posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model

Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify
posix cpu timers tick dependency, migrate the latter to the new mask.

In order to keep track of the running timers and expose the tick
dependency accordingly, we must probe the timers queuing and dequeuing
on threads and process lists.

Unfortunately it implies both task and signal level dependencies. We
should be able to further optimize this and merge all that on the task
level dependency, at the cost of a bit of complexity and may be overhead.

Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 47 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
index f5e86d282d52..1cafba860b08 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -333,7 +333,6 @@ static int posix_cpu_clock_get(const clockid_t which_clock, struct timespec *tp)
 	return err;
 }
 
-
 /*
  * Validate the clockid_t for a new CPU-clock timer, and initialize the timer.
  * This is called from sys_timer_create() and do_cpu_nanosleep() with the
@@ -517,6 +516,10 @@ static void arm_timer(struct k_itimer *timer)
 				cputime_expires->sched_exp = exp;
 			break;
 		}
+		if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(timer->it_clock))
+			tick_dep_set_task(p, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER);
+		else
+			tick_dep_set_signal(p->signal, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -582,39 +585,6 @@ static int cpu_timer_sample_group(const clockid_t which_clock,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
-static void nohz_kick_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
-{
-	tick_nohz_full_kick_all();
-}
-
-static DECLARE_WORK(nohz_kick_work, nohz_kick_work_fn);
-
-/*
- * We need the IPIs to be sent from sane process context.
- * The posix cpu timers are always set with irqs disabled.
- */
-static void posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz(void)
-{
-	if (context_tracking_is_enabled())
-		schedule_work(&nohz_kick_work);
-}
-
-bool posix_cpu_timers_can_stop_tick(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
-	if (!task_cputime_zero(&tsk->cputime_expires))
-		return false;
-
-	/* Check if cputimer is running. This is accessed without locking. */
-	if (READ_ONCE(tsk->signal->cputimer.running))
-		return false;
-
-	return true;
-}
-#else
-static inline void posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz(void) { }
-#endif
-
 /*
  * Guts of sys_timer_settime for CPU timers.
  * This is called with the timer locked and interrupts disabled.
@@ -761,8 +731,7 @@ static int posix_cpu_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timer, int timer_flags,
 		sample_to_timespec(timer->it_clock,
 				   old_incr, &old->it_interval);
 	}
-	if (!ret)
-		posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz();
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -911,6 +880,8 @@ static void check_thread_timers(struct task_struct *tsk,
 			__group_send_sig_info(SIGXCPU, SEND_SIG_PRIV, tsk);
 		}
 	}
+	if (task_cputime_zero(tsk_expires))
+		tick_dep_clear_task(tsk, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER);
 }
 
 static inline void stop_process_timers(struct signal_struct *sig)
@@ -919,6 +890,7 @@ static inline void stop_process_timers(struct signal_struct *sig)
 
 	/* Turn off cputimer->running. This is done without locking. */
 	WRITE_ONCE(cputimer->running, false);
+	tick_dep_clear_signal(sig, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER);
 }
 
 static u32 onecputick;
@@ -1095,8 +1067,6 @@ void posix_cpu_timer_schedule(struct k_itimer *timer)
 	arm_timer(timer);
 	unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
 
-	/* Kick full dynticks CPUs in case they need to tick on the new timer */
-	posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz();
 out:
 	timer->it_overrun_last = timer->it_overrun;
 	timer->it_overrun = -1;
@@ -1270,7 +1240,7 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int clock_idx,
 		}
 
 		if (!*newval)
-			goto out;
+			return;
 		*newval += now;
 	}
 
@@ -1288,8 +1258,8 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int clock_idx,
 			tsk->signal->cputime_expires.virt_exp = *newval;
 		break;
 	}
-out:
-	posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz();
+
+	tick_dep_set_signal(tsk->signal, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER);
 }
 
 static int do_cpu_nanosleep(const clockid_t which_clock, int flags,
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index f312c60c3ed2..e4f2916e66a9 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -204,11 +204,6 @@ static bool can_stop_full_tick(struct tick_sched *ts)
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	if (!posix_cpu_timers_can_stop_tick(current)) {
-		trace_tick_stop(0, TICK_DEP_MASK_POSIX_TIMER);
-		return false;
-	}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
 	/*
 	 * sched_clock_tick() needs us?
@@ -270,7 +265,7 @@ void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu)
  * Kick all full dynticks CPUs in order to force these to re-evaluate
  * their dependency on the tick and restart it if necessary.
  */
-void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void)
+static void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void)
 {
 	int cpu;