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Message-ID: <1322570881.2921.230.camel@twins>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:48:01 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] ARM: Remove the __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
definition
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 12:22 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This set of patches removes the use of __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
> on ARM.
>
> As a background, the ARM architecture versions consist of two main sets
> with regards to the MMU switching needs:
>
> 1. ARMv5 and earlier have VIVT caches and they require a full cache and
> TLB flush at every context switch.
> 2. ARMv6 and later have VIPT caches and the TLBs are tagged with an ASID
> (application specific ID). The number of ASIDs is limited to 256 and
> the allocation algorithm requires IPIs when all the ASIDs have been
> used.
>
> Both cases above require interrupts enabled during context switch for
> latency reasons (1) or deadlock avoidance (2).
>
> The first patch in the series introduces a new scheduler hook invoked
> after the rq->lock is released and interrupts enabled. The subsequent
> two patches change the ARM context switching code (for processors in
> category 2 above) to use a reserved TTBR value instead of a reserved
> ASID. The 4th patch removes the __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
> definition for ASID-capable processors by deferring the new ASID
> allocation to the post-lock switch hook.
>
> The last patch also removes __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW for ARMv5
> and earlier processors. It defers the cpu_switch_mm call to the
> post-lock switch hook. Since this is only running on UP systems and the
> preemption is disabled during context switching, it assumes that the old
> mm is still valid until the post-lock switch hook.
Yeah, see how there's a if (mm) mmdrop(mm) after that.
> The series has been tested on Cortex-A9 (vexpress) and ARM926
> (versatile). Comments are welcome.
Yay!!! Although there's a tiny merge conflict between your tree and tip,
we moved kernel/sched.c around, you'll find it in kernel/sched/core.c
after you merge up.
---
Subject: sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Date: Tue Nov 29 13:44:40 CET 2011
Now that the last user is dead, remove support for
__ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW.
Much-thanks-to: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
---
kernel/fork.c | 4 ----
kernel/sched/core.c | 40 +---------------------------------------
kernel/sched/sched.h | 6 ------
3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 49 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/fork.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/fork.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1191,11 +1191,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
p->irq_events = 0;
-#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
- p->hardirqs_enabled = 1;
-#else
p->hardirqs_enabled = 0;
-#endif
p->hardirq_enable_ip = 0;
p->hardirq_enable_event = 0;
p->hardirq_disable_ip = _THIS_IP_;
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched/core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1460,25 +1460,6 @@ static void ttwu_queue_remote(struct tas
if (llist_add(&p->wake_entry, &cpu_rq(cpu)->wake_list))
smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
}
-
-#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
-static int ttwu_activate_remote(struct task_struct *p, int wake_flags)
-{
- struct rq *rq;
- int ret = 0;
-
- rq = __task_rq_lock(p);
- if (p->on_cpu) {
- ttwu_activate(rq, p, ENQUEUE_WAKEUP);
- ttwu_do_wakeup(rq, p, wake_flags);
- ret = 1;
- }
- __task_rq_unlock(rq);
-
- return ret;
-
-}
-#endif /* __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW */
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
static int ttwu_share_cache(int this_cpu, int cpu)
@@ -1559,21 +1540,8 @@ try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, un
* If the owning (remote) cpu is still in the middle of schedule() with
* this task as prev, wait until its done referencing the task.
*/
- while (p->on_cpu) {
-#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
- /*
- * In case the architecture enables interrupts in
- * context_switch(), we cannot busy wait, since that
- * would lead to deadlocks when an interrupt hits and
- * tries to wake up @prev. So bail and do a complete
- * remote wakeup.
- */
- if (ttwu_activate_remote(p, wake_flags))
- goto stat;
-#else
+ while (p->on_cpu)
cpu_relax();
-#endif
- }
/*
* Pairs with the smp_wmb() in finish_lock_switch().
*/
@@ -1916,13 +1884,7 @@ static void finish_task_switch(struct rq
*/
prev_state = prev->state;
finish_arch_switch(prev);
-#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
- local_irq_disable();
-#endif /* __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW */
perf_event_task_sched_in(prev, current);
-#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
- local_irq_enable();
-#endif /* __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW */
finish_lock_switch(rq, prev);
fire_sched_in_preempt_notifiers(current);
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched/sched.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -685,11 +685,7 @@ static inline void prepare_lock_switch(s
*/
next->on_cpu = 1;
#endif
-#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
- raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rq->lock);
-#else
raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
-#endif
}
static inline void finish_lock_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
@@ -703,9 +699,7 @@ static inline void finish_lock_switch(st
smp_wmb();
prev->on_cpu = 0;
#endif
-#ifndef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
local_irq_enable();
-#endif
}
#endif /* __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW */
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