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Rafael J. Wysocki b7eaf1aab9 cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid reducing frequency of busy CPUs prematurely
The way the schedutil governor uses the PELT metric causes it to
underestimate the CPU utilization in some cases.

That can be easily demonstrated by running kernel compilation on
a Sandy Bridge Intel processor, running turbostat in parallel with
it and looking at the values written to the MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL
register.  Namely, the expected result would be that when all CPUs
were 100% busy, all of them would be requested to run in the maximum
P-state, but observation shows that this clearly isn't the case.
The CPUs run in the maximum P-state for a while and then are
requested to run slower and go back to the maximum P-state after
a while again.  That causes the actual frequency of the processor to
visibly oscillate below the sustainable maximum in a jittery fashion
which clearly is not desirable.

That has been attributed to CPU utilization metric updates on task
migration that cause the total utilization value for the CPU to be
reduced by the utilization of the migrated task.  If that happens,
the schedutil governor may see a CPU utilization reduction and will
attempt to reduce the CPU frequency accordingly right away.  That
may be premature, though, for example if the system is generally
busy and there are other runnable tasks waiting to be run on that
CPU already.

This is unlikely to be an issue on systems where cpufreq policies are
shared between multiple CPUs, because in those cases the policy
utilization is computed as the maximum of the CPU utilization values
over the whole policy and if that turns out to be low, reducing the
frequency for the policy most likely is a good idea anyway.  On
systems with one CPU per policy, however, it may affect performance
adversely and even lead to increased energy consumption in some cases.

On those systems it may be addressed by taking another utilization
metric into consideration, like whether or not the CPU whose
frequency is about to be reduced has been idle recently, because if
that's not the case, the CPU is likely to be busy in the near future
and its frequency should not be reduced.

To that end, use the counter of idle calls in the timekeeping code.
Namely, make the schedutil governor look at that counter for the
current CPU every time before its frequency is about to be reduced.
If the counter has not changed since the previous iteration of the
governor computations for that CPU, the CPU has been busy for all
that time and its frequency should not be decreased, so if the new
frequency would be lower than the one set previously, the governor
will skip the frequency update.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
2017-03-23 02:12:14 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner 2456e85535 ktime: Get rid of the union
ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in
scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec
variant for 32bit machines. The Y2038 cleanup removed the timespec variant
and switched everything to scalar nanoseconds. The union remained, but
become completely pointless.

Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64.

The conversion was done with coccinelle and some manual mopping up.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
Kees Cook 4cc7ecb7f2 param: convert some "on"/"off" users to strtobool
This changes several users of manual "on"/"off" parsing to use
strtobool.

Some side-effects:
- these uses will now parse y/n/1/0 meaningfully too
- the early_param uses will now bubble up parse errors

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker b78783000d posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model
Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify
posix cpu timers tick dependency, migrate the latter to the new mask.

In order to keep track of the running timers and expose the tick
dependency accordingly, we must probe the timers queuing and dequeuing
on threads and process lists.

Unfortunately it implies both task and signal level dependencies. We
should be able to further optimize this and merge all that on the task
level dependency, at the cost of a bit of complexity and may be overhead.

Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-03-02 16:44:27 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 555e0c1ef7 perf: Migrate perf to use new tick dependency mask model
Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify
perf event tick dependency, migrate perf to the new mask.

Perf needs the tick for two situations:

1) Freq events. We could set the tick dependency when those are
installed on a CPU context. But setting a global dependency on top of
the global freq events accounting is much easier. If people want that
to be optimized, we can still refine that on the per-CPU tick dependency
level. This patch dooesn't change the current behaviour anyway.

2) Throttled events: this is a per-cpu dependency.

Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-03-02 16:43:00 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker e6e6cc22e0 nohz: Use enum code for tick stop failure tracing message
It makes nohz tracing more lightweight, standard and easier to parse.

Examples:

       user_loop-2904  [007] d..1   517.701126: tick_stop: success=1 dependency=NONE
       user_loop-2904  [007] dn.1   518.021181: tick_stop: success=0 dependency=SCHED
    posix_timers-6142  [007] d..1  1739.027400: tick_stop: success=0 dependency=POSIX_TIMER
       user_loop-5463  [007] dN.1  1185.931939: tick_stop: success=0 dependency=PERF_EVENTS

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-03-02 16:42:15 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker d027d45d8a nohz: New tick dependency mask
The tick dependency is evaluated on every IRQ and context switch. This
consists is a batch of checks which determine whether it is safe to
stop the tick or not. These checks are often split in many details:
posix cpu timers, scheduler, sched clock, perf events.... each of which
are made of smaller details: posix cpu timer involves checking process
wide timers then thread wide timers. Perf involves checking freq events
then more per cpu details.

Checking these informations asynchronously every time we update the full
dynticks state bring avoidable overhead and a messy layout.

Let's introduce instead tick dependency masks: one for system wide
dependency (unstable sched clock, freq based perf events), one for CPU
wide dependency (sched, throttling perf events), and task/signal level
dependencies (posix cpu timers). The subsystems are responsible
for setting and clearing their dependency through a set of APIs that will
take care of concurrent dependency mask modifications and kick targets
to restart the relevant CPU tick whenever needed.

This new dependency engine stays beside the old one until all subsystems
having a tick dependency are converted to it.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-03-02 16:41:39 +01:00
Jean Delvare 46373a15f6 time: nohz: Expose tick_nohz_enabled
The cpuidle subsystem needs it.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2016-01-15 22:34:39 +01:00
Vatika Harlalka 9642d18eee nohz: Affine unpinned timers to housekeepers
The problem addressed in this patch is about affining unpinned
timers. Adaptive or Full Dynticks CPUs are currently disturbed
by unnecessary jitter due to firing of such timers on them.

