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2007-09-16clockevents: prevent stale tick update on offline cpuThomas Gleixner
Taking a cpu offline removes the cpu from the online mask before the CPU_DEAD notification is done. The clock events layer does the cleanup of the dead CPU from the CPU_DEAD notifier chain. tick_do_timer_cpu is used to avoid xtime lock contention by assigning the task of jiffies xtime updates to one CPU. If a CPU is taken offline, then this assignment becomes stale. This went unnoticed because most of the time the offline CPU went dead before the online CPU reached __cpu_die(), where the CPU_DEAD state is checked. In the case that the offline CPU did not reach the DEAD state before we reach __cpu_die(), the code in there goes to sleep for 100ms. Due to the stale time update assignment, the system is stuck forever. Take the assignment away when a cpu is not longer in the cpu_online_mask. We do this in the last call to tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() when the offline CPU is on the way to the final play_dead() idle entry. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-07-21tick management: spread timer interruptjohn stultz
After discussing w/ Thomas over IRC, it seems the issue is the sched tick fires on every cpu at the same time, causing extra lock contention. This smaller change, adds an extra offset per cpu so the ticks don't line up. This patch also drops the idle latency from 40us down to under 20us. Signed-off-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-29NOHZ: prevent multiplication overflow - stop timer for huge timeoutsThomas Gleixner
get_next_timer_interrupt() returns a delta of (LONG_MAX > 1) in case there is no timer pending. On 64 bit machines this results in a multiplication overflow in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(). Reported by: Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Make the return value a constant and limit the return value to a 32 bit value. When the max timeout value is returned, we can safely stop the tick timer device. The max jiffies delta results in a 12 days timeout for HZ=1000. In the long term the get_next_timer_interrupt() code needs to be reworked to return ktime instead of jiffies, but we have to wait until the last users of the original NO_IDLE_HZ code are converted. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23NOHZ: Rate limit the local softirq pending warning outputThomas Gleixner
The warning in the NOHZ code, which triggers when a CPU goes idle with softirqs pending can fill up the logs quite quickly. Rate limit the output until we found the root cause of that problem. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08sched: dynticks idle load balancingSiddha, Suresh B
Fix the process idle load balancing in the presence of dynticks. cpus for which ticks are stopped will sleep till the next event wakes it up. Potentially these sleeps can be for large durations and during which today, there is no periodic idle load balancing being done. This patch nominates an owner among the idle cpus, which does the idle load balancing on behalf of the other idle cpus. And once all the cpus are completely idle, then we can stop this idle load balancing too. Checks added in fast path are minimized. Whenever there are busy cpus in the system, there will be an owner(idle cpu) doing the system wide idle load balancing. Open items: 1. Intelligent owner selection (like an idle core in a busy package). 2. Merge with rcu's nohz_cpu_mask? Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08highres/dyntick: prevent xtime lock contentionThomas Gleixner
While the !highres/!dyntick code assigns the duty of the do_timer() call to one specific CPU, this was dropped in the highres/dyntick part during development. Steven Rostedt discovered the xtime lock contention on highres/dyntick due to several CPUs trying to update jiffies. Add the single CPU assignement back. In the dyntick case this needs to be handled carefully, as the CPU which has the do_timer() duty must drop the assignement and let it be grabbed by another CPU, which is active. Otherwise the do_timer() calls would not happen during the long sleep. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-26[TIME] tick-sched: Add missing asm/irq_regs.h include.David S. Miller
