sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks

Provide a new helper to be called from the full dynticks engine
before stopping the tick in order to make sure we don't stop
it when there is more than one task running on the CPU.

This way we make sure that the tick stays alive to maintain
fairness.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 0f0a5b3fd62..69f71335984 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -650,6 +650,24 @@ static inline bool got_nohz_idle_kick(void)
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
+bool sched_can_stop_tick(void)
+{
+       struct rq *rq;
+
+       rq = this_rq();
+
+       /* Make sure rq->nr_running update is visible after the IPI */
+       smp_rmb();
+
+       /* More than one running task need preemption */
+       if (rq->nr_running > 1)
+               return false;
+
+       return true;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL */
+
 void sched_avg_update(struct rq *rq)
 {
 	s64 period = sched_avg_period();