2 * linux/kernel/irq/timings.c
4 * Copyright (C) 2016, Linaro Ltd - Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
6 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
8 * published by the Free Software Foundation.
11 #include <linux/kernel.h>
12 #include <linux/percpu.h>
13 #include <linux/slab.h>
14 #include <linux/static_key.h>
15 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
16 #include <linux/idr.h>
17 #include <linux/irq.h>
18 #include <linux/math64.h>
20 #include <trace/events/irq.h>
22 #include "internals.h"
24 DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(irq_timing_enabled
);
26 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct irq_timings
, irq_timings
);
38 static DEFINE_IDR(irqt_stats
);
40 void irq_timings_enable(void)
42 static_branch_enable(&irq_timing_enabled
);
45 void irq_timings_disable(void)
47 static_branch_disable(&irq_timing_enabled
);
51 * irqs_update - update the irq timing statistics with a new timestamp
53 * @irqs: an irqt_stat struct pointer
54 * @ts: the new timestamp
56 * The statistics are computed online, in other words, the code is
57 * designed to compute the statistics on a stream of values rather
58 * than doing multiple passes on the values to compute the average,
59 * then the variance. The integer division introduces a loss of
60 * precision but with an acceptable error margin regarding the results
61 * we would have with the double floating precision: we are dealing
62 * with nanosec, so big numbers, consequently the mantisse is
63 * negligeable, especially when converting the time in usec
66 * The computation happens at idle time. When the CPU is not idle, the
67 * interrupts' timestamps are stored in the circular buffer, when the
68 * CPU goes idle and this routine is called, all the buffer's values
69 * are injected in the statistical model continuying to extend the
70 * statistics from the previous busy-idle cycle.
72 * The observations showed a device will trigger a burst of periodic
73 * interrupts followed by one or two peaks of longer time, for
74 * instance when a SD card device flushes its cache, then the periodic
75 * intervals occur again. A one second inactivity period resets the
76 * stats, that gives us the certitude the statistical values won't
77 * exceed 1x10^9, thus the computation won't overflow.
79 * Basically, the purpose of the algorithm is to watch the periodic
80 * interrupts and eliminate the peaks.
82 * An interrupt is considered periodically stable if the interval of
83 * its occurences follow the normal distribution, thus the values
86 * avg - 3 x stddev < value < avg + 3 x stddev
88 * Which can be simplified to:
90 * -3 x stddev < value - avg < 3 x stddev
92 * abs(value - avg) < 3 x stddev
94 * In order to save a costly square root computation, we use the
95 * variance. For the record, stddev = sqrt(variance). The equation
98 * abs(value - avg) < 3 x sqrt(variance)
100 * And finally we square it:
102 * (value - avg) ^ 2 < (3 x sqrt(variance)) ^ 2
104 * (value - avg) x (value - avg) < 9 x variance
106 * Statistically speaking, any values out of this interval is
107 * considered as an anomaly and is discarded. However, a normal
108 * distribution appears when the number of samples is 30 (it is the
109 * rule of thumb in statistics, cf. "30 samples" on Internet). When
110 * there are three consecutive anomalies, the statistics are resetted.
113 static void irqs_update(struct irqt_stat
*irqs
, u64 ts
)
115 u64 old_ts
= irqs
->last_ts
;
121 * The timestamps are absolute time values, we need to compute
122 * the timing interval between two interrupts.
127 * The interval type is u64 in order to deal with the same
128 * type in our computation, that prevent mindfuck issues with
129 * overflow, sign and division.
131 interval
= ts
- old_ts
;
134 * The interrupt triggered more than one second apart, that
135 * ends the sequence as predictible for our purpose. In this
136 * case, assume we have the beginning of a sequence and the
137 * timestamp is the first value. As it is impossible to
138 * predict anything at this point, return.
140 * Note the first timestamp of the sequence will always fall
141 * in this test because the old_ts is zero. That is what we
142 * want as we need another timestamp to compute an interval.
144 if (interval
>= NSEC_PER_SEC
) {
145 memset(irqs
, 0, sizeof(*irqs
));
151 * Pre-compute the delta with the average as the result is
152 * used several times in this function.
154 diff
= interval
- irqs
->avg
;
157 * Increment the number of samples.
162 * Online variance divided by the number of elements if there
163 * is more than one sample. Normally the formula is division
164 * by nr_samples - 1 but we assume the number of element will be
165 * more than 32 and dividing by 32 instead of 31 is enough
168 if (likely(irqs
->nr_samples
> 1))
169 variance
= irqs
->variance
>> IRQ_TIMINGS_SHIFT
;
172 * The rule of thumb in statistics for the normal distribution
173 * is having at least 30 samples in order to have the model to
174 * apply. Values outside the interval are considered as an
177 if ((irqs
->nr_samples
>= 30) && ((diff
* diff
) > (9 * variance
))) {
179 * After three consecutive anomalies, we reset the
180 * stats as it is no longer stable enough.
182 if (irqs
->anomalies
++ >= 3) {
183 memset(irqs
, 0, sizeof(*irqs
));
189 * The anomalies must be consecutives, so at this
190 * point, we reset the anomalies counter.
196 * The interrupt is considered stable enough to try to predict
197 * the next event on it.
202 * Online average algorithm:
204 * new_average = average + ((value - average) / count)
206 * The variance computation depends on the new average
207 * to be computed here first.
210 irqs
->avg
= irqs
->avg
+ (diff
>> IRQ_TIMINGS_SHIFT
);
213 * Online variance algorithm:
215 * new_variance = variance + (value - average) x (value - new_average)
217 * Warning: irqs->avg is updated with the line above, hence
218 * 'interval - irqs->avg' is no longer equal to 'diff'
220 irqs
->variance
= irqs
->variance
+ (diff
* (interval
- irqs
->avg
));
223 * Update the next event
225 irqs
->next_evt
= ts
+ irqs
->avg
;
229 * irq_timings_next_event - Return when the next event is supposed to arrive
231 * During the last busy cycle, the number of interrupts is incremented
232 * and stored in the irq_timings structure. This information is
235 * - know if the index in the table wrapped up:
237 * If more than the array size interrupts happened during the
238 * last busy/idle cycle, the index wrapped up and we have to
239 * begin with the next element in the array which is the last one
240 * in the sequence, otherwise it is a the index 0.
242 * - have an indication of the interrupts activity on this CPU
245 * The values are 'consumed' after inserting in the statistical model,
246 * thus the count is reinitialized.
248 * The array of values **must** be browsed in the time direction, the
249 * timestamp must increase between an element and the next one.
251 * Returns a nanosec time based estimation of the earliest interrupt,
254 u64
irq_timings_next_event(u64 now
)
256 struct irq_timings
*irqts
= this_cpu_ptr(&irq_timings
);
257 struct irqt_stat
*irqs
;
258 struct irqt_stat __percpu
*s
;
259 u64 ts
, next_evt
= U64_MAX
;
263 * This function must be called with the local irq disabled in
264 * order to prevent the timings circular buffer to be updated
265 * while we are reading it.
267 WARN_ON_ONCE(!irqs_disabled());
270 * Number of elements in the circular buffer: If it happens it
271 * was flushed before, then the number of elements could be
272 * smaller than IRQ_TIMINGS_SIZE, so the count is used,
273 * otherwise the array size is used as we wrapped. The index
274 * begins from zero when we did not wrap. That could be done
275 * in a nicer way with the proper circular array structure
276 * type but with the cost of extra computation in the
277 * interrupt handler hot path. We choose efficiency.
279 * Inject measured irq/timestamp to the statistical model
280 * while decrementing the counter because we consume the data
281 * from our circular buffer.
283 for (i
= irqts
->count
& IRQ_TIMINGS_MASK
,
284 irqts
->count
= min(IRQ_TIMINGS_SIZE
, irqts
->count
);
285 irqts
->count
> 0; irqts
->count
--, i
= (i
+ 1) & IRQ_TIMINGS_MASK
) {
287 irq
= irq_timing_decode(irqts
->values
[i
], &ts
);
289 s
= idr_find(&irqt_stats
, irq
);
291 irqs
= this_cpu_ptr(s
);
292 irqs_update(irqs
, ts
);
297 * Look in the list of interrupts' statistics, the earliest
300 idr_for_each_entry(&irqt_stats
, s
, i
) {
302 irqs
= this_cpu_ptr(s
);
307 if (irqs
->next_evt
<= now
) {
312 * This interrupt mustn't use in the future
313 * until new events occur and update the
320 if (irqs
->next_evt
< next_evt
) {
322 next_evt
= irqs
->next_evt
;
329 void irq_timings_free(int irq
)
331 struct irqt_stat __percpu
*s
;
333 s
= idr_find(&irqt_stats
, irq
);
336 idr_remove(&irqt_stats
, irq
);
340 int irq_timings_alloc(int irq
)
342 struct irqt_stat __percpu
*s
;
346 * Some platforms can have the same private interrupt per cpu,
347 * so this function may be be called several times with the
348 * same interrupt number. Just bail out in case the per cpu
349 * stat structure is already allocated.
351 s
= idr_find(&irqt_stats
, irq
);
355 s
= alloc_percpu(*s
);
359 idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL
);
360 id
= idr_alloc(&irqt_stats
, s
, irq
, irq
+ 1, GFP_NOWAIT
);