- Fix a long standing TOCTOU in get_cpu_sleep_time_us()
- Make the CPU offline NOHZ handling more robust by disabling NOHZ on the
outgoing CPU early instead of creating unneeded state which needs to be
undone.
- Unify idle CPU time accounting instead of having two different
accounting mechanisms. These two different mechanisms are not really
independent, but the different properties can in the worst case cause
that gloabl idle time can be observed going backwards.
- Consolidate the idle/iowait time retrieval interfaces instead of
converting back and forth between them.
- Make idle interrupt time accounting more robust. The original code
assumes that interrupt time accouting is enabled and therefore stops
elapsing idle time while an interrupt is handled in NOHZ dyntick
state. That assumption is not correct as interrupt time accounting can
be disabled at compile and runtime.
- Fix an accounting error between dyntick idle time and dyntick idle
steal time. The stolen time is not accounted and therefore idle time
becomes inaccurate. The stolen time is now accounted after the fact as
there is no way to predict the steal time upfront.
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Merge tag 'timers-nohz-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull NOHZ updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Fix a long standing TOCTOU in get_cpu_sleep_time_us()
- Make the CPU offline NOHZ handling more robust by disabling NOHZ on
the outgoing CPU early instead of creating unneeded state which needs
to be undone.
- Unify idle CPU time accounting instead of having two different
accounting mechanisms. These two different mechanisms are not really
independent, but the different properties can in the worst case cause
that gloabl idle time can be observed going backwards.
- Consolidate the idle/iowait time retrieval interfaces instead of
converting back and forth between them.
- Make idle interrupt time accounting more robust. The original code
assumes that interrupt time accouting is enabled and therefore stops
elapsing idle time while an interrupt is handled in NOHZ dyntick
state. That assumption is not correct as interrupt time accounting
can be disabled at compile and runtime.
- Fix an accounting error between dyntick idle time and dyntick idle
steal time. The stolen time is not accounted and therefore idle time
becomes inaccurate. The stolen time is now accounted after the fact
as there is no way to predict the steal time upfront.
* tag 'timers-nohz-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/cputime: Handle dyntick-idle steal time correctly
sched/cputime: Handle idle irqtime gracefully
sched/cputime: Provide get_cpu_[idle|iowait]_time_us() off-case
tick/sched: Consolidate idle time fetching APIs
tick/sched: Account tickless idle cputime only when tick is stopped
tick/sched: Remove unused fields
tick/sched: Move dyntick-idle cputime accounting to cputime code
tick/sched: Remove nohz disabled special case in cputime fetch
tick/sched: Unify idle cputime accounting
s390/time: Prepare to stop elapsing in dynticks-idle
powerpc/time: Prepare to stop elapsing in dynticks-idle
sched/cputime: Correctly support generic vtime idle time
sched/cputime: Remove superfluous and error prone kcpustat_field() parameter
sched/idle: Handle offlining first in idle loop
tick/sched: Fix TOCTOU in nohz idle time fetch
There is no real point in switching to dyntick-idle cputime accounting mode
if the tick is not actually stopped. This just adds overhead, notably
fetching the GTOD, on each idle exit and each idle IRQ entry for no reason
during short idle trips.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508131647.43868-12-frederic@kernel.org
Although the dynticks-idle cputime accounting is necessarily tied to the
tick subsystem, the actual related accounting code has no business residing
there and should be part of the scheduler cputime code.
Move away the relevant pieces and state machine to where they belong.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508131647.43868-10-frederic@kernel.org
Even when nohz is not runtime enabled, the dynticks idle cputime accounting
can run and the common idle cputime accessors are still relevant.
Remove the nohz disabled special case accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508131647.43868-9-frederic@kernel.org
The non-vtime dynticks-idle cputime accounting is a big mess that
accumulates within two concurrent statistics, each having their own
shortcomings:
* The accounting for online CPUs which is based on the delta between
tick_nohz_start_idle() and tick_nohz_stop_idle().
Pros:
- Works when the tick is off
- Has nsecs granularity
Cons:
- Account idle steal time but doesn't substract it from idle
cputime.
- Assumes CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING by not accounting IRQs but
the IRQ time is simply ignored when
CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=n
- The windows between 1) idle task scheduling and the first call
to tick_nohz_start_idle() and 2) idle task between the last
tick_nohz_stop_idle() and the rest of the idle time are
blindspots wrt. cputime accounting (though mostly insignificant
amount)
- Relies on private fields outside of kernel stats, with specific
accessors.
* The accounting for offline CPUs which is based on ticks and the
jiffies delta during which the tick was stopped.
Pros:
- Handles steal time correctly
- Handle CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y and
CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=n correctly.
- Handles the whole idle task
- Accounts directly to kernel stats, without midlayer accumulator.
Cons:
- Doesn't elapse when the tick is off, which doesn't make it
suitable for online CPUs.
- Has TICK_NSEC granularity (jiffies)
- Needs to track the dyntick-idle ticks that were accounted and
substract them from the total jiffies time spent while the tick
was stopped. This is an ugly workaround.
Having two different accounting for a single context is not the only
problem: since those accountings are of different natures, it is
possible to observe the global idle time going backward after a CPU goes
offline.
Clean up the situation with introducing a hybrid approach that stays
coherent and works for both online and offline CPUs:
* Tick based or native vtime accounting operate before the idle loop
is entered and resume once the idle loop prepares to exit.
* When the idle loop starts, switch to dynticks-idle accounting as is
done currently, except that the statistics accumulate directly to the
relevant kernel stat fields.
* Private dyntick cputime accounting fields are removed.
* Works on both online and offline case.
Further improvement will include:
* Only switch to dynticks-idle cputime accounting when the tick actually
goes in dynticks mode.
* Handle CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=n correctly such that the
dynticks-idle accounting still elapses while on IRQs.
* Correctly substract idle steal cputime from idle time
Reported-by: Xin Zhao <jackzxcui1989@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508131647.43868-8-frederic@kernel.org
Currently whether generic vtime is running or not, the idle cputime is
fetched from the nohz accounting.
However generic vtime already does its own idle cputime accounting. Only
the kernel stat accessors are not plugged to support it.
Read the idle generic vtime cputime when it's running, this will allow to
later more clearly split nohz and vtime cputime accounting.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508131647.43868-5-frederic@kernel.org
When the nohz idle time is fetched, the current clock timestamp is taken
outside the seqcount, which can result in a race as reported by Sashiko:
get_cpu_sleep_time_us() tick_nohz_start_idle()
----------------------- ---------------------
now = ktime_get()
write_seqcount_begin(idle_sleeptime_seq);
idle_entrytime = ktime_get()
tick_sched_flag_set(ts, TS_FLAG_IDLE_ACTIVE);
write_seqcount_end(&ts->idle_sleeptime_seq);
read_seqcount_begin(idle_sleeptime_seq)
delta = now - idle_entrytime);
//!! But now < idle_entrytime
idle = *sleeptime + delta;
read_seqcount_retry(&ts->idle_sleeptime_seq, seq)
Here the read side fetches the timestamp before the write side and its
update. As a result the time delta computed on the read side is negative
(ktime_t is signed) and breaks the cputime monotonicity guarantee.
This could possibly be fixed with reading the current clock timestamp
inside the seqcount but the reader overhead might then increase. Also
simply checking that the current timestamp is above the idle entry time
is enough to prevent any issue of the like.
Fixes: 620a30fa0b ("timers/nohz: Protect idle/iowait sleep time under seqcount")
Reported-by: Sashiko
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508131647.43868-2-frederic@kernel.org
Calvin reported an odd NMI watchdog lockup which claims that the CPU locked
up in user space. He provided a reproducer, which sets up a timerfd based
timer and then rearms it in a loop with an absolute expiry time of 1ns.
As the expiry time is in the past, the timer ends up as the first expiring
timer in the per CPU hrtimer base and the clockevent device is programmed
with the minimum delta value. If the machine is fast enough, this ends up
in a endless loop of programming the delta value to the minimum value
defined by the clock event device, before the timer interrupt can fire,
which starves the interrupt and consequently triggers the lockup detector
because the hrtimer callback of the lockup mechanism is never invoked.
As a first step to prevent this, avoid reprogramming the clock event device
when:
- a forced minimum delta event is pending
- the new expiry delta is less then or equal to the minimum delta
Thanks to Calvin for providing the reproducer and to Borislav for testing
and providing data from his Zen5 machine.
The problem is not limited to Zen5, but depending on the underlying
clock event device (e.g. TSC deadline timer on Intel) and the CPU speed
not necessarily observable.
This change serves only as the last resort and further changes will be made
to prevent this scenario earlier in the call chain as far as possible.
[ tglx: Updated to restore the old behaviour vs. !force and delta <= 0 and
fixed up the tick-broadcast handlers as pointed out by Borislav ]
Fixes: d316c57ff6 ("[PATCH] clockevents: add core functionality")
Reported-by: Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/acMe-QZUel-bBYUh@mozart.vkv.me/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407083247.562657657@kernel.org
Commit 56534673ce ("tick/nohz: Optimize check_tick_dependency() with
early return") added a fast path that returns !val when the tick_stop
tracepoint is disabled.
This is inverted: the slow path returns true when a dependency IS found
(val != 0), but !val returns true when val is zero (no dependency). The
result is that can_stop_full_tick() sees "dependency found" when there are
none, and the tick never stops on nohz_full CPUs.
Fix this by returning !!val instead of !val, matching the slow-path semantics.
Fixes: 56534673ce ("tick/nohz: Optimize check_tick_dependency() with early return")
Signed-off-by: Josh Snyder <josh@code406.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402-fix-idle-tick2-v1-1-eecb589649d3@code406.com
The sequence of cancel and start is inefficient. It has to do the timer
lock/unlock twice and in the worst case has to reprogram the underlying
clock event device twice.
The reason why it is done this way is the usage of hrtimer_forward_now(),
which requires the timer to be inactive.
But that can be completely avoided as the forward can be done on a variable
and does not need any of the overrun accounting provided by
hrtimer_forward_now().
Implement a trivial forwarding mechanism and replace the cancel/reprogram
sequence with hrtimer_start(..., new_expiry).
For the non high resolution case the timer is not actually armed, but used
for storage so that code checking for expiry times can unconditially look
it up in the timer. So it is safe for that case to set the new expiry time
directly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224163429.542178086@kernel.org
- Inline timecounter_cyc2time() as that is now used in the networking
hotpath. Inlining it significantly improves performance.
- Optimize the tick dependency check in case that the tracepoint is disabled,
which improves the hotpath performance in the tick management code, which
is a hotpath on transitions in and out of idle.
- The usual cleanups and improvements
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Inline timecounter_cyc2time() as that is now used in the networking
hotpath. Inlining it significantly improves performance.
- Optimize the tick dependency check in case that the tracepoint is
disabled, which improves the hotpath performance in the tick
management code, which is a hotpath on transitions in and out of
idle.
- The usual cleanups and improvements
* tag 'timers-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time/kunit: Document handling of negative years of is_leap()
tick/nohz: Optimize check_tick_dependency() with early return
time/sched_clock: Use ACCESS_PRIVATE() to evaluate hrtimer::function
hrtimer: Drop _tv64() helpers
hrtimer: Remove public definition of HIGH_RES_NSEC
hrtimer: Remove unused resolution constants
time/timecounter: Inline timecounter_cyc2time()
There is no point in iterating through individual tick dependency bits when
the tick_stop tracepoint is disabled, which is the common case.
When the trace point is disabled, return immediately based on the atomic
value being zero or non-zero, skipping the per-bit evaluation.
This optimization improves the hot path performance of tick dependency
checks across all contexts (idle and non-idle), not just nohz_full CPUs.
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ionut Nechita (Sunlight Linux) <sunlightlinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128074558.15433-3-sunlightlinux@gmail.com
cpufreq calls get_cpu_idle_time_us() just to know if idle cputime
accounting has a nanoseconds granularity.
Use the appropriate indicator instead to make that deduction.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aXozx0PXutnm8ECX@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
In a vain attempt to consolidate the email zoo switch everything to the
kernel.org account.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Prevent a thundering herd problem when the timekeeper CPU is delayed
and a large number of CPUs compete to acquire jiffies_lock to do the
update. Limit it to one CPU with a separate "uncontended" atomic
variable.
- A set of improvements for the timer migration mechanism:
- Support imbalanced NUMA trees correctly
- Support dynamic exclusion of CPUs from the migrator duty to allow the
cpuset/isolation mechanism to exclude them from handling timers of
remote idle CPUs.
- The usual small updates, cleanups and enhancements
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Prevent a thundering herd problem when the timekeeper CPU is delayed
and a large number of CPUs compete to acquire jiffies_lock to do the
update. Limit it to one CPU with a separate "uncontended" atomic
variable.
- A set of improvements for the timer migration mechanism:
- Support imbalanced NUMA trees correctly
- Support dynamic exclusion of CPUs from the migrator duty to allow
the cpuset/isolation mechanism to exclude them from handling
timers of remote idle CPUs
- The usual small updates, cleanups and enhancements
* tag 'timers-core-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timers/migration: Exclude isolated cpus from hierarchy
cpumask: Add initialiser to use cleanup helpers
sched/isolation: Force housekeeping if isolcpus and nohz_full don't leave any
cgroup/cpuset: Rename update_unbound_workqueue_cpumask() to update_isolation_cpumasks()
timers/migration: Use scoped_guard on available flag set/clear
timers/migration: Add mask for CPUs available in the hierarchy
timers/migration: Rename 'online' bit to 'available'
selftests/timers/nanosleep: Add tests for return of remaining time
selftests/timers: Clean up kernel version check in posix_timers
time: Fix a few typos in time[r] related code comments
time: tick-oneshot: Add missing Return and parameter descriptions to kernel-doc
hrtimer: Store time as ktime_t in restart block
timers/migration: Remove dead code handling idle CPU checking for remote timers
timers/migration: Remove unused "cpu" parameter from tmigr_get_group()
timers/migration: Assert that hotplug preparing CPU is part of stable active hierarchy
timers/migration: Fix imbalanced NUMA trees
timers/migration: Remove locking on group connection
timers/migration: Convert "while" loops to use "for"
tick/sched: Limit non-timekeeper CPUs calling jiffies update
In commit 0345691b24 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle") the
new function report_idle_softirq() was created by breaking code out of the
existing can_stop_idle_tick() for kernels v5.18 and newer.
In doing so, the code essentially went from this form:
if (A) {
static int ratelimit;
if (ratelimit < 10 && !C && A&D) {
pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: ...");
ratelimit++;
}
return false;
}
to a new function:
static bool report_idle_softirq(void)
{
static int ratelimit;
if (likely(!A))
return false;
if (ratelimit < 10)
return false;
...
pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #%02x!!!\n",
pending);
ratelimit++;
return true;
}
commit a7e282c777 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition") realized
ratelimit was essentially set to zero instead of ten, and hence *no*
softirq pending messages would ever be issued, but "fixed" it as:
- if (ratelimit < 10)
+ if (ratelimit >= 10)
return false;
However, this fix introduced another issue:
When ratelimit is greater than or equal 10, even if A is true, it will
directly return false. While ratelimit in the original code was only used
to control printing and will not affect the return value.
Restore the original logic and restrict ratelimit to control the printk and
not the return value.
Fixes: 0345691b24 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle")
Fixes: a7e282c777 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition")
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119174525.29470-1-wen.yang@linux.dev
On large NUMA systems, while running a test program that saturates the
inter-processor and inter-NUMA links, acquiring the jiffies_lock can be
very expensive.
If the cpu designated to do jiffies updates (tick_do_timer_cpu) gets
delayed and other cpus decide to do the jiffies update themselves, a large
number of them decide to do so at the same time.
The inexpensive check against tick_next_period is far quicker than actually
acquiring the lock, so most of these get in line to obtain the lock. If
obtaining the lock is slow enough, this spirals into the vast majority of
CPUs continuously being stuck waiting for this lock, just to obtain it and
find out that time has already been updated by another cpu. For example, on
one random entry to kdb by manually-injected NMI, 2912 of 3840 CPUs were
observed to be stuck there.
To avoid this, allow only one non-timekeeper CPU to call
tick_do_update_jiffies64() at any given time, resetting ts->stalled jiffies
only if the jiffies update function is actually called.
With this change, manually interrupting the test at most two CPUs are
observed to invoke tick_do_update_jiffies64() - the timekeeper and one
other.
Signed-off-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027183456.343407-1-steve.wahl@hpe.com
hrtimer_setup() takes the callback function pointer as argument and
initializes the timer completely.
Replace hrtimer_init() and the open coded initialization of
hrtimer::function with the new setup mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/170bb691a0d59917c8268a98c80b607128fc9f7f.1738746821.git.namcao@linutronix.de
- The final step to get rid of auto-rearming posix-timers
posix-timers are currently auto-rearmed by the kernel when the signal
of the timer is ignored so that the timer signal can be delivered once
the corresponding signal is unignored.
