Re: [PATCH v5 tip/core/rcu 15/16] rcu: Make RCU-tasks wait for idle tasks

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Aug 13 2014 - 13:30:57 EST


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 07:24:07PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 04:42:19PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Auditing all idle functions will be somewhat of a pain, but its entirely
> > doable. Looking at this stuff, it appears we can clean it up massively;
> > see how the generic cpuidle code already has the broadcast logic in, so
> > we can remove that from the drivers by setting the right flags.
> >
> > We can similarly pull out the leave_mm() call by adding a
> > CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSH. At which point all we'd need to do is mark the
> > intel_idle (and all other cpuidle_state::enter functions with __notrace.
>
> This removes the broadcast stuff from intel_idle.c; processor_idle.c hurts
> my brain, but something similar should be possible.
>

And this moves the leave_mm() bit to generic code.

---
--- a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
@@ -101,14 +101,6 @@ static int intel_idle_cpu_init(int cpu);
static struct cpuidle_state *cpuidle_state_table;

/*
- * Set this flag for states where the HW flushes the TLB for us
- * and so we don't need cross-calls to keep it consistent.
- * If this flag is set, SW flushes the TLB, so even if the
- * HW doesn't do the flushing, this flag is safe to use.
- */
-#define CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED 0x10000
-
-/*
* MWAIT takes an 8-bit "hint" in EAX "suggesting"
* the C-state (top nibble) and sub-state (bottom nibble)
* 0x00 means "MWAIT(C1)", 0x10 means "MWAIT(C2)" etc.
@@ -508,14 +500,6 @@ static int intel_idle(struct cpuidle_dev
unsigned long ecx = 1; /* break on interrupt flag */
struct cpuidle_state *state = &drv->states[index];
unsigned long eax = flg2MWAIT(state->flags);
- int cpu = smp_processor_id();
-
- /*
- * leave_mm() to avoid costly and often unnecessary wakeups
- * for flushing the user TLB's associated with the active mm.
- */
- if (state->flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED)
- leave_mm(cpu);

mwait_idle_with_hints(eax, ecx);

--- a/include/linux/cpuidle.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuidle.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ struct cpuidle_state {
#define CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID (0x01) /* is residency time measurable? */
#define CPUIDLE_FLAG_COUPLED (0x02) /* state applies to multiple cpus */
#define CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP (0x04) /* timer is stopped on this state */
+#define CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED (0x08) /* TLBs are flushed on this state */

#define CPUIDLE_DRIVER_FLAGS_MASK (0xFFFF0000)

--- a/kernel/sched/idle.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/idle.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static void cpuidle_idle_call(void)
struct cpuidle_device *dev = __this_cpu_read(cpuidle_devices);
struct cpuidle_driver *drv = cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(dev);
int next_state, entered_state;
- unsigned int broadcast;
+ unsigned int broadcast, flags;

/*
* Check if the idle task must be rescheduled. If it is the
@@ -135,7 +135,16 @@ static void cpuidle_idle_call(void)
goto exit_idle;
}

- broadcast = drv->states[next_state].flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP;
+ flags = drv->states[next_state].flags;
+
+ /*
+ * leave_mm() to avoid costly and often unnecessary wakeups
+ * for flushing the user TLB's associated with the active mm.
+ */
+ if (flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED)
+ leave_mm(dev->cpu);
+
+ broadcast = flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP;

/*
* Tell the time framework to switch to a broadcast timer

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