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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/hrtimer.h b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
index 048270a27bc5..2c68f71ffd24 100644
--- a/include/linux/hrtimer.h
+++ b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ static inline int hrtimer_restart(struct hrtimer *timer)
 /* Query timers: */
 extern ktime_t hrtimer_get_remaining(const struct hrtimer *timer);
 
-extern ktime_t hrtimer_get_next_event(void);
+extern u64 hrtimer_get_next_event(void);
 
 /*
  * A timer is active, when it is enqueued into the rbtree or the