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Salman Qazi
f13d4f979c hrtimer: Preserve timer state in remove_hrtimer()
The race is described as follows:

CPU X                                 CPU Y
remove_hrtimer
// state & QUEUED == 0
timer->state = CALLBACK
unlock timer base
timer->f(n) //very long
                                  hrtimer_start
                                    lock timer base
                                    remove_hrtimer // no effect
                                    hrtimer_enqueue
                                    timer->state = CALLBACK |
                                                   QUEUED
                                    unlock timer base
                                  hrtimer_start
                                    lock timer base
                                    remove_hrtimer
                                        mode = INACTIVE
                                        // CALLBACK bit lost!
                                    switch_hrtimer_base
                                            CALLBACK bit not set:
                                                    timer->base
                                                    changes to a
                                                    different CPU.
lock this CPU's timer base

The bug was introduced with commit ca109491f (hrtimer: removing all ur
callback modes) in 2.6.29

[ tglx: Feed new state via local variable and add a comment. ]

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20101012142351.8485.21823.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-10-14 13:29:59 +02:00
Andi Kleen
b3bd3de66f gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings
No real bugs I believe, just some dead code.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-05 14:36:58 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
b62ad9ab18 Merge branch 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  um: Fix read_persistent_clock fallout
  kgdb: Do not access xtime directly
  powerpc: Clean up obsolete code relating to decrementer and timebase
  powerpc: Rework VDSO gettimeofday to prevent time going backwards
  clocksource: Add __clocksource_updatefreq_hz/khz methods
  x86: Convert common clocksources to use clocksource_register_hz/khz
  timekeeping: Make xtime and wall_to_monotonic static
  hrtimer: Cleanup direct access to wall_to_monotonic
  um: Convert to use read_persistent_clock
  timkeeping: Fix update_vsyscall to provide wall_to_monotonic offset
  powerpc: Cleanup xtime usage
  powerpc: Simplify update_vsyscall
  time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
  time: Implement timespec_add
  x86: Fix vtime/file timestamp inconsistencies

Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

Much less trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c resolved as
per Thomas' earlier merge commit 47916be4e2 ("Merge branch
'powerpc.cherry-picks' into timers/clocksource")
2010-08-06 13:18:29 -07:00
John Stultz
8ab4351a4c hrtimer: Cleanup direct access to wall_to_monotonic
Provides an accessor function to replace hrtimer.c's
direct access of wall_to_monotonic.

This will allow wall_to_monotonic to be made static as
planned in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-9-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-27 12:40:55 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
83cd4fe27a sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model
In the new push model, all idle CPUs indeed go into nohz mode. There is
still the concept of idle load balancer (performing the load balancing
on behalf of all the idle cpu's in the system). Busy CPU kicks the nohz
balancer when any of the nohz CPUs need idle load balancing.
The kickee CPU does the idle load balancing on behalf of all idle CPUs
instead of the normal idle balance.

This addresses the below two problems with the current nohz ilb logic:
* the idle load balancer continued to have periodic ticks during idle and
  wokeup frequently, even though it did not have any rebalancing to do on
  behalf of any of the idle CPUs.
* On x86 and CPUs that have APIC timer stoppage on idle CPUs, this
  periodic wakeup can result in a periodic additional interrupt on a CPU
  doing the timer broadcast.

Also currently we are migrating the unpinned timers from an idle to the cpu
doing idle load balancing (when all the cpus in the system are idle,
there is no idle load balancing cpu and timers get added to the same idle cpu
where the request was made. So the existing optimization works only on semi idle
system).

And In semi idle system, we no longer have periodic ticks on the idle load
balancer CPU. Using that cpu will add more delays to the timers than intended
(as that cpu's timer base may not be uptodate wrt jiffies etc). This was
causing mysterious slowdowns during boot etc.

