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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-10-08 10:01:00 -0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-12-11 13:31:36 -0500
commit2bbb6817c0ac1b5f2a68d720f364f98eeb1ac4fd (patch)
tree05bb5ba54671a8eaeca4fe4406a75e820317e473 /include/linux/tick.h
parent280f06774afedf849f0b34248ed6aff57d0f6908 (diff)
nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop
It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after the tick is stopped. To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs: tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(). If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(). Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly: - rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put to sleep. - rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken up. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/tick.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tick.h46
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index 0df1d50a408a..327434a05757 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
7#define _LINUX_TICK_H 7#define _LINUX_TICK_H
8 8
9#include <linux/clockchips.h> 9#include <linux/clockchips.h>
10#include <linux/irqflags.h>
10 11
11#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS 12#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
12 13
@@ -121,18 +122,57 @@ static inline int tick_oneshot_mode_active(void) { return 0; }
121#endif /* !CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS */ 122#endif /* !CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS */
122 123
123# ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ 124# ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
124extern void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void); 125extern void __tick_nohz_idle_enter(void);
126static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void)
127{
128 local_irq_disable();
129 __tick_nohz_idle_enter();
130 local_irq_enable();
131}
125extern void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void); 132extern void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void);
133
134/*
135 * Call this pair of function if the arch doesn't make any use
136 * of RCU in-between. You won't need to call rcu_idle_enter() and
137 * rcu_idle_exit().
138 * Otherwise you need to call tick_nohz_idle_enter() and tick_nohz_idle_exit()
139 * and explicitly tell RCU about the window around the place the CPU enters low
140 * power mode where no RCU use is made. This is done by calling rcu_idle_enter()
141 * after the last use of RCU before the CPU is put to sleep and by calling
142 * rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU woke up.
143 */
144static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu(void)
145{
146 /*
147 * Also call rcu_idle_enter() in the irq disabled section even
148 * if it disables irq itself.
149 * Just an optimization that prevents from an interrupt happening
150 * between it and __tick_nohz_idle_enter() to lose time to help
151 * completing a grace period while we could be in extended grace
152 * period already.
153 */
154 local_irq_disable();
155 __tick_nohz_idle_enter();
156 rcu_idle_enter();
157 local_irq_enable();
158}
159static inline void tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(void)
160{
161 rcu_idle_exit();
162 tick_nohz_idle_exit();
163}
126extern void tick_nohz_irq_exit(void); 164extern void tick_nohz_irq_exit(void);
127extern ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void); 165extern ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void);
128extern u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time); 166extern u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time);
129extern u64 get_cpu_iowait_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time); 167extern u64 get_cpu_iowait_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time);
130# else 168# else
131static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void) 169static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void) { }
170static inline void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void) { }
171static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu(void)
132{ 172{
133 rcu_idle_enter(); 173 rcu_idle_enter();
134} 174}
135static inline void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void) 175static inline void tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(void)
136{ 176{
137 rcu_idle_exit(); 177 rcu_idle_exit();
138} 178}