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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-10-08 16:01:00 +0200
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-12-11 10:31:36 -0800
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 0df1d50a408..327434a0575 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#define _LINUX_TICK_H
#include <linux/clockchips.h>
+#include <linux/irqflags.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
@@ -121,18 +122,57 @@ static inline int tick_oneshot_mode_active(void) { return 0; }
#endif /* !CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS */
# ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
-extern void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void);
+extern void __tick_nohz_idle_enter(void);
+static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void)
+{
+ local_irq_disable();
+ __tick_nohz_idle_enter();
+ local_irq_enable();
+}
extern void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void);
+
+/*
+ * Call this pair of function if the arch doesn't make any use
+ * of RCU in-between. You won't need to call rcu_idle_enter() and
+ * rcu_idle_exit().
+ * Otherwise you need to call tick_nohz_idle_enter() and tick_nohz_idle_exit()
+ * and explicitly tell RCU about the window around the place the CPU enters low
+ * power mode where no RCU use is made. This is done by calling rcu_idle_enter()
+ * after the last use of RCU before the CPU is put to sleep and by calling
+ * rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU woke up.
+ */
+static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * Also call rcu_idle_enter() in the irq disabled section even
+ * if it disables irq itself.
+ * Just an optimization that prevents from an interrupt happening
+ * between it and __tick_nohz_idle_enter() to lose time to help
+ * completing a grace period while we could be in extended grace
+ * period already.
+ */
+ local_irq_disable();
+ __tick_nohz_idle_enter();
+ rcu_idle_enter();
+ local_irq_enable();
+}
+static inline void tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(void)
+{
+ rcu_idle_exit();
+ tick_nohz_idle_exit();
+}
extern void tick_nohz_irq_exit(void);
extern ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void);
extern u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time);
extern u64 get_cpu_iowait_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time);
# else
-static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void)
+static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void) { }
+static inline void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void) { }
+static inline void tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu(void)
{
rcu_idle_enter();
}
-static inline void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void)
+static inline void tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(void)
{
rcu_idle_exit();
}