nohz: Remove idle task special case

On nohz full early days, idle dynticks and full dynticks weren't well
integrated and we couldn't risk full dynticks calls on idle without
risking messing up tick

nohz: Remove idle task special case

On nohz full early days, idle dynticks and full dynticks weren't well
integrated and we couldn't risk full dynticks calls on idle without
risking messing up tick idle statistics. This is why we prevented such
thing to happen.

Nowadays full dynticks and idle dynticks are better integrated and
interact without known issue.

So lets remove that.

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

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timer: Minimize nohz off overhead

If nohz is disabled on the kernel command line the [hr]timer code
still calls wake_up_nohz_cpu() and tick_nohz_full_cpu(), a pretty
pointless exercise. Cache nohz_a

timer: Minimize nohz off overhead

If nohz is disabled on the kernel command line the [hr]timer code
still calls wake_up_nohz_cpu() and tick_nohz_full_cpu(), a pretty
pointless exercise. Cache nohz_active in [hr]timer per cpu bases and
avoid the overhead.

Before:
48.10% hog [.] main
15.25% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
9.76% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
6.50% [kernel] [k] mod_timer
6.44% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
3.87% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending
3.80% [kernel] [k] del_timer
2.67% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer
1.33% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer
0.73% [kernel] [k] timerfn
0.54% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu

After:
48.73% hog [.] main
15.36% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
9.77% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
6.61% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
6.42% [kernel] [k] mod_timer
3.90% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending
3.76% [kernel] [k] del_timer
2.41% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer
1.39% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer
0.76% [kernel] [k] timerfn

We probably should have a cached value for nohz full in the per cpu
bases as well to avoid the cpumask check. The base cache line is hot
already, the cpumask not necessarily.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@memblaze.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.207378134@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled

Eric reported that the timer_migration sysctl is not really nice
performance wise as it needs to check at every timer insertion whether
the feature

timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled

Eric reported that the timer_migration sysctl is not really nice
performance wise as it needs to check at every timer insertion whether
the feature is enabled or not. Further the check does not live in the
timer code, so we have an extra function call which checks an extra
cache line to figure out that it is disabled.

We can do better and store that information in the per cpu (hr)timer
bases. I pondered to use a static key, but that's a nightmare to
update from the nohz code and the timer base cache line is hot anyway
when we select a timer base.

The old logic enabled the timer migration unconditionally if
CONFIG_NO_HZ was set even if nohz was disabled on the kernel command
line.

With this modification, we start off with migration disabled. The user
visible sysctl is still set to enabled. If the kernel switches to NOHZ
migration is enabled, if the user did not disable it via the sysctl
prior to the switch. If nohz=off is on the kernel command line,
migration stays disabled no matter what.

Before:
47.76% hog [.] main
14.84% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
9.55% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
6.71% [kernel] [k] mod_timer
6.24% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
3.76% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending
3.71% [kernel] [k] del_timer
2.50% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer
1.51% [kernel] [k] get_nohz_timer_target
1.28% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer
0.78% [kernel] [k] timerfn
0.48% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu

After:
48.10% hog [.] main
15.25% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
9.76% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
6.50% [kernel] [k] mod_timer
6.44% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
3.87% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending
3.80% [kernel] [k] del_timer
2.67% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer
1.33% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer
0.73% [kernel] [k] timerfn
0.54% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu


Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@memblaze.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.127050787@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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nohz: Fix !HIGH_RES_TIMERS hang

Simon Horman reported this crash on a system with
high-res timers disabled but nohz enabled:

> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at kernel/irq_wo

nohz: Fix !HIGH_RES_TIMERS hang

Simon Horman reported this crash on a system with
high-res timers disabled but nohz enabled:

> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at kernel/irq_work.c:135!

BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());

So something enabled interrupts in the periodic tick handling machinery,
and that code path indeed has a local_irq_disable()/enable pair in
tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() which causes havoc. Fix it.

This patch also fixes a +nohz -hrtimers hang reported by Ingo Molnar.

Reported-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1505071425520.4225@nanos
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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tick: Nohz: Rework next timer evaluation

The evaluation of the next timer in the nohz code is based on jiffies
while all the tick internals are nano seconds based. We have also to
convert hrtimer na

tick: Nohz: Rework next timer evaluation

The evaluation of the next timer in the nohz code is based on jiffies
while all the tick internals are nano seconds based. We have also to
convert hrtimer nanoseconds to jiffies in the !highres case. That's
just wrong and introduces interesting corner cases.

