Pull timer changes from Thomas Gleixner:
"This assorted collection provides:
- A new timer based timer broadcast feature for systems which do not
provide a global accessible timer device. That allows those
systems to put CPUs into deep idle states where the per cpu timer
device stops.
- A few NOHZ_FULL related improvements to the timer wheel
- The usual updates to timer devices found in ARM SoCs
- Small improvements and updates all over the place"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
tick: Remove code duplication in tick_handle_periodic()
tick: Fix spelling mistake in tick_handle_periodic()
x86: hpet: Use proper destructor for delayed work
workqueue: Provide destroy_delayed_work_on_stack()
clocksource: CMT, MTU2, TMU and STI should depend on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
timer: Remove code redundancy while calling get_nohz_timer_target()
hrtimer: Rearrange comments in the order struct members are declared
timer: Use variable head instead of &work_list in __run_timers()
clocksource: exynos_mct: silence a static checker warning
arm: zynq: Add support for cpufreq
arm: zynq: Don't use arm_global_timer with cpufreq
clocksource/cadence_ttc: Overhaul clocksource frequency adjustment
clocksource/cadence_ttc: Call clockevents_update_freq() with IRQs enabled
clocksource: Add Kconfig entries for CMT, MTU2, TMU and STI
sh: Remove Kconfig entries for TMU, CMT and MTU2
ARM: shmobile: Remove CMT, TMU and STI Kconfig entries
clocksource: armada-370-xp: Use atomic access for shared registers
clocksource: orion: Use atomic access for shared registers
clocksource: timer-keystone: Delete unnecessary variable
clocksource: timer-keystone: introduce clocksource driver for Keystone
...
AMD systems which use the C1E workaround in the amd_e400_idle routine
trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE in the broadcast code when onlining a CPU.
The reason is that the idle routine of those AMD systems switches the
cpu into forced broadcast mode early on before the newly brought up
CPU can switch over to high resolution / NOHZ mode. The timer related
CPU1 bringup looks like this:
clockevent_register_device(local_apic);
tick_setup(local_apic);
...
idle()
tick_broadcast_on_off(FORCE);
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(ENTER)
cpumask_set(cpu, broadcast_oneshot_mask);
halt();
Now the broadcast interrupt on CPU0 sets CPU1 in the
broadcast_pending_mask and wakes CPU1. So CPU1 continues:
local_apic_timer_interrupt()
tick_handle_periodic();
softirq()
tick_init_highres();
cpumask_clr(cpu, broadcast_oneshot_mask);
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(ENTER)
WARN_ON(cpumask_test(cpu, broadcast_pending_mask);
So while we remove CPU1 from the broadcast_oneshot_mask when we switch
over to highres mode, we do not clear the pending bit, which then
triggers the warning when we go back to idle.
The reason why this is only visible on C1E affected AMD systems is
that the other machines enter the deep sleep states via
acpi_idle/intel_idle and exit the broadcast mode before executing the
remote triggered local_apic_timer_interrupt. So the pending bit is
already cleared when the switch over to highres mode is clearing the
oneshot mask.
The solution is simple: Clear the pending bit together with the mask
bit when we switch over to highres mode.
Stanislaw came up independently with the same patch by enforcing the
C1E workaround and debugging the fallout. I picked mine, because mine
has a changelog :)
Reported-by: poma <pomidorabelisima@gmail.com>
Debugged-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1402111434180.21991@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
On some architectures, in certain CPU deep idle states the local timers stop.
An external clock device is used to wakeup these CPUs. The kernel support for the
wakeup of these CPUs is provided by the tick broadcast framework by using the
external clock device as the wakeup source.
However not all implementations of architectures provide such an external
clock device. This patch includes support in the broadcast framework to handle
the wakeup of the CPUs in deep idle states on such systems by queuing a hrtimer
on one of the CPUs, which is meant to handle the wakeup of CPUs in deep idle states.
This patchset introduces a pseudo clock device which can be registered by the
archs as tick_broadcast_device in the absence of a real external clock
device. Once registered, the broadcast framework will work as is for these
architectures as long as the archs take care of the BROADCAST_ENTER
notification failing for one of the CPUs. This CPU is made the stand by CPU to
handle wakeup of the CPUs in deep idle and it *must not enter deep idle states*.
