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
);
145 * tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick - stop the idle tick from the idle task
147 * When the next event is more than a tick into the future, stop the idle tick
148 * Called either from the idle loop or from irq_exit() when an idle period was
149 * just interrupted by an interrupt which did not cause a reschedule.
151 void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void)
153 unsigned long seq
, last_jiffies
, next_jiffies
, delta_jiffies
, flags
;
154 struct tick_sched
*ts
;
155 ktime_t last_update
, expires
, now
, delta
;
158 local_irq_save(flags
);
160 cpu
= smp_processor_id();
161 ts
= &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
);
164 * If this cpu is offline and it is the one which updates
165 * jiffies, then give up the assignment and let it be taken by
166 * the cpu which runs the tick timer next. If we don't drop
167 * this here the jiffies might be stale and do_timer() never
170 if (unlikely(!cpu_online(cpu
))) {
171 if (cpu
== tick_do_timer_cpu
)
172 tick_do_timer_cpu
= -1;
175 if (unlikely(ts
->nohz_mode
== NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE
))
181 cpu
= smp_processor_id();
182 if (unlikely(local_softirq_pending())) {
183 static int ratelimit
;
185 if (ratelimit
< 10) {
186 printk(KERN_ERR
"NOHZ: local_softirq_pending %02x\n",
187 local_softirq_pending());
194 * When called from irq_exit we need to account the idle sleep time
197 if (ts
->tick_stopped
) {
198 delta
= ktime_sub(now
, ts
->idle_entrytime
);
199 ts
->idle_sleeptime
= ktime_add(ts
->idle_sleeptime
, delta
);
202 ts
->idle_entrytime
= now
;
205 /* Read jiffies and the time when jiffies were updated last */
207 seq
= read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock
);
208 last_update
= last_jiffies_update
;
209 last_jiffies
= jiffies
;
210 } while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock
, seq
));
212 /* Get the next timer wheel timer */
213 next_jiffies
= get_next_timer_interrupt(last_jiffies
);
214 delta_jiffies
= next_jiffies
- last_jiffies
;
216 if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu
))
219 * Do not stop the tick, if we are only one off
220 * or if the cpu is required for rcu
222 if (!ts
->tick_stopped
&& delta_jiffies
== 1)
225 /* Schedule the tick, if we are at least one jiffie off */
226 if ((long)delta_jiffies
>= 1) {
228 if (delta_jiffies
> 1)
229 cpu_set(cpu
, nohz_cpu_mask
);
231 * nohz_stop_sched_tick can be called several times before
232 * the nohz_restart_sched_tick is called. This happens when
233 * interrupts arrive which do not cause a reschedule. In the
234 * first call we save the current tick time, so we can restart
235 * the scheduler tick in nohz_restart_sched_tick.
237 if (!ts
->tick_stopped
) {
238 if (select_nohz_load_balancer(1)) {
240 * sched tick not stopped!
242 cpu_clear(cpu
, nohz_cpu_mask
);
246 ts
->idle_tick
= ts
->sched_timer
.expires
;
247 ts
->tick_stopped
= 1;
248 ts
->idle_jiffies
= last_jiffies
;
252 * If this cpu is the one which updates jiffies, then
253 * give up the assignment and let it be taken by the
254 * cpu which runs the tick timer next, which might be
255 * this cpu as well. If we don't drop this here the
256 * jiffies might be stale and do_timer() never
259 if (cpu
== tick_do_timer_cpu
)
260 tick_do_timer_cpu
= -1;
265 * delta_jiffies >= NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA signals that
266 * there is no timer pending or at least extremly far
267 * into the future (12 days for HZ=1000). In this case
268 * we simply stop the tick timer:
270 if (unlikely(delta_jiffies
>= NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA
)) {
271 ts
->idle_expires
.tv64
= KTIME_MAX
;
272 if (ts
->nohz_mode
== NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES
)
273 hrtimer_cancel(&ts
->sched_timer
);
278 * calculate the expiry time for the next timer wheel
281 expires
= ktime_add_ns(last_update
, tick_period
.tv64
*
283 ts
->idle_expires
= expires
;
285 if (ts
->nohz_mode
== NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES
) {
286 hrtimer_start(&ts
->sched_timer
, expires
,
288 /* Check, if the timer was already in the past */
289 if (hrtimer_active(&ts
->sched_timer
))
291 } else if(!tick_program_event(expires
, 0))
294 * We are past the event already. So we crossed a
295 * jiffie boundary. Update jiffies and raise the
298 tick_do_update_jiffies64(ktime_get());
299 cpu_clear(cpu
, nohz_cpu_mask
);
301 raise_softirq_irqoff(TIMER_SOFTIRQ
);
303 ts
->next_jiffies
= next_jiffies
;
304 ts
->last_jiffies
= last_jiffies
;
306 local_irq_restore(flags
);
310 * nohz_restart_sched_tick - restart the idle tick from the idle task
312 * Restart the idle tick when the CPU is woken up from idle
314 void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void)
316 int cpu
= smp_processor_id();
317 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
);
321 if (!ts
->tick_stopped
)
324 /* Update jiffies first */
328 select_nohz_load_balancer(0);
329 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now
);
330 cpu_clear(cpu
, nohz_cpu_mask
);
332 /* Account the idle time */
333 delta
= ktime_sub(now
, ts
->idle_entrytime
);
334 ts
->idle_sleeptime
= ktime_add(ts
->idle_sleeptime
, delta
);
337 * We stopped the tick in idle. Update process times would miss the
338 * time we slept as update_process_times does only a 1 tick
339 * accounting. Enforce that this is accounted to idle !
