linux-kernel - [PATCH 07/10] nohz: Implement full dynticks kick

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Message-Id: <1366657186-20556-8-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:59:43 +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 07/10] nohz: Implement full dynticks kick

Implement the full dynticks kick that is performed from
IPIs sent by various subsystems (scheduler, posix timers, ...)
when they want to notify about a new event that may
reconsider the dependency on the tick.

Most of the time, such an event end up restarting the tick.

(Part of the design with subsystems providing *_can_stop_tick()
helpers suggested by Peter Zijlstra a while ago).

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/time/tick-sched.c |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 4d74a68..95d79ae 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/irq_work.h>
+#include <linux/posix-timers.h>
+#include <linux/perf_event.h>
 
 #include <asm/irq_regs.h>
 
@@ -147,16 +149,48 @@ static void tick_sched_handle(struct tick_sched *ts, struct pt_regs *regs)
 static cpumask_var_t nohz_full_mask;
 bool have_nohz_full_mask;
 
+static bool can_stop_full_tick(void)
+{
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!irqs_disabled());
+
+	if (!sched_can_stop_tick())
+		return false;
+
+	if (!posix_cpu_timers_can_stop_tick(current))
+		return false;
+
+	if (!perf_event_can_stop_tick())
+		return false;
+
+	/* sched_clock_tick() needs us? */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
+	/*
+	 * TODO: kick full dynticks CPUs when
+	 * sched_clock_stable is set.
+	 */
+	if (!sched_clock_stable)
+		return false;
+#endif
+
+	return true;
+}
+
+static void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now);
+
 /*
  * Re-evaluate the need for the tick on the current CPU
  * and restart it if necessary.
  */
 void tick_nohz_full_check(void)
 {
-	/*
-	 * STUB for now, will be filled with the full tick stop/restart
-	 * infrastructure patches
-	 */
+	struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched);
+
+	if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id())) {
+		if (ts->tick_stopped && !is_idle_task(current)) {
+			if (!can_stop_full_tick())
+				tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(ts, ktime_get());
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 static void nohz_full_kick_work_func(struct irq_work *work)
-- 
1.7.5.4

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