[PATCH v3 2/2] sched: Add a check for cpu unbound deferrable timers

[Prasad Sodagudi]

Add a check to find expired unbound deferrable timers
and trigger softirq for handling timers. This way a CPU
can process all the expired deferrable timers whenever
it is out off idle state due to an interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/timer.h    |  3 +++
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c |  8 +++++++-
 kernel/time/timer.c      | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index 0dc19a8..e85dd2d 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ extern int del_timer(struct timer_list * timer);
 extern int mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires);
 extern int mod_timer_pending(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires);
 extern int timer_reduce(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+extern bool check_pending_deferrable_timers(int cpu);
+#endif
 
 /*
  * The jiffies value which is added to now, when there is no timer
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 3e2dc9b..16aec80 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/irq_work.h>
 #include <linux/posix-timers.h>
+#include <linux/timer.h>
 #include <linux/context_tracking.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 
@@ -1274,8 +1275,13 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_irq_enter(void)
 	now = ktime_get();
 	if (ts->idle_active)
 		tick_nohz_stop_idle(ts, now);
-	if (ts->tick_stopped)
+	if (ts->tick_stopped) {
 		tick_nohz_update_jiffies(now);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+		if (check_pending_deferrable_timers(smp_processor_id()))
+			raise_softirq_irqoff(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
+#endif
+	}
 }
 
 #else
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 1bf9b49..5947c63 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ static DECLARE_WORK(timer_update_work, timer_update_keys);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 struct timer_base timer_base_deferrable;
+static atomic_t deferrable_pending;
 unsigned int sysctl_timer_migration = 1;
 
 DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(timers_migration_enabled);
@@ -1610,6 +1611,31 @@ static u64 cmp_next_hrtimer_event(u64 basem, u64 expires)
 	return DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL(nextevt, TICK_NSEC) * TICK_NSEC;
 }
 
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+/*
+ * check_pending_deferrable_timers - Check for unbound deferrable timer expiry
+ * @cpu - Current CPU
+ *
+ * The function checks whether any global deferrable pending timers
+ * are exipired or not. This function does not check cpu bounded
+ * diferrable pending timers expiry.
+ *
+ * The function returns true when a cpu unbounded deferrable timer is expired.
+ */
+bool check_pending_deferrable_timers(int cpu)
+{
+	if (cpu == tick_do_timer_cpu ||
+		tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE) {
+		if (time_after_eq(jiffies, timer_base_deferrable.clk)
+			&& !atomic_cmpxchg(&deferrable_pending, 0, 1)) {
+			return true;
+		}
+	}
+	return false;
+}
+#endif
+
 /**
  * get_next_timer_interrupt - return the time (clock mono) of the next timer
  * @basej:	base time jiffies
@@ -1801,7 +1827,8 @@ static __latent_entropy void run_timer_softirq(struct softirq_action *h)
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON)) {
 		__run_timers(this_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[BASE_DEF]));
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-		if (tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE ||
+		if ((atomic_cmpxchg(&deferrable_pending, 1, 0) &&
+				tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE) ||
 				tick_do_timer_cpu == smp_processor_id())
 			__run_timers(&timer_base_deferrable);
 #endif
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