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2015-04-03clockevents: Cleanup dead cpu explicitelyThomas Gleixner
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>
2015-04-03clockevents: Make tick handover explicitThomas Gleixner
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>
2015-04-03clockevents: Provide explicit broadcast oneshot control functionsThomas Gleixner
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>
2015-04-03clockevents: Provide explicit broadcast control functionsThomas Gleixner
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>
2015-04-02clockevents: Fix cpu_down() race for hrtimer based broadcastingPreeti U Murthy
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: 7cba160ad789 ("powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management") which exposed the cpu_down() race with hrtimer based broadcast mode: 5d1638acb9f6 ("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>
2015-04-01arm/bL_switcher: Kill tick suspend hackeryThomas Gleixner
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>
2015-04-01tick/xen: Provide and use tick_suspend_local() and tick_resume_local()Thomas Gleixner
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>
2015-04-01clockevents: Make suspend/resume calls explicitThomas Gleixner
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>
2015-04-01tick: Move core only declarations and functions to coreThomas Gleixner
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>
2015-02-15PM / sleep: Make it possible to quiesce timers during suspend-to-idleRafael J. Wysocki
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>
2014-10-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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 ...
2014-10-09s390/nohz: use a per-cpu flag for arch_needs_cpuMartin Schwidefsky
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>
2014-09-13nohz: Move nohz full init call to tick initFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2014-09-04nohz: Restore NMI safe local irq work for local nohz kickFrederic Weisbecker
The local nohz kick is currently used by perf which needs it to be NMI-safe. Recent commit though (7d1311b93e58ed55f3a31cc8f94c4b8fe988a2b9) 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>
2014-08-04Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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 ...
2014-07-09rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUsPaul E. McKenney
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. ]
2014-06-16nohz: Support nohz full remote kickFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2014-01-15tick: Rename tick_check_idle() to tick_irq_enter()Frederic Weisbecker
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>
2013-12-02context_tracking: Wrap static key check into more intuitive function nameFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2013-12-02nohz: Convert a few places to use local per cpu accessesFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2013-08-14Merge branch 'timers/nohz-v3' of ↵Ingo Molnar
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>
2013-08-14nohz: Optimize full dynticks's sched hooks with static keysFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2013-08-14nohz: Optimize full dynticks state checks with static keysFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2013-07-29Revert "cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode"Rafael J. Wysocki
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 e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c 3) test reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c In summary, netperf TCP_RR numbers improve by approximately 4% after reverting 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4. When 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 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 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4, 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 e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c) 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 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 and e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c) 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 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4. 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>
2013-04-22nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switchFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2013-04-22nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPIFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2013-04-21Merge branch 'timers/nohz-posix-timers-v2' of ↵Ingo Molnar
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>
2013-04-19nohz: Ensure full dynticks CPUs are RCU nocbsFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2013-04-18nohz: New APIs to re-evaluate the tick on full dynticks CPUsFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2013-04-15nohz: Switch from "extended nohz" to "full nohz" based namingFrederic Weisbecker
"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>
2013-04-03nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMONFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2013-03-21nohz: Basic full dynticks interfaceFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2013-02-05Merge branch 'nohz/printk-v8' into irq/coreFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2012-11-17nohz: Add API to check tick stateFrederic Weisbecker
We need some quick way to check if the CPU has stopped its tick. This will be useful to implement the printk tick using the irq work subsystem. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-11-15cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat modeYouquan Song
