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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched.c | 43 |
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 28c73f07efb..8dcdec6fe0f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -1052,6 +1052,49 @@ static void resched_cpu(int cpu) resched_task(cpu_curr(cpu)); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags); } + +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ +/* + * When add_timer_on() enqueues a timer into the timer wheel of an + * idle CPU then this timer might expire before the next timer event + * which is scheduled to wake up that CPU. In case of a completely + * idle system the next event might even be infinite time into the + * future. wake_up_idle_cpu() ensures that the CPU is woken up and + * leaves the inner idle loop so the newly added timer is taken into + * account when the CPU goes back to idle and evaluates the timer + * wheel for the next timer event. + */ +void wake_up_idle_cpu(int cpu) +{ + struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu); + + if (cpu == smp_processor_id()) + return; + + /* + * This is safe, as this function is called with the timer + * wheel base lock of (cpu) held. When the CPU is on the way + * to idle and has not yet set rq->curr to idle then it will + * be serialized on the timer wheel base lock and take the new + * timer into account automatically. + */ + if (rq->curr != rq->idle) + return; + + /* + * We can set TIF_RESCHED on the idle task of the other CPU + * lockless. The worst case is that the other CPU runs the + * idle task through an additional NOOP schedule() + */ + set_tsk_thread_flag(rq->idle, TIF_NEED_RESCHED); + + /* NEED_RESCHED must be visible before we test polling */ + smp_mb(); + if (!tsk_is_polling(rq->idle)) + smp_send_reschedule(cpu); +} +#endif + #else static void __resched_task(struct task_struct *p, int tif_bit) { |