linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/10] perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick

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Date:	Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:59:39 +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>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 03/10] perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick

Provide a new helper that help full dynticks CPUs to prevent
from stopping their tick in case there are events in the local
rotation list.

This way we make sure that perf_event_task_tick() is serviced
on demand.

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>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
---
 include/linux/perf_event.h |    6 ++++++
 kernel/events/core.c       |   10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index e47ee46..0140830 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -799,6 +799,12 @@ static inline int __perf_event_disable(void *info)			{ return -1; }
 static inline void perf_event_task_tick(void)				{ }
 #endif
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL)
+extern bool perf_event_can_stop_tick(void);
+#else
+static inline bool perf_event_can_stop_tick(void)			{ return true; }
+#endif
+
 #define perf_output_put(handle, x) perf_output_copy((handle), &(x), sizeof(x))
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 75b58bb..ddb993b 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -2560,6 +2560,16 @@ done:
 		list_del_init(&cpuctx->rotation_list);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
+bool perf_event_can_stop_tick(void)
+{
+	if (list_empty(&__get_cpu_var(rotation_list)))
+		return true;
+	else
+		return false;
+}
+#endif
+
 void perf_event_task_tick(void)
 {
 	struct list_head *head = &__get_cpu_var(rotation_list);
-- 
1.7.5.4

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