The prediction for future is difficult and when the cpuidle governor prediction fails and govenor possibly choose the shallower C-state than it should. How to quickly notice and find the failure becomes important for power saving. cpuidle menu governor has a method to predict the repeat pattern if there are 8 C-states residency which are continuous and the same or very close, so it will predict the next C-states residency will keep same residency time. There is a real case that turbostat utility (tools/power/x86/turbostat) at kernel 3.3 or early. turbostat utility will read 10 registers one by one at Sandybridge, so it will generate 10 IPIs to wake up idle CPUs. So cpuidle menu governor will predict it is repeat mode and there is another IPI wake up idle CPU soon, so it keeps idle CPU stay at C1 state even though CPU is totally idle. However, in the turbostat, following 10 registers reading is sleep 5 seconds by default, so the idle CPU will keep at C1 for a long time though it is idle until break event occurs. In a idle Sandybridge system, run "./turbostat -v", we will notice that deep C-state dangles between "70% ~ 99%". After patched the kernel, we will notice deep C-state stays at >99.98%. In the patch, a timer is added when menu governor detects a repeat mode and choose a shallow C-state. The timer is set to a time out value that greater than predicted time, and we conclude repeat mode prediction failure if timer is triggered. When repeat mode happens as expected, the timer is not triggered and CPU waken up from C-states and it will cancel the timer initiatively. When repeat mode does not happen, the timer will be time out and menu governor will quickly notice that the repeat mode prediction fails and then re-evaluates deeper C-states possibility. Below is another case which will clearly show the patch much benefit: #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <time.h> #include <pthread.h> volatile int * shutdown; volatile long * count; int delay = 20; int loop = 8; void usage(void) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: idle_predict [options]\n" " --help -h Print this help\n" " --thread -n Thread number\n" " --loop -l Loop times in shallow Cstate\n" " --delay -t Sleep time (uS)in shallow Cstate\n"); } void *simple_loop() { int idle_num = 1; while (!(*shutdown)) { *count = *count + 1; if (idle_num % loop) usleep(delay); else { /* sleep 1 second */ usleep(1000000); idle_num = 0; } idle_num++; } } static void sighand(int sig) { *shutdown = 1; } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { sigset_t sigset; int signum = SIGALRM; int i, c, er = 0, thread_num = 8; pthread_t pt[1024]; static char optstr[] = "n:l:t:h:"; while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, optstr)) != EOF) switch (c) { case 'n': thread_num = atoi(optarg); break; case 'l': loop = atoi(optarg); break; case 't': delay = atoi(optarg); break; case 'h': default: usage(); exit(1); } printf("thread=%d,loop=%d,delay=%d\n",thread_num,loop,delay); count = malloc(sizeof(long)); shutdown = malloc(sizeof(int)); *count = 0; *shutdown = 0; sigemptyset(&sigset); sigaddset(&sigset, signum); sigprocmask (SIG_BLOCK, &sigset, NULL); signal(SIGINT, sighand); signal(SIGTERM, sighand); for(i = 0; i < thread_num ; i++) pthread_create(&pt[i], NULL, simple_loop, NULL); for (i = 0; i < thread_num; i++) pthread_join(pt[i], NULL); exit(0); } Get powertop V2 from git://github.com/fenrus75/powertop, build powertop. After build the above test application, then run it. Test plaform can be Intel Sandybridge or other recent platforms. #./idle_predict -l 10 & #./powertop We will find that deep C-state will dangle between 40%~100% and much time spent on C1 state. It is because menu governor wrongly predict that repeat mode is kept, so it will choose the C1 shallow C-state even though it has chance to sleep 1 second in deep C-state. While after patched the kernel, we find that deep C-state will keep >99.6%. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2012-06-11nohz: Rename ts->idle_tick to ts->last_tickFrederic Weisbecker
Now that idle and nohz logics are going to be independant each others, ts->idle_tick becomes too much a biased name to describe the field that saves the last scheduled tick on top of which we re-calculate the next tick to schedule when the timer is restarted. We want to reuse this even to stop the tick outside idle cases. So let's rename it to some more generic name: ts->last_tick. This changes a bit the timer list stat export so we need to increase its version. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> 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@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-12-11nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu()Frederic Weisbecker
Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would needlessly process any RCU job. Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stopFrederic Weisbecker
It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after the tick is stopped. To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs: tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(). If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(). Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly: - rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put to sleep. - rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken up. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logicFrederic Weisbecker
The tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() function, which tries to delay the next timer tick as long as possible, can be called from two places: - From the idle loop to start the dytick idle mode - From interrupt exit if we have interrupted the dyntick idle mode, so that we reprogram the next tick event in case the irq changed some internal state that requires this action. There are only few minor differences between both that are handled by that function, driven by the ts->inidle cpu variable and the inidle parameter. The whole guarantees that we only update the dyntick mode on irq exit if we actually interrupted the dyntick idle mode, and that we enter in RCU extended quiescent state from idle loop entry only. Split this function into: - tick_nohz_idle_enter(), which sets ts->inidle to 1, enters dynticks idle mode unconditionally if it can, and enters into RCU extended quiescent state. - tick_nohz_irq_exit() which only updates the dynticks idle mode when ts->inidle is set (ie: if tick_nohz_idle_enter() has been called). To maintain symmetry, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick() has been renamed into tick_nohz_idle_exit(). This simplifies the code and micro-optimize the irq exit path (no need for local_irq_save there). This also prepares for the split between dynticks and rcu extended quiescent state logics. We'll need this split to further fix illegal uses of RCU in extended quiescent states in the idle loop. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11rcu: Track idleness independent of idle tasksPaul E. McKenney