The CPU with the earliest wakeup is chosen to be this CPU. Hence this way the
stand by CPU dynamically moves around and so does the hrtimer which is queued
to trigger at the next earliest wakeup time. This is consistent with the case where
an external clock device is present. The smp affinity of this clock device is
set to the CPU with the earliest wakeup. This patchset handles the hotplug of
the stand by CPU as well by moving the hrtimer on to the CPU handling the CPU_DEAD
notification.
Originally-from: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140207080632.17187.80532.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We can identify the broadcast device in the core and serialize all
callers including interrupts on a different CPU against the update.
Also, disabling interrupts is moved into the core allowing callers to
leave interrutps enabled when calling clockevents_update_freq().
Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Soeren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391466877-28908-2-git-send-email-soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
A few functions use remote per CPU access APIs when they
deal with local values.
Just do the right conversion to improve performance, code
readability and debug checks.
While at it, lets extend some of these function names with *_this_cpu()
suffix in order to display their purpose more clearly.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
On most ARM systems the per-cpu clockevents are truly per-cpu in
the sense that they can't be controlled on any other CPU besides
the CPU that they interrupt. If one of these clockevents were to
become a broadcast source we will run into a lot of trouble
because the broadcast source is enabled on the first CPU to go
into deep idle (if that CPU suffers from FEAT_C3_STOP) and that
could be a different CPU than what the clockevent is interrupting
(or even worse the CPU that the clockevent interrupts could be
offline).
Theoretically it's possible to support per-cpu clockevents as the
broadcast source but so far we haven't needed this and supporting
it is rather complicated. Let's just deny the possibility for now
until this becomes a reality (let's hope it never does!).
Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
On ARM systems the dummy clockevent is registered with the cpu
hotplug notifier chain before any other per-cpu clockevent. This
has the side-effect of causing the dummy clockevent to be
registered first in every hotplug sequence. Because the dummy is
first, we'll try to turn the broadcast source on but the code in
tick_device_uses_broadcast() assumes the broadcast source is in
periodic mode and calls tick_broadcast_start_periodic()
unconditionally.
On boot this isn't a problem because we typically haven't
switched into oneshot mode yet (if at all). During hotplug, if
the broadcast source isn't in periodic mode we'll replace the
broadcast oneshot handler with the broadcast periodic handler and
start emulating oneshot mode when we shouldn't. Due to the way
the broadcast oneshot handler programs the next_event it's
possible for it to contain KTIME_MAX and cause us to hang the
system when the periodic handler tries to program the next tick.
Fix this by using the appropriate function to start the broadcast
source.
Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: ARM kernel mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Joseph Lo <josephl@nvidia.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130711140059.GA27430@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/core
Frederic sayed: "Most of these patches have been hanging around for
several month now, in -mmotm for a significant chunk. They already
missed a few releases."
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The recent implementation of a generic dummy timer resulted in a
different registration order of per cpu local timers which made the
broadcast control logic go belly up.
If the dummy timer is the first clock event device which is registered
for a CPU, then it is installed, the broadcast timer is initialized
and the CPU is marked as broadcast target.
If a real clock event device is installed after that, we can fail to
take the CPU out of the broadcast mask. In the worst case we end up
with two periodic timer events firing for the same CPU. One from the
per cpu hardware device and one from the broadcast.
Now the problem is that we have no way to distinguish whether the
system is in a state which makes broadcasting necessary or the
broadcast bit was set due to the nonfunctional dummy timer
installment.
To solve this we need to keep track of the system state seperately and
provide a more detailed decision logic whether we keep the CPU in
broadcast mode or not.
The old decision logic only clears the broadcast mode, if the newly
installed clock event device is not affected by power states.
The new logic clears the broadcast mode if one of the following is
true:
- The new device is not affected by power states.
- The system is not in a power state affected mode
- The system has switched to oneshot mode. The oneshot broadcast is
controlled from the deep idle state. The CPU is not in idle at
this point, so it's safe to remove it from the mask.
If we clear the broadcast bit for the CPU when a new device is
installed, we also shutdown the broadcast device when this was the
last CPU in the broadcast mask.
