linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] Arch-generic sched_clock NMI saftey and optimizations for -tip

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Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:56:12 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] Arch-generic sched_clock NMI saftey and optimizations for -tip

Ingo, Peter, Thomas,

  These patches from  Daniel extend the arch-generic sched_clock
implementation so that it can be safely called from NMI (or FIQ on ARM)
context. They also optimize the sched_clock logic to improve cache
performance. I wanted to send them along so they could be queued in
-tip for 4.1.

>From Daniel's last post:
"The data cache profile of sched_clock() in both the original code and
my previous patch was somewhere between 2 and 3 (64-byte) cache lines,
depending on alignment of struct clock_data. After patching, the cache
profile for the normal case should be a single cacheline.

NMI safety was tested on i.MX6 with perf drowning the system in FIQs and
using the perf handler to check that sched_clock() returned monotonic
values. At the same time I forcefully reduced kt_wrap so that
update_sched_clock() is being called at >1000Hz.

Without the patches the above system is grossly unstable, surviving
[9K,115K,25K] perf event cycles during three separate runs. With the
patch I ran for over 9M perf event cycles before getting bored."

I'm relaying these along because in the past I've queued and submitted
arch-generic sched_clock.c changes from Stephen via Thomas, but I wanted
to make sure this got a look from Ingo and Peter.

In the future, I think Stephen is probably the right person to act as
patch-catcher for the kernel/time/sched_clock.c file. But I think those
changes should continue to be merged in via the -tip tree w/ other
scheduler code.

Let me know if you have any objections or concerns.

thanks
-john

This pull request is the same as the one from last week, but rebased
w/ Peter's Acks added.

The following changes since commit c517d838eb7d07bbe9507871fab3931deccff539:

  Linux 4.0-rc1 (2015-02-22 18:21:14 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

  https://git.linaro.org/people/john.stultz/linux.git fortglx/4.1/schedclock

for you to fetch changes up to 038d26770183dd24ed1ef7292f72a1c2e350eff8:

  sched_clock: Avoid deadlock during read from NMI (2015-03-24 14:49:38 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Daniel Thompson (5):
      sched_clock: Match scope of read and write seqcounts
      sched_clock: Optimize cache line usage
      sched_clock: Remove suspend from clock_read_data
      sched_clock: Remove redundant notrace from update function
      sched_clock: Avoid deadlock during read from NMI

 kernel/time/sched_clock.c | 195
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 138 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
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