nohz: Move idle balancer registration to the idle path

The idle load balancing registration path assumes that we only stop the
tick when the CPU is idle, ignoring the nohz full case. As a result, a

nohz: Move idle balancer registration to the idle path

The idle load balancing registration path assumes that we only stop the
tick when the CPU is idle, ignoring the nohz full case. As a result, a
nohz full CPU that is running a task may be chosen to perform idle load
balancing.

Lets make sure that only CPUs in dynticks idle mode can be picked as
idle load balancers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497838322-10913-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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sched/loadavg: Generalize "_idle" naming to "_nohz"

The loadavg naming code still assumes that nohz == idle whereas its code
is actually handling well both nohz idle and nohz full.

So lets fix the

sched/loadavg: Generalize "_idle" naming to "_nohz"

The loadavg naming code still assumes that nohz == idle whereas its code
is actually handling well both nohz idle and nohz full.

So lets fix the naming according to what the code actually does, to
unconfuse the reader.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497838322-10913-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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nohz: Fix spurious warning when hrtimer and clockevent get out of sync

The sanity check ensuring that the tick expiry cache (ts->next_tick)
is actually in sync with the hardware clock (dev->next_eve

nohz: Fix spurious warning when hrtimer and clockevent get out of sync

The sanity check ensuring that the tick expiry cache (ts->next_tick)
is actually in sync with the hardware clock (dev->next_event) makes the
wrong assumption that the clock can't be programmed later than the
hrtimer deadline.

In fact the clock hardware can be programmed later on some conditions
such as:

* The hrtimer deadline is already in the past.
* The hrtimer deadline is earlier than the minimum delay supported
by the hardware.

Such conditions can be met when we program the tick, for example if the
last jiffies update hasn't been seen by the current CPU yet, we may
program the hrtimer to a deadline that is earlier than ktime_get()
because last_jiffies_update is our timestamp base to compute the next
tick.

As a result, we can randomly observe such warning:

WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 0 at kernel/time/tick-sched.c:794 tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick kernel/time/tick-sched.c:791 [inline]
Call Trace:
tick_nohz_irq_exit
tick_irq_exit
irq_exit
exiting_irq
smp_call_function_interrupt
smp_call_function_single_interrupt
call_function_single_interrupt

Therefore, let's rather make sure that the tick expiry cache is sync'ed
with the tick hrtimer deadline, against which it is not supposed to
drift away. The clock hardware instead has its own will and can't be
used as a reliable comparison point.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: James Hartsock <hartsjc@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Wright <tim@binbash.co.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497326654-14122-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
[ Minor readability edit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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nohz: Fix buggy tick delay on IRQ storms

When the tick is stopped and we reach the dynticks evaluation code on
IRQ exit, we perform a soft tick restart if we observe an expired timer
from there. It

nohz: Fix buggy tick delay on IRQ storms

When the tick is stopped and we reach the dynticks evaluation code on
IRQ exit, we perform a soft tick restart if we observe an expired timer
from there. It means we program the nearest possible tick but we stay in
dynticks mode (ts->tick_stopped = 1) because we may need to stop the tick
again after that expired timer is handled.

Now this solution works most of the time but if we suffer an IRQ storm
and those interrupts trigger faster than the hardware clockevents min
delay, our tick won't fire until that IRQ storm is finished.

Here is the problem: on IRQ exit we reprog the timer to at least
NOW() + min_clockevents_delay. Another IRQ fires before the tick so we
reschedule again to NOW() + min_clockevents_delay, etc... The tick
is eternally rescheduled min_clockevents_delay ahead.

A solution is to simply remove this soft tick restart. After all
the normal dynticks evaluation path can handle 0 delay just fine. And
by doing that we benefit from the optimization branch which avoids
clock reprogramming if the clockevents deadline hasn't changed since
the last reprog. This fixes our issue because we don't do repetitive
clock reprog that always add hardware min delay.

As a side effect it should even optimize the 0 delay path in general.

Reported-and-tested-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496328429-13317-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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nohz: Reset next_tick cache even when the timer has no regs

Handle tick interrupts whose regs are NULL, out of general paranoia. It happens
when hrtimer_interrupt() is called from non-interrupt cont

nohz: Reset next_tick cache even when the timer has no regs

Handle tick interrupts whose regs are NULL, out of general paranoia. It happens
when hrtimer_interrupt() is called from non-interrupt contexts, such as hotplug
CPU down events.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers, again

This restores commit:

24b91e360ef5: ("nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers")

... which got reverted by commit:

558e8e

nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers, again

This restores commit:

24b91e360ef5: ("nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers")

... which got reverted by commit:

558e8e27e73f: ('Revert "nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers"')

... due to a regression where CPUs spuriously stopped ticking.

