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sched, tracing: Stop/start critical timings around the idle=poll idle…
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When using idle=poll, the preemptoff tracer is always showing
the idle task as the culprit for long latencies. That happens
because critical timings are not stopped before idle loop. This
patch stops critical timings before entering the idle loop,
starting it again after the idle loop.

This problem does not affect the irqsoff tracer because
interruptions are enabled before entering the idle loop.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/10fc3705874aef11dbe152a068b591a7be1899b4.1444314899.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Daniel Bristot de Oliveira authored and Ingo Molnar committed Oct 12, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -57,9 +57,11 @@ static inline int cpu_idle_poll(void)
rcu_idle_enter();
trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle(0, smp_processor_id());
local_irq_enable();
stop_critical_timings();
while (!tif_need_resched() &&
(cpu_idle_force_poll || tick_check_broadcast_expired()))
cpu_relax();
start_critical_timings();
trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle(PWR_EVENT_EXIT, smp_processor_id());
rcu_idle_exit();
return 1;
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