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Rafael J. Wysocki 124cf9117c PM / sleep: Make it possible to quiesce timers during suspend-to-idle
The efficiency of suspend-to-idle depends on being able to keep CPUs
in the deepest available idle states for as much time as possible.
Ideally, they should only be brought out of idle by system wakeup
interrupts.

However, timer interrupts occurring periodically prevent that from
happening and it is not practical to chase all of the "misbehaving"
timers in a whack-a-mole fashion.  A much more effective approach is
to suspend the local ticks for all CPUs and the entire timekeeping
along the lines of what is done during full suspend, which also
helps to keep suspend-to-idle and full suspend reasonably similar.

The idea is to suspend the local tick on each CPU executing
cpuidle_enter_freeze() and to make the last of them suspend the
entire timekeeping.  That should prevent timer interrupts from
triggering until an IO interrupt wakes up one of the CPUs.  It
needs to be done with interrupts disabled on all of the CPUs,
though, because otherwise the suspended clocksource might be
accessed by an interrupt handler which might lead to fatal
consequences.

Unfortunately, the existing ->enter callbacks provided by cpuidle
drivers generally cannot be used for implementing that, because some
of them re-enable interrupts temporarily and some idle entry methods
cause interrupts to be re-enabled automatically on exit.  Also some
of these callbacks manipulate local clock event devices of the CPUs
which really shouldn't be done after suspending their ticks.

To overcome that difficulty, introduce a new cpuidle state callback,
->enter_freeze, that will be guaranteed (1) to keep interrupts
disabled all the time (and return with interrupts disabled) and (2)
not to touch the CPU timer devices.  Modify cpuidle_enter_freeze() to
look for the deepest available idle state with ->enter_freeze present
and to make the CPU execute that callback with suspended tick (and the
last of the online CPUs to execute it with suspended timekeeping).

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2015-02-15 19:40:09 +01:00
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bpf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-01-27 13:55:36 -08:00
configs x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest possible kernel 2014-08-08 16:30:24 -07:00
debug Surprising number of fixes this merge window :( 2015-01-23 06:40:36 +12:00
events powerpc updates for 3.20 2015-02-11 18:15:38 -08:00
gcov gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL from ARCH Kconfigs 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
irq genirq: Prevent proc race against freeing of irq descriptors 2014-12-13 13:33:07 +01:00
livepatch livepatch: add missing newline to error message 2015-02-06 21:28:35 +01:00
locking Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2015-02-11 17:42:32 -08:00
power PM / sleep: Re-implement suspend-to-idle handling 2015-02-13 23:49:36 +01:00
printk printk: correct timeout comment, neaten MODULE_PARM_DESC 2015-02-12 18:54:13 -08:00
rcu Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', 'preempt.2015.01.06a', 'srcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD 2015-01-15 23:34:34 -08:00
sched PM / sleep: Re-implement suspend-to-idle handling 2015-02-13 23:49:36 +01:00
time PM / sleep: Make it possible to quiesce timers during suspend-to-idle 2015-02-15 19:40:09 +01:00
trace The updates included in this pull request for ftrace are: 2015-02-12 08:37:41 -08:00
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acct.c acct: eliminate compile warning 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
async.c kernel/async.c: switch to pr_foo() 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
audit_tree.c fsnotify: unify inode and mount marks handling 2014-12-13 12:42:53 -08:00
audit_watch.c audit: invalid op= values for rules 2014-09-23 16:37:53 -04:00
audit.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-12-30 10:45:47 -08:00
audit.h audit: reduce scope of audit_log_fcaps 2014-09-23 16:37:51 -04:00
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capability.c CAPABILITIES: remove undefined caps from all processes 2014-07-24 21:53:47 +10:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: rename cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes to ->legacy_cftypes 2014-07-15 11:05:09 -04:00
cgroup.c cgroup: release css->id after css_free 2015-02-12 18:54:09 -08:00
compat.c all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c sched: stop the unbound recursion in preempt_schedule_context() 2014-10-28 10:46:05 +01:00
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c hotplugcpu: Avoid deadlocks by waking active_writer 2015-01-06 11:01:14 -08:00
cpuset.c kernel/cpuset.c: Mark cpuset_init_current_mems_allowed as __init 2015-02-12 18:54:11 -08:00
crash_dump.c crash_dump: Make is_kdump_kernel() accessible from modules 2014-08-25 15:42:19 -07:00
cred.c
delayacct.c delayacct: Remove braindamaged type conversions 2014-07-23 10:18:06 -07:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c oom, PM: make OOM detection in the freezer path raceless 2015-02-11 17:06:03 -08:00
extable.c ftrace/x86/extable: Add is_ftrace_trampoline() function 2014-11-19 15:25:26 -05:00
fork.c mm: do not use mm->nr_pmds on !MMU configurations 2015-02-12 18:54:10 -08:00
freezer.c freezer: remove obsolete comments in __thaw_task() 2014-10-21 23:44:20 +02:00
futex_compat.c
futex.c all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
groups.c userns: Don't allow setgroups until a gid mapping has been setablished 2014-12-09 16:58:40 -06:00
hung_task.c
irq_work.c percpu: Convert remaining __get_cpu_var uses in 3.18-rcX 2014-10-29 11:18:18 -04:00
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c kernel/kallsyms.c: use __seq_open_private() 2014-10-14 02:18:16 +02:00
kcmp.c kcmp: fix standard comparison bug 2014-09-10 15:42:12 -07:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks locking/mcs: Better differentiate between MCS variants 2015-01-14 15:07:32 +01:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2015-02-10 18:57:15 -08:00
kmod.c usermodehelper: kill the kmod_thread_locker logic 2014-12-10 17:41:17 -08:00
kprobes.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2015-02-12 08:51:56 -08:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c kernel/kthread.c: partial revert of 81c98869fa ("kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations") 2014-10-09 22:25:51 -04:00
latencytop.c
Makefile Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2015-02-11 20:25:11 -08:00
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c module: Replace over-engineered nested sleep 2015-02-11 15:02:04 +10:30
notifier.c rcu: Make SRCU optional by using CONFIG_SRCU 2015-01-06 11:04:29 -08:00
nsproxy.c bury struct proc_ns in fs/proc 2014-12-04 14:34:54 -05:00
padata.c
panic.c livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH 2014-12-22 15:40:48 +01:00
params.c param: fix uninitialized read with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 2015-01-20 11:38:31 +10:30
pid_namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-12-16 15:53:03 -08:00
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profile.c
ptrace.c exit: ptrace: shift "reap dead" code from exit_ptrace() to forget_original_parent() 2014-12-10 17:41:10 -08:00
range.c kernel: avoid overflow in cmp_range 2015-01-17 10:02:23 +13:00
reboot.c kernel: add support for kernel restart handler call chain 2014-09-26 00:00:06 -07:00
relay.c
resource.c resources: Move struct resource_list_entry from ACPI into resource core 2015-02-05 15:09:25 +01:00
seccomp.c Merge branch 'x86-seccomp-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-14 02:27:06 +02:00
signal.c all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
smp.c Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
smpboot.c smpboot: Add missing get_online_cpus() in smpboot_register_percpu_thread() 2015-01-23 11:33:51 +01:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-09 15:24:03 -08:00
stacktrace.c stacktrace: introduce snprint_stack_trace for buffer output 2014-12-13 12:42:48 -08:00
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c syscalls: implement execveat() system call 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
sys.c x86, mpx: Strictly enforce empty prctl() args 2015-01-22 21:11:06 +01:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel: add panic_on_warn 2014-12-10 17:41:10 -08:00
sysctl.c mm, hugetlb: remove unnecessary lower bound on sysctl handlers"? 2015-02-10 14:30:34 -08:00
system_certificates.S
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task_work.c
taskstats.c netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void 2015-01-18 01:03:45 -05:00
test_kprobes.c kernel/test_kprobes.c: use current logging functions 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
torture.c torture: Address race in module cleanup 2014-09-16 13:41:06 -07:00
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c sched: Make task->start_time nanoseconds based 2014-07-23 10:18:05 -07:00
uid16.c groups: Consolidate the setgroups permission checks 2014-12-05 17:19:27 -06:00
up.c
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user-return-notifier.c scheduler: Replace __get_cpu_var with this_cpu_ptr 2014-08-26 13:45:45 -04:00
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utsname_sysctl.c
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watchdog.c kernel/sched/clock.c: add another clock for use with the soft lockup watchdog 2015-02-12 18:54:13 -08:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c workqueue: fix subtle pool management issue which can stall whole worker_pool 2015-01-16 14:21:16 -05:00