The bug happened when a tick fired too early past its expected expiration:
on IRQ exit the tick was scheduled again to the same deadline but skipped
reprogramming because ts->next_tick still kept in cache the deadline.
This has been fixed now with resetting ts->next_tick from the tick
itself. Extra care has also been taken to prevent from obsolete values
throughout CPU hotplug operations.

When the tick is stopped and an interrupt occurs afterward, we check on
that interrupt exit if the next tick needs to be rescheduled. If it
doesn't need any update, we don't want to do anything.

In order to check if the tick needs an update, we compare it against the
clockevent device deadline. Now that's a problem because the clockevent
device is at a lower level than the tick itself if it is implemented
on top of hrtimer.

Every hrtimer share this clockevent device. So comparing the next tick
deadline against the clockevent device deadline is wrong because the
device may be programmed for another hrtimer whose deadline collides
with the tick. As a result we may end up not reprogramming the tick
accidentally.

In a worst case scenario under full dynticks mode, the tick stops firing
as it is supposed to every 1hz, leaving /proc/stat stalled:

Task in a full dynticks CPU
----------------------------

* hrtimer A is queued 2 seconds ahead
* the tick is stopped, scheduled 1 second ahead
* tick fires 1 second later
* on tick exit, nohz schedules the tick 1 second ahead but sees
the clockevent device is already programmed to that deadline,
fooled by hrtimer A, the tick isn't rescheduled.
* hrtimer A is cancelled before its deadline
* tick never fires again until an interrupt happens...

In order to fix this, store the next tick deadline to the tick_sched
local structure and reuse that value later to check whether we need to
reprogram the clock after an interrupt.

On the other hand, ts->sleep_length still wants to know about the next
clock event and not just the tick, so we want to improve the related
comment to avoid confusion.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tim Wright <tim@binbash.co.uk>
Reported-and-tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Reported-by: James Hartsock <hartsjc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492783255-5051-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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nohz: Add hrtimer sanity check

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched/clock: Remove unused argument to sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event()

The argument to sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event() has not been used in a
long time. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (In

sched/clock: Remove unused argument to sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event()

The argument to sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event() has not been used in a
long time. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid reducing frequency of busy CPUs prematurely

The way the schedutil governor uses the PELT metric causes it to
underestimate the CPU utilization in some cases.

That can be e

cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid reducing frequency of busy CPUs prematurely

The way the schedutil governor uses the PELT metric causes it to
underestimate the CPU utilization in some cases.

That can be easily demonstrated by running kernel compilation on
a Sandy Bridge Intel processor, running turbostat in parallel with
it and looking at the values written to the MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL
register. Namely, the expected result would be that when all CPUs
were 100% busy, all of them would be requested to run in the maximum
P-state, but observation shows that this clearly isn't the case.
The CPUs run in the maximum P-state for a while and then are
requested to run slower and go back to the maximum P-state after
a while again. That causes the actual frequency of the processor to
visibly oscillate below the sustainable maximum in a jittery fashion
which clearly is not desirable.

That has been attributed to CPU utilization metric updates on task
migration that cause the total utilization value for the CPU to be
reduced by the utilization of the migrated task. If that happens,
the schedutil governor may see a CPU utilization reduction and will
attempt to reduce the CPU frequency accordingly right away. That
may be premature, though, for example if the system is generally
busy and there are other runnable tasks waiting to be run on that
CPU already.

This is unlikely to be an issue on systems where cpufreq policies are
shared between multiple CPUs, because in those cases the policy
utilization is computed as the maximum of the CPU utilization values
over the whole policy and if that turns out to be low, reducing the
frequency for the policy most likely is a good idea anyway. On
systems with one CPU per policy, however, it may affect performance
adversely and even lead to increased energy consumption in some cases.

On those systems it may be addressed by taking another utilization
metric into consideration, like whether or not the CPU whose
frequency is about to be reduced has been idle recently, because if
that's not the case, the CPU is likely to be busy in the near future
and its frequency should not be reduced.

To that end, use the counter of idle calls in the timekeeping code.
Namely, make the schedutil governor look at that counter for the
current CPU every time before its frequency is about to be reduced.
If the counter has not changed since the previous iteration of the
governor computations for that CPU, the CPU has been busy for all
that time and its frequency should not be decreased, so if the new
frequency would be lower than the one set previously, the governor
will skip the frequency update.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>

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sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/nohz.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/nohz.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/nohz.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/nohz.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/nohz.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/stat.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/stat.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/stat.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/stat.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/stat.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/nmi.h>

We are going to move softlockup APIs out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other h

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/nmi.h>

We are going to move softlockup APIs out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

<linux/nmi.h> already includes <linux/sched.h>.

