linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] posix_timers: Kick full dynticks CPUs when a posix cpu timer is armed

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Date:	Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:23:42 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
	Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@...il.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] posix_timers: Kick full dynticks CPUs when a posix cpu timer is armed

Kick the full dynticks CPUs when a posix cpu timer is enqueued by
way of a standard call to posix_cpu_timer_set() or set_process_cpu_timer().

This way they can re-evaluate the state of (and possibly restart) their
tick against the new expiry modification.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
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@...aro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 3b73ae8..a9053ad7 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
 #include <trace/events/timer.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
 /*
  * Called after updating RLIMIT_CPU to run cpu timer and update
@@ -636,6 +638,26 @@ static int cpu_timer_sample_group(const clockid_t which_clock,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
+static void nohz_kick_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	tick_nohz_full_kick_all();
+}
+
+static DECLARE_WORK(nohz_kick_work, nohz_kick_work_fn);
+
+/*
+ * We need the IPIs to be sent from sane process context.
+ * The posix cpu timers are always set with irqs disabled.
+ */
+static void posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz(void)
+{
+	schedule_work(&nohz_kick_work);
+}
+#else
+static inline void posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz(void) { }
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Guts of sys_timer_settime for CPU timers.
  * This is called with the timer locked and interrupts disabled.
@@ -794,6 +816,8 @@ static int posix_cpu_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timer, int flags,
 		sample_to_timespec(timer->it_clock,
 				   old_incr, &old->it_interval);
 	}
+	if (!ret)
+		posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz();
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1369,7 +1393,7 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int clock_idx,
 		}
 
 		if (!*newval)
-			return;
+			goto out;
 		*newval += now.cpu;
 	}
 
@@ -1387,6 +1411,8 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int clock_idx,
 			tsk->signal->cputime_expires.virt_exp = *newval;
 		break;
 	}
+out:
+	posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz();
 }
 
 static int do_cpu_nanosleep(const clockid_t which_clock, int flags,
-- 
1.7.5.4

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