For now, in the semi idle case, use the nearest busy cpu for migrating timers
from an idle cpu.  This is good for power-savings anyway.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1274486981.2840.46.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 10:34:52 +02:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
174bd1994e hrtimer: Avoid double seqlock
hrtimer_get_softirq_time() has it's own xtime lock protection, so it's
safe to use plain __current_kernel_time() and avoid the double seqlock
loop.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
LKML-Reference: <20100525214912.GA1934@r2bh72.net.upc.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-05-26 16:15:37 +02:00
Carsten Emde
351b3f7a21 hrtimers: Provide schedule_hrtimeout for CLOCK_REALTIME
The current version of schedule_hrtimeout() always uses the
monotonic clock. Some system calls such as mq_timedsend()
and mq_timedreceive(), however, require the use of the wall
clock due to the definition of the system call.

This patch provides the infrastructure to use schedule_hrtimeout() 
with a CLOCK_REALTIME timer.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Tested-by: Pradyumna Sampath <pradysam@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100402204331.167439615@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-06 21:50:03 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
ecb49d1a63 hrtimers: Convert to raw_spinlocks
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 23:55:34 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
5f201907df hrtimer: move timer stats helper functions to hrtimer.c
There is no reason to make timer_stats_hrtimer_set_start_info and
friends visible to the rest of the kernel. So move all of them to
hrtimer.c.  Also make timer_stats_hrtimer_set_start_info a static
inline function so it gets inlined and we avoid another function call.
Based on a patch by Thomas Gleixner.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091210095629.GC4144@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-12-10 13:08:11 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
41d2e49493 hrtimer: Tune hrtimer_interrupt hang logic
The hrtimer_interrupt hang logic adjusts min_delta_ns based on the
execution time of the hrtimer callbacks.

This is error-prone for virtual machines, where a guest vcpu can be
scheduled out during the execution of the callbacks (and the callbacks
themselves can do operations that translate to blocking operations in
the hypervisor), which in can lead to large min_delta_ns rendering the
system unusable.

Replace the current heuristics with something more reliable. Allow the
interrupt code to try 3 times to catch up with the lost time. If that
fails use the total time spent in the interrupt handler to defer the
next timer interrupt so the system can catch up with other things
which got delayed. Limit that deferment to 100ms.

The retry events and the maximum time spent in the interrupt handler
are recorded and exposed via /proc/timer_list

Inspired by a patch from Marcelo.

Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-10 13:08:11 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
60d8ce2cd6 Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers, init: Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootup messages
  posix-cpu-timers: optimize and document timer_create callback
  clockevents: Add missing include to pacify sparse
  x86: vmiclock: Fix printk format
  x86: Fix printk format due to variable type change
  sparc: fix printk for change of variable type
  clocksource/events: Fix fallout of generic code changes
  nohz: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds
  nohz: Track last do_timer() cpu
  nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle
  nohz: Type cast printk argument
  mips: Use generic mult/shift factor calculation for clocks
  clocksource: Provide a generic mult/shift factor calculation
  clockevents: Use u32 for mult and shift factors
  nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu
  nohz: Reuse ktime in sub-functions of tick_check_idle.
  time: Remove xtime_cache
  time: Implement logarithmic time accumulation
2009-12-08 19:27:08 -08:00
Jon Hunter
97813f2fe7 nohz: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds
In the dynamic tick code, "max_delta_ns" (member of the
"clock_event_device" structure) represents the maximum sleep time
that can occur between timer events in nanoseconds.

The variable, "max_delta_ns", is defined as an unsigned long
which is a 32-bit integer for 32-bit machines and a 64-bit
integer for 64-bit machines (if -m64 option is used for gcc).
The value of max_delta_ns is set by calling the function
"clockevent_delta2ns()" which returns a maximum value of LONG_MAX.
For a 32-bit machine LONG_MAX is equal to 0x7fffffff and in
nanoseconds this equates to ~2.15 seconds. Hence, the maximum
sleep time for a 32-bit machine is ~2.15 seconds, where as for
a 64-bit machine it will be many years.

