This patch creates the necessary sysfs interface for timer migration. The interface is located at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/timer_migration These sysfs entries are initialized to their respective cpu ids. This represents the no timer migration state. By echoing a target cpu number we can enable migration for that cpu. Echo a target cpu number to the per-cpu sysfs entry and all timers are migrated to that cpu, instead of choosing cpu0 by default. e.g. echo 4 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/timer_migration this would move all regular and hrtimers from cpu1 to cpu4. Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/cpu.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/timer.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.27/drivers/base/cpu.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.27.orig/drivers/base/cpu.c +++ linux-2.6.27/drivers/base/cpu.c @@ -20,6 +20,43 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_sysdev_class); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sys_device *, cpu_sys_devices); +DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, enable_timer_migration); + +/* This function initializes sysfs entries for enabling timer migration. + * Each per_cpu enable_timer_migration is initialized to its cpu_id. + * By echo-ing a value other than its cpu_id will set that as the target cpu + * to which the timers are to be migrated to. + */ +void initialize_timer_migration_sysfs(void) +{ + int cpu; + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) + per_cpu(enable_timer_migration, cpu) = cpu; +} + +static ssize_t timer_migration_show(struct sys_device *dev, char *buf) +{ + struct cpu *cpu = container_of(dev, struct cpu, sysdev); + return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", per_cpu(enable_timer_migration, + cpu->sysdev.id)); +} +static ssize_t +timer_migration_store(struct sys_device *dev, const char *buf, size_t count) +{ + struct cpu *cpu = container_of(dev, struct cpu, sysdev); + ssize_t ret = -EINVAL; + int target_cpu; + sscanf(buf, "%d", &target_cpu); + if (cpu_online(target_cpu)) { + ret = count; + per_cpu(enable_timer_migration, cpu->sysdev.id) = target_cpu; + } + + return ret; +} +static SYSDEV_ATTR(timer_migration, 0644, + timer_migration_show, timer_migration_store); + #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU static ssize_t show_online(struct sys_device *dev, struct sysdev_attribute *attr, char *buf) @@ -177,6 +214,11 @@ int __cpuinit register_cpu(struct cpu *c if (!error) error = sysdev_create_file(&cpu->sysdev, &attr_crash_notes); #endif + + if (!error) { + error = sysdev_create_file(&cpu->sysdev, &attr_timer_migration); + initialize_timer_migration_sysfs(); + } return error; } Index: linux-2.6.27/include/linux/timer.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.27.orig/include/linux/timer.h +++ linux-2.6.27/include/linux/timer.h @@ -187,3 +187,5 @@ unsigned long round_jiffies(unsigned lon unsigned long round_jiffies_relative(unsigned long j); #endif + +DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, enable_timer_migration); _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm