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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:57:45 -0800
From: tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <tipbot@...or.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched/clock: Remove local_irq_disable()
from the clocks
Commit-ID: ef08f0fff87630d4f67ceb09514d8b444df833f8
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ef08f0fff87630d4f67ceb09514d8b444df833f8
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
AuthorDate: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:31:23 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:13:11 +0100
sched/clock: Remove local_irq_disable() from the clocks
Now that x86 no longer requires IRQs disabled for sched_clock() and
ia64 never had this requirement (it doesn't seem to do cpufreq at
all), we can remove the requirement of disabling IRQs.
MAINLINE PRE POST
sched_clock_stable: 1 1 1
(cold) sched_clock: 329841 257223 221876
(cold) local_clock: 301773 309889 234692
(warm) sched_clock: 38375 25280 25602
(warm) local_clock: 100371 85268 33265
(warm) rdtsc: 27340 24247 24214
sched_clock_stable: 0 0 0
(cold) sched_clock: 382634 301224 235941
(cold) local_clock: 396890 399870 297017
(warm) sched_clock: 38194 25630 25233
(warm) local_clock: 143452 129629 71234
(warm) rdtsc: 27345 24307 24245
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-36e5kohiasnr106d077mgubp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
kernel/sched/clock.c | 34 ++++++----------------------------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/clock.c b/kernel/sched/clock.c
index c3ae144..5937154 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/clock.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/clock.c
@@ -26,9 +26,10 @@
* at 0 on boot (but people really shouldn't rely on that).
*
* cpu_clock(i) -- can be used from any context, including NMI.
- * sched_clock_cpu(i) -- must be used with local IRQs disabled (implied by NMI)
* local_clock() -- is cpu_clock() on the current cpu.
*
+ * sched_clock_cpu(i)
+ *
* How:
*
* The implementation either uses sched_clock() when
@@ -50,15 +51,6 @@
* Furthermore, explicit sleep and wakeup hooks allow us to account for time
* that is otherwise invisible (TSC gets stopped).
*
- *
- * Notes:
- *
- * The !IRQ-safetly of sched_clock() and sched_clock_cpu() comes from things
- * like cpufreq interrupts that can change the base clock (TSC) multiplier
- * and cause funny jumps in time -- although the filtering provided by
- * sched_clock_cpu() should mitigate serious artifacts we cannot rely on it
- * in general since for !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK we fully rely on
- * sched_clock().
*/
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
@@ -242,20 +234,20 @@ u64 sched_clock_cpu(int cpu)
struct sched_clock_data *scd;
u64 clock;
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!irqs_disabled());
-
if (sched_clock_stable)
return sched_clock();
if (unlikely(!sched_clock_running))
return 0ull;
+ preempt_disable();
scd = cpu_sdc(cpu);
if (cpu != smp_processor_id())
clock = sched_clock_remote(scd);
else
clock = sched_clock_local(scd);
+ preempt_enable();
return clock;
}
@@ -316,14 +308,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event);
*/
u64 cpu_clock(int cpu)
{
- u64 clock;
- unsigned long flags;
-
- local_irq_save(flags);
- clock = sched_clock_cpu(cpu);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
-
- return clock;
+ return sched_clock_cpu(cpu);
}
/*
@@ -335,14 +320,7 @@ u64 cpu_clock(int cpu)
*/
u64 local_clock(void)
{
- u64 clock;
- unsigned long flags;
-
- local_irq_save(flags);
- clock = sched_clock_cpu(smp_processor_id());
- local_irq_restore(flags);
-
- return clock;
+ return sched_clock_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id());
}
#else /* CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK */
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