Earlier versions of RCU used the scheduling-clock tick to detect idleness by checking for the idle task, but handled idleness differently for CONFIG_NO_HZ=y. But there are now a number of uses of RCU read-side critical sections in the idle task, for example, for tracing. A more fine-grained detection of idleness is therefore required. This commit presses the old dyntick-idle code into full-time service, so that rcu_idle_enter(), previously known as rcu_enter_nohz(), is always invoked at the beginning of an idle loop iteration. Similarly, rcu_idle_exit(), previously known as rcu_exit_nohz(), is always invoked at the end of an idle-loop iteration. This allows the idle task to use RCU everywhere except between consecutive rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() calls, in turn allowing architecture maintainers to specify exactly where in the idle loop that RCU may be used. Because some of the userspace upcall uses can result in what looks to RCU like half of an interrupt, it is not possible to expect that the irq_enter() and irq_exit() hooks will give exact counts. This patch therefore expands the ->dynticks_nesting counter to 64 bits and uses two separate bitfields to count process/idle transitions and interrupt entry/exit transitions. It is presumed that userspace upcalls do not happen in the idle loop or from usermode execution (though usermode might do a system call that results in an upcall). The counter is hard-reset on each process/idle transition, which avoids the interrupt entry/exit error from accumulating. Overflow is avoided by the 64-bitness of the ->dyntick_nesting counter. This commit also adds warnings if a non-idle task asks RCU to enter idle state (and these checks will need some adjustment before applying Frederic's OS-jitter patches (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/7/246). In addition, validation of ->dynticks and ->dynticks_nesting is added. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-05-09sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()Arjan van de Ven
For the ondemand cpufreq governor, it is desired that the iowait time is microaccounted in a similar way as idle time is. This patch introduces the infrastructure to account and expose this information via the get_cpu_iowait_time_us() function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NO_HZ=n build] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082523.284feab6@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-09sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate fieldArjan van de Ven
Now that the only user of ts->idle_lastupdate is update_ts_time_stats(), the entire field can be eliminated. In update_ts_time_stats(), idle_lastupdate is first set to "now", and a few lines later, the only user is an if() statement that assigns a variable either to "now" or to ts->idle_lastupdate, which has the value of "now" at that point. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082439.2fab0b4f@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-13nohz: Track last do_timer() cpuThomas Gleixner
The previous patch which limits the sleep time to the maximum deferment time of the time keeping clocksource has some limitations on SMP machines: if all CPUs are idle then for all CPUs the maximum sleep time is limited. Solve this by keeping track of which cpu had the do_timer() duty assigned last and limit the sleep time only for this cpu. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
2009-11-05nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpuMartin Schwidefsky
Allow the architecture to request a normal jiffy tick when the system goes idle and tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick is called . On s390 the hook is used to prevent the system going fully idle if there has been an interrupt other than a clock comparator interrupt since the last wakeup. On s390 the HiperSockets response time for 1 connection ping-pong goes down from 42 to 34 microseconds. The CPU cost decreases by 27%. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.402715150@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-06-13clocksource: prevent selection of low resolution clocksourse also for nohz=onThomas Gleixner
commit 3f68535adad (clocksource: sanity check sysfs clocksource changes) prevents selection of non high resolution capable clocksources when high resolution mode is active, but did not take into account that the same rules apply for highres=off nohz=on. Check the tick device mode instead of hrtimer_hres_active() to verify whether the system needs to be protected from a switch to jiffies or other non highres capable clock sources. Reported-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-01-01cpumask: convert kernel time functionsRusty Russell
Impact: Use new APIs Convert kernel/time functions to use struct cpumask *. Note the ugly bitmap declarations in tick-broadcast.c. These should be cpumask_var_t, but there was no obvious initialization function to put the alloc_cpumask_var() calls in. This was safe. (Eventually 'struct cpumask' will be undefined for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK, so we use a bitmap here to show we really mean it). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2008-10-17NOHZ: unify the nohz function calls in irq_enter()Thomas Gleixner
We have two separate nohz function calls in irq_enter() for no good reason. Just call a single NOHZ function from irq_enter() and call the bits in the tick code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-09[CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand ↵venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
governor export get_cpu_idle_time_us() for it to be used in ondemand governor. Last update time can be current time when the CPU is currently non-idle, accounting for the busy time since last idle. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-08-21nohz: fix wrong event handler after online an offlined cpuMiao Xie
On the tickless system(CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n), after I made an offlined cpu online, I found this cpu's event handler was tick_handle_periodic, not tick_nohz_handler. After debuging, I found this bug was caused by the wrong tick mode. the tick mode is not changed to NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE when the cpu is offline. This patch fixes this bug. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loopThomas Gleixner
Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing problem in the NOHZ code: scheduler switch to idle task enable interrupts Window starts here ----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED) irq_exit() stops the tick ----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED) return from schedule() cpu_idle(): preempt_disable(); Window ends here The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick disabled. The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric. Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure that we can not run into such a situation ever again. cpu_idle() { preempt_disable(); while(1) { tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we are in the idle loop while (!need_resched()) halt(); tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode preempt_enable_no_resched(); schedule(); preempt_disable(); } } In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ... /me grabs a large brown paperbag. Debugged-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com>, Debugged-by: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>