Re: [PATCH v10 13/20] timers: Add get next timer interrupt functionality for remote CPUs

Frederic Weisbecker
2024-02-19T16:05:01Z

Le Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 03:37:36PM +0100, Anna-Maria Behnsen a écrit :
> +# ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> +/**
> + * fetch_next_timer_interrupt_remote() - Store next timers into @tevt
> + * @basej: base time jiffies
> + * @basem: base time clock monotonic
> + * @tevt: Pointer to the storage for the expiry values
> + * @cpu: Remote CPU
> + *
> + * Stores the next pending local and global timer expiry values in the
> + * struct pointed to by @tevt. If a queue is empty the corresponding
> + * field is set to KTIME_MAX. If local event expires before global
> + * event, global event is set to KTIME_MAX as well.
> + *
> + * Caller needs to make sure timer base locks are held (use
> + * timer_lock_remote_bases() for this purpose).
> + */
> +void fetch_next_timer_interrupt_remote(unsigned long basej, u64 basem,
> + struct timer_events *tevt,
> + unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> + struct timer_base *base_local, *base_global;
> +
> + /* Preset local / global events */
> + tevt->local = tevt->global = KTIME_MAX;
> +
> + base_local = per_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[BASE_LOCAL], cpu);
> + base_global = per_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[BASE_GLOBAL], cpu);
> +
> + lockdep_assert_held(&base_local->lock);
> + lockdep_assert_held(&base_global->lock);
> +
> + fetch_next_timer_interrupt(basej, basem, base_local, base_global, tevt);

If the next timer is global and it is <= jiffies + 1, the result will be
returned in tevt.local only and not on tevt.global. So a remote fetch may miss it.

For this to work on both local and remote fetch, you may need:

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 320eb4ceafa2..64ce9a7760f5 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -2004,6 +2007,8 @@ static unsigned long fetch_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long basej, u64 basem,
if (time_before(nextevt, basej))
nextevt = basej;
tevt->local = basem + (u64)(nextevt - basej) * TICK_NSEC;
+ if (!local_first)
+ tevt->global = tevt->local;
return nextevt;
}