Turn it around and convert the next timer wheel timer expiry and the
rcu event to clock monotonic and base all calculations on
nanoseconds. That identifies the case where no timer is pending
clearly with an absolute expiry value of KTIME_MAX.

Makes the code more readable and gets rid of the jiffies magic in the
nohz code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.184198593@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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tick: Sched: Restructure code

Get rid of one indentation level. Preparatory patch for a major
rework. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijls

tick: Sched: Restructure code

Get rid of one indentation level. Preparatory patch for a major
rework. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.101563235@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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tick: sched: Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic

We already got rid of the hrtimer reprogramming loops and hoops as
hrtimer now enforces an interrupt if the enqueued time is in the pas

tick: sched: Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic

We already got rid of the hrtimer reprogramming loops and hoops as
hrtimer now enforces an interrupt if the enqueued time is in the past.

Do the same for the nohz non highres mode. That gets rid of the need
to raise the softirq which only serves the purpose of getting the
machine out of the inner idle loop.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.023464878@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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tick: sched: Remove hrtimer_active() checks

hrtimer_start() enforces a timer interrupt if the timer is already
expired. Get rid of the checks and the forward loop.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t

tick: sched: Remove hrtimer_active() checks

hrtimer_start() enforces a timer interrupt if the timer is already
expired. Get rid of the checks and the forward loop.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203501.943658239@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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tick: Move core only declarations and functions to core

No point to expose everything to the world. People just believe
such functions can be abused for whatever purposes. Sigh.

Signed-off-by: Thom

tick: Move core only declarations and functions to core

No point to expose everything to the world. People just believe
such functions can be abused for whatever purposes. Sigh.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ Rebased on top of 4.0-rc5 ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/28017337.VbCUc39Gme@vostro.rjw.lan
[ Merged to latest timers/core ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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time: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks

printk and friends can now format bitmaps using '%*pb[l]'. cpumask
and nodemask also provide cpumask_pr_args() and nodemask_pr_ar

time: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks

printk and friends can now format bitmaps using '%*pb[l]'. cpumask
and nodemask also provide cpumask_pr_args() and nodemask_pr_args()
respectively which can be used to generate the two printf arguments
necessary to format the specified cpu/nodemask.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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tick/powerclamp: Remove tick_nohz_idle abuse

commit 4dbd27711cd9 "tick: export nohz tick idle symbols for module
use" was merged via the thermal tree without an explicit ack from the
relevant mainta

tick/powerclamp: Remove tick_nohz_idle abuse

commit 4dbd27711cd9 "tick: export nohz tick idle symbols for module
use" was merged via the thermal tree without an explicit ack from the
relevant maintainers.

The exports are abused by the intel powerclamp driver which implements
a fake idle state from a sched FIFO task. This causes all kinds of
wreckage in the NOHZ core code which rightfully assumes that
tick_nohz_idle_enter/exit() are only called from the idle task itself.

Recent changes in the NOHZ core lead to a failure of the powerclamp
driver and now people try to hack completely broken and backwards
workarounds into the NOHZ core code. This is completely unacceptable
and just papers over the real problem. There are way more subtle
issues lurking around the corner.

The real solution is to fix the powerclamp driver by rewriting it with
a sane concept, but that's beyond the scope of this.

So the only solution for now is to remove the calls into the core NOHZ
code from the powerclamp trainwreck along with the exports.

Fixes: d6d71ee4a14a "PM: Introduce Intel PowerClamp Driver"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Pan Jacob jun <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Cc: LKP <lkp@01.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412181110110.17382@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu()

The "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu() is always the current CPU, so drop
it. This in turn allows the "cpu" argument to rcu_cpu_has_callbacks()
to be re

rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu()

The "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu() is always the current CPU, so drop
it. This in turn allows the "cpu" argument to rcu_cpu_has_callbacks()
to be removed, which allows the uses of "cpu" in both functions to be
replaced with a this_cpu_ptr(). Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses
of these functions has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>

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percpu: Convert remaining __get_cpu_var uses in 3.18-rcX

During the 3.18 merge period additional __get_cpu_var uses were
added. The patch converts these to this_cpu_ptr().

Signed-off-by: Christoph

percpu: Convert remaining __get_cpu_var uses in 3.18-rcX

During the 3.18 merge period additional __get_cpu_var uses were
added. The patch converts these to this_cpu_ptr().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

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s390/nohz: use a per-cpu flag for arch_needs_cpu

Move the nohz_delay bit from the s390_idle data structure to the
per-cpu flags. Clear the nohz delay flag in __cpu_disable and
remove the cpu hotplug

s390/nohz: use a per-cpu flag for arch_needs_cpu

Move the nohz_delay bit from the s390_idle data structure to the
per-cpu flags. Clear the nohz delay flag in __cpu_disable and
remove the cpu hotplug notifier that used to do this.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

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nohz: nohz full depends on irq work self IPI support

The nohz full functionality depends on IRQ work to trigger its own
interrupts. As it's used to restart the tick, we can't rely on the tick
fallba

nohz: nohz full depends on irq work self IPI support

The nohz full functionality depends on IRQ work to trigger its own
interrupts. As it's used to restart the tick, we can't rely on the tick
fallback for irq work callbacks, ie: we can't use the tick to restart
the tick itself.

Lets reject the full dynticks initialization if that arch support isn't
available.

As a side effect, this makes sure that nohz kick is never called from
the tick. That otherwise would result in illegal hrtimer self-cancellation
and lockup.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

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nohz: Consolidate nohz full init code

The supports for CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y and the nohz_full= kernel
parameter both have their own way to do the same thing: allocate
full dynticks cpumasks, fill

nohz: Consolidate nohz full init code

The supports for CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y and the nohz_full= kernel
parameter both have their own way to do the same thing: allocate
full dynticks cpumasks, fill them and initialize some state variables.

Lets consolidate that all in the same place.

While at it, convert some regular printk message to warnings when
fundamental allocations fail.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

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nohz: Restore NMI safe local irq work for local nohz kick

The local nohz kick is currently used by perf which needs it to be
NMI-safe. Recent commit though (7d1311b93e58ed55f3a31cc8f94c4b8fe988a2b9)

nohz: Restore NMI safe local irq work for local nohz kick

The local nohz kick is currently used by perf which needs it to be
NMI-safe. Recent commit though (7d1311b93e58ed55f3a31cc8f94c4b8fe988a2b9)
changed its implementation to fire the local kick using the remote kick
API. It was convenient to make the code more generic but the remote kick
isn't NMI-safe.

As a result:

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 18062 at kernel/irq_work.c:72 irq_work_queue_on+0x11e/0x140()
CPU: 3 PID: 18062 Comm: trinity-subchil Not tainted 3.16.0+ #34
0000000000000009 00000000903774d1 ffff880244e06c00 ffffffff9a7f1e37
0000000000000000 ffff880244e06c38 ffffffff9a0791dd ffff880244fce180
0000000000000003 ffff880244e06d58 ffff880244e06ef8 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
<NMI> [<ffffffff9a7f1e37>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
[<ffffffff9a0791dd>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
[<ffffffff9a07930a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff9a17ca1e>] irq_work_queue_on+0x11e/0x140
[<ffffffff9a10a2c7>] tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu+0x57/0x90
[<ffffffff9a186cd5>] __perf_event_overflow+0x275/0x350
[<ffffffff9a184f80>] ? perf_event_task_disable+0xa0/0xa0
[<ffffffff9a01a4cf>] ? x86_perf_event_set_period+0xbf/0x150
[<ffffffff9a187934>] perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x20
[<ffffffff9a020386>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x206/0x410
[<ffffffff9a0b54d3>] ? arch_vtime_task_switch+0x63/0x130
[<ffffffff9a01937b>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x2b/0x50
[<ffffffff9a007b72>] nmi_handle+0xd2/0x390
[<ffffffff9a007aa5>] ? nmi_handle+0x5/0x390
[<ffffffff9a0d131b>] ? lock_release+0xab/0x330
[<ffffffff9a008062>] default_do_nmi+0x72/0x1c0
[<ffffffff9a0c925f>] ? cpuacct_account_field+0xcf/0x200
[<ffffffff9a008268>] do_nmi+0xb8/0x100

Lets fix this by restoring the use of local irq work for the nohz local
kick.

Reported-by: Catalin Iacob <iacobcatalin@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

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scheduler: Replace __get_cpu_var with this_cpu_ptr

Convert all uses of __get_cpu_var for address calculation to use
this_cpu_ptr instead.

[Uses of __get_cpu_var with cpumask_var_t are no longer
han

scheduler: Replace __get_cpu_var with this_cpu_ptr

Convert all uses of __get_cpu_var for address calculation to use
this_cpu_ptr instead.

[Uses of __get_cpu_var with cpumask_var_t are no longer
handled by this patch]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

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time: Replace __get_cpu_var uses

Convert uses of __get_cpu_var for creating a address from a percpu
offset to this_cpu_ptr.

The two cases where get_cpu_var is used to actually access a percpu
varia

time: Replace __get_cpu_var uses

Convert uses of __get_cpu_var for creating a address from a percpu
offset to this_cpu_ptr.

The two cases where get_cpu_var is used to actually access a percpu
variable are changed to use this_cpu_read/raw_cpu_read.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

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nohz: Avoid tick's double reprogramming in highres mode

In highres mode, the tick reschedules itself unconditionally to the
next jiffies.

However while this clock reprogramming is relevant when the

nohz: Avoid tick's double reprogramming in highres mode

In highres mode, the tick reschedules itself unconditionally to the
next jiffies.

However while this clock reprogramming is relevant when the tick is
in periodic mode, it's not that interesting when we run in dynticks mode
because irq exit is likely going to overwrite the next tick to some
randomly deferred future.

So lets just get rid of this tick self rescheduling in dynticks mode.
This way we can avoid some clockevents double write in favourable
scenarios like when we stop the tick completely in idle while no other
hrtimer is pending.

Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

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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 no

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>

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rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUs

Binding the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU resulted in
significant performance decreases for some workloads. For more detail,
se

rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUs

Binding the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU resulted in
significant performance decreases for some workloads. For more detail,
see:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/395 for benchmark numbers

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/218 for CPU statistics

It turns out that it is necessary to bind the grace-period kthreads
to the timekeeping CPU only when all but CPU 0 is a nohz_full CPU
on the one hand or if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y on the other.
In other cases, it suffices to bind the grace-period kthreads to the
set of non-nohz_full CPUs.

This commit therefore creates a tick_nohz_not_full_mask that is the
complement of tick_nohz_full_mask, and then binds the grace-period
kthread to the set of CPUs indicated by this new mask, which covers
the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n case. The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y
case still binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU.
This commit also includes the tick_nohz_full_enabled() check suggested
by Frederic Weisbecker.

Reported-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Created housekeeping_affine() and housekeeping_mask per
fweisbec feedback. ]

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nohz: Support nohz full remote kick

Remotely kicking a full nohz CPU in order to make it re-evaluate its
next tick is currently implemented using the scheduler IPI.

However this bloats a scheduler

nohz: Support nohz full remote kick

Remotely kicking a full nohz CPU in order to make it re-evaluate its
next tick is currently implemented using the scheduler IPI.

However this bloats a scheduler fast path with an off-topic feature.
The scheduler tick was abused here for its cool "callable
anywhere/anytime" properties.

But now that the irq work subsystem can queue remote callbacks, it's
a perfect fit to safely queue IPIs when interrupts are disabled
without worrying about concurrent callers.

So lets implement remote kick on top of irq work. This is going to
be used when a new event requires the next tick to be recalculated:
more than 1 task competing on the CPU, timer armed, ...

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

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tick-sched: Check tick_nohz_enabled in tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz()

Since commit d689fe222 (NOHZ: Check for nohz active instead of nohz
enabled) the tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() function returns because

tick-sched: Check tick_nohz_enabled in tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz()

Since commit d689fe222 (NOHZ: Check for nohz active instead of nohz
enabled) the tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() function returns because it
checks for the tick_nohz_active flag. This can't be set, because the
function itself sets it.

Undo the change in tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz().

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arvind.Chauhan@arm.com
Cc: linaro-networking@linaro.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/40939c05f2d65d781b92b20302b02243d0654224.1397537987.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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tick-sched: Don't call update_wall_time() when delta is lesser than tick_period

In tick_do_update_jiffies64() we are processing ticks only if delta is
greater than tick_period. This is what we are s

tick-sched: Don't call update_wall_time() when delta is lesser than tick_period

In tick_do_update_jiffies64() we are processing ticks only if delta is
greater than tick_period. This is what we are supposed to do here and
it broke a bit with this patch:

commit 47a1b796 (tick/timekeeping: Call update_wall_time outside the
jiffies lock)

With above patch, we might end up calling update_wall_time() even if
delta is found to be smaller that tick_period. Fix this by returning
when the delta is less than tick period.

[ tglx: Made it a 3 liner and massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arvind.Chauhan@arm.com
Cc: linaro-networking@linaro.org
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.14+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/80afb18a494b0bd9710975bcc4de134ae323c74f.1397537987.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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