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uml: fix !NO_HZ busy-loop
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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@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeff Dike authored and Linus Torvalds committed Nov 29, 2007
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54 changes: 51 additions & 3 deletions arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
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Expand Up @@ -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);

Expand All @@ -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);
}

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