Re: [PATCH V2 14/19] tick-sched: add comment about 'idle_active' in tick_nohz_idle_exit()

[viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On Tuesday 22 April 2014 04:50 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> It's still over-detailed. Much of the above is easily deduced after common review. OTOH
> I proposed to summarize there: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/11/334
> The below disambiguates it a bit further.

Hmm.. Something broke for sure in my repo. I do remember updating this patch with your
comments and something went wrong while playing with patches.

Sorry for that. Fixed my repo now.

> Now it's eventually getting as big as your comment ;-)
> 
> 
>           /*
>            * ts->idle_active drives the idle time which typically elapses in the idle loop
>            * but breaks on IRQs interrupting idle loop.
>            *
>            * Hence ts->idle_active can be 1 here if we exit the idle loop without the help of
>            * an IRQ. OTOH it can be 0 on idle exit if a wake up IPI pulled the CPU out of
>            * the idle loop. Since we know that we'll be exiting the idle task after the wake
>            * up IPI, all the pending idle sleep time is flushed on irq entry and no more is
>            * accounted further thanks to the need_resched() check on irq_exit().
>            */

@Thomas: Please consider this patch instead:

Author: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon Apr 21 15:25:10 2014 +0530

    tick-sched: add comment about 'idle_active' in tick_nohz_idle_exit()

    The sequence of calls for dynticks CPUs is a bit confusing. Add a comment in
    tick_nohz_idle_exit() to mention it clearly. All information required is in
    commit and this conversation with Frederic.

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/10/355

    Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 71f64ee..b2f024f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -922,6 +922,17 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void)

        ts->inidle = 0;

+       /*
+        * ts->idle_active drives the idle time which typically elapses in the
+        * idle loop but breaks on IRQs interrupting idle loop.
+        *
+        * Hence ts->idle_active can be 1 here if we exit the idle loop without
+        * the help of an IRQ. OTOH it can be 0 on idle exit if a wake up IPI
+        * pulled the CPU out of the idle loop. Since we know that we'll be
+        * exiting the idle task after the wake up IPI, all the pending idle
+        * sleep time is flushed on irq entry and no more is accounted further
+        * thanks to the need_resched() check on irq_exit().
+        */
        if (ts->idle_active || ts->tick_stopped)
                now = ktime_get();