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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-03-27 02:18:34 +0100
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-04-19 13:53:14 +0200
commit0453b435df0d69dd0d8c42eb9b3015aaf0d8a032 (patch)
treea941e04d55e74cc40285834a37175a5be41c12db /kernel/time
parent65d798f0f9339ae2c4ebe9480e3260b33382a584 (diff)
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nohz: Force boot CPU outside full dynticks range
The timekeeping job must be able to run early on boot because there may be some pre-SMP (and thus pre-initcalls ) components that rely on it. The IO-APIC is one such users as it tests the timer health by watching jiffies progression. Given that it happens before we know the initial online set, we can't rely on it to select a timekeeper. We need one before SMP time otherwise we simply crash on boot. To fix this and keep things simple for now, force the boot CPU outside of the full dynticks range in any case and do this early on kernel parameter parsing time. We might want a trickier solution later, expecially for aSMP architectures that need to assign housekeeping tasks to arbitrary low power CPUs. But it's still first pass KISS time for now. Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-sched.c54
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 369b5769fc97..2bac5ea2c9af 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -158,11 +158,21 @@ int tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu)
/* Parse the boot-time nohz CPU list from the kernel parameters. */
static int __init tick_nohz_full_setup(char *str)
{
+ int cpu;
+
alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&nohz_full_mask);
- if (cpulist_parse(str, nohz_full_mask) < 0)
+ if (cpulist_parse(str, nohz_full_mask) < 0) {
pr_warning("NOHZ: Incorrect nohz_full cpumask\n");
- else
- have_nohz_full_mask = true;
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, nohz_full_mask)) {
+ pr_warning("NO_HZ: Clearing %d from nohz_full range for timekeeping\n", cpu);
+ cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, nohz_full_mask);
+ }
+ have_nohz_full_mask = true;
+
return 1;
}
__setup("nohz_full=", tick_nohz_full_setup);
@@ -195,42 +205,8 @@ static char __initdata nohz_full_buf[NR_CPUS + 1];
static int __init init_tick_nohz_full(void)
{
- cpumask_var_t online_nohz;
- int cpu;
-
- if (!have_nohz_full_mask)
- return 0;
-
- cpu_notifier(tick_nohz_cpu_down_callback, 0);
-
- if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&online_nohz, GFP_KERNEL)) {
- pr_warning("NO_HZ: Not enough memory to check full nohz mask\n");
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
-
- /*
- * CPUs can probably not be concurrently offlined on initcall time.
- * But we are paranoid, aren't we?
- */
- get_online_cpus();
-
- /* Ensure we keep a CPU outside the dynticks range for timekeeping */
- cpumask_and(online_nohz, cpu_online_mask, nohz_full_mask);
- if (cpumask_equal(online_nohz, cpu_online_mask)) {
- pr_warning("NO_HZ: Must keep at least one online CPU "
- "out of nohz_full range\n");
- /*
- * We know the current CPU doesn't have its tick stopped.
- * Let's use it for the timekeeping duty.
- */
- preempt_disable();
- cpu = smp_processor_id();
- pr_warning("NO_HZ: Clearing %d from nohz_full range\n", cpu);
- cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, nohz_full_mask);
- preempt_enable();
- }
- put_online_cpus();
- free_cpumask_var(online_nohz);
+ if (have_nohz_full_mask)
+ 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);
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