If the broadcast bit is kept, then we leave the new device in shutdown
state and rely on the broadcast to deliver the timer interrupts via
the broadcast ipis.
Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When the system switches from periodic to oneshot mode, the broadcast
logic causes a possibility that a CPU which has not yet switched to
oneshot mode puts its own clock event device into oneshot mode without
updating the state and the timer handler.
CPU0 CPU1
per cpu tickdev is in periodic mode
and switched to broadcast
Switch to oneshot mode
tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot()
cpumask_copy(tick_oneshot_broacast_mask,
tick_broadcast_mask);
broadcast device mode = oneshot
Timer interrupt
irq_enter()
tick_check_oneshot_broadcast()
dev->set_mode(ONESHOT);
tick_handle_periodic()
if (dev->mode == ONESHOT)
dev->next_event += period;
FAIL.
We fail, because dev->next_event contains KTIME_MAX, if the device was
in periodic mode before the uncontrolled switch to oneshot happened.
We must copy the broadcast bits over to the oneshot mask, because
otherwise a CPU which relies on the broadcast would not been woken up
anymore after the broadcast device switched to oneshot mode.
So we need to verify in tick_check_oneshot_broadcast() whether the CPU
has already switched to oneshot mode. If not, leave the device
untouched and let the CPU switch controlled into oneshot mode.
This is a long standing bug, which was never noticed, because the main
user of the broadcast x86 cannot run into that scenario, AFAICT. The
nonarchitected timer mess of ARM creates a gazillion of differently
broken abominations which trigger the shortcomings of that broadcast
code, which better had never been necessary in the first place.
Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In periodic mode we remove offline cpus from the broadcast propagation
mask. In oneshot mode we fail to do so. This was not a problem so far,
but the recent changes to the broadcast propagation introduced a
constellation which can result in a NULL pointer dereference.
What happens is:
CPU0 CPU1
idle()
arch_idle()
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(OFF);
set cpu1 in tick_broadcast_force_mask
if (cpu_offline())
arch_cpu_dead()
cpu_dead_cleanup(cpu1)
cpu1 tickdevice pointer = NULL
broadcast interrupt
dereference cpu1 tickdevice pointer -> OOPS
We dereference the pointer because cpu1 is still set in
tick_broadcast_force_mask and tick_do_broadcast() expects a valid
cpumask and therefor lacks any further checks.
Remove the cpu from the tick_broadcast_force_mask before we set the
tick device pointer to NULL. Also add a sanity check to the oneshot
broadcast function, so we can detect such issues w/o crashing the
machine.
Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: athorlton@sgi.com
Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1306261303260.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The recent modification in the cpuidle framework consolidated the
timer broadcast code across the different drivers by setting a new
flag in the idle state. It tells the cpuidle core code to enter/exit
the broadcast mode for the cpu when entering a deep idle state. The
broadcast timer enter/exit is no longer handled by the back-end
driver.
This change made the local interrupt to be enabled *before* calling
CLOCK_EVENT_NOTIFY_EXIT.
On a tegra114, a four cores system, when the flag has been introduced
in the driver, the following warning appeared:
WARNING: at kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c:578 tick_broadcast_oneshot_control
CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc3-next-20130529+ #15
[<c00667f8>] (tick_broadcast_oneshot_control+0x1a4/0x1d0) from [<c0065cd0>] (tick_notify+0x240/0x40c)
[<c0065cd0>] (tick_notify+0x240/0x40c) from [<c0044724>] (notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x84)
[<c0044724>] (notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x84) from [<c0044828>] (raw_notifier_call_chain+0x18/0x20)
[<c0044828>] (raw_notifier_call_chain+0x18/0x20) from [<c00650cc>] (clockevents_notify+0x28/0x170)
[<c00650cc>] (clockevents_notify+0x28/0x170) from [<c033f1f0>] (cpuidle_idle_call+0x11c/0x168)
[<c033f1f0>] (cpuidle_idle_call+0x11c/0x168) from [<c000ea94>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x8/0x38)
[<c000ea94>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x8/0x38) from [<c005ea80>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x60/0x134)
[<c005ea80>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x60/0x134) from [<804fe9a4>] (0x804fe9a4)
I don't have the hardware, so I wasn't able to reproduce the warning
but after looking a while at the code, I deduced the following:
1. the CPU2 enters a deep idle state and sets the broadcast timer
2. the timer expires, the tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast function is
called, setting the tick_broadcast_pending_mask and waking up the
idle cpu CPU2
3. the CPU2 exits idle handles the interrupt and then invokes
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control with CLOCK_EVENT_NOTIFY_EXIT which
runs the following code:
[...]
