tick: Nohz: Rework next timer evaluation

The evaluation of the next timer in the nohz code is based on jiffies
while all the tick internals are nano seconds based. We have also to
convert hrtimer nanoseconds to jiffies in the !highres case. That's
just wrong and introduces interesting corner cases.

Turn it around and convert the next timer wheel timer expiry and the
rcu event to clock monotonic and base all calculations on
nanoseconds. That identifies the case where no timer is pending
clearly with an absolute expiry value of KTIME_MAX.

Makes the code more readable and gets rid of the jiffies magic in the
nohz code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.184198593@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rcutree.h b/include/linux/rcutree.h
index d2e583a6aaca..db2e31beaae7 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcutree.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcutree.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 
 void rcu_note_context_switch(void);
 #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
-int rcu_needs_cpu(unsigned long *delta_jiffies);
+int rcu_needs_cpu(u64 basem, u64 *nextevt);
 #endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL */
 void rcu_cpu_stall_reset(void);