linux_dsm_epyc7002/kernel/time
Thomas Gleixner 1fb497dd00 posix-cpu-timers: Provide mechanisms to defer timer handling to task_work
Running posix CPU timers in hard interrupt context has a few downsides:

 - For PREEMPT_RT it cannot work as the expiry code needs to take
   sighand lock, which is a 'sleeping spinlock' in RT. The original RT
   approach of offloading the posix CPU timer handling into a high
   priority thread was clumsy and provided no real benefit in general.

 - For fine grained accounting it's just wrong to run this in context of
   the timer interrupt because that way a process specific CPU time is
   accounted to the timer interrupt.

 - Long running timer interrupts caused by a large amount of expiring
   timers which can be created and armed by unpriviledged user space.

There is no hard requirement to expire them in interrupt context.

If the signal is targeted at the task itself then it won't be delivered
before the task returns to user space anyway. If the signal is targeted at
a supervisor process then it might be slightly delayed, but posix CPU
timers are inaccurate anyway due to the fact that they are tied to the
tick.

Provide infrastructure to schedule task work which allows splitting the
posix CPU timer code into a quick check in interrupt context and a thread
context expiry and signal delivery function. This has to be enabled by
architectures as it requires that the architecture specific KVM
implementation handles pending task work before exiting to guest mode.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730102337.783470146@linutronix.de
2020-08-06 16:50:59 +02:00
..
alarmtimer.c alarmtimer: Make alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() a stub when CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=n 2020-01-24 21:03:53 +01:00
clockevents.c tick: Remove outgoing CPU from broadcast masks 2019-03-23 18:26:43 +01:00
clocksource.c clocksource: Remove obsolete ifdef 2020-06-09 16:36:47 +02:00
hrtimer.c hrtimer: Don't dereference the hrtimer pointer after the callback 2020-04-01 13:20:14 +02:00
itimer.c y2038: rename itimerval to __kernel_old_itimerval 2019-12-18 18:07:33 +01:00
jiffies.c timekeeping: Split jiffies seqlock 2020-03-21 16:00:23 +01:00
Kconfig posix-cpu-timers: Provide mechanisms to defer timer handling to task_work 2020-08-06 16:50:59 +02:00
Makefile ns: Introduce Time Namespace 2020-01-14 12:20:48 +01:00
namespace.c nsproxy: support CLONE_NEWTIME with setns() 2020-07-08 11:14:22 +02:00
ntp_internal.h ntp: Audit NTP parameters adjustment 2019-04-15 18:14:01 -04:00
ntp.c ntp/y2038: Remove incorrect time_t truncation 2019-11-12 08:13:44 +01:00
posix-clock.c posix-clocks: Rename the clock_get() callback to clock_get_timespec() 2020-01-14 12:20:49 +01:00
posix-cpu-timers.c posix-cpu-timers: Provide mechanisms to defer timer handling to task_work 2020-08-06 16:50:59 +02:00
posix-stubs.c posix-timers: Make clock_nanosleep() time namespace aware 2020-01-14 12:20:55 +01:00
posix-timers.c posix-timers: Pass lockdep expression to RCU lists 2020-02-17 20:12:19 +01:00
posix-timers.h posix-clocks: Introduce clock_get_ktime() callback 2020-01-14 12:20:51 +01:00
sched_clock.c time/sched_clock: Use raw_read_seqcount_latch() 2020-07-20 11:50:47 +01:00
test_udelay.c time/debug: Remove license boilerplate 2018-11-23 11:51:21 +01:00
tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c tick: broadcast-hrtimer: Fix a race in bc_set_next 2019-09-27 14:45:55 +02:00
tick-broadcast.c tick: Fix typos in comments 2019-04-19 19:17:04 +02:00
tick-common.c timekeeping: Split jiffies seqlock 2020-03-21 16:00:23 +01:00
tick-internal.h tick: Remove outgoing CPU from broadcast masks 2019-03-23 18:26:43 +01:00
tick-oneshot.c hrtimers/tick/clockevents: Remove sloppy license references 2018-11-23 11:51:21 +01:00
tick-sched.c tick/nohz: Narrow down noise while setting current task's tick dependency 2020-06-29 11:58:50 -07:00
tick-sched.h tick/sched: Update tick_sched struct documentation 2019-03-24 20:29:32 +01:00
time.c y2038: remove unused time32 interfaces 2020-02-21 11:22:15 -08:00
timeconst.bc time: Add SPDX license identifiers 2018-11-23 11:51:20 +01:00
timeconv.c time: Add SPDX license identifiers 2018-11-23 11:51:20 +01:00
timecounter.c time: Remove license boilerplate 2018-11-23 11:51:21 +01:00
timekeeping_debug.c timekeeping/debug: No need to check return value of debugfs_create functions 2019-01-29 20:08:41 +01:00
timekeeping_internal.h timekeeping/ntp: Constify some function arguments 2018-07-19 17:08:05 -07:00
timekeeping.c sched: nohz: stop passing around unused "ticks" parameter. 2020-07-22 10:22:04 +02:00
timekeeping.h timekeeping: Split jiffies seqlock 2020-03-21 16:00:23 +01:00
timer_list.c timer_list: Guard procfs specific code 2019-06-23 00:08:52 +02:00
timer.c posix-cpu-timers: Provide mechanisms to defer timer handling to task_work 2020-08-06 16:50:59 +02:00
vsyscall.c lib/vdso: Avoid highres update if clocksource is not VDSO capable 2020-02-17 20:12:17 +01:00