if (dev->next_event.tv64 == KTIME_MAX)
goto out;
if (cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu,
tick_broadcast_pending_mask))
goto out;
[...]
So if there is no next event scheduled for CPU2, we fulfil the
first condition and jump out without clearing the
tick_broadcast_pending_mask.
4. CPU2 goes to deep idle again and calls
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control with CLOCK_NOTIFY_EVENT_ENTER but
with the tick_broadcast_pending_mask set for CPU2, triggering the
warning.
The issue only surfaced due to the modifications of the cpuidle
framework, which resulted in interrupts being enabled before the call
to the clockevents code. If the call happens before interrupts have
been enabled, the warning cannot trigger, because there is still the
event pending which caused the broadcast timer expiry.
Move the check for the next event below the check for the pending bit,
so the pending bit gets cleared whether an event is scheduled on the
cpu or not.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Joseph Lo <josephl@nvidia.com>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371485735-31249-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Since 7300711e ("clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters"),
the timekeeping duty is assigned to the CPU that handles the tick
broadcast clock device by the time it is set in one shot mode.
This is an issue in full dynticks mode where the timekeeping duty
must stay handled by the boot CPU for now. Otherwise it prevents
secondary CPUs from offlining and this breaks
suspend/shutdown/reboot/...
As it appears there is no reason for this timekeeping duty to be
moved to the broadcast CPU, besides nothing prevent it from being
later re-assigned to another target, let's simply remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
commit 26517f3e (tick: Avoid programming the local cpu timer if
broadcast pending) added a warning if the cpu enters broadcast mode
again while the pending bit is still set. Meelis reported that the
warning triggers. There are two corner cases which have been not
considered:
1) cpuidle calls clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
twice. That can result in the following scenario
CPU0 CPU1
cpuidle_idle_call()
clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
set cpu in tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask
broadcast interrupt
event expired for cpu1
set pending bit
acpi_idle_enter_simple()
clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
WARN_ON(pending bit)
Move the WARN_ON into the section where we enter broadcast mode so
it wont provide false positives on the second call.
2) safe_halt() enables interrupts, so a broadcast interrupt can be
delivered befor the broadcast mode is disabled. That sets the
pending bit for the CPU which receives the broadcast
interrupt. Though the interrupt is delivered right away from the
broadcast handler and leaves the pending bit stale.
Clear the pending bit for the current cpu in the broadcast handler.
Reported-and-tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305271841130.4220@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Split out the clockevent device selection logic. Preparatory patch to
allow unbinding active clockevent devices.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.431796247@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We want to be able to remove clockevent modules as well. Add a
refcount so we don't remove a module with an active clock event
device.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.307435149@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
7+ years and still a single user. Kill it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.098520211@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- Cure for not using zalloc in the first place, which leads to random
crashes with CPUMASK_OFF_STACK.
- Revert a user space visible change which broke udev
- Add a missing cpu_online early return introduced by the new full
dyntick conversions
- Plug a long standing race in the timer wheel cpu hotplug code.
Sigh...
- Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down to prevent stale data on cpu
up.
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time: Revert ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK compile time optimizaitons
timer: Don't reinitialize the cpu base lock during CPU_UP_PREPARE
tick: Don't invoke tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() if the cpu is offline
tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down
tick: Use zalloc_cpumask_var for allocating offstack cpumasks
Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.
This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.
This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
that:
- HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at
HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature
removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
typical distro configs even on modern systems.
- Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining
source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.
- A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.
The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.
Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
two NOHZ kconfig modes:
- CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
whether a CPU is idle or not.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
CPU.
The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
default.
This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.
This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull
request is marked RFC because:
- it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
small but did not get ready in time.
- it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
marked it RFC.
- it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off
should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.
- the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In
particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact
correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
feature at this point.
- it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
Without flaming us to crisp! :-)
Future plans:
- there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
for the 0 Hz target though.
- once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.
I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
but the final word is up to you as usual.
More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
nohz_full: Add documentation.
cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
nohz: Add basic tracing
nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
...
commit b352bc1cbc (tick: Convert broadcast cpu bitmaps to
cpumask_var_t) broke CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK in a very subtle way.
Instead of allocating the cpumasks with zalloc_cpumask_var it uses
alloc_cpumask_var, so we can get random data there, which of course
confuses the logic completely and causes random failures.
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305032015060.2990@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.
Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Vitaliy reported that a per cpu HPET timer interrupt crashes the
system during hibernation. What happens is that the per cpu HPET timer
gets shut down when the nonboot cpus are stopped. When the nonboot
cpus are onlined again the HPET code sets up the MSI interrupt which
fires before the clock event device is registered. The event handler
is still set to hrtimer_interrupt, which then crashes the machine due
to highres mode not being active.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700333
There is no real good way to avoid that in the HPET code. The HPET
code alrady has a mechanism to detect spurious interrupts when event
handler == NULL for a similar reason.
We can handle that in the clockevent/tick layer and replace the
previous functional handler with a dummy handler like we do in
tick_setup_new_device().
The original clockevents code did this in clockevents_exchange_device(),
but that got removed by commit 7c1e76897 (clockevents: prevent
clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop) which forgot to fix
it up in tick_shutdown(). Same issue with the broadcast device.
Reported-by: Vitaliy Fillipov <vitalif@yourcmc.ru>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: 700333@bugs.debian.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
tick_oneshot_notify() is used to notify a particular CPU to try
to switch into oneshot mode after a oneshot capable tick device
is registered and tick_clock_notify() is used to notify all CPUs
to try to switch into oneshot mode after a high res clocksource
is registered. There is one caveat; if the tick devices suffer
from FEAT_C3_STOP we don't try to switch into oneshot mode unless
we have a oneshot capable broadcast device already registered.
If the broadcast device is registered after the tick devices that
have FEAT_C3_STOP we'll never try to switch into oneshot mode
again, causing us to be stuck in periodic mode forever. Avoid
this scenario by calling tick_clock_notify() after we register
the broadcast device so that we try to switch into oneshot mode
on all CPUs one more time.
[ tglx: Adopted to timers/core and added a comment ]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366219566-29783-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
"Extended nohz" was used as a naming base for the full dynticks
API and Kconfig symbols. It reflects the fact the system tries
to stop the tick in more places than just idle.
But that "extended" name is a bit opaque and vague. Rename it to
"full" makes it clearer what the system tries to do under this
config: try to shutdown the tick anytime it can. The various
constraints that prevent that to happen shouldn't be considered
as fundamental properties of this feature but rather technical
issues that may be solved in the future.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This way the full nohz CPUs can safely run with the tick
stopped with a guarantee that somebody else is taking
care of the jiffies and GTOD progression.
Once the duty is attributed to a CPU, it won't change. Also that
CPU can't enter into dyntick idle mode or be hot unplugged.
This may later be improved from a power consumption POV. At
least we should be able to share the duty amongst all CPUs
outside the full dynticks range. Then the duty could even be
shared with full dynticks CPUs when those can't stop their
tick for any reason.
But let's start with that very simple approach first.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[fix have_nohz_full_mask offcase]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
On the CPU which gets woken along with the target CPU of the broadcast
the following happens:
deep_idle()
<-- spurious wakeup
broadcast_exit()
set forced bit
enable interrupts
<-- Nothing happens
disable interrupts
broadcast_enter()
<-- Here we observe the forced bit is set
deep_idle()
Now after that the target CPU of the broadcast runs the broadcast
handler and finds the other CPU in both the broadcast and the forced
mask, sends the IPI and stuff gets back to normal.
So it's not actually harmful, just more evidence for the theory, that
hardware designers have access to very special drug supplies.
