tick: Nohz: Rework next timer evaluation

The evaluation of the next timer in the nohz code is based on jiffies
while all the tick internals are nano seconds based. We have also to
convert hrtimer nanoseconds to jiffies in the !highres case. That's
just wrong and introduces interesting corner cases.

Turn it around and convert the next timer wheel timer expiry and the
rcu event to clock monotonic and base all calculations on
nanoseconds. That identifies the case where no timer is pending
clearly with an absolute expiry value of KTIME_MAX.

Makes the code more readable and gets rid of the jiffies magic in the
nohz code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.184198593@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 8c0ec0f5a027..0ef80a0bbabb 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -1368,9 +1368,9 @@ static void rcu_prepare_kthreads(int cpu)
  * any flavor of RCU.
  */
 #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
-int rcu_needs_cpu(unsigned long *delta_jiffies)
+int rcu_needs_cpu(u64 basemono, u64 *nextevt)
 {
-	*delta_jiffies = ULONG_MAX;
+	*nextevt = KTIME_MAX;
 	return rcu_cpu_has_callbacks(NULL);
 }
 #endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL */
@@ -1481,16 +1481,17 @@ static bool __maybe_unused rcu_try_advance_all_cbs(void)
  * The caller must have disabled interrupts.
  */
 #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
-int rcu_needs_cpu(unsigned long *dj)
+int rcu_needs_cpu(u64 basemono, u64 *nextevt)
 {
 	struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp = this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_dynticks);
+	unsigned long dj;
 
 	/* Snapshot to detect later posting of non-lazy callback. */
 	rdtp->nonlazy_posted_snap = rdtp->nonlazy_posted;
 
 	/* If no callbacks, RCU doesn't need the CPU. */
 	if (!rcu_cpu_has_callbacks(&rdtp->all_lazy)) {
-		*dj = ULONG_MAX;
+		*nextevt = KTIME_MAX;
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -1504,11 +1505,12 @@ int rcu_needs_cpu(unsigned long *dj)
 
 	/* Request timer delay depending on laziness, and round. */
 	if (!rdtp->all_lazy) {
-		*dj = round_up(rcu_idle_gp_delay + jiffies,
+		dj = round_up(rcu_idle_gp_delay + jiffies,
 			       rcu_idle_gp_delay) - jiffies;
 	} else {
-		*dj = round_jiffies(rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay + jiffies) - jiffies;
+		dj = round_jiffies(rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay + jiffies) - jiffies;
 	}
+	*nextevt = basemono + dj * TICK_NSEC;
 	return 0;
 }
 #endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL */