[PATCH] x86/cpu: disable frequency requests via aperfmperf IPI for nohz_full CPUs

[Konstantin Khlebnikov]

Since commit 7d5905dc14a8 ("x86 / CPU: Always show current CPU frequency
in /proc/cpuinfo") open and read of /proc/cpuinfo sends IPI to all CPUs.
Many applications read /proc/cpuinfo at the start for trivial reasons like
counting cores or detecting cpu features. While sensitive workloads like
DPDK network polling don't like any interrupts.

This patch integrates this feature with cpu isolation and does not send
IPI to cpus without housekeeping flag HK_FLAG_MISC (set by nohz_full).

Code that requests cpu frequency like show_cpuinfo() falls back to last
frequency set by cpufreq driver if direct method returns 0.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155618921176.2006.3031084313219003524.stgit@buzz
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c
index 64d5aec24203..0be5ef97fd8f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/cpufreq.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
 
 #include "cpu.h"
 
@@ -86,6 +87,9 @@ unsigned int aperfmperf_get_khz(int cpu)
 	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF))
 		return 0;
 
+	if (!housekeeping_cpu(cpu, HK_FLAG_MISC))
+		return 0;
+
 	aperfmperf_snapshot_cpu(cpu, ktime_get(), true);
 	return per_cpu(samples.khz, cpu);
 }
@@ -102,9 +106,12 @@ void arch_freq_prepare_all(void)
 	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF))
 		return;
 
-	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		if (!housekeeping_cpu(cpu, HK_FLAG_MISC))
+			continue;
 		if (!aperfmperf_snapshot_cpu(cpu, now, false))
 			wait = true;
+	}
 
 	if (wait)
 		msleep(APERFMPERF_REFRESH_DELAY_MS);
@@ -118,6 +125,9 @@ unsigned int arch_freq_get_on_cpu(int cpu)
 	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF))
 		return 0;
 
+	if (!housekeeping_cpu(cpu, HK_FLAG_MISC))
+		return 0;
+
 	if (aperfmperf_snapshot_cpu(cpu, ktime_get(), true))
 		return per_cpu(samples.khz, cpu);