Now there is no point in going back to deep idle just to wake up again
right away via an IPI. Provide a check which allows the idle code to
avoid the deep idle transition.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Jason Liu <liu.h.jason@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130306111537.565418308@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Some brilliant hardware implementations wake multiple cores when the
broadcast timer fires. This leads to the following interesting
problem:
CPU0 CPU1
wakeup from idle wakeup from idle
leave broadcast mode leave broadcast mode
restart per cpu timer restart per cpu timer
go back to idle
handle broadcast
(empty mask)
enter broadcast mode
programm broadcast device
enter broadcast mode
programm broadcast device
So what happens is that due to the forced reprogramming of the cpu
local timer, we need to set a event in the future. Now if we manage to
go back to idle before the timer fires, we switch off the timer and
arm the broadcast device with an already expired time (covered by
forced mode). So in the worst case we repeat the above ping pong
forever.
Unfortunately we have no information about what caused the wakeup, but
we can check current time against the expiry time of the local cpu. If
the local event is already in the past, we know that the broadcast
timer is about to fire and send an IPI. So we mark ourself as an IPI
target even if we left broadcast mode and avoid the reprogramming of
the local cpu timer.
This still leaves the possibility that a CPU which is not handling the
broadcast interrupt is going to reach idle again before the IPI
arrives. This can't be solved in the core code and will be handled in
follow up patches.
Reported-by: Jason Liu <liu.h.jason@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130306111537.492045206@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
If the local cpu timer stops in deep idle, we arm the broadcast device
and get woken by an IPI. Now when we return from deep idle we reenable
the local cpu timer unconditionally before handling the IPI. But
that's a pointless exercise: the timer is already expired and the IPI
is on the way. And it's an expensive exercise as we use the forced
reprogramming mode so that we do not lose a timer event. This forced
reprogramming will loop at least once in the retry.
To avoid this reprogramming, we mark the cpu in a pending bit mask
before we send the IPI. Now when the IPI target cpu wakes up, it will
see the pending bit set and skip the reprogramming. The reprogramming
of the cpu local timer will happen in the IPI handler which runs the
cpu local timer interrupt function.
Reported-by: Jason Liu <liu.h.jason@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130306111537.431082074@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Currently tick_check_broadcast_device doesn't reject clock_event_devices
with CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY, and may select them in preference to real
hardware if they have a higher rating value. In this situation, the
dummy timer is responsible for broadcasting to itself, and the core
clockevents code may attempt to call non-existent callbacks for
programming the dummy, eventually leading to a panic.
This patch makes tick_check_broadcast_device always reject dummy timers,
preventing this problem.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Commit 12ad100046: "clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function"
made tick_device_uses_broadcast set up the generic broadcast function
for dummy devices (where !tick_device_is_functional(dev)), but neglected
to set up the broadcast function for devices that stop in low power
states (with the CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP flag).
When these devices enter low power states they will not have the generic
broadcast function assigned, and will bring down the system when an
attempt is made to broadcast to them.
This patch ensures that the broadcast function is also assigned for
devices which require broadcast in low power states.
Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org
Cc: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com
Cc: Will.Deacon@arm.com
Cc: santosh.shilimkar@ti.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Currently, the timer broadcast mechanism is defined by a function
pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental mechanism for
broadcast is architecture-specific, this means that clock_event_device
drivers cannot be shared across multiple architectures.
This patch adds an (optional) architecture-specific function for timer
tick broadcast, allowing drivers which may require broadcast
functionality to be shared across multiple architectures.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org
Cc: Will.Deacon@arm.com
Cc: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358183124-28461-3-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Currently the broadcast mechanism used for timers is abstracted by a
function pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental
mechanism for broadcast is architecture-specific, this ties each
clock_event_device driver to a single architecture, even where the
driver is otherwise generic.
This patch adds a standard path for the receipt of timer broadcasts, so
drivers and/or architecture backends need not manage redundant lists of
timers for the purpose of routing broadcast timer ticks.
