[PATCH v3 1/2] timer: provide an api for deferrable timeout

From: Chintan Pandya
Date: Thu Jul 31 2014 - 04:00:41 EST


schedule_timeout wakes up the CPU from IDLE state. For some use cases it
is not desirable, hence introduce a convenient API
(schedule_timeout_deferrable_interruptible) on similar pattern which uses
a deferrable timer.

Signed-off-by: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes:

V2-->V3:
- Big comment moved from static function to exported function
- Using __setup_timer_on_stack for better readability

V2:
- this patch has been newly introduced in patch v2

include/linux/sched.h | 2 ++
kernel/time/timer.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 89f531e..10b154e 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -377,6 +377,8 @@ extern int in_sched_functions(unsigned long addr);
#define MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT LONG_MAX
extern signed long schedule_timeout(signed long timeout);
extern signed long schedule_timeout_interruptible(signed long timeout);
+extern signed long
+schedule_timeout_deferrable_interruptible(signed long timeout);
extern signed long schedule_timeout_killable(signed long timeout);
extern signed long schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(signed long timeout);
asmlinkage void schedule(void);
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index aca5dfe..f4c4082 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1431,33 +1431,8 @@ static void process_timeout(unsigned long __data)
wake_up_process((struct task_struct *)__data);
}

-/**
- * schedule_timeout - sleep until timeout
- * @timeout: timeout value in jiffies
- *
- * Make the current task sleep until @timeout jiffies have
- * elapsed. The routine will return immediately unless
- * the current task state has been set (see set_current_state()).
- *
- * You can set the task state as follows -
- *
- * %TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE - at least @timeout jiffies are guaranteed to
- * pass before the routine returns. The routine will return 0
- *
- * %TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE - the routine may return early if a signal is
- * delivered to the current task. In this case the remaining time
- * in jiffies will be returned, or 0 if the timer expired in time
- *
- * The current task state is guaranteed to be TASK_RUNNING when this
- * routine returns.
- *
- * Specifying a @timeout value of %MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT will schedule
- * the CPU away without a bound on the timeout. In this case the return
- * value will be %MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT.
- *
- * In all cases the return value is guaranteed to be non-negative.
- */
-signed long __sched schedule_timeout(signed long timeout)
+static signed long
+__sched __schedule_timeout(signed long timeout, unsigned long flag)
{
struct timer_list timer;
unsigned long expire;
@@ -1493,7 +1468,9 @@ signed long __sched schedule_timeout(signed long timeout)

expire = timeout + jiffies;

- setup_timer_on_stack(&timer, process_timeout, (unsigned long)current);
+ __setup_timer_on_stack(&timer, process_timeout, (unsigned long)current,
+ flag);
+
__mod_timer(&timer, expire, false, TIMER_NOT_PINNED);
schedule();
del_singleshot_timer_sync(&timer);
@@ -1506,12 +1483,52 @@ signed long __sched schedule_timeout(signed long timeout)
out:
return timeout < 0 ? 0 : timeout;
}
+
+/**
+ * schedule_timeout - sleep until timeout
+ * @timeout: timeout value in jiffies
+ *
+ * Make the current task sleep until @timeout jiffies have
+ * elapsed. The routine will return immediately unless
+ * the current task state has been set (see set_current_state()).
+ *
+ * You can set the task state as follows -
+ *
+ * %TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE - at least @timeout jiffies are guaranteed to
+ * pass before the routine returns. The routine will return 0
+ *
+ * %TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE - the routine may return early if a signal is
+ * delivered to the current task. In this case the remaining time
+ * in jiffies will be returned, or 0 if the timer expired in time
+ *
+ * The current task state is guaranteed to be TASK_RUNNING when this
+ * routine returns.
+ *
+ * Specifying a @timeout value of %MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT will schedule
+ * the CPU away without a bound on the timeout. In this case the return
+ * value will be %MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT.
+ *
+ * In all cases the return value is guaranteed to be non-negative.
+ */
+signed long __sched schedule_timeout(signed long timeout)
+{
+ return __schedule_timeout(timeout, 0);
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule_timeout);

/*
* We can use __set_current_state() here because schedule_timeout() calls
* schedule() unconditionally.
*/
+
+signed long
+__sched schedule_timeout_deferrable_interruptible(signed long timeout)
+{
+ __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+ return __schedule_timeout(timeout, TIMER_DEFERRABLE);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule_timeout_deferrable_interruptible);
+
signed long __sched schedule_timeout_interruptible(signed long timeout)
{
__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
--
Chintan Pandya

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