This requires to throttle the timer to prevent a DoS by small intervals
and keeps the system pointlessly out of low power states for no value.
This is a long standing non-trivial problem due to the lock order of
posix-timer lock and the sighand lock along with life time issues as
the timer and the sigqueue have different life time rules.
Cure this by:
* Embedding the sigqueue into the timer struct to have the same life
time rules. Aside of that this also avoids the lookup of the timer
in the signal delivery and rearm path as it's just a always valid
container_of() now.
* Queuing ignored timer signals onto a seperate ignored list.
* Moving queued timer signals onto the ignored list when the signal is
switched to SIG_IGN before it could be delivered.
* Walking the ignored list when SIG_IGN is lifted and requeue the
signals to the actual signal lists. This allows the signal delivery
code to rearm the timer.
This also required to consolidate the signal delivery rules so they are
consistent across all situations. With that all self test scenarios
finally succeed.
- Core infrastructure for VFS multigrain timestamping
This is required to allow the kernel to use coarse grained time stamps
by default and switch to fine grained time stamps when inode attributes
are actively observed via getattr().
These changes have been provided to the VFS tree as well, so that the
VFS specific infrastructure could be built on top.
- Cleanup and consolidation of the sleep() infrastructure
* Move all sleep and timeout functions into one file
* Rework udelay() and ndelay() into proper documented inline functions
and replace the hardcoded magic numbers by proper defines.
* Rework the fsleep() implementation to take the reality of the timer
wheel granularity on different HZ values into account. Right now the
boundaries are hard coded time ranges which fail to provide the
requested accuracy on different HZ settings.
* Update documentation for all sleep/timeout related functions and fix
up stale documentation links all over the place
* Fixup a few usage sites
- Rework of timekeeping and adjtimex(2) to prepare for multiple PTP clocks
A system can have multiple PTP clocks which are participating in
seperate and independent PTP clock domains. So far the kernel only
considers the PTP clock which is based on CLOCK TAI relevant as that's
the clock which drives the timekeeping adjustments via the various user
space daemons through adjtimex(2).
The non TAI based clock domains are accessible via the file descriptor
based posix clocks, but their usability is very limited. They can't be
accessed fast as they always go all the way out to the hardware and
they cannot be utilized in the kernel itself.
As Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) gains traction it is required to
provide fast user and kernel space access to these clocks.
The approach taken is to utilize the timekeeping and adjtimex(2)
infrastructure to provide this access in a similar way how the kernel
provides access to clock MONOTONIC, REALTIME etc.
Instead of creating a duplicated infrastructure this rework converts
timekeeping and adjtimex(2) into generic functionality which operates
on pointers to data structures instead of using static variables.
This allows to provide time accessors and adjtimex(2) functionality for
the independent PTP clocks in a subsequent step.
- Consolidate hrtimer initialization
hrtimers are set up by initializing the data structure and then
seperately setting the callback function for historical reasons.
That's an extra unnecessary step and makes Rust support less straight
forward than it should be.
Provide a new set of hrtimer_setup*() functions and convert the core
code and a few usage sites of the less frequently used interfaces over.
The bulk of the htimer_init() to hrtimer_setup() conversion is already
prepared and scheduled for the next merge window.
- Drivers:
* Ensure that the global timekeeping clocksource is utilizing the
cluster 0 timer on MIPS multi-cluster systems.
Otherwise CPUs on different clusters use their cluster specific
clocksource which is not guaranteed to be synchronized with other
clusters.
* Mostly boring cleanups, fixes, improvements and code movement
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A rather large update for timekeeping and timers:
- The final step to get rid of auto-rearming posix-timers
posix-timers are currently auto-rearmed by the kernel when the
signal of the timer is ignored so that the timer signal can be
delivered once the corresponding signal is unignored.
This requires to throttle the timer to prevent a DoS by small
intervals and keeps the system pointlessly out of low power states
for no value. This is a long standing non-trivial problem due to
the lock order of posix-timer lock and the sighand lock along with
life time issues as the timer and the sigqueue have different life
time rules.
Cure this by:
- Embedding the sigqueue into the timer struct to have the same
life time rules. Aside of that this also avoids the lookup of
the timer in the signal delivery and rearm path as it's just a
always valid container_of() now.
- Queuing ignored timer signals onto a seperate ignored list.
- Moving queued timer signals onto the ignored list when the
signal is switched to SIG_IGN before it could be delivered.
- Walking the ignored list when SIG_IGN is lifted and requeue the
signals to the actual signal lists. This allows the signal
delivery code to rearm the timer.
This also required to consolidate the signal delivery rules so they
are consistent across all situations. With that all self test
scenarios finally succeed.
- Core infrastructure for VFS multigrain timestamping
This is required to allow the kernel to use coarse grained time
stamps by default and switch to fine grained time stamps when inode
attributes are actively observed via getattr().
These changes have been provided to the VFS tree as well, so that
the VFS specific infrastructure could be built on top.
- Cleanup and consolidation of the sleep() infrastructure
- Move all sleep and timeout functions into one file
- Rework udelay() and ndelay() into proper documented inline
functions and replace the hardcoded magic numbers by proper
defines.
- Rework the fsleep() implementation to take the reality of the
timer wheel granularity on different HZ values into account.
Right now the boundaries are hard coded time ranges which fail
to provide the requested accuracy on different HZ settings.
- Update documentation for all sleep/timeout related functions
and fix up stale documentation links all over the place
- Fixup a few usage sites
- Rework of timekeeping and adjtimex(2) to prepare for multiple PTP
clocks
A system can have multiple PTP clocks which are participating in
seperate and independent PTP clock domains. So far the kernel only
considers the PTP clock which is based on CLOCK TAI relevant as
that's the clock which drives the timekeeping adjustments via the
various user space daemons through adjtimex(2).
The non TAI based clock domains are accessible via the file
descriptor based posix clocks, but their usability is very limited.
They can't be accessed fast as they always go all the way out to
the hardware and they cannot be utilized in the kernel itself.
As Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) gains traction it is required to
provide fast user and kernel space access to these clocks.
The approach taken is to utilize the timekeeping and adjtimex(2)
infrastructure to provide this access in a similar way how the
kernel provides access to clock MONOTONIC, REALTIME etc.
Instead of creating a duplicated infrastructure this rework
converts timekeeping and adjtimex(2) into generic functionality
which operates on pointers to data structures instead of using
static variables.
This allows to provide time accessors and adjtimex(2) functionality
for the independent PTP clocks in a subsequent step.
- Consolidate hrtimer initialization
hrtimers are set up by initializing the data structure and then
seperately setting the callback function for historical reasons.
That's an extra unnecessary step and makes Rust support less
straight forward than it should be.
Provide a new set of hrtimer_setup*() functions and convert the
core code and a few usage sites of the less frequently used
interfaces over.
The bulk of the htimer_init() to hrtimer_setup() conversion is
already prepared and scheduled for the next merge window.
- Drivers:
- Ensure that the global timekeeping clocksource is utilizing the
cluster 0 timer on MIPS multi-cluster systems.
Otherwise CPUs on different clusters use their cluster specific
clocksource which is not guaranteed to be synchronized with
other clusters.
- Mostly boring cleanups, fixes, improvements and code movement"
* tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (140 commits)
posix-timers: Fix spurious warning on double enqueue versus do_exit()
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
clocksource/drivers/gpx: Remove redundant casts
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix child node refcount handling
dt-bindings: timer: actions,owl-timer: convert to YAML
clocksource/drivers/ralink: Add Ralink System Tick Counter driver
clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Always use cluster 0 counter as clocksource
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Don't fail probe if int not found
clocksource/drivers:sp804: Make user selectable
clocksource/drivers/dw_apb: Remove unused dw_apb_clockevent functions
hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_on_stack()
alarmtimer: Switch to use hrtimer_setup() and hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
io_uring: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
sched/idle: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack()
wait: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
timers: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
net: pktgen: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
futex: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
fs/aio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
...
- Tree wide:
* Make nr_irqs static to the core code and provide accessor functions
to remove existing and prevent future aliasing problems with local
variables or function arguments of the same name.
- Core code:
* Prevent freeing an interrupt in the devres code which is not managed
by devres in the first place.
* Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values output in
/proc/interrupts which increases performance significantly as it
avoids parsing the format strings over and over.
* Optimize raising the timer and hrtimer soft interrupts by using the
'set bit only' variants instead of the combined version which checks
whether ksoftirqd should be woken up. The latter is a pointless
exercise as both soft interrupts are raised in the context of the
timer interrupt and therefore never wake up ksoftirqd.
* Delegate timer/hrtimer soft interrupt processing to a dedicated thread
on RT.
Timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are always processed in ksoftirqd
on RT enabled kernels. This can lead to high latencies when other
soft interrupts are delegated to ksoftirqd as well.
The separate thread allows to run them seperately under a RT
scheduling policy to reduce the latency overhead.
- Drivers:
* New drivers or extensions of existing drivers to support Renesas
RZ/V2H(P), Aspeed AST27XX, T-HEAD C900 and ATMEL sam9x7 interrupt
chips
* Support for multi-cluster GICs on MIPS.
MIPS CPUs can come with multiple CPU clusters, where each CPU cluster
has its own GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller). This requires to
access the GIC of a remote cluster through a redirect register block.
This is encapsulated into a set of helper functions to keep the
complexity out of the actual code paths which handle the GIC details.
* Support for encrypted guests in the ARM GICV3 ITS driver
The ITS page needs to be shared with the hypervisor and therefore
must be decrypted.
* Small cleanups and fixes all over the place
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Merge tag 'irq-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull interrupt subsystem updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Tree wide:
- Make nr_irqs static to the core code and provide accessor functions
to remove existing and prevent future aliasing problems with local
variables or function arguments of the same name.
Core code:
- Prevent freeing an interrupt in the devres code which is not
managed by devres in the first place.
- Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values output in
/proc/interrupts which increases performance significantly as it
avoids parsing the format strings over and over.
- Optimize raising the timer and hrtimer soft interrupts by using the
'set bit only' variants instead of the combined version which
checks whether ksoftirqd should be woken up. The latter is a
pointless exercise as both soft interrupts are raised in the
context of the timer interrupt and therefore never wake up
ksoftirqd.
- Delegate timer/hrtimer soft interrupt processing to a dedicated
thread on RT.
Timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are always processed in ksoftirqd
on RT enabled kernels. This can lead to high latencies when other
soft interrupts are delegated to ksoftirqd as well.
The separate thread allows to run them seperately under a RT
scheduling policy to reduce the latency overhead.
Drivers:
- New drivers or extensions of existing drivers to support Renesas
RZ/V2H(P), Aspeed AST27XX, T-HEAD C900 and ATMEL sam9x7 interrupt
chips
- Support for multi-cluster GICs on MIPS.
MIPS CPUs can come with multiple CPU clusters, where each CPU
cluster has its own GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller). This
requires to access the GIC of a remote cluster through a redirect
register block.
This is encapsulated into a set of helper functions to keep the
complexity out of the actual code paths which handle the GIC
details.
- Support for encrypted guests in the ARM GICV3 ITS driver
The ITS page needs to be shared with the hypervisor and therefore
must be decrypted.
