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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-common.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-internal.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 42 |
3 files changed, 48 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c index bfda3f7..a96ec9a 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tick_device, tick_cpu_device); */ ktime_t tick_next_period; ktime_t tick_period; -static int tick_do_timer_cpu = -1; +int tick_do_timer_cpu __read_mostly = -1; DEFINE_SPINLOCK(tick_device_lock); /* @@ -295,6 +295,12 @@ static void tick_shutdown(unsigned int *cpup) clockevents_exchange_device(dev, NULL); td->evtdev = NULL; } + /* Transfer the do_timer job away from this cpu */ + if (*cpup == tick_do_timer_cpu) { + int cpu = first_cpu(cpu_online_map); + + tick_do_timer_cpu = (cpu != NR_CPUS) ? cpu : -1; + } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_device_lock, flags); } diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h index c9d203b..bb13f27 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h +++ b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct tick_device, tick_cpu_device); extern spinlock_t tick_device_lock; extern ktime_t tick_next_period; extern ktime_t tick_period; +extern int tick_do_timer_cpu __read_mostly; extern void tick_setup_periodic(struct clock_event_device *dev, int broadcast); extern void tick_handle_periodic(struct clock_event_device *dev); diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 51556b9..f4fc867 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -221,6 +221,18 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void) ts->tick_stopped = 1; ts->idle_jiffies = last_jiffies; } + + /* + * If this cpu is the one which updates jiffies, then + * give up the assignment and let it be taken by the + * cpu which runs the tick timer next, which might be + * this cpu as well. If we don't drop this here the + * jiffies might be stale and do_timer() never + * invoked. + */ + if (cpu == tick_do_timer_cpu) + tick_do_timer_cpu = -1; + /* * calculate the expiry time for the next timer wheel * timer @@ -338,12 +350,24 @@ static void tick_nohz_handler(struct clock_event_device *dev) { struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched); struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs(); + int cpu = smp_processor_id(); ktime_t now = ktime_get(); dev->next_event.tv64 = KTIME_MAX; + /* + * Check if the do_timer duty was dropped. We don't care about + * concurrency: This happens only when the cpu in charge went + * into a long sleep. If two cpus happen to assign themself to + * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by + * xtime_lock. + */ + if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == -1)) + tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu; + /* Check, if the jiffies need an update */ - tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); + if (tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu) + tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); /* * When we are idle and the tick is stopped, we have to touch @@ -431,9 +455,23 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer *timer) struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base = timer->base->cpu_base; struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs(); ktime_t now = ktime_get(); + int cpu = smp_processor_id(); + +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ + /* + * Check if the do_timer duty was dropped. We don't care about + * concurrency: This happens only when the cpu in charge went + * into a long sleep. If two cpus happen to assign themself to + * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by + * xtime_lock. + */ + if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == -1)) + tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu; +#endif /* Check, if the jiffies need an update */ - tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); + if (tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu) + tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); /* * Do not call, when we are not in irq context and have |