341 ticks
= jiffies
- ts
->idle_jiffies
;
343 * We might be one off. Do not randomly account a huge number of ticks!
345 if (ticks
&& ticks
< LONG_MAX
) {
346 add_preempt_count(HARDIRQ_OFFSET
);
347 account_system_time(current
, HARDIRQ_OFFSET
,
348 jiffies_to_cputime(ticks
));
349 sub_preempt_count(HARDIRQ_OFFSET
);
353 * Cancel the scheduled timer and restore the tick
355 ts
->tick_stopped
= 0;
356 hrtimer_cancel(&ts
->sched_timer
);
357 ts
->sched_timer
.expires
= ts
->idle_tick
;
360 /* Forward the time to expire in the future */
361 hrtimer_forward(&ts
->sched_timer
, now
, tick_period
);
363 if (ts
->nohz_mode
== NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES
) {
364 hrtimer_start(&ts
->sched_timer
,
365 ts
->sched_timer
.expires
,
367 /* Check, if the timer was already in the past */
368 if (hrtimer_active(&ts
->sched_timer
))
371 if (!tick_program_event(ts
->sched_timer
.expires
, 0))
374 /* Update jiffies and reread time */
375 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now
);
381 static int tick_nohz_reprogram(struct tick_sched
*ts
, ktime_t now
)
383 hrtimer_forward(&ts
->sched_timer
, now
, tick_period
);
384 return tick_program_event(ts
->sched_timer
.expires
, 0);
388 * The nohz low res interrupt handler
390 static void tick_nohz_handler(struct clock_event_device
*dev
)
392 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched
);
393 struct pt_regs
*regs
= get_irq_regs();
394 int cpu
= smp_processor_id();
395 ktime_t now
= ktime_get();
397 dev
->next_event
.tv64
= KTIME_MAX
;
400 * Check if the do_timer duty was dropped. We don't care about
401 * concurrency: This happens only when the cpu in charge went
402 * into a long sleep. If two cpus happen to assign themself to
403 * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by
406 if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu
== -1))
407 tick_do_timer_cpu
= cpu
;
409 /* Check, if the jiffies need an update */
410 if (tick_do_timer_cpu
== cpu
)
411 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now
);
414 * When we are idle and the tick is stopped, we have to touch
415 * the watchdog as we might not schedule for a really long
416 * time. This happens on complete idle SMP systems while
417 * waiting on the login prompt. We also increment the "start
418 * of idle" jiffy stamp so the idle accounting adjustment we
419 * do when we go busy again does not account too much ticks.
421 if (ts
->tick_stopped
) {
422 touch_softlockup_watchdog();
426 update_process_times(user_mode(regs
));
427 profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING
);
429 /* Do not restart, when we are in the idle loop */
430 if (ts
->tick_stopped
)
433 while (tick_nohz_reprogram(ts
, now
)) {
435 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now
);
440 * tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz - switch to nohz mode
442 static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void)
444 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched
);
447 if (!tick_nohz_enabled
)
451 if (tick_switch_to_oneshot(tick_nohz_handler
)) {
456 ts
->nohz_mode
= NOHZ_MODE_LOWRES
;
459 * Recycle the hrtimer in ts, so we can share the
460 * hrtimer_forward with the highres code.
462 hrtimer_init(&ts
->sched_timer
, CLOCK_MONOTONIC
, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS
);
463 /* Get the next period */
464 next
= tick_init_jiffy_update();
467 ts
->sched_timer
.expires
= next
;
468 if (!tick_program_event(next
, 0))
470 next
= ktime_add(next
, tick_period
);
474 printk(KERN_INFO
"Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #%d\n",
480 static inline void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void) { }
485 * High resolution timer specific code
487 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
489 * We rearm the timer until we get disabled by the idle code
490 * Called with interrupts disabled and timer->base->cpu_base->lock held.
