.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The recent modification in the cpuidle framework consolidated the
timer broadcast code across the different drivers by setting a new
flag in the idle state. It tells the cpuidle core code to enter/exit
the broadcast mode for the cpu when entering a deep idle state. The
broadcast timer enter/exit is no longer handled by the back-end
driver.
This change made the local interrupt to be enabled *before* calling
CLOCK_EVENT_NOTIFY_EXIT.
On a tegra114, a four cores system, when the flag has been introduced
in the driver, the following warning appeared:
WARNING: at kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c:578 tick_broadcast_oneshot_control
CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc3-next-20130529+ #15
[<c00667f8>] (tick_broadcast_oneshot_control+0x1a4/0x1d0) from [<c0065cd0>] (tick_notify+0x240/0x40c)
[<c0065cd0>] (tick_notify+0x240/0x40c) from [<c0044724>] (notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x84)
[<c0044724>] (notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x84) from [<c0044828>] (raw_notifier_call_chain+0x18/0x20)
[<c0044828>] (raw_notifier_call_chain+0x18/0x20) from [<c00650cc>] (clockevents_notify+0x28/0x170)
[<c00650cc>] (clockevents_notify+0x28/0x170) from [<c033f1f0>] (cpuidle_idle_call+0x11c/0x168)
[<c033f1f0>] (cpuidle_idle_call+0x11c/0x168) from [<c000ea94>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x8/0x38)
[<c000ea94>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x8/0x38) from [<c005ea80>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x60/0x134)
[<c005ea80>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x60/0x134) from [<804fe9a4>] (0x804fe9a4)
I don't have the hardware, so I wasn't able to reproduce the warning
but after looking a while at the code, I deduced the following:
1. the CPU2 enters a deep idle state and sets the broadcast timer
2. the timer expires, the tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast function is
called, setting the tick_broadcast_pending_mask and waking up the
idle cpu CPU2
3. the CPU2 exits idle handles the interrupt and then invokes
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control with CLOCK_EVENT_NOTIFY_EXIT which
runs the following code:
[...]
if (dev->next_event.tv64 == KTIME_MAX)
goto out;
if (cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu,
tick_broadcast_pending_mask))
goto out;
[...]
So if there is no next event scheduled for CPU2, we fulfil the
first condition and jump out without clearing the
tick_broadcast_pending_mask.
4. CPU2 goes to deep idle again and calls
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control with CLOCK_NOTIFY_EVENT_ENTER but
with the tick_broadcast_pending_mask set for CPU2, triggering the
warning.
The issue only surfaced due to the modifications of the cpuidle
framework, which resulted in interrupts being enabled before the call
to the clockevents code. If the call happens before interrupts have
been enabled, the warning cannot trigger, because there is still the
event pending which caused the broadcast timer expiry.
Move the check for the next event below the check for the pending bit,
so the pending bit gets cleared whether an event is scheduled on the
cpu or not.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Joseph Lo <josephl@nvidia.com>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371485735-31249-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Since 7300711e ("clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters"),
the timekeeping duty is assigned to the CPU that handles the tick
broadcast clock device by the time it is set in one shot mode.
This is an issue in full dynticks mode where the timekeeping duty
must stay handled by the boot CPU for now. Otherwise it prevents
secondary CPUs from offlining and this breaks
suspend/shutdown/reboot/...
As it appears there is no reason for this timekeeping duty to be
moved to the broadcast CPU, besides nothing prevent it from being
later re-assigned to another target, let's simply remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
commit 26517f3e (tick: Avoid programming the local cpu timer if
broadcast pending) added a warning if the cpu enters broadcast mode
again while the pending bit is still set. Meelis reported that the
warning triggers. There are two corner cases which have been not
considered:
1) cpuidle calls clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
twice. That can result in the following scenario
CPU0 CPU1
cpuidle_idle_call()
clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
set cpu in tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask
broadcast interrupt
event expired for cpu1
set pending bit
acpi_idle_enter_simple()
clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
WARN_ON(pending bit)
Move the WARN_ON into the section where we enter broadcast mode so
it wont provide false positives on the second call.
2) safe_halt() enables interrupts, so a broadcast interrupt can be
delivered befor the broadcast mode is disabled. That sets the
pending bit for the CPU which receives the broadcast
interrupt. Though the interrupt is delivered right away from the
broadcast handler and leaves the pending bit stale.
Clear the pending bit for the current cpu in the broadcast handler.
Reported-and-tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305271841130.4220@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Split out the clockevent device selection logic. Preparatory patch to
allow unbinding active clockevent devices.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.431796247@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We want to be able to remove clockevent modules as well. Add a
refcount so we don't remove a module with an active clock event
device.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.307435149@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
7+ years and still a single user. Kill it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.098520211@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- Cure for not using zalloc in the first place, which leads to random
crashes with CPUMASK_OFF_STACK.
- Revert a user space visible change which broke udev
- Add a missing cpu_online early return introduced by the new full
dyntick conversions
- Plug a long standing race in the timer wheel cpu hotplug code.
Sigh...
- Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down to prevent stale data on cpu
up.
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time: Revert ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK compile time optimizaitons
timer: Don't reinitialize the cpu base lock during CPU_UP_PREPARE
tick: Don't invoke tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() if the cpu is offline
tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down
tick: Use zalloc_cpumask_var for allocating offstack cpumasks
Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.
This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.
This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
that:
- HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at
HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature
removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
typical distro configs even on modern systems.
- Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining
source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.
- A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.
The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.
Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
two NOHZ kconfig modes:
- CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
whether a CPU is idle or not.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
CPU.
The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
default.
This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.
This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull
request is marked RFC because:
- it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
small but did not get ready in time.
- it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
marked it RFC.
- it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off
should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.
- the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In
particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact
correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
feature at this point.
- it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
Without flaming us to crisp! :-)
Future plans:
- there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
for the 0 Hz target though.
- once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.
I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
but the final word is up to you as usual.
More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
nohz_full: Add documentation.
cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
nohz: Add basic tracing
nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
...
commit b352bc1cbc (tick: Convert broadcast cpu bitmaps to
cpumask_var_t) broke CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK in a very subtle way.
Instead of allocating the cpumasks with zalloc_cpumask_var it uses
alloc_cpumask_var, so we can get random data there, which of course
confuses the logic completely and causes random failures.
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305032015060.2990@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.
Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Vitaliy reported that a per cpu HPET timer interrupt crashes the
system during hibernation. What happens is that the per cpu HPET timer
gets shut down when the nonboot cpus are stopped. When the nonboot
cpus are onlined again the HPET code sets up the MSI interrupt which
fires before the clock event device is registered. The event handler
is still set to hrtimer_interrupt, which then crashes the machine due
to highres mode not being active.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700333
There is no real good way to avoid that in the HPET code. The HPET
code alrady has a mechanism to detect spurious interrupts when event
handler == NULL for a similar reason.
We can handle that in the clockevent/tick layer and replace the
previous functional handler with a dummy handler like we do in
tick_setup_new_device().
The original clockevents code did this in clockevents_exchange_device(),
but that got removed by commit 7c1e76897 (clockevents: prevent
clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop) which forgot to fix
it up in tick_shutdown(). Same issue with the broadcast device.
Reported-by: Vitaliy Fillipov <vitalif@yourcmc.ru>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: 700333@bugs.debian.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thomas Gleixner