Azat Khuzhin reported high loadavg in Linux v3.6

After checking the upstream scheduler code, I found Peter's commit:

  5167e8d5 sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again

not fully applied, missing the call to calc_load_exit_idle().

After that idle exit in sampling window will always be calculated
to non-idle, and the load will be higher than normal.

This patch adds the missing call to calc_load_exit_idle().
Signed-off-by: NCharles Wang <muming.wq@taobao.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345449754-27130-1-git-send-email-muming.wq@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Andreas Bombe reported that the added ktime_t overflow checking added to
timespec_valid in commit 4e8b1452 ("time: Improve sanity checking of
timekeeping inputs") was causing problems with X.org because it caused
timeouts larger then KTIME_T to be invalid.

Previously, these large timeouts would be clamped to KTIME_MAX and would
never expire, which is valid.

This patch splits the ktime_t overflow checking into a new
timespec_valid_strict function, and converts the timekeeping codes
internal checking to use this more strict function.
Reported-and-tested-by: NAndreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>
Cc: Zhouping Liu <zliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If update_wall_time() is called and the current offset isn't large
enough to accumulate, avoid re-calling timekeeping_adjust which may
change the clock freq and can cause 1ns inconsistencies with
CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE/CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345595449-34965-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Andreas Schwab noticed that the 1 << tk->shift could overflow if the
shift value was greater than 30, since 1 would be a 32bit long on
32bit architectures. This issue was introduced by 1e75fa8b (time:
Condense timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec)

Use 1ULL instead to ensure we don't overflow on the shift.
Reported-by: NAndreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345595449-34965-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

arch_gettimeoffset returns a u32 value which when shifted by tk->shift
can overflow. This issue was introduced with 1e75fa8b (time: Condense
timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec)

Cast it to u64 first.
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345595449-34965-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Andreas noticed problems with resume on specific hardware after commit
1e75fa8b (time: Condense timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec) combined
with commit b44d50dc (time: Fix casting issue in tk_set_xtime and
tk_xtime_add)

After some digging I realized we aren't normalizing the timekeeper
after the add. Add the missing normalize call.
Reported-by: NAndreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: NAndreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345595449-34965-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Unexpected behavior could occur if the time is set to a value large
enough to overflow a 64bit ktime_t (which is something larger then the
year 2262).

Also unexpected behavior could occur if large negative offsets are
injected via adjtimex.

So this patch improves the sanity check timekeeping inputs by
improving the timespec_valid() check, and then makes better use of
timespec_valid() to make sure we don't set the time to an invalid
negative value or one that overflows ktime_t.

Note: This does not protect from setting the time close to overflowing
ktime_t and then letting natural accumulation cause the overflow.
Reported-by: NCAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Reported-by: NSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhouping Liu <zliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344454580-17031-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Tetsuo Handa reported that sporadically the system clock starts
counting up too quickly which is enough to confuse the hangcheck
timer to print a bogus stall warning.

Commit 2a8c0883 "time: Move xtime_nsec adjustment underflow handling
timekeeping_adjust" overlooked this exit path:

        } else
                return;

which should really be a proper exit sequence, fixing the bug as a
side effect.

Also make the flow more readable by properly balancing curly
braces.

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> wrote:
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> wrote:
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: richardcochran@gmail.com
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120804192114.GA28347@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Ingo noted that the numerous timekeeper.value references made
the timekeeping code ugly and caused many long lines that
had to be broken up. He recommended replacing timekeeper.value
references with tk->value.

This patch provides a local tk value for all top level time
functions and sets it to &timekeeper. Then all timekeeper
access is done via a tk pointer.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343414893-45779-6-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

For performance reasons, we maintain ktime_t based duplicates of
wall_to_monotonic (offs_real) and total_sleep_time (offs_boot).

Since large problems could occur (such as the resume regression
on 3.5-rc7, or the leapsecond hrtimer issue) if these value
pairs were to be inconsistently updated, this patch this cleans
up how we modify these value pairs to ensure we are always
consistent.