492 static enum hrtimer_restart
tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer
*timer
)
494 struct tick_sched
*ts
=
495 container_of(timer
, struct tick_sched
, sched_timer
);
496 struct hrtimer_cpu_base
*base
= timer
->base
->cpu_base
;
497 struct pt_regs
*regs
= get_irq_regs();
498 ktime_t now
= ktime_get();
499 int cpu
= smp_processor_id();
503 * Check if the do_timer duty was dropped. We don't care about
504 * concurrency: This happens only when the cpu in charge went
505 * into a long sleep. If two cpus happen to assign themself to
506 * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by
509 if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu
== -1))
510 tick_do_timer_cpu
= cpu
;
513 /* Check, if the jiffies need an update */
514 if (tick_do_timer_cpu
== cpu
)
515 tick_do_update_jiffies64(now
);
518 * Do not call, when we are not in irq context and have
519 * no valid regs pointer
523 * When we are idle and the tick is stopped, we have to touch
524 * the watchdog as we might not schedule for a really long
525 * time. This happens on complete idle SMP systems while
526 * waiting on the login prompt. We also increment the "start of
527 * idle" jiffy stamp so the idle accounting adjustment we do
528 * when we go busy again does not account too much ticks.
530 if (ts
->tick_stopped
) {
531 touch_softlockup_watchdog();
535 * update_process_times() might take tasklist_lock, hence
536 * drop the base lock. sched-tick hrtimers are per-CPU and
537 * never accessible by userspace APIs, so this is safe to do.
539 spin_unlock(&base
->lock
);
540 update_process_times(user_mode(regs
));
541 profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING
);
542 spin_lock(&base
->lock
);
545 /* Do not restart, when we are in the idle loop */
546 if (ts
->tick_stopped
)
547 return HRTIMER_NORESTART
;
549 hrtimer_forward(timer
, now
, tick_period
);
551 return HRTIMER_RESTART
;
555 * tick_setup_sched_timer - setup the tick emulation timer
557 void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
559 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched
);
560 ktime_t now
= ktime_get();
564 * Emulate tick processing via per-CPU hrtimers:
566 hrtimer_init(&ts
->sched_timer
, CLOCK_MONOTONIC
, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS
);
567 ts
->sched_timer
.function
= tick_sched_timer
;
568 ts
->sched_timer
.cb_mode
= HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ
;
570 /* Get the next period (per cpu) */
571 ts
->sched_timer
.expires
= tick_init_jiffy_update();
572 offset
= ktime_to_ns(tick_period
) >> 1;
573 do_div(offset
, NR_CPUS
);
574 offset
*= smp_processor_id();
575 ts
->sched_timer
.expires
= ktime_add_ns(ts
->sched_timer
.expires
, offset
);
578 hrtimer_forward(&ts
->sched_timer
, now
, tick_period
);
579 hrtimer_start(&ts
->sched_timer
, ts
->sched_timer
.expires
,
581 /* Check, if the timer was already in the past */
582 if (hrtimer_active(&ts
->sched_timer
))
588 if (tick_nohz_enabled
)
589 ts
->nohz_mode
= NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES
;
593 void tick_cancel_sched_timer(int cpu
)
595 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
);
597 if (ts
->sched_timer
.base
)
598 hrtimer_cancel(&ts
->sched_timer
);
599 ts
->tick_stopped
= 0;
600 ts
->nohz_mode
= NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE
;
602 #endif /* HIGH_RES_TIMERS */
605 * Async notification about clocksource changes
607 void tick_clock_notify(void)
611 for_each_possible_cpu(cpu
)
612 set_bit(0, &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched
, cpu
).check_clocks
);
616 * Async notification about clock event changes
618 void tick_oneshot_notify(void)
620 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched
);
622 set_bit(0, &ts
->check_clocks
);
626 * Check, if a change happened, which makes oneshot possible.
628 * Called cyclic from the hrtimer softirq (driven by the timer
629 * softirq) allow_nohz signals, that we can switch into low-res nohz
630 * mode, because high resolution timers are disabled (either compile
633 int tick_check_oneshot_change(int allow_nohz
)
635 struct tick_sched
*ts
= &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched
);
637 if (!test_and_clear_bit(0, &ts
->check_clocks
))
640 if (ts
->nohz_mode
!= NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE
)
643 if (!timekeeping_is_continuous() || !tick_is_oneshot_available())
649 tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz();