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Frederic Weisbecker c2e7fcf53c nohz: Include local CPU in full dynticks global kick
tick_nohz_full_kick_all() is useful to notify all full dynticks
CPUs that there is a system state change to checkout before
re-evaluating the need for the tick.

Unfortunately this is implemented using smp_call_function_many()
that ignores the local CPU. This CPU also needs to re-evaluate
the tick.

on_each_cpu_mask() is not useful either because we don't want to
re-evaluate the tick state in place but asynchronously from an IPI
to avoid messing up with any random locking scenario.

So lets call tick_nohz_full_kick() from tick_nohz_full_kick_all()
so that the usual irq work takes care of it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375460996-16329-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-16 17:55:33 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6f1d657668 Merge branch 'timers/nohz-v3' of 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>
2013-08-14 17:58:56 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker d13508f944 nohz: Optimize full dynticks's sched hooks with static keys
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>
2013-08-14 17:14:58 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 460775df46 nohz: Optimize full dynticks state checks with static keys
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>
2013-08-14 17:14:57 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 73867dcd07 nohz: Rename a few state variables
Rename the full dynticks's cpumask and cpumask state variables
to some more exportable names.

These will be used later from global headers to optimize
the main full dynticks APIs in conjunction 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>
2013-08-14 17:14:57 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 2e70933866 nohz: Only enable context tracking on full dynticks CPUs
The context tracking subsystem has the ability to selectively
enable the tracking on any defined subset of CPU. This means that
we can define a CPU range that doesn't run the context tracking
and another range that does.

Now what we want in practice is to enable the tracking on full
dynticks CPUs only. In order to perform this, we just need to pass
our full dynticks CPU range selection from the full dynticks
subsystem to the context tracking.

This way we can spare the overhead of RCU user extended quiescent
state and vtime maintainance on the CPUs that are outside the
full dynticks range. Just keep in mind the raw context tracking
itself is still necessary everywhere.

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>
2013-08-13 00:54:07 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 148519120c Revert "cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode"
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 e11538d1f0

  3) test      reverts 69a37beabf
                       e11538d1f0

  In summary, netperf TCP_RR numbers improve by approximately 4%
  after reverting 69a37beabf.  When
  69a37beabf 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 69a37beabf,
    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
  e11538d1f0)
  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 69a37beabf
  and e11538d1f0)
  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
  69a37beabf.

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>
2013-07-29 13:32:29 +02:00
Li Zhong ca06416b2b nohz: fix compile warning in tick_nohz_init()
cpu is not used after commit 5b8621a68f

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-07-24 20:30:33 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 543487c7a2 nohz: Do not warn about unstable tsc unless user uses nohz_full
If the user enables CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL and runs the kernel on a machine
with an unstable TSC, it will produce a WARN_ON dump as well as taint
the kernel. This is a bit extreme for a kernel that just enables a
feature but doesn't use it.

The warning should only happen if the user tries to use the feature by
either adding nohz_full to the kernel command line, or by enabling
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL that makes nohz used on all CPUs at boot up. Note,
this second feature should not (yet) be used by distros or anyone that
doesn't care if NO_HZ is used or not.

Signed-off-by: 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>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-07-24 20:30:33 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker 0db0628d90 kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
Ingo Molnar e399eb56a6 Merge branch 'timers/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/urgent
Pull nohz updates/fixes from Frederic Weisbecker:

' Note that "watchdog: Boot-disable by default on full dynticks" is a temporary
  solution to solve the issue with the watchdog that prevents the tick from
  stopping. This is to make sure that 3.11 doesn't have that problem as several
  people complained about it.

  A proper and longer term solution has been proposed by Peterz:

          http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130618103632.GO3204@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-10 10:43:25 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5b8621a68f nohz: Remove obsolete check for full dynticks CPUs to be RCU nocbs
Building full dynticks now implies that all CPUs are forced
into RCU nocb mode through CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL.

The dynamic check has become useless.

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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
2013-06-20 15:46:43 +02:00
Steven Rostedt e12d027177 nohz: Warn if the machine can not perform nohz_full
If the user configures NO_HZ_FULL and defines nohz_full=XXX on the
kernel command line, or enables NO_HZ_FULL_ALL, but nohz fails
due to the machine having a unstable clock, warn about it.

We do not want users thinking that they are getting the benefit
of nohz when their machine can not support it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-06-20 01:15:51 +02:00
Li Zhong 1a7f829f09 nohz: Fix notifier return val that enforce timekeeping
In tick_nohz_cpu_down_callback() if the cpu is the one handling
timekeeping, we must return something that stops the CPU_DOWN_PREPARE
notifiers and then start notify CPU_DOWN_FAILED on the already called
notifier call backs.

However traditional errno values are not handled by the notifier unless
these are encapsulated using errno_to_notifier().

Hence the current -EINVAL is misinterpreted and converted to junk after
notifier_to_errno(), leaving the notifier subsystem to random behaviour
such as eventually allowing the cpu to go down.

Fix this by using the standard NOTIFY_BAD instead.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: 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>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-31 11:33:10 +02:00
Linus Torvalds cc51bf6e6d Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Cure for not using zalloc in the first place, which leads to random
   crashes with CPUMASK_OFF_STACK.

 - Revert a user space visible change which broke udev

 - Add a missing cpu_online early return introduced by the new full
   dyntick conversions

 - Plug a long standing race in the timer wheel cpu hotplug code.
   Sigh...

 - Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down to prevent stale data on cpu
   up.

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Revert ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK compile time optimizaitons
  timer: Don't reinitialize the cpu base lock during CPU_UP_PREPARE
  tick: Don't invoke tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() if the cpu is offline
  tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down
  tick: Use zalloc_cpumask_var for allocating offstack cpumasks
2013-05-15 14:05:17 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner f7ea0fd639 tick: Don't invoke tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() if the cpu is offline
commit 5b39939a4 (nohz: Move ts->idle_calls incrementation into strict
idle logic) moved code out of tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() and missed
to bail out when the cpu is offline. That's causing subsequent
failures as an offline CPU is supposed to die and not to fiddle with
nohz magic.

Return false in can_stop_idle_tick() if the cpu is offline.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reported-and-tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305132138160.2863@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-05-14 17:40:31 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 4b0c0f294f tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down
Prarit reported a crash on CPU offline/online. The reason is that on
CPU down the NOHZ related per cpu data of the dead cpu is not cleaned
up. If at cpu online an interrupt happens before the per cpu tick
device is registered the irq_enter() check potentially sees stale data
and dereferences a NULL pointer.

Cleanup the data after the cpu is dead.

Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305031451561.2886@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-05-12 12:20:09 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 534c97b095 Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
  kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
  or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.

  This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
  idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
  reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.

  This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
  the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
  that:

   - HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
     to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power.  A periodic timer tick at
     HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%.  This feature
     removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
     typical distro configs even on modern systems.

   - Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
     should experience as little jitter as possible.  The last remaining
     source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.

   - A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
     especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
     helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.

  The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
  reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
  slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.

  Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
  two NOHZ kconfig modes:

   - CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
     as a config option.  This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
     design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
     whether a CPU is idle or not.

   - CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
     periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.

   - CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
     tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
     timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
     CPU.

  The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
  CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
  user having to configure anything.  CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
  default.

  This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
  steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
  and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.

  This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature.  The pull
  request is marked RFC because:

   - it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
     small but did not get ready in time.

   - it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
     window.  The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
     merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
     marked it RFC.

   - it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
     while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
     combination is still not very widely used.  That it's default-off
     should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
     known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.

   - the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
     equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick.  In
     particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
     on scheduler load-balancing and statistics.  This should not impact
     correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
     feature at this point.

   - it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
     enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
     its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
     Without flaming us to crisp! :-)

  Future plans:

   - there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
     the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
     CPU.  We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
     for the 0 Hz target though.

   - once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
     nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
     as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
     once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.

  I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
  v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
  but the final word is up to you as usual.

  More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"

* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
  sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
  rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
  nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
  nohz_full: Add documentation.
  cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
  nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
  nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
  nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
  nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
  nohz: Add basic tracing
  nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
  nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
  nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
  nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
  nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
  nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
  sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
  sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
  perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
  perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
  ...
2013-05-05 13:23:27 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 265f22a975 sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
The scheduler doesn't yet fully support environments
with a single task running without a periodic tick.

In order to ensure we still maintain the duties of scheduler_tick(),
keep at least 1 tick per second.

This makes sure that we keep the progression of various scheduler
accounting and background maintainance even with a very low granularity.
Examples include cpu load, sched average, CFS entity vruntime,
avenrun and events such as load balancing, amongst other details
handled in sched_class::task_tick().

This limitation will be removed in the future once we get
these individual items to work in full dynticks CPUs.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.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>
2013-05-04 08:32:02 +02:00
Li Zhong 6296ace467 nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
I saw following error when testing the latest nohz code on
Power:

[   85.295384] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: rsyslogd/3493
[   85.295396] caller is .tick_nohz_task_switch+0x1c/0xb8
[   85.295402] Call Trace:
[   85.295408] [c0000001fababab0] [c000000000012dc4] .show_stack+0x110/0x25c (unreliable)
[   85.295420] [c0000001fababba0] [c0000000007c4b54] .dump_stack+0x20/0x30
[   85.295430] [c0000001fababc10] [c00000000044eb74] .debug_smp_processor_id+0xf4/0x124
[   85.295438] [c0000001fababca0] [c0000000000d7594] .tick_nohz_task_switch+0x1c/0xb8
[   85.295447] [c0000001fababd20] [c0000000000b9748] .finish_task_switch+0x13c/0x160
[   85.295455] [c0000001fababdb0] [c0000000000bbe50] .schedule_tail+0x50/0x124
[   85.295463] [c0000001fababe30] [c000000000009dc8] .ret_from_fork+0x4/0x54

The code below moves the test into local_irq_save/restore
section to avoid the above complaint.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367119558.6391.34.camel@ThinkPad-T5421.cn.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-29 13:17:33 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 47aa8b6cbc nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
One testbox of mine (Intel Nehalem, 16-way) uses MWAIT for its idle routine,
which apparently can break out of its idle loop rather frequently, with
high frequency.

In that case NO_HZ_FULL=y kernels show high ksoftirqd overhead and constant
context switching, because tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() will, if
delta_jiffies == 0, mis-identify this as a timer event - activating the
TIMER_SOFTIRQ, which wakes up ksoftirqd.

Fix this by treating delta_jiffies == 0 the same way we treat other short
wakeups, delta_jiffies == 1.

Cc: 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: 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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-26 10:13:42 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker cb41a29076 nohz: Add basic tracing
It's not obvious to find out why the full dynticks subsystem
doesn't always stop the tick: whether this is due to kthreads,
posix timers, perf events, etc...

These new tracepoints are here to help the user diagnose
the failures and test this feature.

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>
2013-04-22 23:03:09 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 99e5ada940 nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
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>
2013-04-22 20:29:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5811d9963e nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
Interrupt exit is a natural place to stop the tick: it happens
after all events happening before and during the irq which
are liable to update the dependency on the tick occured. Also
it makes sure that any check on tick dependency is well ordered
against dynticks kick IPIs.

Bring in the infrastructure that performs the tick dependency
checks on irq exit and shut it down if these checks show that we
can do it safely.

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>
2013-04-22 20:29:05 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 9014c45d9e nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
Implement the full dynticks kick that is performed from
IPIs sent by various subsystems (scheduler, posix timers, ...)
when they want to notify about a new event that may
reconsider the dependency on the tick.

Most of the time, such an event end up restarting the tick.

(Part of the design with subsystems providing *_can_stop_tick()
helpers 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>
2013-04-22 20:28:04 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker ff442c51f6 nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
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>
2013-04-22 20:16:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a166fcf04d Merge branch 'timers/nohz-posix-timers-v2' of 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>
2013-04-21 11:05:47 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker f98823ac75 nohz: New option to default all CPUs in full dynticks range
Provide a new kernel config that defaults all CPUs to be part
of the full dynticks range, except the boot one for timekeeping.

This default setting is overriden by the nohz_full= boot option
if passed by the user.

This is helpful for those who don't need a finegrained range
of full dynticks CPU and also for automated testing.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.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>
2013-04-19 13:54:16 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker d1e43fa5f8 nohz: Ensure full dynticks CPUs are RCU nocbs
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>
2013-04-19 13:54:04 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 0453b435df nohz: Force boot CPU outside full dynticks range
The timekeeping job must be able to run early on boot
because there may be some pre-SMP (and thus pre-initcalls )
components that rely on it. The IO-APIC is one such users
as it tests the timer health by watching jiffies progression.

