From 2e44b7ddf8ab01cf98106c68388f87af15fbde73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:46:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sched/clock: Use late_initcall() instead of sched_init_smp() Core2 marks its TSC unstable in ACPI Processor Idle, which is probed after sched_init_smp(). Luckily it appears both acpi_processor and intel_idle (which has a similar check) are mandatory built-in. This means we can delay switching to stable until after these drivers have ran (if they were modules, this would be impossible). Delay the stable switch to late_initcall() to allow these drivers to mark TSC unstable and avoid difficult stable->unstable transitions. Reported-by: Lofstedt, Marta Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/sched/clock.h | 5 ----- kernel/sched/clock.c | 10 +++++++++- kernel/sched/core.c | 2 -- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched/clock.h b/include/linux/sched/clock.h index 9c36f07..a55600f 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/clock.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/clock.h @@ -23,10 +23,6 @@ extern u64 sched_clock_cpu(int cpu); extern void sched_clock_init(void); #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK -static inline void sched_clock_init_late(void) -{ -} - static inline void sched_clock_tick(void) { } @@ -53,7 +49,6 @@ static inline u64 local_clock(void) return sched_clock(); } #else -extern void sched_clock_init_late(void); extern int sched_clock_stable(void); extern void clear_sched_clock_stable(void); diff --git a/kernel/sched/clock.c b/kernel/sched/clock.c index d4c2f89..a2f847c6 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/clock.c +++ b/kernel/sched/clock.c @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include /* * Scheduler clock - returns current time in nanosec units. @@ -202,7 +203,11 @@ void clear_sched_clock_stable(void) __clear_sched_clock_stable(); } -void sched_clock_init_late(void) +/* + * We run this as late_initcall() such that it runs after all built-in drivers, + * notably: acpi_processor and intel_idle, which can mark the TSC as unstable. + */ +static int __init sched_clock_init_late(void) { sched_clock_running = 2; /* @@ -216,7 +221,10 @@ void sched_clock_init_late(void) if (__sched_clock_stable_early) __set_sched_clock_stable(); + + return 0; } +late_initcall(sched_clock_init_late); /* * min, max except they take wrapping into account diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 803c3bc..5794f4a 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -5984,7 +5984,6 @@ void __init sched_init_smp(void) init_sched_dl_class(); sched_init_smt(); - sched_clock_init_late(); sched_smp_initialized = true; } @@ -6000,7 +5999,6 @@ early_initcall(migration_init); void __init sched_init_smp(void) { sched_init_granularity(); - sched_clock_init_late(); } #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ -- 2.7.4