[tglx: Made the implementation depend on the config switch as well ]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org
Cc: Will.Deacon@arm.com
Cc: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358183124-28461-2-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
During resume, tick_resume_broadcast() programs the broadcast timer in
oneshot mode unconditionally. On the platforms where broadcast timer
is not really required, this will generate spurious broadcast timer
ticks upon resume. For example, on the always running apic timer
platforms with HPET, I see spurious hpet tick once every ~5minutes
(which is the 32-bit hpet counter wraparound time).
Similar to boot time, during resume make the oneshot mode setting of
the broadcast clock event device conditional on the state of active
broadcast users.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Tested-by: svenjoac@gmx.de
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334802459.28674.209.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Santosh found another trap when we avoid to initialize the broadcast
device in the switch_to_oneshot code. The broadcast device might be
still in SHUTDOWN state when we actually need to use it. That
obviously breaks, as set_next_event() is called on a shutdown
device. This did not break on x86, but Suresh analyzed it:
From the review, most likely on Sven's system we are force enabling
the hpet using the pci quirk's method very late. And in this case,
hpet_clockevent (which will be global_clock_event) handler can be
null, specifically as this platform might not be using deeper c-states
and using the reliable APIC timer.
Prior to commit 'fa4da365bc7772c', that handler will be set to
'tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast' when we switch the broadcast timer to
oneshot mode, even though we don't use it. Post commit
'fa4da365bc7772c', we stopped switching the broadcast mode to oneshot
as this is not really needed and his platform's global_clock_event's
handler will remain null. While on my SNB laptop, same is set to
'clockevents_handle_noop' because hpet gets enabled very early. (noop
handler on my platform set when the early enabled hpet timer gets
replaced by the lapic timer).
But the commit 'fa4da365bc7772c' tracked the broadcast timer mode in
the SW as oneshot, even though it didn't touch the HW timer. During
resume however, tick_resume_broadcast() saw the SW broadcast mode as
oneshot and actually programmed the broadcast device also into oneshot
mode. So this triggered the null pointer de-reference after the hpet
wraps around and depending on what the hpet counter is set to. On the
normal platforms where hpet gets enabled early we should be seeing a
spurious interrupt (in my SNB laptop I see one spurious interrupt
after around 5 minutes ;) which is 32-bit hpet counter wraparound
time), but that's a separate issue.
Enforce the mode setting when trying to set an event.
Reported-and-tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: svenjoac@gmx.de
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1204181723350.2542@ionos
Sven Joachim reported, that suspend/resume on rc3 trips over a NULL
pointer dereference. Linus spotted the clockevent handler being NULL.
commit fa4da365b(clockevents: tTack broadcast device mode change in
tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot()) tried to fix a problem with the
broadcast device setup, which was introduced in commit 77b0d60c5(
clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not
needed).
The initial commit avoided to set up the broadcast device when no
broadcast request bits were set, but that left the broadcast device
disfunctional. In consequence deep idle states which need the
broadcast device were not woken up.
commit fa4da365b tried to fix that by initializing the state of the
broadcast facility, but that missed the fact, that nothing initializes
the event handler and some other state of the underlying clock event
device.
The fix is to revert both commits and make only the mode setting of
the clock event device conditional on the state of active broadcast
users.
That initializes everything except the low level device mode, but this
happens when the broadcast functionality is invoked by deep idle.
Reported-and-tested-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1204181205540.2542@ionos
In the commit 77b0d60c5a,
"clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not needed",
we were bailing out too quickly in tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot(),
with out tracking the broadcast device mode change to 'TICKDEV_MODE_ONESHOT'.
This breaks the platforms which need broadcast device oneshot services during
deep idle states. tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() thinks that it is
in periodic mode and fails to take proper decisions based on the
CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_[ENTER, EXIT] notifications during deep
idle entry/exit.
Fix this by tracking the broadcast device mode as 'TICKDEV_MODE_ONESHOT',
before leaving the broadcast HW device in shutdown mode if there are no active
requests for the moment.
Reported-and-tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334011304.12400.81.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Platforms with Always Running APIC Timer doesn't use the broadcast timer
but the kernel is leaving the broadcast timer (HPET in this case)
in oneshot mode.
On these platforms, before the switch to oneshot mode, broadcast device is
actually in shutdown mode. Code checks for empty tick_broadcast_mask and
avoids going into the periodic mode.
