[PATCH 9/11] UML - Eliminate ticking in the idle loop

From: Jeff Dike
Date: Wed Sep 12 2007 - 17:19:43 EST


Now, the idle loop now longer needs SIGALRM firing - it can just sleep
for the requisite amount of time and fake a timer interrupt when it
finishes.

Any use of ITIMER_REAL now goes away. disable_timer only turns off
ITIMER_VIRTUAL. switch_timers is no longer needed, so it, and all
calls, goes away.

disable_timer now returns the amount of time remaining on the timer.
default_idle uses this to tell idle_sleep how long to sleep.
idle_sleep will call alarm_handler if nanosleep returns 0, which is
the case if it didn't return early due to an interrupt. Otherwise, it
just returns.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
--
arch/um/include/os.h | 5 +--
arch/um/kernel/process.c | 7 +++--
arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c | 3 --
arch/um/os-Linux/time.c | 58 ++++++++--------------------------------------
4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c 2007-09-12 15:15:48.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c 2007-09-12 15:41:43.000000000 -0400
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
#include "os.h"
#include "user.h"

-static int is_real_timer = 0;
-
int set_interval(void)
{
int usec = 1000000/UM_HZ;
@@ -53,51 +51,15 @@ static inline unsigned long long tv_to_n
tv->tv_usec * 1000;
}

-void disable_timer(void)
+unsigned long long disable_timer(void)
{
- struct itimerval disable = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 }});
+ struct itimerval time = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 } });

- if ((setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &disable, NULL) < 0) ||
- (setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &disable, NULL) < 0))
+ if(setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &time, &time) < 0)
printk(UM_KERN_ERR "disable_timer - setitimer failed, "
"errno = %d\n", errno);

- /* If there are signals already queued, after unblocking ignore them */
- signal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN);
- signal(SIGVTALRM, SIG_IGN);
-}
-
-int switch_timers(int to_real)
-{
- struct itimerval disable = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 }});
- struct itimerval enable;
- int old, new, old_type = is_real_timer;
-
- if(to_real == old_type)
- return to_real;
-
- if (to_real) {
- old = ITIMER_VIRTUAL;
- new = ITIMER_REAL;
- }
- else {
- old = ITIMER_REAL;
- new = ITIMER_VIRTUAL;
- }
-
- if (setitimer(old, &disable, &enable) < 0)
- printk(UM_KERN_ERR "switch_timers - setitimer disable failed, "
- "errno = %d\n", errno);
-
- if((enable.it_value.tv_sec == 0) && (enable.it_value.tv_usec == 0))
- enable.it_value = enable.it_interval;
-
- if (setitimer(new, &enable, NULL))
- printk(UM_KERN_ERR "switch_timers - setitimer enable failed, "
- "errno = %d\n", errno);
-
- is_real_timer = to_real;
- return old_type;
+ return tv_to_nsec(&time.it_value);
}

unsigned long long os_nsecs(void)
@@ -108,11 +70,13 @@ unsigned long long os_nsecs(void)
return tv_to_nsec(&tv);
}

-void idle_sleep(int secs)
+extern void alarm_handler(int sig, struct sigcontext *sc);
+
+void idle_sleep(unsigned long long nsecs)
{
- struct timespec ts;
+ struct timespec ts = { .tv_sec = nsecs / BILLION,
+ .tv_nsec = nsecs % BILLION };

- ts.tv_sec = secs;
- ts.tv_nsec = 0;
- nanosleep(&ts, NULL);
+ if (nanosleep(&ts, &ts) == 0)
+ alarm_handler(SIGVTALRM, NULL);
}
Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c 2007-09-12 14:55:18.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c 2007-09-12 15:41:04.000000000 -0400
@@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ void (*handlers[_NSIG])(int sig, struct
void handle_signal(int sig, struct sigcontext *sc)
{
unsigned long pending = 0;
- int timer = switch_timers(0);

do {
int nested, bail;
@@ -157,8 +156,6 @@ void handle_signal(int sig, struct sigco
if (!nested)
pending = from_irq_stack(nested);
} while (pending);
-
- switch_timers(timer);
}

extern void hard_handler(int sig);
Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/um/kernel/process.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/um/kernel/process.c 2007-09-12 15:15:48.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.22/arch/um/kernel/process.c 2007-09-12 15:41:04.000000000 -0400
@@ -235,6 +235,8 @@ void initial_thread_cb(void (*proc)(void

void default_idle(void)
{
+ unsigned long long nsecs;
+
while(1) {
/* endless idle loop with no priority at all */

@@ -246,9 +248,8 @@ void default_idle(void)
schedule();

tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick();
- switch_timers(1);
- idle_sleep(10);
- switch_timers(0);
+ nsecs = disable_timer();
+ idle_sleep(nsecs);
tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick();
}
}
Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/um/include/os.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/um/include/os.h 2007-09-12 15:15:48.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.22/arch/um/include/os.h 2007-09-12 15:41:04.000000000 -0400
@@ -252,11 +252,10 @@ extern void os_log_info(char *fmt, va_li
/* time.c */
#define BILLION (1000 * 1000 * 1000)

-extern int switch_timers(int to_real);
-extern void idle_sleep(int secs);
+extern void idle_sleep(unsigned long long nsecs);
extern int set_interval(void);
extern int timer_one_shot(int ticks);
-extern void disable_timer(void);
+extern unsigned long long disable_timer(void);
extern void uml_idle_timer(void);
extern unsigned long long os_nsecs(void);

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