This patch changes the type of max_delta_ns to be "u64" instead of
"unsigned long" so that this variable is a 64-bit type for both 32-bit
and 64-bit machines. It also changes the maximum value returned by
clockevent_delta2ns() to KTIME_MAX.  Hence this allows a 32-bit
machine to sleep for longer than ~2.15 seconds. Please note that this
patch also changes "min_delta_ns" to be "u64" too and although this is
unnecessary, it makes the patch simpler as it avoids to fixup all
callers of clockevent_delta2ns().

[ tglx: changed "unsigned long long" to u64 as we use this data type
  	through out the time code ]

Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-3-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-11-13 20:46:24 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
e69a9ac596 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  hrtimer: Remove overly verbose "switch to high res mode" message
2009-10-05 12:04:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6f5071020d Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  hrtimer: Eliminate needless reprogramming of clock events device
2009-09-27 10:39:04 -07:00
Roland Dreier
d3f6302e7e hrtimer: Remove overly verbose "switch to high res mode" message
On big systems, printing <number of CPUs> copies of

    Switched to high resolution mode on CPU nnn

clutters up the kernel log for minimal gain.  Just get rid of them.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
LKML-Reference: <ada1vlw126s.fsf_-_@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-26 16:58:09 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
31bbb9b58d Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer
  hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers
  timers: Add tracepoints for timer_list timers
  cputime: Optimize jiffies_to_cputime(1)
  itimers: Simplify arm_timer() code a bit
  itimers: Fix periodic tics precision
  itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF

Trivial header file include conflicts in kernel/fork.c
2009-09-23 09:46:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a03fdb7612 Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (34 commits)
  time: Prevent 32 bit overflow with set_normalized_timespec()
  clocksource: Delay clocksource down rating to late boot
  clocksource: clocksource_select must be called with mutex locked
  clocksource: Resolve cpu hotplug dead lock with TSC unstable, fix crash
  timers: Drop a function prototype
  clocksource: Resolve cpu hotplug dead lock with TSC unstable
  timer.c: Fix S/390 comments
  timekeeping: Fix invalid getboottime() value
  timekeeping: Fix up read_persistent_clock() breakage on sh
  timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock(), build fix
  time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE
  x86: Do not unregister PIT clocksource on PIT oneshot setup/shutdown
  clocksource: Avoid clocksource watchdog circular locking dependency
  clocksource: Protect the watchdog rating changes with clocksource_mutex
  clocksource: Call clocksource_change_rating() outside of watchdog_lock
  timekeeping: Introduce read_boot_clock
  timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock()
  timekeeping: Update clocksource with stop_machine
  timekeeping: Add timekeeper read_clock helper functions
  timekeeping: Move NTP adjusted clock multiplier to struct timekeeper
  ...

Fix trivial conflict due to MIPS lemote -> loongson renaming.
2009-09-18 09:15:24 -07:00
Ashwin Chaugule
7403f41f19 hrtimer: Eliminate needless reprogramming of clock events device
On NOHZ systems the following timers,

-  tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick (tick_sched_timer)
-  hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer)

are reprogramming the clock events device far more often than needed.
No specific test case was required to observe this effect. This
occurres because there was no check to see if the currently removed or
restarted hrtimer was:

1) the one which previously armed the clock events device.
2) going to be replaced by another timer which has the same expiry time.

Avoid the reprogramming in hrtimer_force_reprogram when the new expiry
value which is evaluated from the clock bases is equal to
cpu_base->expires_next. This results in faster application startup
time by ~4%.

[ tglx: simplified initial solution ]

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinc@quicinc.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA00165.90609@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-09-15 17:09:44 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong
c6a2a17702 hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers
Add tracepoints which cover the life cycle of a hrtimer. The
tracepoints are integrated with the already existing debug_object
debug points as far as possible.

[ tglx: Fixed comments, made output conistent, easier to read and
  	parse. Fixed output for 32bit archs which do not use the
  	scalar representation of ktime_t. Hand current time to
  	trace_hrtimer_expiry_entry instead of calling get_time()
  	inside of the trace assignment. ]

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A7F8B2B.5020908@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-29 14:10:06 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger
2bc481cf43 pktgen: spin using hrtimer
This changes how the pktgen thread spins/waits between
packets if delay is configured. It uses a high res timer to
wait for time to arrive.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-28 23:41:29 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
4cd1993f00 Merge branch 'linus' into timers/core
Reason: Martin's timekeeping cleanup series depends on both
timers/core and mainline changes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-14 15:59:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
fbd90375d7 hrtimer: Remove cb_entry from struct hrtimer
It's unused, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
2009-07-22 17:12:32 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
6ff7041dbf hrtimer: Fix migration expiry check
The timer migration expiry check should prevent the migration of a
timer to another CPU when the timer expires before the next event is
scheduled on the other CPU. Migrating the timer might delay it because
we can not reprogram the clock event device on the other CPU. But the
code implementing that check has two flaws:

- for !HIGHRES the check compares the expiry value with the clock
  events device expiry value which is wrong for CLOCK_REALTIME based
  timers.

- the check is racy. It holds the hrtimer base lock of the target CPU,
  but the clock event device expiry value can be modified
  nevertheless, e.g. by an timer interrupt firing.

The !HIGHRES case is easy to fix as we can enqueue the timer on the
cpu which was selected by the load balancer. It runs the idle
balancing code once per jiffy anyway. So the maximum delay for the
timer is the same as when we keep the tick on the current cpu going.

In the HIGHRES case we can get the next expiry value from the hrtimer
cpu_base of the target CPU and serialize the update with the cpu_base
lock. This moves the lock section in hrtimer_interrupt() so we can set
next_event to KTIME_MAX while we are handling the expired timers and
set it to the next expiry value after we handled the timers under the
base lock. While the expired timers are processed timer migration is
blocked because the expiry time of the timer is always <= KTIME_MAX.

Also remove the now useless clockevents_get_next_event() function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-10 17:32:55 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7e0c5086c1 hrtimer: migration: do not check expiry time on current CPU
The timer migration code needs to check whether the expiry time of the
timer is before the programmed clock event expiry time when the timer
is enqueued on another CPU because we can not reprogram the timer
device on the other CPU. The current logic checks the expiry time even
if we enqueue on the current CPU when nohz_get_load_balancer() returns
current CPU. This might lead to an endless loop in the expiry check
code when the expiry time of the timer is before the current
programmed next event.

Check whether nohz_get_load_balancer() returns current CPU and skip
the expiry check if this is the case.

The bug was triggered from the networking code. The patch fixes the
regression http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13738
(Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195)

Cc: Arun Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tested-by: Joao Correia <joaomiguelcorreia@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-10 17:22:20 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
a40f262cc2 timekeeping: Move ktime_get() functions to timekeeping.c
The ktime_get() functions for GENERIC_TIME=n are still located in
hrtimer.c. Move them to time/timekeeping.c where they belong.

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-07 13:00:31 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
951ed4d36b timekeeping: optimized ktime_get[_ts] for GENERIC_TIME=y
The generic ktime_get function defined in kernel/hrtimer.c is suboptimial
for GENERIC_TIME=y:

 0)               |  ktime_get() {
 0)               |    ktime_get_ts() {
 0)               |      getnstimeofday() {
 0)               |        read_tod_clock() {
 0)   0.601 us    |        }
 0)   1.938 us    |      }
 0)               |      set_normalized_timespec() {
 0)   0.602 us    |      }
 0)   4.375 us    |    }
 0)   5.523 us    |  }

Overall there are two read_seqbegin/read_seqretry loops and a lot of
unnecessary struct timespec calculations. ktime_get returns a nano second
value which is the sum of xtime, wall_to_monotonic and the nano second
delta from the clock source.

ktime_get can be optimized for GENERIC_TIME=y. The new version only calls
clocksource_read:

 0)               |  ktime_get() {
 0)               |    read_tod_clock() {
 0)   0.610 us    |    }
 0)   1.977 us    |  }

It uses a single read_seqbegin/readseqretry loop and just adds everthing
to a nano second value.

ktime_get_ts is optimized in a similar fashion.

[ tglx: added WARN_ON(timekeeping_suspended) as in getnstimeofday() ]

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090707112728.3005244d@skybase>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-07 12:47:33 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
b7c142dbf1 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
  UBIFS: start using hrtimers
  hrtimer: export ktime_add_safe
  UBIFS: do not forget to register BDI device
  UBIFS: allow sync option in rootflags
  UBIFS: remove dead code
  UBIFS: use anonymous device
  UBIFS: return proper error code if the compr is not present
  UBIFS: return error if link and unlink race
  UBIFS: reset no_space flag after inode deletion
2009-06-17 09:46:33 -07:00
Artem Bityutskiy
8daa21e61b hrtimer: export ktime_add_safe
We want to use hrtimers in UBIFS (for write-buffer write-back timer).
We need the 'hrtimer_set_expires_range_ns()', which is an in-line
function which uses 'ktime_add_safe()'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-08 11:14:58 +03:00
Arun R Bharadwaj
eea08f32ad timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

This patch migrates all non pinned timers and hrtimers to the current
idle load balancer, from all the idle CPUs. Timers firing on busy CPUs
are not migrated.

While migrating hrtimers, care should be taken to check if migrating
a hrtimer would result in a latency or not. So we compare the expiry of the
hrtimer with the next timer interrupt on the target cpu and migrate the
hrtimer only if it expires *after* the next interrupt on the target cpu.
So, added a clockevents_get_next_event() helper function to return the
next_event on the target cpu's clock_event_device.

[ tglx: cleanups and simplifications ]

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Arun R Bharadwaj
597d027573 timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

This patch creates a new framework for identifying cpu-pinned timers
and hrtimers.

This framework is needed because pinned timers are expected to fire on
the same CPU on which they are queued. So it is essential to identify
these and not migrate them, in case there are any.

For regular timers, the currently existing add_timer_on() can be used
queue pinned timers and subsequently mod_timer_pinned() can be used
to modify the 'expires' field.

For hrtimers, new modes HRTIMER_ABS_PINNED and HRTIMER_REL_PINNED are
added to queue cpu-pinned hrtimer.

[ tglx: use .._PINNED mode argument instead of creating tons of new
functions ]

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7f1e2ca9f0 hrtimer: fix rq->lock inversion (again)
It appears I inadvertly introduced rq->lock recursion to the
hrtimer_start() path when I delegated running already expired
timers to softirq context.

This patch fixes it by introducing a __hrtimer_start_range_ns()
method that will not use raise_softirq_irqoff() but
__raise_softirq_irqoff() which avoids the wakeup.

It then also changes schedule() to check for pending softirqs and
do the wakeup then, I'm not quite sure I like this last bit, nor
am I convinced its really needed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090313112301.096138802@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-31 14:52:52 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
b0a9b5111a hrtimer: prevent negative expiry value after clock_was_set()
Impact: prevent false positive WARN_ON() in clockevents_program_event()

clock_was_set() changes the base->offset of CLOCK_REALTIME and
enforces the reprogramming of the clockevent device to expire timers
which are based on CLOCK_REALTIME. If the clock change is large enough
then the subtraction of the timer expiry value and base->offset can
become negative which triggers the warning in
clockevents_program_event().

Check the subtraction result and set a negative value to 0.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-01-30 22:35:34 +01:00
Sebastien Dugue
94df7de028 hrtimers: allow the hot-unplugging of all cpus
Impact: fix CPU hotplug hang on Power6 testbox

On architectures that support offlining all cpus (at least powerpc/pseries),
hot-unpluging the tick_do_timer_cpu can result in a system hang.

This comes from the fact that if the cpu going down happens to be the
cpu doing the tick, then as the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happens after the
cpu is dead (via the CPU_DEAD notification), we're left without ticks,
jiffies are frozen and any task relying on timers (msleep, ...) is stuck.
That's particularly the case for the cpu looping in __cpu_die() waiting
for the dying cpu to be dead.

This patch addresses this by having the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happen
earlier during the CPU_DYING notification. For this, a new clockevent
notification type is introduced (CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_CPU_DYING) which is triggered
in hrtimer_cpu_notify().

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-30 22:35:29 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
7f22391cbe hrtimers: increase clock min delta threshold while interrupt hanging
Impact: avoid timer IRQ hanging slow systems

While using the function graph tracer on a virtualized system, the
hrtimer_interrupt can hang the system on an infinite loop.

This can be caused in several situations:

 - the hardware is very slow and HZ is set too high

 - something intrusive is slowing the system down (tracing under emulation)

... and the next clock events to program are always before the current time.

This patch implements a reasonable compromise: if such a situation is
detected, we share the CPUs time in 1/4 to process the hrtimer interrupts.
This is enough to let the system running without serious starvation.

It has been successfully tested under VirtualBox with 1000 HZ and 100 HZ
with function graph tracer launched. On both cases, the clock events were
increased until about 25 ms periodic ticks, which means 40 HZ.

So we change a hard to debug hang into a warning message and a system that
still manages to limp along.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-30 22:35:10 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
1e70c7f7a9 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  hrtimers: fix inconsistent lock state on resume in hres_timers_resume
  time-sched.c: tick_nohz_update_jiffies should be static
  locking, hpet: annotate false positive warning
  kernel/fork.c: unused variable 'ret'
  itimers: remove the per-cpu-ish-ness
2009-01-26 09:47:43 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
1d4a7f1c4f hrtimers: fix inconsistent lock state on resume in hres_timers_resume
Andrey Borzenkov reported this lockdep assert:

> [17854.688347] =================================
> [17854.688347] [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
> [17854.688347] 2.6.29-rc2-1avb #1
> [17854.688347] ---------------------------------
> [17854.688347] inconsistent {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage.
> [17854.688347] pm-suspend/18240 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
> [17854.688347]  (&cpu_base->lock){++..}, at: [<c0136fcc>] retrigger_next_event+0x5c/0xa0
> [17854.688347] {in-hardirq-W} state was registered at:
> [17854.688347]   [<c01443cd>] __lock_acquire+0x79d/0x1930
> [17854.688347]   [<c01455bc>] lock_acquire+0x5c/0x80
> [17854.688347]   [<c03092e5>] _spin_lock+0x35/0x70
> [17854.688347]   [<c0136e61>] hrtimer_run_queues+0x31/0x140
> [17854.688347]   [<c0128d98>] run_local_timers+0x8/0x20
> [17854.688347]   [<c0128dd3>] update_process_times+0x23/0x60
> [17854.688347]   [<c013e274>] tick_periodic+0x24/0x80
> [17854.688347]   [<c013e2e2>] tick_handle_periodic+0x12/0x70
> [17854.688347]   [<c0104e24>] timer_interrupt+0x14/0x20
> [17854.688347]   [<c01607b9>] handle_IRQ_event+0x29/0x60
> [17854.688347]   [<c0161c59>] handle_level_irq+0x69/0xe0
> [17854.688347]   [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
> [17854.688347] irq event stamp: 55771
> [17854.688347] hardirqs last  enabled at (55771): [<c0309125>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x35/0x60
> [17854.688347] hardirqs last disabled at (55770): [<c0309419>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x19/0x80
> [17854.688347] softirqs last  enabled at (54836): [<c0124f54>] __do_softirq+0xc4/0x110
> [17854.688347] softirqs last disabled at (54831): [<c01049ae>] do_softirq+0x8e/0xe0
> [17854.688347]
> [17854.688347] other info that might help us debug this:
> [17854.688347] 3 locks held by pm-suspend/18240:
> [17854.688347]  #0:  (&buffer->mutex){--..}, at: [<c01dd4c5>] sysfs_write_file+0x25/0x100
> [17854.688347]  #1:  (pm_mutex){--..}, at: [<c015056f>] enter_state+0x4f/0x140
> [17854.688347]  #2:  (dpm_list_mtx){--..}, at: [<c027880f>] device_pm_lock+0xf/0x20
> [17854.688347]
> [17854.688347] stack backtrace:
> [17854.688347] Pid: 18240, comm: pm-suspend Not tainted 2.6.29-rc2-1avb #1
> [17854.688347] Call Trace:
> [17854.688347]  [<c0306248>] ? printk+0x18/0x20
> [17854.688347]  [<c0141fac>] print_usage_bug+0x16c/0x1d0
> [17854.688347]  [<c0142bcf>] mark_lock+0x8bf/0xc90
> [17854.688347]  [<c0106b8f>] ? pit_next_event+0x2f/0x40
> [17854.688347]  [<c01441b0>] __lock_acquire+0x580/0x1930
> [17854.688347]  [<c030916d>] ? _spin_unlock+0x1d/0x20
> [17854.688347]  [<c0106b8f>] ? pit_next_event+0x2f/0x40
> [17854.688347]  [<c013dd38>] ? clockevents_program_event+0x98/0x160
> [17854.688347]  [<c0142fe8>] ? mark_held_locks+0x48/0x90
> [17854.688347]  [<c0309125>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x35/0x60
> [17854.688347]  [<c0143229>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x139/0x190
> [17854.688347]  [<c014328b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
> [17854.688347]  [<c01455bc>] lock_acquire+0x5c/0x80
> [17854.688347]  [<c0136fcc>] ? retrigger_next_event+0x5c/0xa0
> [17854.688347]  [<c03092e5>] _spin_lock+0x35/0x70
> [17854.688347]  [<c0136fcc>] ? retrigger_next_event+0x5c/0xa0
> [17854.688347]  [<c0136fcc>] retrigger_next_event+0x5c/0xa0
> [17854.688347]  [<c013711a>] hres_timers_resume+0xa/0x10
> [17854.688347]  [<c013aa8e>] timekeeping_resume+0xee/0x150
> [17854.688347]  [<c0273384>] __sysdev_resume+0x14/0x50
> [17854.688347]  [<c0273407>] sysdev_resume+0x47/0x80
> [17854.688347]  [<c02791ab>] device_power_up+0xb/0x20
> [17854.688347]  [<c015043f>] suspend_devices_and_enter+0xcf/0x150
> [17854.688347]  [<c0150c2f>] ? freeze_processes+0x3f/0x90
> [17854.688347]  [<c0150614>] enter_state+0xf4/0x140
> [17854.688347]  [<c01506dd>] state_store+0x7d/0xc0
> [17854.688347]  [<c0150660>] ? state_store+0x0/0xc0
> [17854.688347]  [<c0202da4>] kobj_attr_store+0x24/0x30
> [17854.688347]  [<c01dd53c>] sysfs_write_file+0x9c/0x100
> [17854.688347]  [<c019916c>] vfs_write+0x9c/0x160
> [17854.688347]  [<c0103494>] ? restore_nocheck_notrace+0x0/0xe
> [17854.688347]  [<c01dd4a0>] ? sysfs_write_file+0x0/0x100
> [17854.688347]  [<c01992ed>] sys_write+0x3d/0x70
> [17854.688347]  [<c0103371>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x31

Andrey's analysis:

> timekeeping_resume() is called via class ->resume
> method; and according to comments in sysdev_resume() and
> device_power_up(), they are called with interrupts disabled.
>
> Looking at suspend_enter, irqs *are* disabled at this point.
>
> So it actually looks like something (may be some driver)
> unconditionally enabled irqs in resume path.

Add a debug check to test this theory. If it triggers then it
triggers because the resume code calls it with irqs enabled,
which is a no-no not just for timekeeping_resume(), but also
bad for a number of other resume handlers.

Reported-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-18 21:31:37 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
58fd3aa288 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 01
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
82c5b7b527 hrtimer: splitout peek ahead functionality, fix
Impact: build fix on !CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS

Fix:

  kernel/hrtimer.c:1586: error: implicit declaration of function '__hrtimer_peek_ahead_timers'

Signen-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-05 14:11:10 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
e3f1d88374 hrtimer: fixup comments
Clean up the comments

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-05 13:14:34 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
a6037b61c2 hrtimer: fix recursion deadlock by re-introducing the softirq
Impact: fix rare runtime deadlock

There are a few sites that do:

  spin_lock_irq(&foo)
  hrtimer_start(&bar)
    __run_hrtimer(&bar)
      func()
        spin_lock(&foo)

which obviously deadlocks. In order to avoid this, never call __run_hrtimer()
from hrtimer_start*() context, but instead defer this to softirq context.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-05 13:14:33 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
731a55ba0f hrtimer: simplify hotplug migration
Impact: cleanup

No need for a smp function call, which is likely to run on the same
CPU anyway. We can just call hrtimers_peek_ahead() in the interrupts
disabled section of migrate_hrtimers().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-05 13:14:33 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
d5fd43c4ae hrtimer: fix HOTPLUG_CPU=n compile warning
Impact: cleanup

 kernel/hrtimer.c: In function 'hrtimer_cpu_notify':
 kernel/hrtimer.c:1574: warning: unused variable 'dcpu'

Introduced by commit 37810659ea
("hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix hotplug") from the
timers.  dcpu is only used if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is set.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-05 13:14:32 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
8bdec955b0 hrtimer: splitout peek ahead functionality
Impact: cleanup

Provide a peek ahead function that assumes irqs disabled, allows for micro
optimizations.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-05 13:14:32 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
db200df0b3 Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sparseirq: move __weak symbols into separate compilation unit
  sparseirq: work around __weak alias bug
  sparseirq: fix hang with !SPARSE_IRQ
  sparseirq: set lock_class for legacy irq when sparse_irq is selected
  sparseirq: work around compiler optimizing away __weak functions
  sparseirq: fix desc->lock init
  sparseirq: do not printk when migrating IRQ descriptors
  sparseirq: remove duplicated arch_early_irq_init()
  irq: simplify for_each_irq_desc() usage
  proc: remove ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ from stat.c
  irq: for_each_irq_desc() move to irqnr.h
  hrtimer: remove #include <linux/irq.h>
2008-12-31 09:00:59 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
51bc39f4ba hrtimer: remove #include <linux/irq.h>
Impact: cleanup

<linux/irq.h> can be removed and should be, because:

  - hrtimer doesn't use any irq feature.
  - <linux/irq.h> shouldn't be include from generic code.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-26 09:48:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b2e3c0adec hrtimers: fix warning in kernel/hrtimer.c
this warning:

  kernel/hrtimer.c: In function ‘hrtimer_cpu_notify’:
  kernel/hrtimer.c:1574: warning: unused variable ‘dcpu’

is caused because 'dcpu' is only used in the CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU case.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 00:45:32 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
a0a99b227d hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix
> Ingo, this addition fixes the hotplug issue on my machine

And because we're all human...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 17:20:38 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
37810659ea hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix hotplug
Impact: fix hrtimer locking (reported by lockdep) in the CPU hotplug case

This addition fixes the hotplug locking issue on my machine

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 11:31:25 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
ca109491f6 hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes
Impact: cleanup, move all hrtimer processing into hardirq context

This is an attempt at removing some of the hrtimer complexity by
reducing the number of callback modes to 1.

This means that all hrtimer callback functions will be ran from HARD-irq
context.

I went through all the 30 odd hrtimer callback functions in the kernel
and saw only one that I'm not quite sure of, which is the one in
net/can/bcm.c - hence I'm CC-ing the folks responsible for that code.

Furthermore, the hrtimer core now calls callbacks directly with IRQs
disabled in case you try to enqueue an expired timer. If this timer is a
periodic timer (which should use hrtimer_forward() to advance its time)
then it might be possible to end up in an inf. recursive loop due to the
fact that hrtimer_forward() doesn't round up to the next timer
granularity, and therefore keeps on calling the callback - obviously
this needs a fix.

Aside from that, this seems to compile and actually boot on my dual core
test box - although I'm sure there are some bugs in, me not hitting any
makes me certain :-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-25 15:45:46 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
621a0d5207 hrtimer: clean up unused callback modes
Impact: cleanup

git grep HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE revealed half the callback modes are actually
unused.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 09:54:40 +01:00