Given that it happens before we know the initial online
set, we can't rely on it to select a timekeeper. We need
one before SMP time otherwise we simply crash on boot.

To fix this and keep things simple for now, force the boot CPU
outside of the full dynticks range in any case and do this early
on kernel parameter parsing time.

We might want a trickier solution later, expecially for aSMP
architectures that need to assign housekeeping tasks to arbitrary
low power CPUs.

But it's still first pass KISS time for now.

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>
2013-04-19 13:53:14 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 76c24fb054 nohz: New APIs to re-evaluate the tick on full dynticks CPUs
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>
2013-04-18 18:53:34 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker c5bfece2d6 nohz: Switch from "extended nohz" to "full nohz" based naming
"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>
2013-04-15 19:58:17 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 1034fc2f41 nohz: Print final full dynticks CPUs range on boot
Given that we apply a few restrictions on the full dynticks
CPUs range (keep an online timekeeper oustide the range,
then in the future have the range be an RCU nocb CPUs subset),
let's print the final resulting range of full dynticks CPUs to
the user so that he knows what's really going to run.

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>
2013-04-03 14:00:48 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 3451d0243c nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
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>
2013-04-03 13:56:03 +02:00
Rado Vrbovsky cfea7d7e45 tick: Change log level of NOHZ: local_softirq_pending message
The "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending" message is a largely informational
message.  This makes extra work for customers that have a policy of
investigating all kernel log messages logged at <= KERN_ERR log level.
This patch sets the message to a different log level.

[ tglx: Use pr_warn() ]

Signed-off-by: Rado Vrbovsky <rvrbovsk@redhat.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2037057938.893524.1360345050772.JavaMail.root@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-03-25 10:46:59 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker a382bf9344 nohz: Assign timekeeping duty to a CPU outside the full dynticks range
This way the full nohz CPUs can safely run with the tick
stopped with a guarantee that somebody else is taking
care of the jiffies and GTOD progression.

Once the duty is attributed to a CPU, it won't change. Also that
CPU can't enter into dyntick idle mode or be hot unplugged.

This may later be improved from a power consumption POV. At
least we should be able to share the duty amongst all CPUs
outside the full dynticks range. Then the duty could even be
shared with full dynticks CPUs when those can't stop their
tick for any reason.

But let's start with that very simple approach first.

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>
[fix have_nohz_full_mask offcase]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-21 15:55:45 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker a831881be2 nohz: Basic full dynticks interface
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>
2013-03-21 15:38:33 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 2af78448ff Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux
Pull thermal management updates from Zhang Rui:
 "Highlights:

   - introduction of Dove thermal sensor driver.

   - introduction of Kirkwood thermal sensor driver.

   - introduction of intel_powerclamp thermal cooling device driver.

   - add interrupt and DT support for rcar thermal driver.

   - add thermal emulation support which allows platform thermal driver
     to do software/hardware emulation for thermal issues."

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux: (36 commits)
  thermal: rcar: remove __devinitconst
  thermal: return an error on failure to register thermal class
  Thermal: rename thermal governor Kconfig option to avoid generic naming
  thermal: exynos: Use the new thermal trend type for quick cooling action.
  Thermal: exynos: Add support for temperature falling interrupt.
  Thermal: Dove: Add Themal sensor support for Dove.
  thermal: Add support for the thermal sensor on Kirkwood SoCs
  thermal: rcar: add Device Tree support
  thermal: rcar: remove machine_power_off() from rcar_thermal_notify()
  thermal: rcar: add interrupt support
  thermal: rcar: add read/write functions for common/priv data
  thermal: rcar: multi channel support
  thermal: rcar: use mutex lock instead of spin lock
  thermal: rcar: enable CPCTL to use hardware TSC deciding
  thermal: rcar: use parenthesis on macro
  Thermal: fix a build warning when CONFIG_THERMAL_EMULATION cleared
  Thermal: fix a wrong comment
  thermal: sysfs: Add a new sysfs node emul_temp for thermal emulation
  PM: intel_powerclamp: off by one in start_power_clamp()
  thermal: exynos: Miscellaneous fixes to support falling threshold interrupt
  ...
2013-02-28 19:48:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d652e1eb8e Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

   - scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed
     and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
     cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic
     Weisbecker.

   - Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams

   - select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith:

        " 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:

          pre   15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
          post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs "

  - sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change.  We think this detail is not
    used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it
    under observation.

  - misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  sched/rt: Add <linux/sched/rt.h> header to <linux/init_task.h>
  cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers
  sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure
  cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64
  sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file
  sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice
  sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header
  sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
  sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
  sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task()
  sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt()
  cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs
  kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks
  cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats
  cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting
  cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting
  cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file
  cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions
  cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling
  context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime
  ...

Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.
2013-02-19 18:19:48 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 077931446b Merge branch 'nohz/printk-v8' into irq/core
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>
2013-02-05 00:48:46 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 3f4724ea85 cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting
Allow to dynamically switch between tick and virtual based
cputime accounting. This way we can provide a kind of "on-demand"
virtual based cputime accounting. In this mode, the kernel relies
on the context tracking subsystem to dynamically probe on kernel
boundaries.

This is in preparation for being able to stop the timer tick in
more places than just the idle state. Doing so will depend on
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN which makes it possible to account
the cputime without the tick by hooking on kernel/user boundaries.

Depending whether the tick is stopped or not, we can switch between
tick and vtime based accounting anytime in order to minimize the
overhead associated to user hooks.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.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>
2013-01-27 19:23:29 +01:00
Jacob Pan 4dbd27711c tick: export nohz tick idle symbols for module use
Allow drivers such as intel_powerclamp to use these apis for
turning on/off ticks during idle.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
2013-01-17 22:25:38 +08:00
Linus Torvalds b64c5fda38 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core timer changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "It contains continued generic-NOHZ work by Frederic and smaller
  cleanups."

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Kill xtime_lock, replacing it with jiffies_lock
  clocksource: arm_generic: use this_cpu_ptr per-cpu helper
  clocksource: arm_generic: use integer math helpers
  time/jiffies: Make clocksource_jiffies static
  clocksource: clean up parse_pmtmr()
  tick: Correct the comments for tick_sched_timer()
  tick: Conditionally build nohz specific code in tick handler
  tick: Consolidate tick handling for high and low res handlers
  tick: Consolidate timekeeping handling code
2012-12-11 18:22:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds de0c276b31 Merge branches 'core-locking-for-linus' and 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull trivial fix branches from Ingo Molnar.

Cleanup in __get_key_name, and a timer comment fixlet.

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  lockdep: Use KSYM_NAME_LEN'ed buffer for __get_key_name()

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timers, sched: Correct the comments for tick_sched_timer()
2012-12-11 18:09:18 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner 9c3f9e2816 Merge branch 'fortglx/3.8/time' of git://git.linaro.org/people/jstultz/linux into timers/core
Fix trivial conflicts in: kernel/time/tick-sched.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-11-21 20:31:52 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 74876a98a8 printk: Wake up klogd using irq_work
klogd is woken up asynchronously from the tick in order
to do it safely.

However if printk is called when the tick is stopped, the reader
won't be woken up until the next interrupt, which might not fire
for a while. As a result, the user may miss some message.

To fix this, lets implement the printk tick using a lazy irq work.
This subsystem takes care of the timer tick state and can
fix up accordingly.

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>
2012-11-18 01:01:49 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 00b4295910 irq_work: Don't stop the tick with pending works
Don't stop the tick if we have pending irq works on the
queue, otherwise if the arch can't raise self-IPIs, we may not
find an opportunity to execute the pending works for a while.

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>
2012-11-17 19:30:39 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 33a5f6261a nohz: Add API to check tick state
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>
2012-11-17 19:30:18 +01:00
Youquan Song 69a37beabf cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode
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>
2012-11-15 00:34:19 +01:00
John Stultz d6ad418763 time: Kill xtime_lock, replacing it with jiffies_lock
Now that timekeeping is protected by its own locks, rename
the xtime_lock to jifffies_lock to better describe what it
protects.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2012-11-13 14:08:23 -05:00