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authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>2010-10-04 17:03:23 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-10-18 20:52:29 +0200
commitd267f87fb8179c6dba03d08b91952e81bc3723c7 (patch)
treeddcd2f7429964367fcb4ab1dd230a970452d72da /kernel/softirq.c
parentaa483808516ca5cacfa0e5849691f64fec25828e (diff)
downloadlinux-d267f87fb8179c6dba03d08b91952e81bc3723c7.tar.bz2
sched: Call tick_check_idle before __irq_enter
When CPU is idle and on first interrupt, irq_enter calls tick_check_idle() to notify interruption from idle. But, there is a problem if this call is done after __irq_enter, as all routines in __irq_enter may find stale time due to yet to be done tick_check_idle. Specifically, trace calls in __irq_enter when they use global clock and also account_system_vtime change in this patch as it wants to use sched_clock_cpu() to do proper irq timing. But, tick_check_idle was moved after __irq_enter intentionally to prevent problem of unneeded ksoftirqd wakeups by the commit ee5f80a: irq: call __irq_enter() before calling the tick_idle_check Impact: avoid spurious ksoftirqd wakeups Moving tick_check_idle() before __irq_enter and wrapping it with local_bh_enable/disable would solve both the problems. Fixed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-9-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/softirq.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/softirq.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 267f7b763ebb..79ee8f1fc0e7 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -296,10 +296,16 @@ void irq_enter(void)
rcu_irq_enter();
if (idle_cpu(cpu) && !in_interrupt()) {
- __irq_enter();
+ /*
+ * Prevent raise_softirq from needlessly waking up ksoftirqd
+ * here, as softirq will be serviced on return from interrupt.
+ */
+ local_bh_disable();
tick_check_idle(cpu);
- } else
- __irq_enter();
+ _local_bh_enable();
+ }
+
+ __irq_enter();
}
#ifdef __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED