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, 9 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 3612fc77f834..a12df5abde0b 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -361,8 +361,8 @@ void __init tick_nohz_init(void)
 /*
  * NO HZ enabled ?
  */
-int tick_nohz_enabled __read_mostly  = 1;
-
+static int tick_nohz_enabled __read_mostly  = 1;
+int tick_nohz_active  __read_mostly;
 /*
  * Enable / Disable tickless mode
  */
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
         struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
         ktime_t now, idle;
 
-        if (!tick_nohz_enabled)
+        if (!tick_nohz_active)
                 return -1;
 
         now = ktime_get();
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ u64 get_cpu_iowait_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
         struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
         ktime_t now, iowait;
 
-        if (!tick_nohz_enabled)
+        if (!tick_nohz_active)
                 return -1;
 
         now = ktime_get();
@@ -799,11 +799,6 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void)
         local_irq_disable();
 
         ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched);
-        /*
-         * set ts->inidle unconditionally. even if the system did not
-         * switch to nohz mode the cpu frequency governers rely on the
-         * update of the idle time accounting in tick_nohz_start_idle().
-         */
         ts->inidle = 1;
         __tick_nohz_idle_enter(ts);
 
@@ -973,7 +968,7 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void)
         struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched);
         ktime_t next;
 
-        if (!tick_nohz_enabled)
+        if (!tick_nohz_active)
                 return;
 
         local_irq_disable();
@@ -981,7 +976,7 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void)
                 local_irq_enable();
                 return;
         }
-
+        tick_nohz_active = 1;
         ts->nohz_mode = NOHZ_MODE_LOWRES;
 
         /*
@@ -1139,8 +1134,10 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
         }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
-        if (tick_nohz_enabled)
+        if (tick_nohz_enabled) {
                 ts->nohz_mode = NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES;
+                tick_nohz_active = 1;
+        }
 #endif
 }
 #endif /* HIGH_RES_TIMERS */