This patch will affine timers to online CPUs which are not full
dynticks in NOHZ_FULL configured systems. It should not
introduce overhead in nohz full off case due to static keys.

Signed-off-by: Vatika Harlalka <vatikaharlalka@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441119060-2230-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-02 10:33:22 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker de734f89b6 nohz: Remove useless argument on tick_nohz_task_switch()
Leftover from early code.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2015-07-29 15:45:01 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 73738a95d0 nohz: Restart nohz full tick from irq exit
Restart the tick when necessary from the irq exit path. It makes nohz
full more flexible, simplify the related IPIs and doesn't bring
significant overhead on irq exit.

In a longer term view, it will allow us to piggyback the nohz kick
on the scheduler IPI in the future instead of sending a dedicated IPI
that often doubles the scheduler IPI on task wakeup. This will require
more changes though including careful review of resched_curr() callers
to include nohz full needs.

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2015-07-29 15:45:00 +02:00
Chris Metcalf 03f6199a35 nohz: Prevent tilegx network driver interrupts
Normally the tilegx networking shim sends irqs to all the cores
to distribute the load of processing incoming-packet interrupts,
so that you can get to multiple Gb's of traffic inbound.

However, in nohz_full mode we don't want to interrupt the
nohz_full cores by default, so we limit the set of cores we use
to only the online housekeeping cores.

To make client code easier to read, we introduce a new nohz_full
accessor, housekeeping_cpumask(), which returns a pointer to the
housekeeping_mask if nohz_full is enabled, and otherwise returns
the cpu_possible_mask.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2015-07-29 15:44:59 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 37b64a4206 tick/broadcast: Unbreak CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=n build
Making tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() independent from
CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST broke the build for
CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=n because the function is not defined
there.

Provide a proper stub inline.

Fixes: f32dd11705 'tick/broadcast: Make idle check independent from mode and config'
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-07-07 21:56:34 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner f32dd11705 tick/broadcast: Make idle check independent from mode and config
Currently the broadcast busy check, which prevents the idle code from
going into deep idle, works only in one shot mode.

If NOHZ and HIGHRES are off (config or command line) there is no
sanity check at all, so under certain conditions cpus are allowed to
go into deep idle, where the local timer stops, and are not woken up
again because there is no broadcast timer installed or a hrtimer based
broadcast device is not evaluated.

Move tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() into the common code and provide
proper subfunctions for the various config combinations.

The common check in tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() is for the C3STOP
misfeature flag of the local clock event device. If its not set, idle
can proceed. If set, further checks are necessary.

Provide checks for the trivial cases:

 - If broadcast is disabled in the config, then return busy

 - If oneshot mode (NOHZ/HIGHES) is disabled in the config, return
   busy if the broadcast device is hrtimer based.

 - If oneshot mode is enabled in the config call the original
   tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() function. That function needs
   extra checks which will be implemented in seperate patches.

[ Split out from a larger combo patch ]

Reported-and-tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos
2015-07-07 18:46:47 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 43c9fad942 Power management and ACPI material for v4.2-rc1
- ACPICA update to upstream revision 20150515 including basic
    support for ACPI 6 features: new ACPI tables introduced by
    ACPI 6 (STAO, XENV, WPBT, NFIT, IORT), changes related to the
    other tables (DTRM, FADT, LPIT, MADT), new predefined names
    (_BTH, _CR3, _DSD, _LPI, _MTL, _PRR, _RDI, _RST, _TFP, _TSN),
    fixes and cleanups (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng).
 
  - ACPI device power management core code update to follow ACPI 6
    which reflects the ACPI device power management implementation
    in Windows (Rafael J Wysocki).
 
  - Rework of the backlight interface selection logic to reduce the
    number of kernel command line options and improve the handling
    of DMI quirks that may be involved in that and to make the
    code generally more straightforward (Hans de Goede).
 
  - Fixes for the ACPI Embedded Controller (EC) driver related to
    the handling of EC transactions (Lv Zheng).
 
  - Fix for a regression related to the ACPI resources management
    and resulting from a recent change of ACPI initialization code
    ordering (Rafael J Wysocki).
 
  - Fix for a system initialization regression related to ACPI
    introduced during the 3.14 cycle and caused by running the
    code that switches the platform over to the ACPI mode too
    early in the initialization sequence (Rafael J Wysocki).
 
  - Support for the ACPI _CCA device configuration object related
    to DMA cache coherence (Suravee Suthikulpanit).
 
  - ACPI/APEI fixes and cleanups (Jiri Kosina, Borislav Petkov).
 
  - ACPI battery driver cleanups (Luis Henriques, Mathias Krause).
 
  - ACPI processor driver cleanups (Hanjun Guo).
 
  - Cleanups and documentation update related to the ACPI device
    properties interface based on _DSD (Rafael J Wysocki).
 
  - ACPI device power management fixes (Rafael J Wysocki).
 
  - Assorted cleanups related to ACPI (Dominik Brodowski. Fabian
    Frederick, Lorenzo Pieralisi, Mathias Krause, Rafael J Wysocki).
 
  - Fix for a long-standing issue causing General Protection Faults
    to be generated occasionally on return to user space after resume
    from ACPI-based suspend-to-RAM on 32-bit x86 (Ingo Molnar).
 
  - Fix to make the suspend core code return -EBUSY consistently in
    all cases when system suspend is aborted due to wakeup detection
    (Ruchi Kandoi).
 
  - Support for automated device wakeup IRQ handling allowing drivers
    to make their PM support more starightforward (Tony Lindgren).
 
