nohz: nohz full depends on irq work self IPI support

9b01f5bf · Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> · 2014-08-18 01:36:07 +02:00

The nohz full functionality depends on IRQ work to trigger its own
interrupts. As it's used to restart the tick, we can't rely on the tick
fallback for irq work callbacks, ie: we can't use the tick to restart
the tick itself.

Lets reject the full dynticks initialization if that arch support isn't
available.

As a side effect, this makes sure that nohz kick is never called from
the tick. That otherwise would result in illegal hrtimer self-cancellation
and lockup.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>

Commit: 9b01f5bf3999a3db5b1bbd9fdfd80d8d304e94ee
Parents: 4327b15f

Changes

1 files changed · +14 −0

File	Status	Add	Del	Content
kernel/time/tick-sched.c	modified	+14	−0	View file

kernel/time/tick-sched.c

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diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index eb4af01..5a9ff24 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -365,6 +365,20 @@ void __init tick_nohz_init(void)
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Full dynticks uses irq work to drive the tick rescheduling on safe
+	 * locking contexts. But then we need irq work to raise its own
+	 * interrupts to avoid circular dependency on the tick
+	 */
+	if (!arch_irq_work_has_interrupt()) {
+		pr_warning("NO_HZ: Can't run full dynticks because arch doesn't "
+			   "support irq work self-IPIs\n");
+		cpumask_clear(tick_nohz_full_mask);
+		cpumask_copy(housekeeping_mask, cpu_possible_mask);
+		tick_nohz_full_running = false;
+		return;
+	}
+
 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, tick_nohz_full_mask)) {