linux/kernel/time
Paul E. McKenney 9b2e4f1880 rcu: Track idleness independent of idle tasks
Earlier versions of RCU used the scheduling-clock tick to detect idleness
by checking for the idle task, but handled idleness differently for
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y.  But there are now a number of uses of RCU read-side
critical sections in the idle task, for example, for tracing.  A more
fine-grained detection of idleness is therefore required.

This commit presses the old dyntick-idle code into full-time service,
so that rcu_idle_enter(), previously known as rcu_enter_nohz(), is
always invoked at the beginning of an idle loop iteration.  Similarly,
rcu_idle_exit(), previously known as rcu_exit_nohz(), is always invoked
at the end of an idle-loop iteration.  This allows the idle task to
use RCU everywhere except between consecutive rcu_idle_enter() and
rcu_idle_exit() calls, in turn allowing architecture maintainers to
specify exactly where in the idle loop that RCU may be used.

Because some of the userspace upcall uses can result in what looks
to RCU like half of an interrupt, it is not possible to expect that
the irq_enter() and irq_exit() hooks will give exact counts.  This
patch therefore expands the ->dynticks_nesting counter to 64 bits
and uses two separate bitfields to count process/idle transitions
and interrupt entry/exit transitions.  It is presumed that userspace
upcalls do not happen in the idle loop or from usermode execution
(though usermode might do a system call that results in an upcall).
The counter is hard-reset on each process/idle transition, which
avoids the interrupt entry/exit error from accumulating.  Overflow
is avoided by the 64-bitness of the ->dyntick_nesting counter.

This commit also adds warnings if a non-idle task asks RCU to enter
idle state (and these checks will need some adjustment before applying
Frederic's OS-jitter patches (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/7/246).
In addition, validation of ->dynticks and ->dynticks_nesting is added.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:24 -08:00
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alarmtimer.c alarmtimers: Fix time comparison 2011-12-06 11:38:32 +01:00
clockevents.c clockevents: Set noop handler in clockevents_exchange_device() 2011-12-02 16:07:23 +01:00
clocksource.c clocksource: Fix bug with max_deferment margin calculation 2011-12-01 15:50:00 -08:00
jiffies.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Kconfig clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable 2011-09-08 11:10:56 +02:00
Makefile timers: Introduce in-kernel alarm-timer interface 2011-04-26 14:01:44 -07:00
ntp.c ntp: fix non privileged system time shifting 2011-04-04 08:31:23 -07:00
posix-clock.c kernel: Fix files explicitly needing EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure 2011-10-31 19:30:05 -04:00
tick-broadcast.c tick-broadcast: Stop active broadcast device when replacing it 2011-12-02 16:06:54 +01:00
tick-common.c clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable 2011-09-08 11:10:56 +02:00
tick-internal.h clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable 2011-09-08 11:10:56 +02:00
tick-oneshot.c clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable 2011-09-08 11:10:56 +02:00
tick-sched.c rcu: Track idleness independent of idle tasks 2011-12-11 10:31:24 -08:00
timecompare.c time: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro in timecompare.c 2010-10-21 17:30:06 +02:00
timeconv.c time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universal use 2009-09-24 07:20:56 -07:00
timekeeping.c timekeeping: add arch_offset hook to ktime_get functions 2011-11-17 14:57:19 -08:00
timer_list.c timer debug: Hide kernel addresses via %pK in /proc/timer_list 2011-02-12 14:11:56 +01:00
timer_stats.c locking, timer_stats: Annotate table_lock as raw 2011-09-13 11:12:00 +02:00