As a side-effect this is also more efficient as we only
caulculate the duplicate values when they are changed,
rather then every update_wall_time call.

This also provides WARN_ONs to detect if future changes break
the invariants.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343414893-45779-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
[ Cleaned up minor style issues. ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Ingo noted inconsistent newline usage between functions.
This patch cleans those up.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343414893-45779-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Ingo noted that ACTHZ is a confusing name, and requested it
be renamed, so this patch renames ACTHZ to SHIFTED_HZ to
better describe it.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343414893-45779-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

commit 1e75fa8b (time: Condense timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec)
introduced helper functions which apply a timespec to the core
internal timekeeper data. The internal storage type is u64. The
timespec tv_nsec value must be shifted before set or added to the
internal value. tv_nsec is a long, which is 32bit on a 32bit system,
so without casting tv_nsec to u64 we lose the bits which are shifted
over the 32bit boundary.

Add the proper typecasts.
Reported-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Tested-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: NPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343074957-16541-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

The leap second rework unearthed another issue of inconsistent data.

On timekeeping_resume() the timekeeper data is updated, but nothing
calls timekeeping_update(), so now the update code in the timer
interrupt sees stale values.

This has been the case before those changes, but then the timer
interrupt was using stale data as well so this went unnoticed for quite
some time.

Add the missing update call, so all the data is consistent everywhere.
Reported-by: NAndreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: N"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-and-tested-by: NMartin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

As part of cleaning up the timekeeping code, this patch converts
a number of internal functions to takei a timekeeper ptr as an
argument, so that the internal functions don't access the global
timekeeper structure directly. This allows for further optimizations
to reduce lock hold time later.

This patch has been updated to include more consistent usage of the
timekeeper value, by making sure it is always passed as a argument
to non top-level functions.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342156917-25092-9-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

When we make adjustments speeding up the clock, its possible
for xtime_nsec to underflow. We already handle this properly,
but we do so from update_wall_time() instead of the more logical
timekeeping_adjust(), where the possible underflow actually
occurs.

Thus, move the correction logic to the timekeeping_adjust, which
is the function that causes the issue. Making update_wall_time()
more readable.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342156917-25092-8-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Since we call arch_gettimeoffset() in all the accessor
functions, move arch_gettimeoffset() calls into
timekeeping_get_ns() and timekeeping_get_ns_raw() to simplify
the code.

This also makes the code easier to maintain as we don't have to
worry about forgetting the arch_gettimeoffset() as has happened
in the past.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342156917-25092-7-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

We do the exact same logic moving nsecs to secs in the
timekeeper in multiple places, so condense this into a
single function.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342156917-25092-6-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

The timekeeper struct has a xtime_nsec, which keeps the
sub-nanosecond remainder.  This ends up being somewhat
duplicative of the timekeeper.xtime.tv_nsec value, and we
have to do extra work to keep them apart, copying the full
nsec portion out and back in over and over.

This patch simplifies some of the logic by taking the timekeeper
xtime value and splitting it into timekeeper.xtime_sec and
reuses the timekeeper.xtime_nsec for the sub-second portion
(stored in higher res shifted nanoseconds).

This simplifies some of the accumulation logic. And will
allow for more accurate timekeeping once the vsyscall code
is updated to use the shifted nanosecond remainder.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342156917-25092-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Ingo noted that using a u32 instead of int for shift values
would be better to make sure the compiler doesn't unnecessarily
use complex signed arithmetic.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342156917-25092-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Ingo noted a number of places where there is inconsistent
use of whitespace. This patch tries to address the main
culprits.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342156917-25092-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

In commit 6b43ae8a, I
introduced a bug that kept the STA_INS or STA_DEL bit
from being cleared from time_status via adjtimex()
without forcing STA_PLL first.