- Small cleanups and fixes all over the place"
* tag 'irq-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
irqchip/riscv-aplic: Prevent crash when MSI domain is missing
genirq/proc: Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values
softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.
timers: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq.
hrtimer: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq
riscv: defconfig: Enable T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI drivers
irqchip: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI driver
dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI device
irqchip/stm32mp-exti: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
irqchip/mips-gic: Fix selection of GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK
irqchip/mips-gic: Prevent indirect access to clusters without CPU cores
irqchip/mips-gic: Multi-cluster support
irqchip/mips-gic: Setup defaults in each cluster
irqchip/mips-gic: Support multi-cluster in for_each_online_cpu_gic()
irqchip/mips-gic: Replace open coded online CPU iterations
genirq/irqdesc: Use str_enabled_disabled() helper in wakeup_show()
genirq/devres: Don't free interrupt which is not managed by devres
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix over allocation in itt_alloc_pool()
irqchip/aspeed-intc: Add AST27XX INTC support
dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add support for ASPEED AST27XX INTC
...
The timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are raised in hard interrupt
context. With threaded interrupts force enabled or on PREEMPT_RT this leads
to waking the ksoftirqd for the processing of the soft interrupt.
ksoftirqd runs as SCHED_OTHER task which means it will compete with other
tasks for CPU resources. This can introduce long delays for timer
processing on heavy loaded systems and is not desired.
Split the TIMER_SOFTIRQ and HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ processing into a dedicated
timers thread and let it run at the lowest SCHED_FIFO priority.
Wake-ups for RT tasks happen from hardirq context so only timer_list timers
and hrtimers for "regular" tasks are processed here. The higher priority
ensures that wakeups are performed before scheduling SCHED_OTHER tasks.
Using a dedicated variable to store the pending softirq bits values ensure
that the timer are not accidentally picked up by ksoftirqd and other
threaded interrupts.
It shouldn't be picked up by ksoftirqd since it runs at lower priority.
However if ksoftirqd is already running while a timer fires, then ksoftird
will be PI-boosted due to the BH-lock to ktimer's priority.
The timer thread can pick up pending softirqs from ksoftirqd but only
if the softirq load is high. It is not be desired that the picked up
softirqs are processed at SCHED_FIFO priority under high softirq load
but this can already happen by a PI-boost by a force-threaded interrupt.
[ frederic@kernel.org: rcutorture.c fixes, storm fix by introduction of
local_timers_pending() for tick_nohz_next_event() ]
[ junxiao.chang@intel.com: Ensure ktimersd gets woken up even if a
softirq is currently served. ]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> [rcutorture]
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241106150419.2593080-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
The generic clockevent layer now detaches and stops the underlying
clockevent from the dying CPU, unifying the tick behaviour for both
periodic and oneshot mode on offline CPUs. There is no more need for
the tick layer to care about that.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241029125451.54574-4-frederic@kernel.org
Sean noted that ever since commit 152e11f6df ("sched/fair: Implement
delayed dequeue") KVM's preemption notifiers have started
mis-classifying preemption vs blocking.
Notably p->on_rq is no longer sufficient to determine if a task is
runnable or blocked -- the aforementioned commit introduces tasks that
remain on the runqueue even through they will not run again, and
should be considered blocked for many cases.
Add the task_is_runnable() helper to classify things and audit all
external users of the p->on_rq state. Also add a few comments.
Fixes: 152e11f6df ("sched/fair: Implement delayed dequeue")
Reported-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241010091843.GK33184@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
When the WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers, the printk() of the additional
information related to the warning will not happen in print level
"warn". When reading dmesg with a restriction to level "warn", the
information published by the printk_once() will not show up there.
Transform WARN_ON_ONCE() and printk_once() into a WARN_ONCE().
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240610103552.25252-1-anna-maria@linutronix.de
The function returns the idle calls counter for the current cpu and
therefore usually isn't what the caller wants. It is unnused since
commit 466a2b42d6 ("cpufreq: schedutil: Use idle_calls counter of the
remote CPU")
Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240617161615.49309-1-christian.loehle@arm.com
tick_do_timer_cpu is used lockless to check which CPU needs to take care
of the per tick timekeeping duty. This is done to avoid a thundering
herd problem on jiffies_lock.
The read and writes are not annotated so KCSAN complains about data races:
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick / tick_nohz_next_event
write to 0xffffffff8a2bda30 of 4 bytes by task 0 on cpu 26:
tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick+0x3b1/0x4a0
do_idle+0x1e3/0x250
read to 0xffffffff8a2bda30 of 4 bytes by task 0 on cpu 16:
tick_nohz_next_event+0xe7/0x1e0
tick_nohz_get_sleep_length+0xa7/0xe0
menu_select+0x82/0xb90
cpuidle_select+0x44/0x60
do_idle+0x1c2/0x250
value changed: 0x0000001a -> 0xffffffff
Annotate them with READ/WRITE_ONCE() to document the intentional data race.
Reported-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87cyqy7rt3.ffs@tglx
Fix a slew of kernel-doc warnings in tick-sched.c:
tick-sched.c:650: warning: Function parameter or struct member 'now' not described in 'tick_nohz_update_jiffies'
tick-sched.c:741: warning: No description found for return value of 'get_cpu_idle_time_us'
tick-sched.c:767: warning: No description found for return value of 'get_cpu_iowait_time_us'
tick-sched.c:1210: warning: No description found for return value of 'tick_nohz_idle_got_tick'
tick-sched.c:1228: warning: No description found for return value of 'tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer'
tick-sched.c:1243: warning: No description found for return value of 'tick_nohz_get_sleep_length'
tick-sched.c:1282: warning: Function parameter or struct member 'cpu' not described in 'tick_nohz_get_idle_calls_cpu'
tick-sched.c:1282: warning: No description found for return value of 'tick_nohz_get_idle_calls_cpu'
tick-sched.c:1294: warning: No description found for return value of 'tick_nohz_get_idle_calls'
tick-sched.c:1577: warning: Function parameter or struct member 'hrtimer' not described in 'tick_setup_sched_timer'
tick-sched.c:1577: warning: Excess function parameter 'mode' description in 'tick_setup_sched_timer'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240331172652.14086-5-rdunlap@infradead.org
The timekeeping duty is handed over from the outgoing CPU on stop
machine, then the oneshot tick is stopped right after. Therefore it's
guaranteed that the current CPU isn't the timekeeper upon its last call
to idle.
