linux-kernel - [PATCH 09/12] housekeeping: Handle nohz

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Date:   Fri,  1 Sep 2017 18:41:44 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 09/12] housekeeping: Handle nohz_full= parameter

We want to centralize the isolation management from the housekeeping
subsystem. Therefore we need to handle the nohz_full= parameter from
there.

Since nohz_full= so far has involved unbound timers, watchdog, RCU
and tilegx NAPI isolation, we keep that default behaviour.

nohz_full= is deemed to be deprecated in the future. We want to control
the isolation features from the isolcpus= parameter.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>
---
 include/linux/housekeeping.h |  1 +
 include/linux/tick.h         |  1 +
 kernel/housekeeping.c        | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c     | 13 +++----------
 4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/housekeeping.h b/include/linux/housekeeping.h
index b1a62544..35fb197 100644
--- a/include/linux/housekeeping.h
+++ b/include/linux/housekeeping.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ enum hk_flags {
 	HK_FLAG_RCU		= (1 << 1),
 	HK_FLAG_MISC		= (1 << 2),
 	HK_FLAG_SCHED		= (1 << 3),
+	HK_FLAG_TICK		= (1 << 4),
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION
diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index 68afc09..3c82cf5 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ static inline void tick_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *signal,
 
 extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu);
 extern void __tick_nohz_task_switch(void);
+extern void __init tick_nohz_full_setup(cpumask_var_t cpumask);
 #else
 static inline bool tick_nohz_full_enabled(void) { return false; }
 static inline bool tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu) { return false; }
diff --git a/kernel/housekeeping.c b/kernel/housekeeping.c
index e2196d1..b2006bd 100644
--- a/kernel/housekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/housekeeping.c
@@ -49,23 +49,41 @@ bool housekeeping_test_cpu(int cpu, enum hk_flags flags)
 
 void __init housekeeping_init(void)
 {
-	if (!tick_nohz_full_enabled())
+	if (!housekeeping_flags)
 		return;
 
-	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&housekeeping_mask, GFP_KERNEL)) {
-		WARN(1, "NO_HZ: Can't allocate not-full dynticks cpumask\n");
-		cpumask_clear(tick_nohz_full_mask);
-		tick_nohz_full_running = false;
-		return;
-	}
-
-	cpumask_andnot(housekeeping_mask,
-		       cpu_possible_mask, tick_nohz_full_mask);
-
-	housekeeping_flags = HK_FLAG_TIMER | HK_FLAG_RCU | HK_FLAG_MISC;
-
 	static_branch_enable(&housekeeping_overriden);
 
 	/* We need at least one CPU to handle housekeeping work */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(cpumask_empty(housekeeping_mask));
 }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
+static int __init housekeeping_nohz_full_setup(char *str)
+{
+	cpumask_var_t non_housekeeping_mask;
+
+	alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&non_housekeeping_mask);
+	if (cpulist_parse(str, non_housekeeping_mask) < 0) {
+		pr_warn("Housekeeping: Incorrect nohz_full cpumask\n");
+		free_bootmem_cpumask_var(non_housekeeping_mask);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&housekeeping_mask);
+	cpumask_andnot(housekeeping_mask, cpu_possible_mask, non_housekeeping_mask);
+
+	if (cpumask_empty(housekeeping_mask))
+		cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), housekeeping_mask);
+
+	housekeeping_flags = HK_FLAG_TICK | HK_FLAG_TIMER |
+				HK_FLAG_RCU | HK_FLAG_MISC;
+
+	tick_nohz_full_setup(non_housekeeping_mask);
+
+	free_bootmem_cpumask_var(non_housekeeping_mask);
+
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("nohz_full=", housekeeping_nohz_full_setup);
+#endif
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 9d29dee..f09dd43 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -384,20 +384,13 @@ void __tick_nohz_task_switch(void)
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
-/* Parse the boot-time nohz CPU list from the kernel parameters. */
-static int __init tick_nohz_full_setup(char *str)
+/* Get the boot-time nohz CPU list from the kernel parameters. */
+void __init tick_nohz_full_setup(cpumask_var_t cpumask)
 {
 	alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&tick_nohz_full_mask);
-	if (cpulist_parse(str, tick_nohz_full_mask) < 0) {
-		pr_warn("NO_HZ: Incorrect nohz_full cpumask\n");
-		free_bootmem_cpumask_var(tick_nohz_full_mask);
-		return 1;
-	}
+	cpumask_copy(tick_nohz_full_mask, cpumask);
 	tick_nohz_full_running = true;
-
-	return 1;
 }
-__setup("nohz_full=", tick_nohz_full_setup);
 
 static int tick_nohz_cpu_down(unsigned int cpu)
 {
-- 
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