linux-kernel - [PATCH v8 11/25] timers: Introduce add_timer() variants which modify timer flags

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Message-Id: <20231004123454.15691-12-anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Date:   Wed,  4 Oct 2023 14:34:40 +0200
From:   Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@...e.cz>,
        Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>,
        "Gautham R . Shenoy" <gautham.shenoy@....com>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com>,
        K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH v8 11/25] timers: Introduce add_timer() variants which modify timer flags

Timer might be used as pinned timer (using add_timer_on()) and later on as
non pinned timers using add_timer(). When the NOHZ timer pull at expiry
model is in place, TIMER_PINNED flag is required to be used whenever a
timer needs to expire on a dedicated CPU. Flag must no be set, if
expiration on a dedicated CPU is not required.

add_timer_on()'s behavior will be changed during the preparation patches
for the NOHZ timer pull at expiry model to unconditionally set TIMER_PINNED
flag. To be able to reset/set the flag when queueing a timer, two variants
of add_timer() are introduced.

This is a preparatory patch and has no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
---
New in v6
---
 include/linux/timer.h |  2 ++
 kernel/time/timer.c   | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index 9162f275819a..6f96661480dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ extern int timer_reduce(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires);
 #define NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA	((1UL << 30) - 1)
 
 extern void add_timer(struct timer_list *timer);
+extern void add_timer_local(struct timer_list *timer);
+extern void add_timer_global(struct timer_list *timer);
 
 extern int try_to_del_timer_sync(struct timer_list *timer);
 extern int timer_delete_sync(struct timer_list *timer);
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 8518f7aa7319..3172b8094097 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1245,6 +1245,40 @@ void add_timer(struct timer_list *timer)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_timer);
 
+/**
+ * add_timer_local - Start a timer on the local CPU
+ * @timer:	The timer to be started
+ *
+ * Same as add_timer() except that the timer flag TIMER_PINNED is set.
+ *
+ * See add_timer() for further details.
+ */
+void add_timer_local(struct timer_list *timer)
+{
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(timer_pending(timer)))
+		return;
+	timer->flags |= TIMER_PINNED;
+	__mod_timer(timer, timer->expires, MOD_TIMER_NOTPENDING);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_timer_local);
+
+/**
+ * add_timer_global - Start a timer without TIMER_PINNED flag set
+ * @timer:	The timer to be started
+ *
+ * Same as add_timer() except that the timer flag TIMER_PINNED is unset.
+ *
+ * See add_timer() for further details.
+ */
+void add_timer_global(struct timer_list *timer)
+{
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(timer_pending(timer)))
+		return;
+	timer->flags &= ~TIMER_PINNED;
+	__mod_timer(timer, timer->expires, MOD_TIMER_NOTPENDING);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_timer_global);
+
 /**
  * add_timer_on - Start a timer on a particular CPU
  * @timer:	The timer to be started
-- 
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