During switch to oneshot mode, add the same tick_broadcast_mask checks in the
tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot() and avoid the broadcast device going into
the oneshot mode.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: venki@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320452301.15071.16.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When a better rated broadcast device is installed, then the current
active device is not disabled, which results in two running broadcast
devices.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The automatic increase of the min_delta_ns of a clockevents device
should be done in the clockevents code as the minimum delay is an
attribute of the clockevents device.
In addition not all architectures want the automatic adjustment, on a
massively virtualized system it can happen that the programming of a
clock event fails several times in a row because the virtual cpu has
been rescheduled quickly enough. In that case the minimum delay will
erroneously be increased with no way back. The new config symbol
GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST is used to enable the automatic
adjustment. The config option is selected only for x86.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.494157493@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The first cpu which switches from periodic to oneshot mode switches
also the broadcast device into oneshot mode. The broadcast device
serves as a backup for per cpu timers which stop in deeper
C-states. To avoid starvation of the cpus which might be in idle and
depend on broadcast mode it marks the other cpus as broadcast active
and sets the brodcast expiry value of those cpus to the next tick.
The oneshot mode broadcast bit for the other cpus is sticky and gets
only cleared when those cpus exit idle. If a cpu was not idle while
the bit got set in consequence the bit prevents that the broadcast
device is armed on behalf of that cpu when it enters idle for the
first time after it switched to oneshot mode.
In most cases that goes unnoticed as one of the other cpus has usually
a timer pending which keeps the broadcast device armed with a short
timeout. Now if the only cpu which has a short timer active has the
bit set then the broadcast device will not be armed on behalf of that
cpu and will fire way after the expected timer expiry. In the case of
Christians bug report it took ~145 seconds which is about half of the
wrap around time of HPET (the limit for that device) due to the fact
that all other cpus had no timers armed which expired before the 145
seconds timeframe.
The solution is simply to clear the broadcast active bit
unconditionally when a cpu switches to oneshot mode after the first
cpu switched the broadcast device over. It's not idle at that point
otherwise it would not be executing that code.
[ I fundamentally hate that broadcast crap. Why the heck thought some
folks that when going into deep idle it's a brilliant concept to
switch off the last device which brings the cpu back from that
state? ]
Thanks to Christian for providing all the valuable debug information!
Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Hoffmann <email@christianhoffmann.info>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Calpine.LFD.2.02.1105161105170.3078%40ionos%3E
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Avoid taking broadcast_lock in the idle path for systems where the
timer doesn't stop in C3.
[ tglx: Removed the stale label and added comment ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <dkleikamp@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110504234806.GF2925%40one.firstfloor.org%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (62 commits)
posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls
hrtimer: Remove empty hrtimer_init_hres_timer()
hrtimer: Update hrtimer->state documentation
hrtimer: Update base[CLOCK_BOOTTIME].offset correctly
timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface
timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base
time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep
time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime
hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more then 2 clockids
ntp: Remove redundant and incorrect parameter check
mn10300: Switch do_timer() to xtimer_update()
posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks
posix-timers: Cleanup namespace
posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks
x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86
posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning.
time: Splitout compat timex accessors
ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit
time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset
posix-timer: Update comment
...
Fix up new system-call-related conflicts in
arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
(name_to_handle_at()/open_by_handle_at() vs clock_adjtime()), and some
due to movement of get_jiffies_64() in:
kernel/time.c
When the per cpu timer is marked CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP, then we only
can switch into oneshot mode, when the backup broadcast device
supports oneshot mode as well. Otherwise we would try to switch the
broadcast device into an unsupported mode unconditionally. This went
unnoticed so far as the current available broadcast devices support
oneshot mode. Seth unearthed this problem while debugging and working
around an hpet related BIOS wreckage.
Add the necessary check to tick_is_oneshot_available().
Reported-and-tested-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1102252231200.2701@localhost6.localdomain6>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .21 ->
All callers of do_timer() are converted to xtime_update(). The only
users of xtime_lock are in kernel/time/. Make both local to
kernel/time/ and remove them from the global header files.
[ tglx: Reuse tick-internal.h instead of creating another local header
file. Massaged changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
