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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-06-21 17:10:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-08-31 14:44:02 -0700 |
| commit | eb75767be0e514f97bf1b5cec763696cfc7f7e2a (patch) | |
| tree | 08cae2878e46409d6f5cffd0d37499bfa4851abc /kernel | |
| parent | 0edd1b1784cbdad55aca2c1293be018f53c0ab1d (diff) | |
| download | linux-eb75767be0e514f97bf1b5cec763696cfc7f7e2a.tar.bz2 | |
nohz_full: Force RCU's grace-period kthreads onto timekeeping CPU
Because RCU's quiescent-state-forcing mechanism is used to drive the
full-system-idle state machine, and because this mechanism is executed
by RCU's grace-period kthreads, this commit forces these kthreads to
run on the timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu). To do otherwise would
mean that the RCU grace-period kthreads would force the system into
non-idle state every time they drove the state machine, which would
be just a bit on the futile side.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 21 |
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index eca70f4469c1..64eaafb6c8f7 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1303,6 +1303,7 @@ static int rcu_gp_init(struct rcu_state *rsp) struct rcu_data *rdp; struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp); + rcu_bind_gp_kthread(); raw_spin_lock_irq(&rnp->lock); rsp->gp_flags = 0; /* Clear all flags: New grace period. */ diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index 6fd3659cf01a..5f97eab602cd 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -560,6 +560,7 @@ static void rcu_sysidle_check_cpu(struct rcu_data *rdp, bool *isidle, static bool is_sysidle_rcu_state(struct rcu_state *rsp); static void rcu_sysidle_report_gp(struct rcu_state *rsp, int isidle, unsigned long maxj); +static void rcu_bind_gp_kthread(void); static void rcu_sysidle_init_percpu_data(struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp); #endif /* #ifndef RCU_TREE_NONCORE */ diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h index 45ebba747af4..130c97b027f2 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h @@ -2531,7 +2531,8 @@ static void rcu_sysidle_check_cpu(struct rcu_data *rdp, bool *isidle, if (!*isidle || rdp->rsp != rcu_sysidle_state || cpu_is_offline(rdp->cpu) || rdp->cpu == tick_do_timer_cpu) return; - /* WARN_ON_ONCE(smp_processor_id() != tick_do_timer_cpu); */ + if (rcu_gp_in_progress(rdp->rsp)) + WARN_ON_ONCE(smp_processor_id() != tick_do_timer_cpu); /* Pick up current idle and NMI-nesting counter and check. */ cur = atomic_read(&rdtp->dynticks_idle); @@ -2557,6 +2558,20 @@ static bool is_sysidle_rcu_state(struct rcu_state *rsp) } /* + * Bind the grace-period kthread for the sysidle flavor of RCU to the + * timekeeping CPU. + */ +static void rcu_bind_gp_kthread(void) +{ + int cpu = ACCESS_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu); + + if (cpu < 0 || cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) + return; + if (raw_smp_processor_id() != cpu) + set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(cpu)); +} + +/* * Return a delay in jiffies based on the number of CPUs, rcu_node * leaf fanout, and jiffies tick rate. The idea is to allow larger * systems more time to transition to full-idle state in order to @@ -2766,6 +2781,10 @@ static bool is_sysidle_rcu_state(struct rcu_state *rsp) return false; } +static void rcu_bind_gp_kthread(void) +{ +} + static void rcu_sysidle_report_gp(struct rcu_state *rsp, int isidle, unsigned long maxj) { |