linux-kernel - [PATCH 26/41] x86: Add adaptive tickless hooks on do_notify

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Message-Id: <1335830115-14335-27-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue,  1 May 2012 01:55:00 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linaro-sched-sig@...ts.linaro.org
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
	Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>,
	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 26/41] x86: Add adaptive tickless hooks on do_notify_resume()

Before resuming to userspace, we may fall into do_notify_resume()
to handle signals or other things. And because we may be coming
from syscall/exception or interrupt exit, we may be running into
RCU idle mode as we resume tickless to userspace.

However do_notify_resume() may make use of RCU read side critical
sections so we need to exit RCU idle mode before doing anything in
that path.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@...il.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@...il.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
index 46a01bd..577fd93 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/personality.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/user-return-notifier.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>
 
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/ucontext.h>
@@ -810,6 +811,7 @@ static void do_signal(struct pt_regs *regs)
 void
 do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs, void *unused, __u32 thread_info_flags)
 {
+	tick_nohz_enter_kernel();
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE
 	/* notify userspace of pending MCEs */
 	if (thread_info_flags & _TIF_MCE_NOTIFY)
@@ -832,6 +834,7 @@ do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs, void *unused, __u32 thread_info_flags)
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 	clear_thread_flag(TIF_IRET);
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
+	tick_nohz_exit_kernel();
 }
 
 void signal_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, void __user *frame, char *where)
-- 
1.7.5.4

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