sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again

Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code:

 - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a
   negative bias because we can negate our own sample.

 - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias
   because we push the sample to a known active period.

So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding
copious documentation to the code.

Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang <muming.wq@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 4059c0f33f07..20cb7497c59c 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1909,6 +1909,14 @@ static inline int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p,
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
+void calc_load_enter_idle(void);
+void calc_load_exit_idle(void);
+#else
+static inline void calc_load_enter_idle(void) { }
+static inline void calc_load_exit_idle(void) { }
+#endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ */
+
 #ifndef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
 static inline int set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t new_mask)
 {