[PATCH 02/10] perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed

Frederic Weisbecker
2013-04-22T19:00:00Z

Kick the current CPU's tick by sending it a self IPI when
an event is queued on the rotation list and it is the first
element inserted. This makes sure that perf_event_task_tick()
works on full dynticks CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index b0cd865..75b58bb 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/poll.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/hash.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>
#include <linux/sysfs.h>
#include <linux/dcache.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
@@ -655,8 +656,12 @@ static void perf_pmu_rotate_start(struct pmu *pmu)

WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());

- if (list_empty(&cpuctx->rotation_list))
+ if (list_empty(&cpuctx->rotation_list)) {
+ int was_empty = list_empty(head);
list_add(&cpuctx->rotation_list, head);
+ if (was_empty)
+ tick_nohz_full_kick();
+ }
}

static void get_ctx(struct perf_event_context *ctx)
--
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