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NOHZ: update idle state also when NOHZ is inactive
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Commit f2e21c9 had unfortunate side
effects with cpufreq governors on some systems.

If the system did not switch into NOHZ mode ts->inidle is not set when
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() is called from the idle routine. Therefor
all subsequent calls from irq_exit() to tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
fail to call tick_nohz_start_idle(). This results in bogus idle
accounting information which is passed to cpufreq governors.

Set the inidle flag unconditionally of the NOHZ active state to keep
the idle time accounting correct in any case.

[ tglx: Added comment and tweaked the changelog ]

Reported-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Eero Nurkkala <ext-eero.nurkkala@nokia.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1254907901.30157.93.camel@eenurkka-desktop>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Eero Nurkkala authored and Thomas Gleixner committed Oct 7, 2009
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions kernel/time/tick-sched.c
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Expand Up @@ -231,6 +231,13 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle)
if (!inidle && !ts->inidle)
goto end;

/*
* Set ts->inidle unconditionally. Even if the system did not
* switch to NOHZ mode the cpu frequency governers rely on the
* update of the idle time accounting in tick_nohz_start_idle().
*/
ts->inidle = 1;

now = tick_nohz_start_idle(ts);

/*
Expand All @@ -248,8 +255,6 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle)
if (unlikely(ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE))
goto end;

ts->inidle = 1;

if (need_resched())
goto end;

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