Re: [PATCH 1/3] idle: add support for tasks that inject idle

[Jacob Pan]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:01:19 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:05:10AM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> > +void play_idle()
> > +{
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Only FIFO tasks can disable the tick since they don't
> > need the forced
> > +	 * preemption.
> > +	 */
> > +	WARN_ON_ONCE(current->policy != SCHED_FIFO);
> > +	WARN_ON_ONCE(current->nr_cpus_allowed != 1);
> > +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD));
> > +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!(current->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY));
> > +	rcu_sleep_check();
> > +
> > +	preempt_disable();
> > +	current->flags |= PF_IDLE;
> > +	do_idle();
> > +	current->flags &= ~PF_IDLE;
> > +
> > +	preempt_fold_need_resched();
> > +	preempt_enable();
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(play_idle);  
> 
> Hurm.. didn't this initially also include the setup of the timer and
> take an timeout argument?

right, the initial version has a timeout and
	init_timer_on_stack(timer);

I thought since this play_idle timer is likely to expire instead of
being canceled, so I switched to hrtimer by caller. We don't have an on
stack hrtimer, right? or Should we consider adding one?

Thanks,

Jacob