  - New tracepoints for suspend-to-idle tracing and rework of the
    prepare/complete callbacks tracing in the PM core (Todd E Brandt,
    Rafael J Wysocki).
 
  - Wakeup sources framework enhancements (Jin Qian).
 
  - New macro for noirq system PM callbacks (Grygorii Strashko).
 
  - Assorted cleanups related to system suspend (Rafael J Wysocki).
 
  - cpuidle core cleanups to make the code more efficient (Rafael J
    Wysocki).
 
  - powernv/pseries cpuidle driver update (Shilpasri G Bhat).
 
  - cpufreq core fixes related to CPU online/offline that should
    reduce the overhead of these operations quite a bit, unless the
    CPU in question is physically going away (Viresh Kumar, Saravana
    Kannan).
 
  - Serialization of cpufreq governor callbacks to avoid race
    conditions in some cases (Viresh Kumar).
 
  - intel_pstate driver fixes and cleanups (Doug Smythies, Prarit
    Bhargava, Joe Konno).
 
  - cpufreq driver (arm_big_little, cpufreq-dt, qoriq) updates (Sudeep
    Holla, Felipe Balbi, Tang Yuantian).
 
  - Assorted cleanups in cpufreq drivers and core (Shailendra Verma,
    Fabian Frederick, Wang Long).
 
  - New Device Tree bindings for representing Operating Performance
    Points (Viresh Kumar).
 
  - Updates for the common clock operations support code in the PM
    core (Rajendra Nayak, Geert Uytterhoeven).
 
  - PM domains core code update (Geert Uytterhoeven).
 
  - Intel Knights Landing support for the RAPL (Running Average Power
    Limit) power capping driver (Dasaratharaman Chandramouli).
 
  - Fixes related to the floor frequency setting on Atom SoCs in the
    RAPL power capping driver (Ajay Thomas).
 
  - Runtime PM framework documentation update (Ben Dooks).
 
  - cpupower tool fix (Herton R Krzesinski).
 
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "The rework of backlight interface selection API from Hans de Goede
  stands out from the number of commits and the number of affected
  places perspective.  The cpufreq core fixes from Viresh Kumar are
  quite significant too as far as the number of commits goes and because
  they should reduce CPU online/offline overhead quite a bit in the
  majority of cases.

  From the new featues point of view, the ACPICA update (to upstream
  revision 20150515) adding support for new ACPI 6 material to ACPICA is
  the one that matters the most as some new significant features will be
  based on it going forward.  Also included is an update of the ACPI
  device power management core to follow ACPI 6 (which in turn reflects
  the Windows' device PM implementation), a PM core extension to support
  wakeup interrupts in a more generic way and support for the ACPI _CCA
  device configuration object.

  The rest is mostly fixes and cleanups all over and some documentation
  updates, including new DT bindings for Operating Performance Points.

  There is one fix for a regression introduced in the 4.1 cycle, but it
  adds quite a number of lines of code, it wasn't really ready before
  Thursday and you were on vacation, so I refrained from pushing it on
  the last minute for 4.1.

  Specifics:

   - ACPICA update to upstream revision 20150515 including basic support
     for ACPI 6 features: new ACPI tables introduced by ACPI 6 (STAO,
     XENV, WPBT, NFIT, IORT), changes related to the other tables (DTRM,
     FADT, LPIT, MADT), new predefined names (_BTH, _CR3, _DSD, _LPI,
     _MTL, _PRR, _RDI, _RST, _TFP, _TSN), fixes and cleanups (Bob Moore,
     Lv Zheng).

   - ACPI device power management core code update to follow ACPI 6
     which reflects the ACPI device power management implementation in
     Windows (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - rework of the backlight interface selection logic to reduce the
     number of kernel command line options and improve the handling of
     DMI quirks that may be involved in that and to make the code
     generally more straightforward (Hans de Goede).

   - fixes for the ACPI Embedded Controller (EC) driver related to the
     handling of EC transactions (Lv Zheng).

   - fix for a regression related to the ACPI resources management and
     resulting from a recent change of ACPI initialization code ordering
     (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - fix for a system initialization regression related to ACPI
     introduced during the 3.14 cycle and caused by running the code
     that switches the platform over to the ACPI mode too early in the
     initialization sequence (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - support for the ACPI _CCA device configuration object related to
     DMA cache coherence (Suravee Suthikulpanit).

   - ACPI/APEI fixes and cleanups (Jiri Kosina, Borislav Petkov).

   - ACPI battery driver cleanups (Luis Henriques, Mathias Krause).

   - ACPI processor driver cleanups (Hanjun Guo).

   - cleanups and documentation update related to the ACPI device
     properties interface based on _DSD (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - ACPI device power management fixes (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - assorted cleanups related to ACPI (Dominik Brodowski, Fabian
     Frederick, Lorenzo Pieralisi, Mathias Krause, Rafael J Wysocki).

   - fix for a long-standing issue causing General Protection Faults to
     be generated occasionally on return to user space after resume from
     ACPI-based suspend-to-RAM on 32-bit x86 (Ingo Molnar).

   - fix to make the suspend core code return -EBUSY consistently in all
     cases when system suspend is aborted due to wakeup detection (Ruchi
     Kandoi).

   - support for automated device wakeup IRQ handling allowing drivers
     to make their PM support more starightforward (Tony Lindgren).

   - new tracepoints for suspend-to-idle tracing and rework of the
     prepare/complete callbacks tracing in the PM core (Todd E Brandt,
     Rafael J Wysocki).

   - wakeup sources framework enhancements (Jin Qian).

   - new macro for noirq system PM callbacks (Grygorii Strashko).

   - assorted cleanups related to system suspend (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - cpuidle core cleanups to make the code more efficient (Rafael J
     Wysocki).

   - powernv/pseries cpuidle driver update (Shilpasri G Bhat).

   - cpufreq core fixes related to CPU online/offline that should reduce
     the overhead of these operations quite a bit, unless the CPU in
     question is physically going away (Viresh Kumar, Saravana Kannan).

   - serialization of cpufreq governor callbacks to avoid race
     conditions in some cases (Viresh Kumar).

   - intel_pstate driver fixes and cleanups (Doug Smythies, Prarit
     Bhargava, Joe Konno).

   - cpufreq driver (arm_big_little, cpufreq-dt, qoriq) updates (Sudeep
     Holla, Felipe Balbi, Tang Yuantian).

   - assorted cleanups in cpufreq drivers and core (Shailendra Verma,
     Fabian Frederick, Wang Long).

   - new Device Tree bindings for representing Operating Performance
     Points (Viresh Kumar).

   - updates for the common clock operations support code in the PM core
     (Rajendra Nayak, Geert Uytterhoeven).

   - PM domains core code update (Geert Uytterhoeven).

   - Intel Knights Landing support for the RAPL (Running Average Power
     Limit) power capping driver (Dasaratharaman Chandramouli).

   - fixes related to the floor frequency setting on Atom SoCs in the
     RAPL power capping driver (Ajay Thomas).

   - runtime PM framework documentation update (Ben Dooks).

   - cpupower tool fix (Herton R Krzesinski)"

* tag 'pm+acpi-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (194 commits)
  cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Auto-promotion of snooze to deeper idle state
  x86: Load __USER_DS into DS/ES after resume
  PM / OPP: Add binding for 'opp-suspend'
  PM / OPP: Allow multiple OPP tables to be passed via DT
  PM / OPP: Add new bindings to address shortcomings of existing bindings
  ACPI: Constify ACPI device IDs in documentation
  ACPI / enumeration: Document the rules regarding the PRP0001 device ID
  ACPI / video: Make acpi_video_unregister_backlight() private
  acpi-video-detect: Remove old API
  toshiba-acpi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  thinkpad-acpi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  sony-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  samsung-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  msi-wmi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  msi-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  intel-oaktrail: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  ideapad-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  fujitsu-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  eeepc-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  dell-wmi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  ...
2015-06-23 14:18:07 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 87e9b9f1d8 PM / sleep: Make suspend-to-idle-specific code depend on CONFIG_SUSPEND
Since idle_should_freeze() is defined to always return 'false'
for CONFIG_SUSPEND unset, all of the code depending on it in
cpuidle_idle_call() is not necessary in that case.

Make that code depend on CONFIG_SUSPEND too to avoid building it
when it is not going to be used.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-05-19 02:44:24 +02:00
Chris Metcalf 83dedea8a0 nohz: Add tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to() API
This API is useful to modify a cpumask indicating some special
nohz-type functionality so that the nohz cores are automatically
added to that set.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429024675-18938-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430928266-24888-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-07 12:02:51 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner a49b116dcb clockevents: Cleanup dead cpu explicitely
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit
calls instead of this monstrosity.

Split out the cleanup function for a dead cpu and invoke it
directly from the cpu down code. Make it conditional on
CPU_HOTPLUG as well.

Temporary change, will be refined in the future.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ Rebased, added clockevents_notify() removal ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1735025.raBZdQHM3m@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-03 08:44:37 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 52c063d1ad clockevents: Make tick handover explicit
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit
calls instead of this monstrosity.

Split out the tick_handover call and invoke it explicitely from
the hotplug code. Temporary solution will be cleaned up in later
patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ Rebase ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1658173.RkEEILFiQZ@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-03 08:44:36 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 1fe5d5c3c9 clockevents: Provide explicit broadcast oneshot control functions
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit
calls instead of this monstrosity.

Split out the broadcast oneshot control into a separate function
and provide inline helpers. Switch clockevents_notify() over.
This will go away once all callers are converted.

This also gets rid of the nested locking of clockevents_lock and
broadcast_lock. The broadcast oneshot control functions do not
require clockevents_lock. Only the managing functions
(setup/shutdown/suspend/resume of the broadcast device require
clockevents_lock.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/13000649.8qZuEDV0OA@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-03 08:44:33 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 592a438ff3 clockevents: Provide explicit broadcast control functions
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit
calls instead of this monstrosity.

Split out the broadcast control into a separate function and
provide inline helpers. Switch clockevents_notify() over. This
will go away once all callers are converted.

This also gets rid of the nested locking of clockevents_lock and
broadcast_lock. The broadcast control functions do not require
clockevents_lock. Only the managing functions
(setup/shutdown/suspend/resume of the broadcast device require
clockevents_lock.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8086559.ttsuS0n1Xr@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-03 08:44:31 +02:00
Preeti U Murthy 345527b1ed clockevents: Fix cpu_down() race for hrtimer based broadcasting
It was found when doing a hotplug stress test on POWER, that the
machine either hit softlockups or rcu_sched stall warnings.  The
issue was traced to commit:

  7cba160ad7 ("powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management")

which exposed the cpu_down() race with hrtimer based broadcast mode:

  5d1638acb9 ("tick: Introduce hrtimer based broadcast")

The race is the following:

Assume CPU1 is the CPU which holds the hrtimer broadcasting duty
before it is taken down.

	CPU0					CPU1

	cpu_down()				take_cpu_down()
						disable_interrupts()

	cpu_die()

	while (CPU1 != CPU_DEAD) {
		msleep(100);
		switch_to_idle();
		stop_cpu_timer();
		schedule_broadcast();
	}

	tick_cleanup_cpu_dead()
		take_over_broadcast()

So after CPU1 disabled interrupts it cannot handle the broadcast
hrtimer anymore, so CPU0 will be stuck forever.

