NOHZ: Check for nohz active instead of nohz enabled

RCU and the fine grained idle time accounting functions check
tick_nohz_enabled. But that variable is merily telling that NOHZ has
been enabled in the config and not been disabled on the command line.

But it does not tell anything about nohz being active. That's what all
this should check for.

Matthew reported, that the idle accounting on his old P1 machine
showed bogus values, when he enabled NOHZ in the config and did not
disable it on the kernel command line. The reason is that his machine
uses (refined) jiffies as a clocksource which explains why the "fine"
grained accounting went into lala land, because it depends on when the
system goes and leaves idle relative to the jiffies increment.

Provide a tick_nohz_active indicator and let RCU and the accounting
code use this instead of tick_nohz_enable.

Reported-and-tested-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: mwhitehe@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1311132052240.30673@ionos.tec.linutronix.de

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 6abb03dff5c0..08a765232432 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ module_param(rcu_idle_gp_delay, int, 0644);
 static int rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay = RCU_IDLE_LAZY_GP_DELAY;
 module_param(rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay, int, 0644);
 
-extern int tick_nohz_enabled;
+extern int tick_nohz_active;
 
 /*
  * Try to advance callbacks for all flavors of RCU on the current CPU, but
@@ -1729,7 +1729,7 @@ static void rcu_prepare_for_idle(int cpu)
         int tne;
 
         /* Handle nohz enablement switches conservatively. */
-        tne = ACCESS_ONCE(tick_nohz_enabled);
+        tne = ACCESS_ONCE(tick_nohz_active);
         if (tne != rdtp->tick_nohz_enabled_snap) {
                 if (rcu_cpu_has_callbacks(cpu, NULL))
                         invoke_rcu_core(); /* force nohz to see update. */