From d689fe222a858c767cb8594faf280048e532b53f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:01:57 +0100 Subject: NOHZ: Check for nohz active instead of nohz enabled RCU and the fine grained idle time accounting functions check tick_nohz_enabled. But that variable is merily telling that NOHZ has been enabled in the config and not been disabled on the command line. But it does not tell anything about nohz being active. That's what all this should check for. Matthew reported, that the idle accounting on his old P1 machine showed bogus values, when he enabled NOHZ in the config and did not disable it on the kernel command line. The reason is that his machine uses (refined) jiffies as a clocksource which explains why the "fine" grained accounting went into lala land, because it depends on when the system goes and leaves idle relative to the jiffies increment. Provide a tick_nohz_active indicator and let RCU and the accounting code use this instead of tick_nohz_enable. Reported-and-tested-by: Matthew Whitehead Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: mwhitehe@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1311132052240.30673@ionos.tec.linutronix.de --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 21 +++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/time') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 3612fc77f834..a12df5abde0b 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -361,8 +361,8 @@ void __init tick_nohz_init(void) /* * NO HZ enabled ? */ -int tick_nohz_enabled __read_mostly = 1; - +static int tick_nohz_enabled __read_mostly = 1; +int tick_nohz_active __read_mostly; /* * Enable / Disable tickless mode */ @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time) struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu); ktime_t now, idle; - if (!tick_nohz_enabled) + if (!tick_nohz_active) return -1; now = ktime_get(); @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ u64 get_cpu_iowait_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time) struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu); ktime_t now, iowait; - if (!tick_nohz_enabled) + if (!tick_nohz_active) return -1; now = ktime_get(); @@ -799,11 +799,6 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void) local_irq_disable(); ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched); - /* - * set ts->inidle unconditionally. even if the system did not - * switch to nohz mode the cpu frequency governers rely on the - * update of the idle time accounting in tick_nohz_start_idle(). - */ ts->inidle = 1; __tick_nohz_idle_enter(ts); @@ -973,7 +968,7 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void) struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched); ktime_t next; - if (!tick_nohz_enabled) + if (!tick_nohz_active) return; local_irq_disable(); @@ -981,7 +976,7 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void) local_irq_enable(); return; } - + tick_nohz_active = 1; ts->nohz_mode = NOHZ_MODE_LOWRES; /* @@ -1139,8 +1134,10 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void) } #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON - if (tick_nohz_enabled) + if (tick_nohz_enabled) { ts->nohz_mode = NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES; + tick_nohz_active = 1; + } #endif } #endif /* HIGH_RES_TIMERS */ -- cgit v1.2.3 From 050ded1bbaea3331745cf2782315f5bc2582d083 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:15:33 -0800 Subject: tick: Document tick_do_timer_cpu Taken straight from a tglx email ;) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-common.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/time') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c index 64522ecdfe0e..162b03ab0ad2 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c @@ -33,6 +33,21 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tick_device, tick_cpu_device); */ ktime_t tick_next_period; ktime_t tick_period; + +/* + * tick_do_timer_cpu is a timer core internal variable which holds the CPU NR + * which is responsible for calling do_timer(), i.e. the timekeeping stuff. This + * variable has two functions: + * + * 1) Prevent a thundering herd issue of a gazillion of CPUs trying to grab the + * timekeeping lock all at once. Only the CPU which is assigned to do the + * update is handling it. + * + * 2) Hand off the duty in the NOHZ idle case by setting the value to + * TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE, i.e. a non existing CPU. So the next cpu which looks + * at it will take over and keep the time keeping alive. The handover + * procedure also covers cpu hotplug. + */ int tick_do_timer_cpu __read_mostly = TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT; /* -- cgit v1.2.3 From 4be77398ac9d948773116b6be4a3c91b3d6ea18c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Schwidefsky Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:44:51 -0800 Subject: time: Fix 1ns/tick drift w/ GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD Since commit 1e75fa8be9f (time: Condense timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec - merged in v3.6), there has been an problem with the error accounting in the timekeeping code, such that when truncating to nanoseconds, we round up to the next nsec, but the balancing adjustment to the ntp_error value was dropped. This causes 1ns per tick drift forward of the clock. In 3.7, this logic was isolated to only GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD architectures (s390, ia64, powerpc). The fix is simply to balance the accounting and to subtract the added nanosecond from ntp_error. This allows the internal long-term clock steering to keep the clock accurate. While this fix removes the regression added in 1e75fa8be9f, the ideal solution is to move away from GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD and use the new VSYSCALL method, which avoids entirely the nanosecond granular rounding, and the resulting short-term clock adjustment oscillation needed to keep long term accurate time. [ jstultz: Many thanks to Martin for his efforts identifying this subtle bug, and providing the fix. ] Originally-from: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Paul Turner Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable #v3.6+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385149491-20307-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/time') diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c index 3abf53418b67..87b4f00284c9 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c @@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ static inline void old_vsyscall_fixup(struct timekeeper *tk) tk->xtime_nsec -= remainder; tk->xtime_nsec += 1ULL << tk->shift; tk->ntp_error += remainder << tk->ntp_error_shift; - + tk->ntp_error -= (1ULL << tk->shift) << tk->ntp_error_shift; } #else #define old_vsyscall_fixup(tk) -- cgit v1.2.3 From 0e576acbc1d9600cf2d9b4a141a2554639959d50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:18:13 +0100 Subject: nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off If CONFIG_NO_HZ=n tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() returns NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ. If CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and the nohz functionality is disabled via the command line option "nohz=off" or not enabled due to missing hardware support, then tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() returns 0. That happens because ts->sleep_length is never set in that case. Set it to NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ when the NOHZ mode is inactive. Reported-by: Michal Hocko Reported-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/time') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index a12df5abde0b..ea20f7d1ac2c 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -711,8 +711,10 @@ static bool can_stop_idle_tick(int cpu, struct tick_sched *ts) return false; } - if (unlikely(ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE)) + if (unlikely(ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE)) { + ts->sleep_length = (ktime_t) { .tv64 = NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ }; return false; + } if (need_resched()) return false; -- cgit v1.2.3