Besides, calling tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() while the dying CPU goes
into idle suggests that the tick is going to be stopped while it is
actually stopped already from the appropriate CPU hotplug state.
Remove the confusing call and the obsolete case handling and convert it
to a sanity check that verifies the above assumption.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-16-frederic@kernel.org
The timekeeping duty is handed over from the outgoing CPU within stop
machine. This works well if CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON=n or the tick is in
high-res mode. However in low-res dynticks mode, the tick isn't
cancelled until the clockevent is shut down, which can happen later. The
tick may therefore fire again once IRQs are re-enabled on stop machine
and until IRQs are disabled for good upon the last call to idle.
That's so many opportunities for a timekeeper to go idle and the
outgoing CPU to take over that duty. This is why
tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() is called one last time on idle if the CPU
is seen offline: so that the timekeeping duty is handed over again in
case the CPU has re-taken the duty.
This means there are two timekeeping handovers on CPU down hotplug with
different undocumented constraints and purposes:
1) A handover on stop machine for !dynticks || highres. All online CPUs
are guaranteed to be non-idle and the timekeeping duty can be safely
handed-over. The hrtimer tick is cancelled so it is guaranteed that in
dynticks mode the outgoing CPU won't take again the duty.
2) A handover on last idle call for dynticks && lowres. Setting the
duty to TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE makes sure that a CPU will take over the
timekeeping.
Prepare for consolidating the handover to a single place (the first one)
with shutting down the low-res tick as well from
tick_cancel_sched_timer() as well. This will simplify the handover and
unify the tick cancellation between high-res and low-res.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-15-frederic@kernel.org
The nohz mode field tells about low resolution nohz mode or high
resolution nohz mode but it doesn't tell about high resolution non-nohz
mode.
In order to retrieve the latter state, tick_cancel_sched_timer() must
fiddle with struct hrtimer's internals to guess if the tick has been
initialized in high resolution.
Move instead the nohz mode field information into the tick flags and
provide two new bits: one to know if the tick is in nohz mode and
another one to know if the tick is in high resolution. The combination
of those two flags provides all the needed informations to determine
which of the three tick modes is running.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-14-frederic@kernel.org
The individual bitfields of struct tick_sched must be modified from
IRQs disabled places, otherwise local modifications can race due to them
sharing the same memory storage.
The recent move of the "got_idle_tick" bitfield to its own storage shows
that the use of these bitfields, as pretty as they look, can be as much
error prone.
In order to avoid future issues of the like and make sure that those
bitfields are safely accessed, move those flags to an explicit mask
along with a mutator function performing the basic IRQs disabled sanity
check.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-13-frederic@kernel.org
The full-nohz update function checks if the nohz mode is active before
proceeding. It considers one exception though: if the tick is already
stopped even though the nohz mode is inactive, it still moves on in
order to update/restart the tick if needed.
However in order for the tick to be stopped, the nohz_mode has to be
either NOHZ_MODE_LOWRES or NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES. Therefore it doesn't make
sense to test if the tick is stopped before verifying NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE
mode.
Remove the needless related condition.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-11-frederic@kernel.org
The tick sched structure is already cleared from tick_cancel_sched_timer(),
so there is no need to clear that field again.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-7-frederic@kernel.org
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() is only about NOHZ_full and not about
dynticks-idle. Reflect that in the function name to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-6-frederic@kernel.org
Avoid ifdeferry if it can be converted to IS_ENABLED() whenever possible
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-5-frederic@kernel.org
tick-sched.c is only built when CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT=y, which is selected
only if CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON=y or CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y. Therefore
the related ifdeferry in this file is needless and can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-4-frederic@kernel.org
tick_nohz_lowres_handler() does the same work as
tick_nohz_highres_handler() plus the clockevent device reprogramming, so
make the former reuse the latter and rename it accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Peng Liu <liupeng17@lenovo.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-3-frederic@kernel.org
The ts->sched_timer initialization work of tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz()
is almost the same as that of tick_setup_sched_timer(), so adjust the
latter to get it reused by tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz().
This also makes the low resolution mode sched_timer benefit from the tick
skew boot option.
Signed-off-by: Peng Liu <liupeng17@lenovo.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-2-frederic@kernel.org
The logic to get the time of the last jiffies update will be needed by
the timer pull model as well.
Move the code into a global function in anticipation of the new caller.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran (linutronix GmbH) <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221090548.36600-17-anna-maria@linutronix.de
When tick is stopped also the timer base is_idle flag is set. When
reentering timer_base_try_to_set_idle() with the tick stopped, there is no
need to check whether the timer base needs to be set idle again. When a
timer was enqueued in the meantime, this is already handled by the
tick_nohz_next_event() call which was executed before
tick_nohz_stop_tick().
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221090548.36600-5-anna-maria@linutronix.de
The timer base is marked idle when get_next_timer_interrupt() is
executed. But the decision whether the tick will be stopped and whether the
system is able to go idle is done later. When the timer bases is marked
idle and a new first timer is enqueued remote an IPI is raised. Even if it
is not required because the tick is not stopped and the timer base is
evaluated again at the next tick.
To prevent this, the timer base is marked idle in tick_nohz_stop_tick() and
get_next_timer_interrupt() is streamlined by only looking for the next timer
interrupt. All other work is postponed to timer_base_try_to_set_idle() which is
called by tick_nohz_stop_tick(). timer_base_try_to_set_idle() never resets
timer_base::is_idle state. This is done when the tick is restarted via
tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick().
With this, tick_sched::tick_stopped and timer_base::is_idle are always in
sync. So there is no longer the need to execute timer_clear_idle() in
tick_nohz_idle_retain_tick(). This was required before, as
tick_nohz_next_event() set timer_base::is_idle even if the tick would not be
stopped. So timer_clear_idle() is only executed, when timer base is idle. So the
check whether timer base is idle, is now no longer required as well.
While at it fix some nearby whitespace damage as well.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221090548.36600-4-anna-maria@linutronix.de
The return value of tick_nohz_next_event() is not obvious at the first
glance. Add a kernel-doc compatible function description which also covers
return values.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123164702.55612-4-anna-maria@linutronix.de
Commit 71fee48f ("tick-sched: Fix idle and iowait sleeptime accounting vs
CPU hotplug") preserved total idle sleep time and iowait sleeptime across
CPU hotplug events.
Similar reasoning applies to the number of idle calls and idle sleeps to
get the proper average of sleep time per idle invocation.
Preserve those fields too.
Fixes: 71fee48f ("tick-sched: Fix idle and iowait sleeptime accounting vs CPU hotplug")
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122233534.3094238-1-tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
When offlining and onlining CPUs the overall reported idle and iowait
times as reported by /proc/stat jump backward and forward:
cpu 132 0 176 225249 47 6 6 21 0 0
cpu0 80 0 115 112575 33 3 4 18 0 0
cpu1 52 0 60 112673 13 3 1 2 0 0
cpu 133 0 177 226681 47 6 6 21 0 0
cpu0 80 0 116 113387 33 3 4 18 0 0
cpu 133 0 178 114431 33 6 6 21 0 0 <---- jump backward
cpu0 80 0 116 114247 33 3 4 18 0 0
cpu1 52 0 61 183 0 3 1 2 0 0 <---- idle + iowait start with 0
cpu 133 0 178 228956 47 6 6 21 0 0 <---- jump forward
cpu0 81 0 117 114929 33 3 4 18 0 0
Reason for this is that get_idle_time() in fs/proc/stat.c has different
sources for both values depending on if a CPU is online or offline:
- if a CPU is online the values may be taken from its per cpu
tick_cpu_sched structure
- if a CPU is offline the values are taken from its per cpu cpustat
structure
The problem is that the per cpu tick_cpu_sched structure is set to zero on
CPU offline. See tick_cancel_sched_timer() in kernel/time/tick-sched.c.
Therefore when a CPU is brought offline and online afterwards both its idle
and iowait sleeptime will be zero, causing a jump backward in total system
idle and iowait sleeptime. In a similar way if a CPU is then brought
offline again the total idle and iowait sleeptimes will jump forward.
It looks like this behavior was introduced with commit 4b0c0f294f
("tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down").
This was only noticed now on s390, since we switched to generic idle time
reporting with commit be76ea6144 ("s390/idle: remove arch_cpu_idle_time()
and corresponding code").
Fix this by preserving the values of idle_sleeptime and iowait_sleeptime
members of the per-cpu tick_sched structure on CPU hotplug.
Fixes: 4b0c0f294f ("tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down")
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240115163555.1004144-1-hca@linux.ibm.com
When the next tick is in the past, the delta between basemono and the next
tick gets negativ. But the next tick should never be in the past. The
negative effect of a wrong next tick might be a stop of the tick and timers
might expire late.
To prevent expensive debugging when changing underlying code, add a
WARN_ON_ONCE into this code path. To prevent complete misbehaviour, also
reset next_tick to basemono in this case.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201092654.34614-4-anna-maria@linutronix.de
tick_nohz_stop_tick() contains the expires (u64 variable) and tick
(ktime_t) variable. In the beginning the value of expires is written to
tick. Afterwards none of the variables is changed. They are only used for
checks.
Drop the not required variable tick and use always expires instead.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201092654.34614-3-anna-maria@linutronix.de
When referencing functions in comments, it might be helpful to use full
function names (including the prefix) to be able to find it when grepping.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201092654.34614-2-anna-maria@linutronix.de
Inspired by recent enhancements to comments in kernel/time/tick-sched.c,
go through the entire file and fix/unify its comments:
- Fix over a dozen typos, spelling mistakes & cases of bad grammar.
- Re-phrase sentences that I needed to read three times to understand.
[ I used the following arbitrary rule-of-thumb:
- if I had to read a comment twice, it was usually my fault,
- if I had to read it a third time, it was the comment's fault. ]
- Comma updates:
- Add commas where needed
- Remove commas where not needed
- In cases where a comma is optional, choose one variant and try to
standardize it over similar sentences in the file.
- Standardize on standalone 'NOHZ' spelling in free-flowing comments:
s/nohz/NOHZ
s/no idle tick/NOHZ
Still keep 'dynticks' as a popular synonym.
- Standardize on referring to variable names within free-flowing
comments with the "'var'" nomenclature, and function names as
"function_name()".
- Standardize on '64-bit' and '32-bit':
s/32bit/32-bit
s/64bit/64-bit
- Standardize on 'IRQ work':
s/irq work/IRQ work
- A few other tidyups I probably missed to list.
No change in functionality intended - other than one small change to
a syslog output string.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZRVCNeMcSQcXS36N@gmail.com
