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nohz: Only enable context tracking on full dynticks CPUs

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The context tracking subsystem has the ability to selectively
enable the tracking on any defined subset of CPU. This means that
we can define a CPU range that doesn't run the context tracking
and another range that does.

Now what we want in practice is to enable the tracking on full
dynticks CPUs only. In order to perform this, we just need to pass
our full dynticks CPU range selection from the full dynticks
subsystem to the context tracking.

This way we can spare the overhead of RCU user extended quiescent
state and vtime maintainance on the CPUs that are outside the
full dynticks range. Just keep in mind the raw context tracking
itself is still necessary everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
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Frederic Weisbecker 2013-07-10 00:55:25 +02:00
parent d65ec12127
commit 2e70933866
3 changed files with 13 additions and 0 deletions
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include/linux/context_tracking.h
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@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ static inline bool context_tracking_active(void)
return __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active);
}
extern void context_tracking_cpu_set(int cpu);
extern void user_enter(void);
extern void user_exit(void);

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kernel/context_tracking.c
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@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct context_tracking, context_tracking) = {
#endif
};
void context_tracking_cpu_set(int cpu)
{
per_cpu(context_tracking.active, cpu) = true;
}
/**
* user_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going to
* enter userspace mode.

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kernel/time/tick-sched.c
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@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <linux/irq_work.h>
#include <linux/posix-timers.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <linux/context_tracking.h>
#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
@ -344,11 +345,16 @@ static int tick_nohz_init_all(void)
void __init tick_nohz_init(void)
{
int cpu;
if (!have_nohz_full_mask) {
if (tick_nohz_init_all() < 0)
return;
}
for_each_cpu(cpu, nohz_full_mask)
context_tracking_cpu_set(cpu);
cpu_notifier(tick_nohz_cpu_down_callback, 0);
cpulist_scnprintf(nohz_full_buf, sizeof(nohz_full_buf), nohz_full_mask);
pr_info("NO_HZ: Full dynticks CPUs: %s.\n", nohz_full_buf);