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authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2016-03-17 14:20:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-17 15:09:34 -0700
commitda8b44d5a9f8bf26da637b7336508ca534d6b319 (patch)
treef8ce464a2adfa25d255ada3bd4ec762e0af9628a /kernel/time/hrtimer.c
parent0a687aace3b8e215e08eed8a67014f5b8f133ab0 (diff)
downloadlinux-da8b44d5a9f8bf26da637b7336508ca534d6b319.tar.bz2
timer: convert timer_slack_ns from unsigned long to u64
This patchset introduces a /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns interface which would allow controlling processes to be able to set the timerslack value on other processes in order to save power by avoiding wakeups (Something Android currently does via out-of-tree patches). The first patch tries to fix the internal timer_slack_ns usage which was defined as a long, which limits the slack range to ~4 seconds on 32bit systems. It converts it to a u64, which provides the same basically unlimited slack (500 years) on both 32bit and 64bit machines. The second patch introduces the /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns interface which allows the full 64bit slack range for a task to be read or set on both 32bit and 64bit machines. With these two patches, on a 32bit machine, after setting the slack on bash to 10 seconds: $ time sleep 1 real 0m10.747s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.005s The first patch is a little ugly, since I had to chase the slack delta arguments through a number of functions converting them to u64s. Let me know if it makes sense to break that up more or not. Other than that things are fairly straightforward. This patch (of 2): The timer_slack_ns value in the task struct is currently a unsigned long. This means that on 32bit applications, the maximum slack is just over 4 seconds. However, on 64bit machines, its much much larger (~500 years). This disparity could make application development a little (as well as the default_slack) to a u64. This means both 32bit and 64bit systems have the same effective internal slack range. Now the existing ABI via PR_GET_TIMERSLACK and PR_SET_TIMERSLACK specify the interface as a unsigned long, so we preserve that limitation on 32bit systems, where SET_TIMERSLACK can only set the slack to a unsigned long value, and GET_TIMERSLACK will return ULONG_MAX if the slack is actually larger then what can be stored by an unsigned long. This patch also modifies hrtimer functions which specified the slack delta as a unsigned long. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cellrox.com> Cc: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com> Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/hrtimer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/hrtimer.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
index fa909f9fd559..58a321c34cfb 100644
--- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
@@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ static inline ktime_t hrtimer_update_lowres(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
* relative (HRTIMER_MODE_REL)
*/
void hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t tim,
- unsigned long delta_ns, const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
+ u64 delta_ns, const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
{
struct hrtimer_clock_base *base, *new_base;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ long hrtimer_nanosleep(struct timespec *rqtp, struct timespec __user *rmtp,
struct restart_block *restart;
struct hrtimer_sleeper t;
int ret = 0;
- unsigned long slack;
+ u64 slack;
slack = current->timer_slack_ns;
if (dl_task(current) || rt_task(current))
@@ -1724,7 +1724,7 @@ void __init hrtimers_init(void)
* @clock: timer clock, CLOCK_MONOTONIC or CLOCK_REALTIME
*/
int __sched
-schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock(ktime_t *expires, unsigned long delta,
+schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock(ktime_t *expires, u64 delta,
const enum hrtimer_mode mode, int clock)
{
struct hrtimer_sleeper t;
@@ -1792,7 +1792,7 @@ schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock(ktime_t *expires, unsigned long delta,
*
* Returns 0 when the timer has expired otherwise -EINTR
*/
-int __sched schedule_hrtimeout_range(ktime_t *expires, unsigned long delta,
+int __sched schedule_hrtimeout_range(ktime_t *expires, u64 delta,
const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
{
return schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock(expires, delta, mode,