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authorPan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-11-02 05:08:28 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-11-22 12:48:05 +0100
commitd9345c65eb7930ac6755cf593ee7686f4029ccf4 (patch)
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parent02cb689b2c102178c83e763e4f34b3efe7f969e2 (diff)
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sched/core: Introduce the vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) interface
This patch is the first step to add support to improve lock holder preemption beaviour. vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) does the obvious thing: it tells us whether a vCPU is preempted or not. Defaults to false on architectures that don't support it. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> [ Translated the changelog to English. ] Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Cc: xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-2-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index dc37cbe..37261af 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -3510,6 +3510,18 @@ static inline void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu)
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
+/*
+ * In order to reduce various lock holder preemption latencies provide an
+ * interface to see if a vCPU is currently running or not.
+ *
+ * This allows us to terminate optimistic spin loops and block, analogous to
+ * the native optimistic spin heuristic of testing if the lock owner task is
+ * running or not.
+ */
+#ifndef vcpu_is_preempted
+# define vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) false
+#endif
+
extern long sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, const struct cpumask *new_mask);
extern long sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, struct cpumask *mask);
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