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-19[PATCH] NOHZ: Produce debug output instead of a BUG()Thomas Gleixner
The BUG_ON() in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() triggers on some boxen. Remove the BUG_ON and print information about the pending softirq to allow better debugging of the problem. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-19[PATCH] NOHZ: Fix RCU handlingIngo Molnar
When a CPU is needed for RCU the tick has to continue even when it was stopped before. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] Add debugging feature /proc/timer_listIngo Molnar
add /proc/timer_list, which prints all currently pending (high-res) timers, all clock-event sources and their parameters in a human-readable form. Sample output: Timer List Version: v0.1 HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES: 2 now at 4246046273872 nsecs cpu: 0 clock 0: .index: 0 .resolution: 1 nsecs .get_time: ktime_get_real .offset: 1273998312645738432 nsecs active timers: clock 1: .index: 1 .resolution: 1 nsecs .get_time: ktime_get .offset: 0 nsecs active timers: #0: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_sched_tick, hrtimer_stop_sched_tick, swapper/0 # expires at 4246432689566 nsecs [in 386415694 nsecs] #1: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, pcscd/2050 # expires at 4247018194689 nsecs [in 971920817 nsecs] #2: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, irqbalance/1909 # expires at 4247351358392 nsecs [in 1305084520 nsecs] #3: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, crond/2157 # expires at 4249097614968 nsecs [in 3051341096 nsecs] #4: <f5a90ec8>, it_real_fn, do_setitimer, syslogd/1888 # expires at 4251329900926 nsecs [in 5283627054 nsecs] .expires_next : 4246432689566 nsecs .hres_active : 1 .check_clocks : 0 .nr_events : 31306 .idle_tick : 4246020791890 nsecs .tick_stopped : 1 .idle_jiffies : 986504 .idle_calls : 40700 .idle_sleeps : 36014 .idle_entrytime : 4246019418883 nsecs .idle_sleeptime : 4178181972709 nsecs cpu: 1 clock 0: .index: 0 .resolution: 1 nsecs .get_time: ktime_get_real .offset: 1273998312645738432 nsecs active timers: clock 1: .index: 1 .resolution: 1 nsecs .get_time: ktime_get .offset: 0 nsecs active timers: #0: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_sched_tick, hrtimer_restart_sched_tick, swapper/0 # expires at 4246050084568 nsecs [in 3810696 nsecs] #1: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, atd/2227 # expires at 4261010635003 nsecs [in 14964361131 nsecs] #2: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, smartd/2332 # expires at 5469485798970 nsecs [in 1223439525098 nsecs] .expires_next : 4246050084568 nsecs .hres_active : 1 .check_clocks : 0 .nr_events : 24043 .idle_tick : 4246046084568 nsecs .tick_stopped : 0 .idle_jiffies : 986510 .idle_calls : 26360 .idle_sleeps : 22551 .idle_entrytime : 4246043874339 nsecs .idle_sleeptime : 4170763761184 nsecs tick_broadcast_mask: 00000003 event_broadcast_mask: 00000001 CPU#0's local event device: Clock Event Device: lapic capabilities: 0000000e max_delta_ns: 807385544 min_delta_ns: 1443 mult: 44624025 shift: 32 set_next_event: lapic_next_event set_mode: lapic_timer_setup event_handler: hrtimer_interrupt .installed: 1 .expires: 4246432689566 nsecs CPU#1's local event device: Clock Event Device: lapic capabilities: 0000000e max_delta_ns: 807385544 min_delta_ns: 1443 mult: 44624025 shift: 32 set_next_event: lapic_next_event set_mode: lapic_timer_setup event_handler: hrtimer_interrupt .installed: 1 .expires: 4246050084568 nsecs Clock Event Device: hpet capabilities: 00000007 max_delta_ns: 2147483647 min_delta_ns: 3352 mult: 61496110 shift: 32 set_next_event: hpet_next_event set_mode: hpet_set_mode event_handler: handle_nextevt_broadcast Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] tick-management: dyntick / highres functionalityThomas Gleixner
With Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Add functions to provide dynamic ticks and high resolution timers. The code which keeps track of jiffies and handles the long idle periods is shared between tick based and high resolution timer based dynticks. The dyntick functionality can be disabled on the kernel commandline. Provide also the infrastructure to support high resolution timers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>