Include the <linux/nmi.h> header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up f

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/clock.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/clock.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up fro

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/clock.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/clock.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/clock.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Revert "nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers"

This reverts commit 24b91e360ef521a2808771633d76ebc68bd5604b and commit
7bdb59f1ad47 ("tick/nohz: Fix possible missing clock reprog after

Revert "nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers"

This reverts commit 24b91e360ef521a2808771633d76ebc68bd5604b and commit
7bdb59f1ad47 ("tick/nohz: Fix possible missing clock reprog after tick
soft restart") that depends on it,

Pavel reports that it causes occasional boot hangs for him that seem to
depend on just how the machine was booted. In particular, his machine
hangs at around the PCI fixups of the EHCI USB host controller, but only
hangs from cold boot, not from a warm boot.

Thomas Gleixner suspecs it's a CPU hotplug interaction, particularly
since Pavel also saw suspend/resume issues that seem to be related.
We're reverting for now while trying to figure out the root cause.

Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # reverted commits were marked for stable
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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tick/nohz: Fix possible missing clock reprog after tick soft restart

ts->next_tick keeps track of the next tick deadline in order to optimize
clock programmation on irq exit and avoid redundant cloc

tick/nohz: Fix possible missing clock reprog after tick soft restart

ts->next_tick keeps track of the next tick deadline in order to optimize
clock programmation on irq exit and avoid redundant clock device writes.

Now if ts->next_tick missed an update, we may spuriously miss a clock
reprog later as the nohz code is fooled by an obsolete next_tick value.

This is what happens here on a specific path: when we observe an
expired timer from the nohz update code on irq exit, we perform a soft
tick restart which simply fires the closest possible tick without
actually exiting the nohz mode and restoring a periodic state. But we
forget to update ts->next_tick accordingly.

As a result, after the next tick resulting from such soft tick restart,
the nohz code sees a stale value on ts->next_tick which doesn't match
the clock deadline that just expired. If that obsolete ts->next_tick
value happens to collide with the actual next tick deadline to be
scheduled, we may spuriously bypass the clock reprogramming. In the
worst case, the tick may never fire again.

Fix this with a ts->next_tick reset on soft tick restart.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486485894-29173-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers

When the tick is stopped and an interrupt occurs afterward, we check on
that interrupt exit if the next tick needs to be rescheduled. If it
doesn'

nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers

When the tick is stopped and an interrupt occurs afterward, we check on
that interrupt exit if the next tick needs to be rescheduled. If it
doesn't need any update, we don't want to do anything.

In order to check if the tick needs an update, we compare it against the
clockevent device deadline. Now that's a problem because the clockevent
device is at a lower level than the tick itself if it is implemented
on top of hrtimer.

Every hrtimer share this clockevent device. So comparing the next tick
deadline against the clockevent device deadline is wrong because the
device may be programmed for another hrtimer whose deadline collides
with the tick. As a result we may end up not reprogramming the tick
accidentally.

In a worst case scenario under full dynticks mode, the tick stops firing
as it is supposed to every 1hz, leaving /proc/stat stalled:

Task in a full dynticks CPU
----------------------------

* hrtimer A is queued 2 seconds ahead
* the tick is stopped, scheduled 1 second ahead
* tick fires 1 second later
* on tick exit, nohz schedules the tick 1 second ahead but sees
the clockevent device is already programmed to that deadline,
fooled by hrtimer A, the tick isn't rescheduled.
* hrtimer A is cancelled before its deadline
* tick never fires again until an interrupt happens...

In order to fix this, store the next tick deadline to the tick_sched
local structure and reuse that value later to check whether we need to
reprogram the clock after an interrupt.

On the other hand, ts->sleep_length still wants to know about the next
clock event and not just the tick, so we want to improve the related
comment to avoid confusion.

Reported-by: James Hartsock <hartsjc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483539124-5693-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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ktime: Get rid of the union

ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in
scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec
variant for 32bit machin

ktime: Get rid of the union

ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in
scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec
variant for 32bit machines. The Y2038 cleanup removed the timespec variant
and switched everything to scalar nanoseconds. The union remained, but
become completely pointless.

Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64.

The conversion was done with coccinelle and some manual mopping up.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

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sched/nohz: Convert to hotplug state machine

Install the callbacks via the state machine.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: rt@linuxtronix.de
Link: http://lkml.ke

sched/nohz: Convert to hotplug state machine

Install the callbacks via the state machine.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: rt@linuxtronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117183541.8588-14-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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tick/nohz: Prevent stopping the tick on an offline CPU

can_stop_full_tick() has no check for offline cpus. So it allows to stop
the tick on an offline cpu from the interrupt return path, which is wr

tick/nohz: Prevent stopping the tick on an offline CPU

can_stop_full_tick() has no check for offline cpus. So it allows to stop
the tick on an offline cpu from the interrupt return path, which is wrong
and subsequently makes irq_work_needs_cpu() warn about being called for an
offline cpu.

Commit f7ea0fd639c2c4 ("tick: Don't invoke tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() if
the cpu is offline") added prevention for can_stop_idle_tick(), but forgot
to do the same in can_stop_full_tick(). Add it.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473245473-4463-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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tick/nohz: Fix softlockup on scheduler stalls in kvm guest

tick_nohz_start_idle() is prevented to be called if the idle tick can't
be stopped since commit 1f3b0f8243cb934 ("tick/nohz: Optimize nohz

tick/nohz: Fix softlockup on scheduler stalls in kvm guest

tick_nohz_start_idle() is prevented to be called if the idle tick can't
be stopped since commit 1f3b0f8243cb934 ("tick/nohz: Optimize nohz idle
enter"). As a result, after suspend/resume the host machine, full dynticks
kvm guest will softlockup:

NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 26s! [swapper/0:0]
Call Trace:
default_idle+0x31/0x1a0
arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x20
default_idle_call+0x2a/0x50
cpu_startup_entry+0x39b/0x4d0
rest_init+0x138/0x140
? rest_init+0x5/0x140
start_kernel+0x4c1/0x4ce
? set_init_arg+0x55/0x55
? early_idt_handler_array+0x120/0x120
x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26
x86_64_start_kernel+0x142/0x14f

In addition, cat /proc/stat | grep cpu in guest or host:

cpu 398 16 5049 15754 5490 0 1 46 0 0
cpu0 206 5 450 0 0 0 1 14 0 0
cpu1 81 0 3937 3149 1514 0 0 9 0 0
cpu2 45 6 332 6052 2243 0 0 11 0 0
cpu3 65 2 328 6552 1732 0 0 11 0 0

The idle and iowait states are weird 0 for cpu0(housekeeping).

The bug is present in both guest and host kernels, and they both have
cpu0's idle and iowait states issue, however, host kernel's suspend/resume
path etc will touch watchdog to avoid the softlockup.

- The watchdog will not be touched in tick_nohz_stop_idle path (need be
touched since the scheduler stall is expected) if idle_active flags are
not detected.
- The idle and iowait states will not be accounted when exit idle loop
(resched or interrupt) if idle start time and idle_active flags are
not set.

This patch fixes it by reverting commit 1f3b0f8243cb934 since can't stop
idle tick doesn't mean can't be idle.

Fixes: 1f3b0f8243cb934 ("tick/nohz: Optimize nohz idle enter")
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Cc: Sanjeev Yadav<sanjeev.yadav@spreadtrum.com>
Cc: Gaurav Jindal<gaurav.jindal@spreadtrum.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472798303-4154-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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tick/nohz: Optimize nohz idle enter

tick_nohz_start_idle is called before checking whether the idle tick can be
stopped. If the tick cannot be stopped, calling tick_nohz_start_idle() is
pointless an

tick/nohz: Optimize nohz idle enter

tick_nohz_start_idle is called before checking whether the idle tick can be
stopped. If the tick cannot be stopped, calling tick_nohz_start_idle() is
pointless and just wasting CPU cycles.

Only invoke tick_nohz_start_idle() when can_stop_idle_tick() returns true. A
short one minute observation of the effect on ARM64 shows a reduction of calls
by 1.5% thus optimizing the idle entry sequence.

[tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Co-developed-by: Sanjeev Yadav<sanjeev.yadav@spreadtrum.com>
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Jindal<gaurav.jindal@spreadtrum.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160714120416.GB21099@gaurav.jindal@spreadtrum.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible

The wheel clock is stale when a CPU goes into a long idle sleep. This has the
side effect that timers which are queued end up in the outer wheel lev

timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible

The wheel clock is stale when a CPU goes into a long idle sleep. This has the
side effect that timers which are queued end up in the outer wheel levels.
That results in coarser granularity.

To solve this, we keep track of the idle state and forward the wheel clock
whenever possible.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704094342.512039360@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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timers/nohz: Remove pointless tick_nohz_kick_tick() function

This was a failed attempt to optimize the timer expiry in idle, which was
disabled and never revisited. Remove the cruft.

Signed-off-by:

timers/nohz: Remove pointless tick_nohz_kick_tick() function

This was a failed attempt to optimize the timer expiry in idle, which was
disabled and never revisited. Remove the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704094342.431073782@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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timers/nohz: Capitalize 'CPU' consistently

While reviewing another patch I noticed that kernel/time/tick-sched.c
had a charmingly (confusingly, annoyingly) rich set of variants for
spelling 'CPU':

timers/nohz: Capitalize 'CPU' consistently

While reviewing another patch I noticed that kernel/time/tick-sched.c
had a charmingly (confusingly, annoyingly) rich set of variants for
spelling 'CPU':

cpu
cpus
CPU
CPUs
per CPU
per-CPU
per cpu

... sometimes these were mixed even within the same comment block!

Compress these variants down to a single consistent set of:

CPU
CPUs
per-CPU

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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