Usually once the STA_INS is set, it isn't cleared
until the leap second is applied, so its unlikely this
affected anyone. However during testing I noticed it
took some effort to cancel a leap second once STA_INS
was set.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342156917-25092-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

To finally fix the infamous leap second issue and other race windows
caused by functions which change the offsets between the various time
bases (CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME) we need a
function which atomically gets the current monotonic time and updates
the offsets of CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME with minimalistic
overhead. The previous patch which provides ktime_t offsets allows us
to make this function almost as cheap as ktime_get() which is going to
be replaced in hrtimer_interrupt().
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-7-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.comSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

We need to update the hrtimer clock offsets from the hrtimer interrupt
context. To avoid conversions from timespec to ktime_t maintain a
ktime_t based representation of those offsets in the timekeeper. This
puts the conversion overhead into the code which updates the
underlying offsets and provides fast accessible values in the hrtimer
interrupt.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-4-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.comSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

The timekeeping code misses an update of the hrtimer subsystem after a
leap second happened. Due to that timers based on CLOCK_REALTIME are
either expiring a second early or late depending on whether a leap
second has been inserted or deleted until an operation is initiated
which causes that update. Unless the update happens by some other
means this discrepancy between the timekeeping and the hrtimer data
stays forever and timers are expired either early or late.

The reported immediate workaround - $ data -s "`date`" - is causing a
call to clock_was_set() which updates the hrtimer data structures.
See: http://www.sheeri.com/content/mysql-and-leap-second-high-cpu-and-fix

Add the missing clock_was_set() call to update_wall_time() in case of
a leap second event. The actual update is deferred to softirq context
as the necessary smp function call cannot be invoked from hard
interrupt context.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-3-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.comSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code:

 - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a
   negative bias because we can negate our own sample.

 - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias
   because we push the sample to a known active period.

So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding
copious documentation to the code.
Reported-and-tested-by: NDoug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: NCharles Wang <muming.wq@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

If the nohz= boot parameter disables nohz, then RCU_FAST_NO_HZ needs to
also disable itself.  This commit therefore checks for tick_nohz_enabled
being zero, disabling rcu_prepare_for_idle() if so.  This commit assumes
that tick_nohz_enabled can change at runtime: If this is not the case,
then a simpler approach suffices.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

The next idle expiry time record and idle sleeps tracking are
statistics that only concern idle.

Since we want the nohz APIs to become usable further idle
context, let's pull up the handling of these statistics to the
callers in idle.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
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@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Since we want to prepare for making the nohz API to work further
the idle case, we need to pull ts->idle_calls incrementation up to
the callers in idle.

To perform this, we split tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() in two parts:
a first one that checks if we can really stop the tick for idle,
and another that actually stops it. Then from the callers in idle,
we check if we can stop the tick and only then we increment idle_calls
and finally relay to the nohz API that won't care about these details
anymore.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
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@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Now that idle and nohz logics are going to be independant each others,
ts->idle_tick becomes too much a biased name to describe the field that
saves the last scheduled tick on top of which we re-calculate the next
tick to schedule when the timer is restarted.

We want to reuse this even to stop the tick outside idle cases. So let's
rename it to some more generic name: ts->last_tick.

This changes a bit the timer list stat export so we need to increase its
version.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
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@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

When the timer tick fires, it accounts the new jiffy as either part
of system, user or idle time. This is how we record the cputime
statistics.

But when the tick is stopped from the idle task, we still need
to record the number of jiffies spent tickless until we restart
the tick and fall back to traditional tick-based cputime accounting.

To do this, we take a snapshot of jiffies when the tick is stopped
and compute the difference against the new value of jiffies when
the tick is restarted. Then we account this whole difference to
the idle cputime.

However we are preparing to be able to stop the tick from other places
than idle. So this idle time accounting needs to be performed from
the callers of nohz APIs, not from the nohz APIs themselves because
we now want them to be agnostic against places that stop/restart tick.

Therefore, we pull the tickless idle time accounting out of generic
nohz helpers up to idle entry/exit callers.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
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@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

As we plan to be able to stop the tick outside the idle task, we
need to prepare for separating nohz logic from idle. As a start,
this pulls the idle sleeping time accounting out of the tick
stop/restart API to the callers on idle entry/exit.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
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@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

When a CPU is entering dyntick-idle mode, tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
calls rcu_needs_cpu() see if RCU needs that CPU, and, if not, computes the
next wakeup time based on the timer wheels.  Only later, when actually
entering the idle loop, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will be invoked.  In some
cases, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will post timers to wake the CPU back up.
But all for naught: The next wakeup time for the CPU has already been
computed, and posting a timer afterwards does not force that wakeup
time to be recomputed.  This means that rcu_prepare_for_idle()'s have
no effect.

This is not a problem on a busy system because something else will wake
up the CPU soon enough.  However, on lightly loaded systems, the CPU
might stay asleep for a considerable length of time.  If that CPU has
a callback that the rest of the system is waiting on, the system might
run very slowly or (in theory) even hang.

This commit avoids this problem by having rcu_needs_cpu() give
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() an estimate of when RCU will need the CPU
to wake back up, which tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() takes into account
when programming the CPU's wakeup time.  An alternative approach is
for rcu_prepare_for_idle() to use hrtimers instead of normal timers,
but timers are much more efficient than are hrtimers for frequently
and repeatedly posting and cancelling a given timer, which is exactly
what RCU_FAST_NO_HZ does.
Reported-by: NPascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
Reported-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: NPascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>

Commit 6b43ae8a (ntp: Fix leap-second hrtimer livelock) broke the
leapsecond update of CLOCK_MONOTONIC. The missing leapsecond update to
wall_to_monotonic causes discontinuities in CLOCK_MONOTONIC.

Adjust wall_to_monotonic when NTP inserted a leapsecond.
Reported-by: NRichard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Tested-by: NRichard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338400497-12420-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Follow up on commit 556061b0 ("sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[]
calculations") since while that fixed the busy case it regressed the
mostly idle case.

Add a callback from the nohz exit to also age the rq->cpu_load[]
array. This closes the hole where either there was no nohz load
balance pass during the nohz, or there was a 'significant' amount of
idle time between the last nohz balance and the nohz exit.

So we'll update unconditionally from the tick to not insert any
accidental 0 load periods while busy, and we try and catch up from
nohz idle balance and nohz exit. Both these are still prone to missing
a jiffy, but that has always been the case.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kt0trz0apodbf84ucjfdbr1a@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

commit 5307c955 (tick: Add tick skew boot option) broke the
!CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS build.

Move the boot option parsing into the CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS section.
Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>

Make clockevents_config() into a global symbol to allow it to be used
by compiled-in clockevent drivers. This is needed by drivers that want
to update the timer frequency after registration time.
Signed-off-by: NMagnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Tested-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: olof@lixom.net
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120509143934.27521.46553.sendpatchset@w520Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Let the user decide whether power consumption or jitter is the
more important consideration for their machines.

Quoting removal commit af5ab277:

"Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the
 various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on
 xtime_lock.
    
 Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens
 since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition,
 this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on
 many-core systems."

Problems:

- Contrary to the above, systems do encounter contention on both
  xtime_lock and RCU structure locks when the tick is synchronized.
  
- Moderate sized RT systems suffer intolerable jitter due to the tick
  being synchronized.

- SGI reports the same for their large systems.

- Fully utilized systems reap no power saving benefit from skew removal,
  but do suffer from resulting induced lock contention.

- 0209f649 rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout
  This patch was born to combat lock contention which testing showed
  to have been _induced by_ skew removal.  Skew the tick, contention
  disappeared virtually completely.
Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336472458.21924.78.camel@marge.simpson.netSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Fix a few minor newline issues.
Signed-off-by: NRichard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

Signed-off-by: NRichard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>