Fix this by explicitly taking over broadcast duty before cpu_die().

This is a temporary workaround. What we really want is a callback
in the clockevent device which allows us to do that from the dying
CPU by pushing the hrtimer onto a different cpu. That might involve
an IPI and is definitely more complex than this immediate fix.

Changelog was picked up from:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/16/213

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Preeti U. Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Fixes: http://linuxppc.10917.n7.nabble.com/offlining-cpus-breakage-td88619.html
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150330092410.24979.59887.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
[ Merged it to the latest timer tree, renamed the callback, tidied up the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02 14:25:39 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 7270d11c56 arm/bL_switcher: Kill tick suspend hackery
Use the new tick_suspend/resume_local() and get rid of the
homebrewn implementation of these in the ARM bL switcher.  The
check for the cpumask is completely pointless.  There is no harm
to suspend a per cpu tick device unconditionally.  If that's a
real issue then we fix it proper at the core level and not with
some completely undocumented hacks in some random core code.

Move the tick internals to the core code, now that this nuisance
is gone.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ rjw: Rebase, changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1655112.Ws17YsMfN7@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-01 14:23:00 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner f46481d0a7 tick/xen: Provide and use tick_suspend_local() and tick_resume_local()
Xen calls on every cpu into tick_resume() which is just wrong.
tick_resume() is for the syscore global suspend/resume
invocation. What XEN really wants is a per cpu local resume
function.

Provide a tick_resume_local() function and use it in XEN.

Also provide a complementary tick_suspend_local() and modify
tick_unfreeze() and tick_freeze(), respectively, to use the
new local tick resume/suspend functions.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ Combined two patches, rebased, modified subject/changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1698741.eezk9tnXtG@vostro.rjw.lan
[ Merged to latest timers/core. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-01 14:23:00 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 4ffee521f3 clockevents: Make suspend/resume calls explicit
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call.

We are way better off to have explicit calls instead of this
monstrosity. Split out the suspend/resume() calls and invoke
them directly from the call sites.

No locking required at this point because these calls happen
with interrupts disabled and a single cpu online.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ Rebased on top of 4.0-rc5. ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/713674030.jVm1qaHuPf@vostro.rjw.lan
[ Rebased on top of latest timers/core. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-01 14:22:59 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner c1797baf68 tick: Move core only declarations and functions to core
No point to expose everything to the world. People just believe
such functions can be abused for whatever purposes. Sigh.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ Rebased on top of 4.0-rc5 ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/28017337.VbCUc39Gme@vostro.rjw.lan
[ Merged to latest timers/core ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-01 14:22:58 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 124cf9117c PM / sleep: Make it possible to quiesce timers during suspend-to-idle
The efficiency of suspend-to-idle depends on being able to keep CPUs
in the deepest available idle states for as much time as possible.
Ideally, they should only be brought out of idle by system wakeup
interrupts.

However, timer interrupts occurring periodically prevent that from
happening and it is not practical to chase all of the "misbehaving"
timers in a whack-a-mole fashion.  A much more effective approach is
to suspend the local ticks for all CPUs and the entire timekeeping
along the lines of what is done during full suspend, which also
helps to keep suspend-to-idle and full suspend reasonably similar.

The idea is to suspend the local tick on each CPU executing
cpuidle_enter_freeze() and to make the last of them suspend the
entire timekeeping.  That should prevent timer interrupts from
triggering until an IO interrupt wakes up one of the CPUs.  It
needs to be done with interrupts disabled on all of the CPUs,
though, because otherwise the suspended clocksource might be
accessed by an interrupt handler which might lead to fatal
consequences.

Unfortunately, the existing ->enter callbacks provided by cpuidle
drivers generally cannot be used for implementing that, because some
of them re-enable interrupts temporarily and some idle entry methods
cause interrupts to be re-enabled automatically on exit.  Also some
of these callbacks manipulate local clock event devices of the CPUs
which really shouldn't be done after suspending their ticks.

To overcome that difficulty, introduce a new cpuidle state callback,
->enter_freeze, that will be guaranteed (1) to keep interrupts
disabled all the time (and return with interrupts disabled) and (2)
not to touch the CPU timer devices.  Modify cpuidle_enter_freeze() to
look for the deepest available idle state with ->enter_freeze present
and to make the CPU execute that callback with suspended tick (and the
last of the online CPUs to execute it with suspended timekeeping).

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2015-02-15 19:40:09 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 1ee07ef6b5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
 "This patch set contains the main portion of the changes for 3.18 in
  regard to the s390 architecture.  It is a bit bigger than usual,
  mainly because of a new driver and the vector extension patches.

  The interesting bits are:
   - Quite a bit of work on the tracing front.  Uprobes is enabled and
     the ftrace code is reworked to get some of the lost performance
     back if CONFIG_FTRACE is enabled.
   - To improve boot time with CONFIG_DEBIG_PAGEALLOC, support for the
     IPTE range facility is added.
   - The rwlock code is re-factored to improve writer fairness and to be
     able to use the interlocked-access instructions.
   - The kernel part for the support of the vector extension is added.
   - The device driver to access the CD/DVD on the HMC is added, this
     will hopefully come in handy to improve the installation process.
   - Add support for control-unit initiated reconfiguration.
   - The crypto device driver is enhanced to enable the additional AP
     domains and to allow the new crypto hardware to be used.
   - Bug fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (39 commits)
  s390/ftrace: simplify enabling/disabling of ftrace_graph_caller
  s390/ftrace: remove 31 bit ftrace support
  s390/kdump: add support for vector extension
  s390/disassembler: add vector instructions
  s390: add support for vector extension
  s390/zcrypt: Toleration of new crypto hardware
  s390/idle: consolidate idle functions and definitions
  s390/nohz: use a per-cpu flag for arch_needs_cpu
  s390/vtime: do not reset idle data on CPU hotplug
  s390/dasd: add support for control unit initiated reconfiguration
  s390/dasd: fix infinite loop during format
  s390/mm: make use of ipte range facility
  s390/setup: correct 4-level kernel page table detection
  s390/topology: call set_sched_topology early
  s390/uprobes: architecture backend for uprobes
  s390/uprobes: common library for kprobes and uprobes
  s390/rwlock: use the interlocked-access facility 1 instructions
  s390/rwlock: improve writer fairness
  s390/rwlock: remove interrupt-enabling rwlock variant.
  s390/mm: remove change bit override support
  ...
2014-10-14 03:47:00 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky fe0f49768d s390/nohz: use a per-cpu flag for arch_needs_cpu
Move the nohz_delay bit from the s390_idle data structure to the
per-cpu flags. Clear the nohz delay flag in __cpu_disable and
remove the cpu hotplug notifier that used to do this.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2014-10-09 09:14:02 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker a80e49e2cc nohz: Move nohz full init call to tick init
This way we unbloat a bit main.c and more importantly we initialize
nohz full after init_IRQ(). This dependency will be needed in further
patches because nohz full needs irq work to raise its own IRQ.
Information about the support for this ability on ARM64 is obtained on
init_IRQ() which initialize the pointer to __smp_call_function.

Since tick_init() is called right after init_IRQ(), this is a good place
to call tick_nohz_init() and prepare for that dependency.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2014-09-13 18:34:44 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 40bea03959 nohz: Restore NMI safe local irq work for local nohz kick
The local nohz kick is currently used by perf which needs it to be
NMI-safe. Recent commit though (7d1311b93e)
changed its implementation to fire the local kick using the remote kick
API. It was convenient to make the code more generic but the remote kick
isn't NMI-safe.

As a result:

	WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 18062 at kernel/irq_work.c:72 irq_work_queue_on+0x11e/0x140()
	CPU: 3 PID: 18062 Comm: trinity-subchil Not tainted 3.16.0+ #34
	0000000000000009 00000000903774d1 ffff880244e06c00 ffffffff9a7f1e37
	0000000000000000 ffff880244e06c38 ffffffff9a0791dd ffff880244fce180
	0000000000000003 ffff880244e06d58 ffff880244e06ef8 0000000000000000
	Call Trace:
	<NMI>  [<ffffffff9a7f1e37>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
	[<ffffffff9a0791dd>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
	[<ffffffff9a07930a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
	[<ffffffff9a17ca1e>] irq_work_queue_on+0x11e/0x140
	[<ffffffff9a10a2c7>] tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu+0x57/0x90
	[<ffffffff9a186cd5>] __perf_event_overflow+0x275/0x350
	[<ffffffff9a184f80>] ? perf_event_task_disable+0xa0/0xa0
	[<ffffffff9a01a4cf>] ? x86_perf_event_set_period+0xbf/0x150
	[<ffffffff9a187934>] perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x20
	[<ffffffff9a020386>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x206/0x410
	[<ffffffff9a0b54d3>] ? arch_vtime_task_switch+0x63/0x130
	[<ffffffff9a01937b>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x2b/0x50
	[<ffffffff9a007b72>] nmi_handle+0xd2/0x390
	[<ffffffff9a007aa5>] ? nmi_handle+0x5/0x390
	[<ffffffff9a0d131b>] ? lock_release+0xab/0x330
	[<ffffffff9a008062>] default_do_nmi+0x72/0x1c0
	[<ffffffff9a0c925f>] ? cpuacct_account_field+0xcf/0x200
	[<ffffffff9a008268>] do_nmi+0xb8/0x100

Lets fix this by restoring the use of local irq work for the nohz local
kick.

Reported-by: Catalin Iacob <iacobcatalin@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2014-09-04 22:35:59 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 98959948a7 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Move the nohz kick code out of the scheduler tick to a dedicated IPI,
   from Frederic Weisbecker.

  This necessiated quite some background infrastructure rework,
  including:

   * Clean up some irq-work internals
   * Implement remote irq-work
   * Implement nohz kick on top of remote irq-work
   * Move full dynticks timer enqueue notification to new kick
   * Move multi-task notification to new kick
   * Remove unecessary barriers on multi-task notification

 - Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions and allow
   wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout.  (Neil Brown)

 - Another round of sched/numa improvements, cleanups and fixes.  (Rik
   van Riel)

 - Implement fast idling of CPUs when the system is partially loaded,
   for better scalability.  (Tim Chen)

 - Restructure and fix the CPU hotplug handling code that may leave
   cfs_rq and rt_rq's throttled when tasks are migrated away from a dead
   cpu.  (Kirill Tkhai)

 - Robustify the sched topology setup code.  (Peterz Zijlstra)

 - Improve sched_feat() handling wrt.  static_keys (Jason Baron)

 - Misc fixes.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  sched/fair: Fix 'make xmldocs' warning caused by missing description
  sched: Use macro for magic number of -1 for setparam
  sched: Robustify topology setup
  sched: Fix sched_setparam() policy == -1 logic
  sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout
  sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions
  sched/numa: Revert "Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loads"
  sched: Fix static_key race with sched_feat()
  sched: Remove extra static_key*() function indirection
  sched/rt: Fix replenish_dl_entity() comments to match the current upstream code
  sched: Transform resched_task() into resched_curr()
  sched/deadline: Kill task_struct->pi_top_task
  sched: Rework check_for_tasks()
  sched/rt: Enqueue just unthrottled rt_rq back on the stack in __disable_runtime()
  sched/fair: Disable runtime_enabled on dying rq
  sched/numa: Change scan period code to match intent
  sched/numa: Rework best node setting in task_numa_migrate()
  sched/numa: Examine a task move when examining a task swap
  sched/numa: Simplify task_numa_compare()
  sched/numa: Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loads
  ...
2014-08-04 16:23:30 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c0f489d2c6 rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
Binding the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU resulted in
significant performance decreases for some workloads.  For more detail,
see:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/395 for benchmark numbers

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/218 for CPU statistics

It turns out that it is necessary to bind the grace-period kthreads
to the timekeeping CPU only when all but CPU 0 is a nohz_full CPU
on the one hand or if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y on the other.
In other cases, it suffices to bind the grace-period kthreads to the
set of non-nohz_full CPUs.

This commit therefore creates a tick_nohz_not_full_mask that is the
complement of tick_nohz_full_mask, and then binds the grace-period
kthread to the set of CPUs indicated by this new mask, which covers
the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n case.  The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y
case still binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU.
This commit also includes the tick_nohz_full_enabled() check suggested
by Frederic Weisbecker.

Reported-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Created housekeeping_affine() and housekeeping_mask per
  fweisbec feedback. ]
2014-07-09 09:15:02 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 3d36aebc2e nohz: Support nohz full remote kick
Remotely kicking a full nohz CPU in order to make it re-evaluate its
next tick is currently implemented using the scheduler IPI.

However this bloats a scheduler fast path with an off-topic feature.
The scheduler tick was abused here for its cool "callable
anywhere/anytime" properties.

But now that the irq work subsystem can queue remote callbacks, it's
a perfect fit to safely queue IPIs when interrupts are disabled
without worrying about concurrent callers.

So lets implement remote kick on top of irq work. This is going to
be used when a new event requires the next tick to be recalculated:
more than 1 task competing on the CPU, timer armed, ...

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2014-06-16 16:26:54 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5acac1be49 tick: Rename tick_check_idle() to tick_irq_enter()
This makes the code more symetric against the existing tick functions
called on irq exit: tick_irq_exit() and tick_nohz_irq_exit().

These function are also symetric as they mirror each other's action:
we start to account idle time on irq exit and we stop this accounting
on irq entry. Also the tick is stopped on irq exit and timekeeping
catches up with the tickless time elapsed until we reach irq entry.

This rename was suggested by Peter Zijlstra a long while ago but it
got forgotten in the mass.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387320692-28460-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2014-01-15 23:05:31 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 58135f574f context_tracking: Wrap static key check into more intuitive function name
Use a function with a meaningful name to check the global context
tracking state. static_key_false() is a bit confusing for reviewers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-12-02 20:43:14 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker e8fcaa5c54 nohz: Convert a few places to use local per cpu accesses
A few functions use remote per CPU access APIs when they
deal with local values.

Just do the right conversion to improve performance, code
readability and debug checks.

While at it, lets extend some of these function names with *_this_cpu()
suffix in order to display their purpose more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-12-02 20:39:30 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 6f1d657668 Merge branch 'timers/nohz-v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz
Pull nohz improvements from Frederic Weisbecker:

 " It mostly contains fixes and full dynticks off-case optimizations. I believe that
   distros want to enable this feature so it seems important to optimize the case
   where the "nohz_full=" parameter is empty. ie: I'm trying to remove any performance
   regression that comes with NO_HZ_FULL=y when the feature is not used.

   This patchset improves the current situation a lot (off-case appears to be around 11% faster
   with hackbench, although I guess it may vary depending on the configuration but it should be
   significantly faster in any case) now there is still some work to do: I can still observe a
   remaining loss of 1.6% throughput seen with hackbench compared to CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=n. "

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-14 17:58:56 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker d13508f944 nohz: Optimize full dynticks's sched hooks with static keys
Scheduler IPIs and task context switches are serious fast path.
Let's try to hide as much as we can the impact of full
dynticks APIs' off case that are called on these sites
through the use of static keys.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14 17:14:58 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 460775df46 nohz: Optimize full dynticks state checks with static keys
These APIs are frequenctly accessed and priority is given
to optimize the full dynticks off-case in order to let
distros enable this feature without suffering from
significant performance regressions.

Let's inline these APIs and optimize them with static keys.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14 17:14:57 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 148519120c Revert "cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode"
Revert commit 69a37bea (cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for
repeat mode), because it has been identified as the source of a
significant performance regression in v3.8 and later as explained by
Jeremy Eder:

  We believe we've identified a particular commit to the cpuidle code
  that seems to be impacting performance of variety of workloads.
  The simplest way to reproduce is using netperf TCP_RR test, so
  we're using that, on a pair of Sandy Bridge based servers.  We also
  have data from a large database setup where performance is also
  measurably/positively impacted, though that test data isn't easily
  share-able.

  Included below are test results from 3 test kernels:

  kernel       reverts
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  1) vanilla   upstream (no reverts)

  2) perfteam2 reverts e11538d1f0

  3) test      reverts 69a37beabf
                       e11538d1f0

  In summary, netperf TCP_RR numbers improve by approximately 4%
  after reverting 69a37beabf.  When
  69a37beabf is included, C0 residency
  never seems to get above 40%.  Taking that patch out gets C0 near
  100% quite often, and performance increases.

  The below data are histograms representing the %c0 residency @
  1-second sample rates (using turbostat), while under netperf test.

  - If you look at the first 4 histograms, you can see %c0 residency
    almost entirely in the 30,40% bin.
  - The last pair, which reverts 69a37beabf,
    shows %c0 in the 80,90,100% bins.

  Below each kernel name are netperf TCP_RR trans/s numbers for the
  particular kernel that can be disclosed publicly, comparing the 3
  test kernels.  We ran a 4th test with the vanilla kernel where
  we've also set /dev/cpu_dma_latency=0 to show overall impact
  boosting single-threaded TCP_RR performance over 11% above
  baseline.

  3.10-rc2 vanilla RX + c0 lock (/dev/cpu_dma_latency=0):
  TCP_RR trans/s 54323.78

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 vanilla RX (no reverts)
  TCP_RR trans/s 48192.47

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    59]:
  ***********************************************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     1]: *
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  Sender %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    11]: ***********
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [    49]:
  *************************************************
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 perfteam2 RX (reverts commit
  e11538d1f0)
  TCP_RR trans/s 49698.69

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     1]: *
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    59]:
  ***********************************************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     0]:
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  Sender %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [     2]: **
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [    58]:
  **********************************************************
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 test RX (reverts 69a37beabf
  and e11538d1f0)
  TCP_RR trans/s 47766.95

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     1]: *
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    27]: ***************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     2]: **
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     2]: **
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [    28]: ****************************

  Sender:
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    11]: ***********
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     0]:
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     1]: *
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     3]: ***
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     7]: *******
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [    38]: **************************************

  These results demonstrate gaining back the tendency of the CPU to
  stay in more responsive, performant C-states (and thus yield
  measurably better performance), by reverting commit
  69a37beabf.

Requested-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: 3.8+ <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-07-29 13:32:29 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 99e5ada940 nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
When a task is scheduled in, it may have some properties
of its own that could make the CPU reconsider the need for
the tick: posix cpu timers, perf events, ...

So notify the full dynticks subsystem when a task gets
scheduled in and re-check the tick dependency at this
stage. This is done through a self IPI to avoid messing
up with any current lock scenario.

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>
2013-04-22 20:29:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker ff442c51f6 nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
The scheduler IPI is used by the scheduler to kick
full dynticks CPUs asynchronously when more than one
task are running or when a new timer list timer is
enqueued. This way the destination CPU can decide
to restart the tick to handle this new situation.

Now let's call that kick in the scheduler IPI.

(Reusing the scheduler IPI rather than implementing
a new IPI was suggested by Peter Zijlstra a while ago)

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>
2013-04-22 20:16:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a166fcf04d Merge branch 'timers/nohz-posix-timers-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz
Pull posix cpu timers handling on full dynticks from Frederic Weisbecker.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-21 11:05:47 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker d1e43fa5f8 nohz: Ensure full dynticks CPUs are RCU nocbs
We need full dynticks CPU to also be RCU nocb so
that we don't have to keep the tick to handle RCU
callbacks.

Make sure the range passed to nohz_full= boot
parameter is a subset of rcu_nocbs=

The CPUs that fail to meet this requirement will be
excluded from the nohz_full range. This is checked
early in boot time, before any CPU has the opportunity
to stop its tick.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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: 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>
2013-04-19 13:54:04 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 76c24fb054 nohz: New APIs to re-evaluate the tick on full dynticks CPUs
Provide two new helpers in order to notify the full dynticks CPUs about
some internal system changes against which they may reconsider the state
of their tick. Some practical examples include: posix cpu timers, perf tick
and sched clock tick.

For now the notifying handler, implemented through IPIs, is a stub
that will be implemented when we get the tick stop/restart infrastructure
in.

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>
2013-04-18 18:53:34 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker c5bfece2d6 nohz: Switch from "extended nohz" to "full nohz" based naming
"Extended nohz" was used as a naming base for the full dynticks
API and Kconfig symbols. It reflects the fact the system tries
to stop the tick in more places than just idle.

But that "extended" name is a bit opaque and vague. Rename it to
"full" makes it clearer what the system tries to do under this
config: try to shutdown the tick anytime it can. The various
constraints that prevent that to happen shouldn't be considered
as fundamental properties of this feature but rather technical
issues that may be solved in the future.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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: 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>
2013-04-15 19:58:17 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 3451d0243c nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.

As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.

It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.

On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.

But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:

1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
   CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE

We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.

So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.

Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.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>
2013-04-03 13:56:03 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker a831881be2 nohz: Basic full dynticks interface
For extreme usecases such as Real Time or HPC, having
the ability to shutdown the tick when a single task runs
on a CPU is a desired feature:

* Reducing the amount of interrupts improves throughput
for CPU-bound tasks. The CPU is less distracted from its
real job, from an execution time and from the cache point
of views.

* This also improve latency response as we have less critical
sections.

Start with introducing a very simple interface to define
full dynticks CPU: use a boot time option defined cpumask
through the "nohz_extended=" kernel parameter. CPUs that
are part of this range will have their tick shutdown
whenever possible: provided they run a single task and
they don't do kernel activity that require the periodic
tick. These details will be later documented in
Documentation/*

An online CPU must be kept outside this range to handle the
timekeeping.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.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>
2013-03-21 15:38:33 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 077931446b Merge branch 'nohz/printk-v8' into irq/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/irq_work.c

Add support for printk in full dynticks CPU.

* Don't stop tick with irq works pending. This
fix is generally useful and concerns archs that
can't raise self IPIs.

* Flush irq works before CPU offlining.

* Introduce "lazy" irq works that can wait for the
next tick to be executed, unless it's stopped.

* Implement klogd wake up using irq work. This
removes the ad-hoc printk_tick()/printk_needs_cpu()
hooks and make it working even in dynticks mode.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-02-05 00:48:46 +01:00