From 06d8308c61e54346585b2691c13ee3f90cb6fb2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:20:24 +0100 Subject: NOHZ: reevaluate idle sleep length after add_timer_on() add_timer_on() can add a timer on a CPU which is currently in a long idle sleep, but the timer wheel is not reevaluated by the nohz code on that CPU. So a timer can be delayed for quite a long time. This triggered a false positive in the clocksource watchdog code. To avoid this we need to wake up the idle CPU and enforce the reevaluation of the timer wheel for the next timer event. Add a function, which checks a given CPU for idle state, marks the idle task with NEED_RESCHED and sends a reschedule IPI to notify the other CPU of the change in the timer wheel. Call this function from add_timer_on(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: stable@kernel.org -- include/linux/sched.h | 6 ++++++ kernel/sched.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/timer.c | 10 +++++++++- 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- include/linux/sched.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index fed07d03364e..6a1e7afb099b 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1541,6 +1541,12 @@ static inline void idle_task_exit(void) {} extern void sched_idle_next(void); +#if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ) && defined(CONFIG_SMP) +extern void wake_up_idle_cpu(int cpu); +#else +static inline void wake_up_idle_cpu(int cpu) { } +#endif + #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency; extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity; -- cgit v1.2.3