On 10/16, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 06:58:03AM -0700, tip-bot for Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > Commit-ID: 31c1fc8187158cb80ccd57c19e024c55af901797
> > Gitweb:
> > http://git.kernel.org/tip/31c1fc8187158cb80ccd57c19e024c55af901797
> > Author: Kevin Hilman <khil...@linaro.org>
> > AuthorDate: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:28:22 -0700
> > Committer: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
> > CommitDate: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:37:05 +0200
> >
> > ARM: Kconfig: allow full nohz CPU accounting
> >
> > With the 64-bit requirement removed from VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN,
> > allow ARM platforms to enable it. Since VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN is a
> > dependency for full NO_HZ, this allows ARM platforms to enable full
> > NO_HZ as well.
>
> I realize that arm doesn't implement irq work raise. It hooks on the
> timer to execute pending irq work. You'll need to implement
> arch_irq_work_raise()
> and implement some sort of self IPI to trigger irq work. The full dynticks
> subsystem
> relies on that to work correctly. It often use that to re-evaluate and
> possibly restart
> the tick after scheduler, posix timer updates, etc...
>
> That notwithstanding that if you have no tick, tick based irq work can't
> work.
>
Something like this? The only problem is that this latches on to
the SMP support for IPIs. If CONFIG_SMP is disabled we won't get
arch_irq_work_raise() but perhaps that isn't so big of a deal? Or
we should think about exposing IPI support to UP systems on ARM.
----8<-----
arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h | 2 +-
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h
index 2740c2a2..3d7351c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/threads.h>
#include <asm/irq.h>
-#define NR_IPI 6
+#define NR_IPI 7
typedef struct {
unsigned int __softirq_pending;
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
index 72024ea..bf9a0d6d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#include <linux/clockchips.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
#include <linux/cpufreq.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <asm/smp.h>
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ enum ipi_msg_type {
IPI_CALL_FUNC,
IPI_CALL_FUNC_SINGLE,
IPI_CPU_STOP,
+ IPI_IRQ_WORK,
};
static DECLARE_COMPLETION(cpu_running);
@@ -448,6 +450,13 @@ void arch_send_call_function_single_ipi(int cpu)
smp_cross_call(cpumask_of(cpu), IPI_CALL_FUNC_SINGLE);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
+void arch_irq_work_raise(void)
+{
+ smp_cross_call(cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()), IPI_IRQ_WORK);
+}
+#endif
+
static const char *ipi_types[NR_IPI] = {
#define S(x,s) [x] = s
S(IPI_WAKEUP, "CPU wakeup interrupts"),
@@ -456,6 +465,7 @@ static const char *ipi_types[NR_IPI] = {
S(IPI_CALL_FUNC, "Function call interrupts"),
S(IPI_CALL_FUNC_SINGLE, "Single function call interrupts"),
S(IPI_CPU_STOP, "CPU stop interrupts"),
+ S(IPI_IRQ_WORK, "IRQ work interrupts"),
};
void show_ipi_list(struct seq_file *p, int prec)
@@ -565,6 +575,14 @@ void handle_IPI(int ipinr, struct pt_regs *regs)
irq_exit();
break;
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
+ case IPI_IRQ_WORK:
+ irq_enter();
+ irq_work_run();
+ irq_exit();
+ break;
+#endif
+
default:
printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU%u: Unknown IPI message 0x%x\n",
cpu, ipinr);
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