[tip: timers/nohz] tick/nohz: Call tick_nohz_task_switch() with interrupts disabled

From: tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu May 13 2021 - 09:18:50 EST


The following commit has been merged into the timers/nohz branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 0fdcccfafcffac70b452b3127cc3d981f0117655
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/0fdcccfafcffac70b452b3127cc3d981f0117655
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 13 May 2021 01:29:23 +02:00
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Thu, 13 May 2021 14:21:23 +02:00

tick/nohz: Call tick_nohz_task_switch() with interrupts disabled

Call tick_nohz_task_switch() slightly earlier after the context switch
to benefit from disabled IRQs. This way the function doesn't need to
disable them once more.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512232924.150322-10-frederic@xxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 7 +------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 78e480f..8f86ac2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4212,6 +4212,7 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
vtime_task_switch(prev);
perf_event_task_sched_in(prev, current);
finish_task(prev);
+ tick_nohz_task_switch();
finish_lock_switch(rq);
finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
kcov_finish_switch(current);
@@ -4257,7 +4258,6 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
put_task_struct_rcu_user(prev);
}

- tick_nohz_task_switch();
return rq;
}

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 197a3bd..6ea619d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -487,13 +487,10 @@ void tick_nohz_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *sig, enum tick_dep_bits bi
*/
void __tick_nohz_task_switch(void)
{
- unsigned long flags;
struct tick_sched *ts;

- local_irq_save(flags);
-
if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
- goto out;
+ return;

ts = this_cpu_ptr(&tick_cpu_sched);

@@ -502,8 +499,6 @@ void __tick_nohz_task_switch(void)
atomic_read(&current->signal->tick_dep_mask))
tick_nohz_full_kick();
}
-out:
- local_irq_restore(flags);
}

/* Get the boot-time nohz CPU list from the kernel parameters. */