[tip:timers/urgent] tick/broadcast: Return busy when IPI is pending

From: tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jul 07 2015 - 13:15:28 EST


Commit-ID: 0cc5281aa592d0020868f6ccaed359b4ad7b2684
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0cc5281aa592d0020868f6ccaed359b4ad7b2684
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:45:15 +0200
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 18:46:48 +0200

tick/broadcast: Return busy when IPI is pending

Tell the idle code not to go deep if the broadcast IPI is about to
arrive.

[ Split out from a larger combo patch ]

Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos">http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1507070929360.3916@nanos
---
kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index da7b40f..70b47bc 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -725,11 +725,15 @@ int __tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(enum tick_broadcast_state state)
* if the cpu local event is earlier than the
* broadcast event. If the current CPU is in
* the force mask, then we are going to be
- * woken by the IPI right away.
+ * woken by the IPI right away; we return
+ * busy, so the CPU does not try to go deep
+ * idle.
*/
- if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, tick_broadcast_force_mask) &&
- dev->next_event.tv64 < bc->next_event.tv64)
+ if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, tick_broadcast_force_mask)) {
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ } else if (dev->next_event.tv64 < bc->next_event.tv64) {
tick_broadcast_set_event(bc, cpu, dev->next_event);
+ }
}
/*
* If the current CPU owns the hrtimer broadcast
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