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Linus Torvalds b6b178e38f A set of posix CPU timer changes which allows to defer the heavy work of
posix CPU timers into task work context. The tick interrupt is reduced to a
 quick check which queues the work which is doing the heavy lifting before
 returning to user space or going back to guest mode. Moving this out is
 deferring the signal delivery slightly but posix CPU timers are inaccurate
 by nature as they depend on the tick so there is no real damage. The
 relevant test cases all passed.
 
 This lifts the last offender for RT out of the hard interrupt context tick
 handler, but it also has the general benefit that the actual heavy work is
 accounted to the task/process and not to the tick interrupt itself.
 
 Further optimizations are possible to break long sighand lock hold and
 interrupt disabled (on !RT kernels) times when a massive amount of posix
 CPU timers (which are unpriviledged) is armed for a task/process.
 
 This is currently only enabled for x86 because the architecture has to
 ensure that task work is handled in KVM before entering a guest, which was
 just established for x86 with the new common entry/exit code which got
 merged post 5.8 and is not the case for other KVM architectures.
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull more timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of posix CPU timer changes which allows to defer the heavy work
  of posix CPU timers into task work context. The tick interrupt is
  reduced to a quick check which queues the work which is doing the
  heavy lifting before returning to user space or going back to guest
  mode. Moving this out is deferring the signal delivery slightly but
  posix CPU timers are inaccurate by nature as they depend on the tick
  so there is no real damage. The relevant test cases all passed.

  This lifts the last offender for RT out of the hard interrupt context
  tick handler, but it also has the general benefit that the actual
  heavy work is accounted to the task/process and not to the tick
  interrupt itself.

  Further optimizations are possible to break long sighand lock hold and
  interrupt disabled (on !RT kernels) times when a massive amount of
  posix CPU timers (which are unpriviledged) is armed for a
  task/process.

  This is currently only enabled for x86 because the architecture has to
  ensure that task work is handled in KVM before entering a guest, which
  was just established for x86 with the new common entry/exit code which
  got merged post 5.8 and is not the case for other KVM architectures"

* tag 'timers-core-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Select POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
  posix-cpu-timers: Provide mechanisms to defer timer handling to task_work
  posix-cpu-timers: Split run_posix_cpu_timers()
2020-08-14 14:17:51 -07:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.