The patch titled uml: fix !NO_HZ busy-loop has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is uml-fix-no_hz-busy-loop.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: uml: fix !NO_HZ busy-loop From: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx> With NO_HZ disabled, the UML idle loop effectively becomes a busy loop, as it will sleep for no time. The cause was forgetting to restart the tick after waking up from sleep. It was disabled before sleeping, and the remaining time used as the interval to sleep. So, the tick needs to be restarted when nanosleep finishes. This is done by introducing after_sleep_interval, which is empty in the NO_HZ case, but which sets the tick starting in the !NO_HZ case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/os-Linux/time.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/um/os-Linux/time.c~uml-fix-no_hz-busy-loop arch/um/os-Linux/time.c --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c~uml-fix-no_hz-busy-loop +++ a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ long long disable_timer(void) { struct itimerval time = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 } }); - if(setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &time, &time) < 0) + if (setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &time, &time) < 0) printk(UM_KERN_ERR "disable_timer - setitimer failed, " "errno = %d\n", errno); @@ -74,13 +74,61 @@ long long os_nsecs(void) return timeval_to_ns(&tv); } +#ifdef UML_CONFIG_NO_HZ +static int after_sleep_interval(struct timespec *ts) +{ +} +#else +static inline long long timespec_to_us(const struct timespec *ts) +{ + return ((long long) ts->tv_sec * UM_USEC_PER_SEC) + + ts->tv_nsec / UM_NSEC_PER_USEC; +} + +static int after_sleep_interval(struct timespec *ts) +{ + int usec = UM_USEC_PER_SEC / UM_HZ; + long long start_usecs = timespec_to_us(ts); + struct timeval tv; + struct itimerval interval; + + /* + * It seems that rounding can increase the value returned from + * setitimer to larger than the one passed in. Over time, + * this will cause the remaining time to be greater than the + * tick interval. If this happens, then just reduce the first + * tick to the interval value. + */ + if (start_usecs > usec) + start_usecs = usec; + tv = ((struct timeval) { .tv_sec = start_usecs / UM_USEC_PER_SEC, + .tv_usec = start_usecs % UM_USEC_PER_SEC }); + interval = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, usec }, tv }); + + if (setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &interval, NULL) == -1) + return -errno; + + return 0; +} +#endif + extern void alarm_handler(int sig, struct sigcontext *sc); void idle_sleep(unsigned long long nsecs) { - struct timespec ts = { .tv_sec = nsecs / UM_NSEC_PER_SEC, - .tv_nsec = nsecs % UM_NSEC_PER_SEC }; + struct timespec ts; + + /* + * nsecs can come in as zero, in which case, this starts a + * busy loop. To prevent this, reset nsecs to the tick + * interval if it is zero. + */ + if (nsecs == 0) + nsecs = UM_NSEC_PER_SEC / UM_HZ; + ts = ((struct timespec) { .tv_sec = nsecs / UM_NSEC_PER_SEC, + .tv_nsec = nsecs % UM_NSEC_PER_SEC }); if (nanosleep(&ts, &ts) == 0) alarm_handler(SIGVTALRM, NULL); + after_sleep_interval(&ts); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx are uml-fix-no_hz-busy-loop.patch git-kvm.patch uml-arch-um-include-inith-needs-a-definition-of-__used.patch uml-implement-get_wchan.patch uml-implement-get_wchan-fix.patch uml-get-rid-of-asmlinkage.patch uml-get-rid-of-asmlinkage-checkpatch-fixes.patch uml-document-new-ubd-flag.patch uml-further-bugsc-tidying.patch uml-further-bugsc-tidying-checkpatch-fixes.patch uml-smp-needs-to-depend-on-broken-for-now.patch uml-console-driver-cleanups.patch uml-clonec-tidying.patch uml-borrow-consth-techniques.patch uml-delete-some-unused-headers.patch uml-allow-lflags-on-command-line.patch uml-tidy-kern_utilh.patch uml-tidy-pgtableh.patch uml-tidy-pgtableh-fix.patch uml-reconst-a-parameter.patch arch-um-remove-duplicate-includes.patch uml-host-tls-diagnostics.patch uml-move-um_virt_to_phys.patch uml-header-untangling.patch uml-style-cleanup.patch uml-currenth-cleanup.patch uml-fix-page-table-data-sizes.patch uml-add-virt_to_pte.patch uml-simplify-sigsegv-handling.patch uml-use-ptrace-directly-in-libc-code.patch uml-kill-processes-instead-of-panicing-kernel.patch uml-clean-up-task_size-usage.patch uml-cover-stubs-with-a-vma.patch iget-stop-hostfs-from-using-iget-and-read_inode.patch iget-stop-hostfs-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-checkpatch-fixes.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html