linux/arch
Peter Zijlstra 31656519e1 sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation
random uvesafb failures were reported against Gentoo:

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222799

and Mihai Moldovan bisected it back to:

> 8f4d37ec07 is first bad commit
> commit 8f4d37ec07
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:29 2008 +0100
>
>    sched: high-res preemption tick

Linus suspected it to be hrtick + vm86 interaction and observed:

> Btw, Peter, Ingo: I think that commit is doing bad things. They aren't
> _incorrect_ per se, but they are definitely bad.
>
> Why?
>
> Using random _TIF_WORK_MASK flags is really impolite for doing
> "scheduling" work. There's a reason that arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> special-cases the _TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag: we don't want to exit out of
> vm86 mode unnecessarily.
>
> See the "work_notifysig_v86" label, and how it does that
> "save_v86_state()" thing etc etc.

Right, I never liked having to fiddle with those TIF flags. Initially I
needed it because the hrtimer base lock could not nest in the rq lock.
That however is fixed these days.

Currently the only reason left to fiddle with the TIF flags is remote
wakeups. We cannot program a remote cpu's hrtimer. I've been thinking
about using the new and improved IPI function call stuff to implement
hrtimer_start_on().

However that does require that smp_call_function_single(.wait=0) works
from interrupt context - /me looks at the latest series from Jens - Yes
that does seem to be supported, good.

Here's a stab at cleaning this stuff up ...

Mihai reported test success as well.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-20 10:37:28 +02:00
..
alpha Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
arm Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
avr32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc 2008-07-16 15:17:52 -07:00
blackfin Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal 2008-07-14 15:29:34 -06:00
cris Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
frv PCI: remove unused arch pcibios_update_resource() functions 2008-06-27 13:14:01 -07:00
h8300 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
ia64 fix build error of arch/ia64/kvm/* 2008-07-17 09:16:31 -07:00
m32r smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument 2008-06-26 11:24:35 +02:00
m68k Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal 2008-07-14 15:29:34 -06:00
m68knommu Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
mn10300 mn10300: provide __ucmpdi2() for MN10300 2008-07-04 10:40:07 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
powerpc powerpc/ep8248e: Fix compile problem if !CONFIG_FS_ENET 2008-07-16 11:43:48 -07:00
s390 [S390] Fix stacktrace compile bug. 2008-07-17 17:22:09 +02:00
sh Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
sparc Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal 2008-07-14 15:29:34 -06:00
sparc64 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
um Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
v850 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
x86 sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation 2008-07-20 10:37:28 +02:00
xtensa [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
.gitignore
Kconfig Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls 2008-06-26 11:21:34 +02:00