[patch 2/8] hrtimer: Force clock_was_set() handling for the HIGHRES=n, NOHZ=y case

Thomas Gleixner
2021-04-27T08:38:00Z

When CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is disabled, but NOHZ is enabled then
clock_was_set() is not doing anything. With HIGHRES=n the kernel relies on
the periodic tick to update the clock offsets, but when NOHZ is enabled and
active then CPUs which are in a deep idle sleep do not have a periodic tick
which means the expiry of timers affected by clock_was_set() can be
arbitrarily delayed up to the point where the CPUs are brought out of idle
again.

Make the clock_was_set() logic unconditionaly available so that idle CPUs
are kicked out of idle to handle the update.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
@@ -720,23 +720,7 @@ static inline int hrtimer_is_hres_enable
return hrtimer_hres_enabled;
}

-/*
- * Retrigger next event is called after clock was set
- *
- * Called with interrupts disabled via on_each_cpu()
- */
-static void retrigger_next_event(void *arg)
-{
- struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base = this_cpu_ptr(&hrtimer_bases);
-
- if (!__hrtimer_hres_active(base))
- return;
-
- raw_spin_lock(&base->lock);
- hrtimer_update_base(base);
- hrtimer_force_reprogram(base, 0);
- raw_spin_unlock(&base->lock);
-}
+static void retrigger_next_event(void *arg);

/*
* Switch to high resolution mode
@@ -762,9 +746,50 @@ static void hrtimer_switch_to_hres(void)

static inline int hrtimer_is_hres_enabled(void) { return 0; }
static inline void hrtimer_switch_to_hres(void) { }
-static inline void retrigger_next_event(void *arg) { }

#endif /* CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS */
+/*
+ * Retrigger next event is called after clock was set with interrupts
+ * disabled through an SMP function call or directly from low level
+ * resume code.
+ *
+ * This is only invoked when:
+ * - CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is enabled.
+ * - CONFIG_NOHZ_COMMON is enabled
+ *
+ * For the other cases this function is empty and because the call sites
+ * are optimized out it vanishes as well, i.e. no need for lots of
+ * #ifdeffery.
+ */
+static void retrigger_next_event(void *arg)
+{
+ struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base = this_cpu_ptr(&hrtimer_bases);
+
+ /*
+ * When high resolution mode or nohz is active, then the offsets of
+ * CLOCK_REALTIME/TAI/BOOTTIME have to be updated. Otherwise the
+ * next tick will take care of that.
+ *
+ * If high resolution mode is active then the next expiring timer
+ * must be reevaluated and the clock event device reprogrammed if
+ * necessary.
+ *
+ * In the NOHZ case the update of the offset and the reevaluation
+ * of the next expiring timer is enough. The return from the SMP
+ * function call will take care of the reprogramming in case the
+ * CPU was in a NOHZ idle sleep.
+ */
+ if (!__hrtimer_hres_active(base) && !tick_nohz_active)
+ return;
+
+ raw_spin_lock(&base->lock);
+ hrtimer_update_base(base);
+ if (__hrtimer_hres_active(base))
+ hrtimer_force_reprogram(base, 0);
+ else
+ hrtimer_update_next_event(base);
+ raw_spin_unlock(&base->lock);
+}

/*
* When a timer is enqueued and expires earlier than the already enqueued
@@ -856,22 +881,28 @@ static void hrtimer_reprogram(struct hrt
}

/*
- * Clock realtime was set
- *
- * Change the offset of the realtime clock vs. the monotonic
- * clock.
+ * Clock was set. This might affect CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_TAI and
+ * CLOCK_BOOTTIME (for late sleep time injection).
*
- * We might have to reprogram the high resolution timer interrupt. On
- * SMP we call the architecture specific code to retrigger _all_ high
- * resolution timer interrupts. On UP we just disable interrupts and
- * call the high resolution interrupt code.
+ * This requires to update the offsets for these clocks
+ * vs. CLOCK_MONOTONIC. When high resolution timers are enabled, then this
+ * also requires to eventually reprogram the per CPU clock event devices
+ * when the change moves an affected timer ahead of the first expiring
+ * timer on that CPU. Obviously remote per CPU clock event devices cannot
+ * be reprogrammed. The other reason why an IPI has to be sent is when the
+ * system is in !HIGH_RES and NOHZ mode. The NOHZ mode updates the offsets
+ * in the tick, which obviously might be stopped, so this has to bring out
+ * the remote CPU which might sleep in idle to get this sorted.
*/
void clock_was_set(void)
{
-#ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
+ if (!hrtimer_hres_active() && !tick_nohz_active)
+ goto out_timerfd;
+
/* Retrigger the CPU local events everywhere */
on_each_cpu(retrigger_next_event, NULL, 1);
-#endif
+
+out_timerfd:
timerfd_clock_was_set();
}