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Date:   Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:10:27 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        bigeasy@...utronix.de, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org
Subject: [tip:timers/core] hrtimer: Introduce HARD expiry mode

Commit-ID:  b04b3857625d7d91fd11fcc39da138d7602bfadd
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/b04b3857625d7d91fd11fcc39da138d7602bfadd
Author:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 20:30:51 +0200
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 23:57:53 +0200

hrtimer: Introduce HARD expiry mode

On PREEMPT_RT not all hrtimers can be expired in hard interrupt context
even if that is perfectly fine on a PREEMPT_RT=n kernel, e.g. because they
take regular spinlocks. Also for latency reasons PREEMPT_RT tries to defer
most hrtimers' expiry into soft interrupt context.

But there are hrtimers which must be expired in hard interrupt context even
when PREEMPT_RT is enabled:

  - hrtimers which must expiry in hard interrupt context, e.g. scheduler,
    perf, watchdog related hrtimers

  - latency critical hrtimers, e.g. nanosleep, ..., kvm lapic timer

Add a new mode flag HRTIMER_MODE_HARD which allows to mark these timers so
PREEMPT_RT will not move them into softirq expiry mode.

[ tglx: Split out of a larger combo patch. Added changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726185752.981398465@linutronix.de

---
 include/linux/hrtimer.h | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/hrtimer.h b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
index 24072a0942c0..15c2ba6b6316 100644
--- a/include/linux/hrtimer.h
+++ b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ enum hrtimer_mode {
 	HRTIMER_MODE_REL	= 0x01,
 	HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED	= 0x02,
 	HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT	= 0x04,
+	HRTIMER_MODE_HARD	= 0x08,
 
 	HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED = HRTIMER_MODE_ABS | HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED,
 	HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED = HRTIMER_MODE_REL | HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED,
@@ -48,6 +49,11 @@ enum hrtimer_mode {
 	HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_SOFT = HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED | HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT,
 	HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED_SOFT = HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED | HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT,
 
+	HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_HARD	= HRTIMER_MODE_ABS | HRTIMER_MODE_HARD,
+	HRTIMER_MODE_REL_HARD	= HRTIMER_MODE_REL | HRTIMER_MODE_HARD,
+
+	HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_HARD = HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED | HRTIMER_MODE_HARD,
+	HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED_HARD = HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED | HRTIMER_MODE_HARD,
 };
 
 /*