2 * linux/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
4 * Copyright(C) 2005-2006, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
5 * Copyright(C) 2005-2007, Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar
6 * Copyright(C) 2006-2007 Timesys Corp., Thomas Gleixner
8 * No idle tick implementation for low and high resolution timers
10 * Started by: Thomas Gleixner and Ingo Molnar
12 * For licencing details see kernel-base/COPYING
14 #include <linux/cpu.h>
15 #include <linux/err.h>
16 #include <linux/hrtimer.h>
17 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
18 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
19 #include <linux/percpu.h>
20 #include <linux/profile.h>
21 #include <linux/sched.h>
22 #include <linux/tick.h>
24 #include <asm/irq_regs.h>
26 #include "tick-internal.h"
29 * Per cpu nohz control structure
31 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tick_sched
, tick_cpu_sched
);
34 * The time, when the last jiffy update happened. Protected by xtime_lock.
36 static ktime_t last_jiffies_update
;
38 struct tick_sched
*tick_get_tick_sched(int cpu
)
40 return &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
);
44 * Must be called with interrupts disabled !
46 static void tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_t now
)
48 unsigned long ticks
= 0;
51 /* Reevalute with xtime_lock held */
52 write_seqlock(&xtime_lock
);
54 delta
= ktime_sub(now
, last_jiffies_update
);
55 if (delta
.tv64
>= tick_period
.tv64
) {
57 delta
= ktime_sub(delta
, tick_period
);
58 last_jiffies_update
= ktime_add(last_jiffies_update
,
61 /* Slow path for long timeouts */
62 if (unlikely(delta
.tv64
>= tick_period
.tv64
)) {
63 s64 incr
= ktime_to_ns(tick_period
);
65 ticks
= ktime_divns(delta
, incr
);
67 last_jiffies_update
= ktime_add_ns(last_jiffies_update
,
72 write_sequnlock(&xtime_lock
);
76 * Initialize and return retrieve the jiffies update.
78 static ktime_t
tick_init_jiffy_update(void)
82 write_seqlock(&xtime_lock
);
83 /* Did we start the jiffies update yet ? */
84 if (last_jiffies_update
.tv64
== 0)
85 last_jiffies_update
= tick_next_period
;
86 period
= last_jiffies_update
;
87 write_sequnlock(&xtime_lock
);
92 * NOHZ - aka dynamic tick functionality
98 static int tick_nohz_enabled __read_mostly
= 1;
101 * Enable / Disable tickless mode
103 static int __init
setup_tick_nohz(char *str
)
105 if (!strcmp(str
, "off"))
106 tick_nohz_enabled
= 0;
107 else if (!strcmp(str
, "on"))
108 tick_nohz_enabled
= 1;
114 __setup("nohz=", setup_tick_nohz
);
117 * tick_nohz_update_jiffies - update jiffies when idle was interrupted
119 * Called from interrupt entry when the CPU was idle
121 * In case the sched_tick was stopped on this CPU, we have to check if jiffies
122 * must be updated. Otherwise an interrupt handler could use a stale jiffy
123 * value. We do this unconditionally on any cpu, as we don't know whether the
124 * cpu, which has the update task assigned is in a long sleep.
126 void tick_nohz_update_jiffies(void)
128 int cpu
= smp_processor_id();
129 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
);
133 if (!ts
->tick_stopped
)
136 cpu_clear(cpu
, nohz_cpu_mask
);
139 local_irq_save(flags
);
140 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now
);
141 local_irq_restore(flags
);
144 void tick_nohz_stop_idle(int cpu
)
146 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
);
148 if (ts
->idle_active
) {
151 delta
= ktime_sub(now
, ts
->idle_entrytime
);
152 ts
->idle_lastupdate
= now
;
153 ts
->idle_sleeptime
= ktime_add(ts
->idle_sleeptime
, delta
);
158 static ktime_t
tick_nohz_start_idle(int cpu
)
160 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
);
164 if (ts
->idle_active
) {
165 delta
= ktime_sub(now
, ts
->idle_entrytime
);
166 ts
->idle_lastupdate
= now
;
167 ts
->idle_sleeptime
= ktime_add(ts
->idle_sleeptime
, delta
);
169 ts
->idle_entrytime
= now
;
174 u64
get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu
, u64
*last_update_time
)
176 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
);
178 *last_update_time
= ktime_to_us(ts
->idle_lastupdate
);
179 return ktime_to_us(ts
->idle_sleeptime
);
183 * tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick - stop the idle tick from the idle task
185 * When the next event is more than a tick into the future, stop the idle tick
186 * Called either from the idle loop or from irq_exit() when an idle period was
187 * just interrupted by an interrupt which did not cause a reschedule.
189 void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void)
191 unsigned long seq
, last_jiffies
, next_jiffies
, delta_jiffies
, flags
;
192 struct tick_sched
*ts
;
193 ktime_t last_update
, expires
, now
;
194 struct clock_event_device
*dev
= __get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_device
).evtdev
;
197 local_irq_save(flags
);
199 cpu
= smp_processor_id();
200 now
= tick_nohz_start_idle(cpu
);
201 ts
= &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
);
204 * If this cpu is offline and it is the one which updates
205 * jiffies, then give up the assignment and let it be taken by
206 * the cpu which runs the tick timer next. If we don't drop
207 * this here the jiffies might be stale and do_timer() never
210 if (unlikely(!cpu_online(cpu
))) {
211 if (cpu
== tick_do_timer_cpu
)
212 tick_do_timer_cpu
= -1;
215 if (unlikely(ts
->nohz_mode
== NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE
))
221 cpu
= smp_processor_id();
222 if (unlikely(local_softirq_pending())) {
223 static int ratelimit
;
225 if (ratelimit
< 10) {
226 printk(KERN_ERR
"NOHZ: local_softirq_pending %02x\n",
227 local_softirq_pending());
233 /* Read jiffies and the time when jiffies were updated last */
235 seq
= read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock
);
236 last_update
= last_jiffies_update
;
237 last_jiffies
= jiffies
;
238 } while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock
, seq
));
240 /* Get the next timer wheel timer */
241 next_jiffies
= get_next_timer_interrupt(last_jiffies
);
242 delta_jiffies
= next_jiffies
- last_jiffies
;
244 if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu
))
247 * Do not stop the tick, if we are only one off
248 * or if the cpu is required for rcu
250 if (!ts
->tick_stopped
&& delta_jiffies
== 1)
253 /* Schedule the tick, if we are at least one jiffie off */
254 if ((long)delta_jiffies
>= 1) {
256 if (delta_jiffies
> 1)
257 cpu_set(cpu
, nohz_cpu_mask
);
259 * nohz_stop_sched_tick can be called several times before
260 * the nohz_restart_sched_tick is called. This happens when
261 * interrupts arrive which do not cause a reschedule. In the
262 * first call we save the current tick time, so we can restart
263 * the scheduler tick in nohz_restart_sched_tick.
265 if (!ts
->tick_stopped
) {
266 if (select_nohz_load_balancer(1)) {
268 * sched tick not stopped!
270 cpu_clear(cpu
, nohz_cpu_mask
);
274 ts
->idle_tick
= ts
->sched_timer
.expires
;
275 ts
->tick_stopped
= 1;
276 ts
->idle_jiffies
= last_jiffies
;
280 * If this cpu is the one which updates jiffies, then
281 * give up the assignment and let it be taken by the
282 * cpu which runs the tick timer next, which might be
283 * this cpu as well. If we don't drop this here the
284 * jiffies might be stale and do_timer() never
287 if (cpu
== tick_do_timer_cpu
)
288 tick_do_timer_cpu
= -1;
293 * delta_jiffies >= NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA signals that
294 * there is no timer pending or at least extremly far
295 * into the future (12 days for HZ=1000). In this case
296 * we simply stop the tick timer:
298 if (unlikely(delta_jiffies
>= NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA
)) {
299 ts
->idle_expires
.tv64
= KTIME_MAX
;
300 if (ts
->nohz_mode
== NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES
)
301 hrtimer_cancel(&ts
->sched_timer
);
306 * calculate the expiry time for the next timer wheel
309 expires
= ktime_add_ns(last_update
, tick_period
.tv64
*
311 ts
->idle_expires
= expires
;
313 if (ts
->nohz_mode
== NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES
) {
314 hrtimer_start(&ts
->sched_timer
, expires
,
316 /* Check, if the timer was already in the past */
317 if (hrtimer_active(&ts
->sched_timer
))
319 } else if(!tick_program_event(expires
, 0))
322 * We are past the event already. So we crossed a
323 * jiffie boundary. Update jiffies and raise the
326 tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_get());
327 cpu_clear(cpu
, nohz_cpu_mask
);
329 raise_softirq_irqoff(TIMER_SOFTIRQ
);
331 ts
->next_jiffies
= next_jiffies
;
332 ts
->last_jiffies
= last_jiffies
;
333 ts
->sleep_length
= ktime_sub(dev
->next_event
, now
);
335 local_irq_restore(flags
);
339 * tick_nohz_get_sleep_length - return the length of the current sleep
341 * Called from power state control code with interrupts disabled
343 ktime_t
tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void)
345 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched
);
347 return ts
->sleep_length
;
351 * tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick - restart the idle tick from the idle task
353 * Restart the idle tick when the CPU is woken up from idle
355 void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void)
357 int cpu
= smp_processor_id();
358 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
);
363 tick_nohz_stop_idle(cpu
);
365 if (!ts
->tick_stopped
) {
370 /* Update jiffies first */
371 select_nohz_load_balancer(0);
373 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now
);
374 cpu_clear(cpu
, nohz_cpu_mask
);
377 * We stopped the tick in idle. Update process times would miss the
378 * time we slept as update_process_times does only a 1 tick
379 * accounting. Enforce that this is accounted to idle !
381 ticks
= jiffies
- ts
->idle_jiffies
;
383 * We might be one off. Do not randomly account a huge number of ticks!
385 if (ticks
&& ticks
< LONG_MAX
) {
386 add_preempt_count(HARDIRQ_OFFSET
);
387 account_system_time(current
, HARDIRQ_OFFSET
,
388 jiffies_to_cputime(ticks
));
389 sub_preempt_count(HARDIRQ_OFFSET
);
393 * Cancel the scheduled timer and restore the tick
395 ts
->tick_stopped
= 0;
396 hrtimer_cancel(&ts
->sched_timer
);
397 ts
->sched_timer
.expires
= ts
->idle_tick
;
400 /* Forward the time to expire in the future */
401 hrtimer_forward(&ts
->sched_timer
, now
, tick_period
);
403 if (ts
->nohz_mode
== NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES
) {
404 hrtimer_start(&ts
->sched_timer
,
405 ts
->sched_timer
.expires
,
407 /* Check, if the timer was already in the past */
408 if (hrtimer_active(&ts
->sched_timer
))
411 if (!tick_program_event(ts
->sched_timer
.expires
, 0))
414 /* Update jiffies and reread time */
415 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now
);
421 static int tick_nohz_reprogram(struct tick_sched
*ts
, ktime_t now
)
423 hrtimer_forward(&ts
->sched_timer
, now
, tick_period
);
424 return tick_program_event(ts
->sched_timer
.expires
, 0);
428 * The nohz low res interrupt handler
430 static void tick_nohz_handler(struct clock_event_device
*dev
)
432 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched
);
433 struct pt_regs
*regs
= get_irq_regs();
434 int cpu
= smp_processor_id();
435 ktime_t now
= ktime_get();
437 dev
->next_event
.tv64
= KTIME_MAX
;
440 * Check if the do_timer duty was dropped. We don't care about
441 * concurrency: This happens only when the cpu in charge went
442 * into a long sleep. If two cpus happen to assign themself to
443 * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by
446 if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu
== -1))
447 tick_do_timer_cpu
= cpu
;
449 /* Check, if the jiffies need an update */
450 if (tick_do_timer_cpu
== cpu
)
451 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now
);
454 * When we are idle and the tick is stopped, we have to touch
455 * the watchdog as we might not schedule for a really long
456 * time. This happens on complete idle SMP systems while
457 * waiting on the login prompt. We also increment the "start
458 * of idle" jiffy stamp so the idle accounting adjustment we
459 * do when we go busy again does not account too much ticks.
461 if (ts
->tick_stopped
) {
462 touch_softlockup_watchdog();
466 update_process_times(user_mode(regs
));
467 profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING
);
469 /* Do not restart, when we are in the idle loop */
470 if (ts
->tick_stopped
)
473 while (tick_nohz_reprogram(ts
, now
)) {
475 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now
);
480 * tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz - switch to nohz mode
482 static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void)
484 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched
);
487 if (!tick_nohz_enabled
)
491 if (tick_switch_to_oneshot(tick_nohz_handler
)) {
496 ts
->nohz_mode
= NOHZ_MODE_LOWRES
;
499 * Recycle the hrtimer in ts, so we can share the
500 * hrtimer_forward with the highres code.
502 hrtimer_init(&ts
->sched_timer
, CLOCK_MONOTONIC
, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS
);
503 /* Get the next period */
504 next
= tick_init_jiffy_update();
507 ts
->sched_timer
.expires
= next
;
508 if (!tick_program_event(next
, 0))
510 next
= ktime_add(next
, tick_period
);
514 printk(KERN_INFO
"Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #%d\n",
520 static inline void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void) { }
525 * High resolution timer specific code
527 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
529 * We rearm the timer until we get disabled by the idle code
530 * Called with interrupts disabled and timer->base->cpu_base->lock held.
532 static enum hrtimer_restart
tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer
*timer
)
534 struct tick_sched
*ts
=
535 container_of(timer
, struct tick_sched
, sched_timer
);
536 struct hrtimer_cpu_base
*base
= timer
->base
->cpu_base
;
537 struct pt_regs
*regs
= get_irq_regs();
538 ktime_t now
= ktime_get();
539 int cpu
= smp_processor_id();
543 * Check if the do_timer duty was dropped. We don't care about
544 * concurrency: This happens only when the cpu in charge went
545 * into a long sleep. If two cpus happen to assign themself to
546 * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by
549 if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu
== -1))
550 tick_do_timer_cpu
= cpu
;
553 /* Check, if the jiffies need an update */
554 if (tick_do_timer_cpu
== cpu
)
555 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now
);
558 * Do not call, when we are not in irq context and have
559 * no valid regs pointer
563 * When we are idle and the tick is stopped, we have to touch
564 * the watchdog as we might not schedule for a really long
565 * time. This happens on complete idle SMP systems while
566 * waiting on the login prompt. We also increment the "start of
567 * idle" jiffy stamp so the idle accounting adjustment we do
568 * when we go busy again does not account too much ticks.
570 if (ts
->tick_stopped
) {
571 touch_softlockup_watchdog();
575 * update_process_times() might take tasklist_lock, hence
576 * drop the base lock. sched-tick hrtimers are per-CPU and
577 * never accessible by userspace APIs, so this is safe to do.
579 spin_unlock(&base
->lock
);
580 update_process_times(user_mode(regs
));
581 profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING
);
582 spin_lock(&base
->lock
);
585 /* Do not restart, when we are in the idle loop */
586 if (ts
->tick_stopped
)
587 return HRTIMER_NORESTART
;
589 hrtimer_forward(timer
, now
, tick_period
);
591 return HRTIMER_RESTART
;
595 * tick_setup_sched_timer - setup the tick emulation timer
597 void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
599 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched
);
600 ktime_t now
= ktime_get();
604 * Emulate tick processing via per-CPU hrtimers:
606 hrtimer_init(&ts
->sched_timer
, CLOCK_MONOTONIC
, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS
);
607 ts
->sched_timer
.function
= tick_sched_timer
;
608 ts
->sched_timer
.cb_mode
= HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ
;
610 /* Get the next period (per cpu) */
611 ts
->sched_timer
.expires
= tick_init_jiffy_update();
612 offset
= ktime_to_ns(tick_period
) >> 1;
613 do_div(offset
, num_possible_cpus());
614 offset
*= smp_processor_id();
615 ts
->sched_timer
.expires
= ktime_add_ns(ts
->sched_timer
.expires
, offset
);
618 hrtimer_forward(&ts
->sched_timer
, now
, tick_period
);
619 hrtimer_start(&ts
->sched_timer
, ts
->sched_timer
.expires
,
621 /* Check, if the timer was already in the past */
622 if (hrtimer_active(&ts
->sched_timer
))
628 if (tick_nohz_enabled
)
629 ts
->nohz_mode
= NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES
;
633 void tick_cancel_sched_timer(int cpu
)
635 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
);
637 if (ts
->sched_timer
.base
)
638 hrtimer_cancel(&ts
->sched_timer
);
639 ts
->tick_stopped
= 0;
640 ts
->nohz_mode
= NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE
;
642 #endif /* HIGH_RES_TIMERS */
645 * Async notification about clocksource changes
647 void tick_clock_notify(void)
651 for_each_possible_cpu(cpu
)
652 set_bit(0, &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
).check_clocks
);
656 * Async notification about clock event changes
658 void tick_oneshot_notify(void)
660 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched
);
662 set_bit(0, &ts
->check_clocks
);
666 * Check, if a change happened, which makes oneshot possible.
668 * Called cyclic from the hrtimer softirq (driven by the timer
669 * softirq) allow_nohz signals, that we can switch into low-res nohz
670 * mode, because high resolution timers are disabled (either compile
673 int tick_check_oneshot_change(int allow_nohz
)
675 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched
);
677 if (!test_and_clear_bit(0, &ts
->check_clocks
))
680 if (ts
->nohz_mode
!= NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE
)
683 if (!timekeeping_is_continuous() || !tick_is_oneshot_available())
689 tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz();