This API checks to see if the scheduler tick can be stopped,
and if so, stops it and returns 0; otherwise it returns an error.
This is intended for use with task isolation, where we will want to
be able to stop the tick synchronously when returning to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@mellanox.com>
---
include/linux/tick.h | 1 +
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index fe01e68bf520..078ff2464b00 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ static inline void tick_dep_clear_signal(struct
signal_struct *signal,
extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu);
extern void __tick_nohz_task_switch(void);
+extern int try_stop_full_tick(void);
#else
static inline int housekeeping_any_cpu(void)
{
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index c7a899c5ce64..c026145eba2f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -861,6 +861,24 @@ static void tick_nohz_full_update_tick(struct tick_sched
*ts)
#endif
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_TASK_ISOLATION
+int try_stop_full_tick(void)
+{
+ int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ struct tick_sched *ts = this_cpu_ptr(&tick_cpu_sched);
+
+ /* For an unstable clock, we should return a permanent error code. */
+ if (atomic_read(&tick_dep_mask) & TICK_DEP_MASK_CLOCK_UNSTABLE)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (!can_stop_full_tick(cpu, ts))
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
+ tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(ts, ktime_get(), cpu);
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
static bool can_stop_idle_tick(int cpu, struct tick_sched *ts)
{
/*
--
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