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Viresh Kumar b5e995e671 nohz: Fix spurious periodic tick behaviour in low-res dynticks mode
When we reach the end of the tick handler, we unconditionally reschedule
the next tick to the next jiffy. Then on irq exit, the nohz code
overrides that setting if needed and defers the next tick as far away in
the future as possible.

Now in the best dynticks case, when we actually don't need any tick in
the future (ie: expires == KTIME_MAX), low-res and high-res behave
differently. What we want in this case is to cancel the next tick
programmed by the previous one. That's what we do in high-res mode. OTOH
we lack a low-res mode equivalent of hrtimer_cancel() so we simply don't
do anything in this case and the next tick remains scheduled to jiffies + 1.

As a result, in low-res mode, when the dynticks code determines that no
tick is needed in the future, we can recursively get a spurious tick
every jiffy because then the next tick is always reprogrammed from the
tick handler and is never cancelled. And this can happen indefinetly
until some subsystem actually needs a precise tick in the future and only
then we eventually overwrite the previous tick handler setting to defer
the next tick.

We are fixing this by introducing the ONESHOT_STOPPED mode which will
let us pause a clockevent when no further interrupt is needed. Meanwhile
we can't expect all drivers to support this new mode.

So lets reduce much of the symptoms by skipping the nohz-blind tick
rescheduling from the tick-handler when the CPU is in dynticks mode.
That tick rescheduling wrongly assumed periodicity and the low-res
dynticks code can't cancel such decision. This breaks the recursive (and
thus the worst) part of the problem. In the worst case now, we'll get
only one extra tick due to uncancelled tick scheduled before we entered
dynticks mode.

This also removes a needless clockevent write on idle ticks. Since those
clock write are usually considered to be slow, it's a general win.

Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2014-08-22 18:46:49 +02:00
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alarmtimer.c Staging driver patches for 3.17-rc1 2014-08-04 18:36:12 -07:00
clockevents.c timer: Fix lock inversion between hrtimer_bases.lock and scheduler locks 2014-08-01 12:54:41 +02:00
clocksource.c clocksource: Make delta calculation a function 2014-07-23 15:01:51 -07:00
hrtimer.c time: Consolidate the time accessor prototypes 2014-07-23 10:17:54 -07:00
itimer.c time/timers: Move all time(r) related files into kernel/time 2014-06-23 11:22:35 +02:00
jiffies.c time: Fix overflow when HZ is smaller than 60 2014-02-06 16:01:40 +01:00
Kconfig clocksource: Move cycle_last validation to core code 2014-07-23 15:01:51 -07:00
Makefile kernel: time: Add udelay_test module to validate udelay 2014-07-23 10:16:35 -07:00
ntp.c timekeeping: Provide timespec64 based interfaces 2014-07-23 10:17:55 -07:00
ntp_internal.h timekeeping: Convert timekeeping core to use timespec64s 2014-07-23 10:17:54 -07:00
posix-clock.c
posix-cpu-timers.c time/timers: Move all time(r) related files into kernel/time 2014-06-23 11:22:35 +02:00
posix-timers.c time: Consolidate the time accessor prototypes 2014-07-23 10:17:54 -07:00
sched_clock.c sched_clock: Avoid corrupting hrtimer tree during suspend 2014-07-24 12:02:49 +02:00
tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c tick: Fixup more fallout from hrtimer broadcast mode 2014-02-09 15:11:47 +01:00
tick-broadcast.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-04-01 11:00:07 -07:00
tick-common.c tick-common: Fix wrong check in tick_check_replacement() 2014-04-15 20:26:44 +02:00
tick-internal.h time: Consolidate the time accessor prototypes 2014-07-23 10:17:54 -07:00
tick-oneshot.c
tick-sched.c nohz: Fix spurious periodic tick behaviour in low-res dynticks mode 2014-08-22 18:46:49 +02:00
time.c time: Export nsecs_to_jiffies() 2014-07-23 10:18:04 -07:00
timeconst.bc time/timers: Move all time(r) related files into kernel/time 2014-06-23 11:22:35 +02:00
timeconv.c
timekeeping.c timekeeping: Another fix to the VSYSCALL_OLD update_vsyscall 2014-08-14 11:04:11 -06:00
timekeeping.h time: Consolidate the time accessor prototypes 2014-07-23 10:17:54 -07:00
timekeeping_debug.c timekeeping: Convert timekeeping core to use timespec64s 2014-07-23 10:17:54 -07:00
timekeeping_internal.h clocksource: Move cycle_last validation to core code 2014-07-23 15:01:51 -07:00
timer.c timer: Kick dynticks targets on mod_timer*() calls 2014-06-23 11:23:47 +02:00
timer_list.c
timer_stats.c timer stats: Add a 'Collection: active/inactive' line to timer usage statistics 2013-10-10 09:59:25 +02:00
udelay_test.c kernel: time: Add udelay_test module to validate udelay 2014-07-23 10:16:35 -07:00