user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/timer.h, branch v3.18.75

timer: Implement TIMER_IRQSAFE

2012-08-21T14:28:31Z

Timer internals are protected with irq-safe locks but timer execution isn't, so a timer being dequeued for execution and its execution aren't atomic against IRQs. This makes it impossible to wait for its completion from IRQ handlers and difficult to shoot down a timer from IRQ handlers. This issue caused some issues for delayed_work interface. Because there's no way to reliably shoot down delayed_work->timer from IRQ handlers, __cancel_delayed_work() can't share the logic to steal the target delayed_work with cancel_delayed_work_sync(), and can only steal delayed_works which are on queued on timer. Similarly, the pending mod_delayed_work() can't be used from IRQ handlers. This patch adds a new timer flag TIMER_IRQSAFE, which makes the timer to be executed without enabling IRQ after dequeueing such that its dequeueing and execution are atomic against IRQ handlers. This makes it safe to wait for the timer's completion from IRQ handlers, for example, using del_timer_sync(). It can never be executing on the local CPU and if executing on other CPUs it won't be interrupted until done. This will enable simplifying delayed_work cancel/mod interface. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344449428-24962-5-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timer: Clean up timer initializers

2012-08-21T14:28:30Z

Over time, timer initializers became messy with unnecessarily duplicated code which are inconsistently spread across timer.h and timer.c. This patch cleans up timer initializers. * timer.c::__init_timer() is renamed to do_init_timer(). * __TIMER_INITIALIZER() added. It takes @flags and all initializers are wrappers around it. * init_timer[_on_stack]_key() now take @flags. * __init_timer[_on_stack]() added. They take @flags and all init macros are wrappers around them. * __setup_timer[_on_stack]() added. It uses __init_timer() and takes @flags. All setup macros are wrappers around the two. Note that this patch doesn't add missing init/setup combinations - e.g. init_timer_deferrable_on_stack(). Adding missing ones is trivial. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344449428-24962-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timer: Relocate declarations of init_timer_on_stack_key()

2012-08-21T14:28:30Z

init_timer_on_stack_key() is used by init macro definitions. Move init_timer_on_stack_key() and destroy_timer_on_stack() declarations above init macro defs. This will make the next init cleanup patch easier to read. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344449428-24962-3-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timer: Generalize timer->base flags handling

2012-08-21T14:28:30Z

To prepare for addition of another flag, generalize timer->base flags handling. * Rename from TBASE_*_FLAG to TIMER_* and make them LU constants. * Define and use TIMER_FLAG_MASK for flags masking so that multiple flags can be handled correctly. * Don't dereference timer->base directly even if !tbase_get_deferrable(). All two such places are already passed in @base, so use it instead. * Make sure tvec_base's alignment is large enough for timer->base flags using BUILD_BUG_ON(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344449428-24962-2-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timer: Make try_to_del_timer_sync() the same on SMP and UP

2010-10-22T12:46:25Z

On UP try_to_del_timer_sync() is mapped to del_timer() which does not take the running timer callback into account, so it has different semantics. Remove the SMP dependency of try_to_del_timer_sync() by using base->running_timer in the UP case as well. [ tglx: Removed set_running_timer() inline and tweaked the changelog ] Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timer: Permit statically-declared work with deferrable timers

2010-10-21T15:30:06Z

Currently, you have to just define a delayed_work uninitialised, and then initialise it before first use. That's a tad clumsy. At risk of playing mind-games with the compiler, fooling it into doing pointer arithmetic with compile-time-constants, this lets clients properly initialise delayed work with deferrable timers statically. This patch was inspired by the issues which lead Artem Bityutskiy to commit 8eab945c5616fc984 ("sunrpc: make the cache cleaner workqueue deferrable"). Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timer: Initialize the field slack of timer_list

2010-10-21T15:30:06Z

TIMER_INITIALIZER() should initialize the field slack of timer_list as __init_timer() does. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao Cc: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timer_list: Remove alignment padding on 64 bit when CONFIG_TIMER_STATS

2010-10-21T15:30:06Z

Reorder struct timer_list to remove 8 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit builds when CONFIG_TIMER_STATS is selected. timer_list is widely used across the kernel so many structures will benefit and shrink in size. For example, with my config on x86_64 per_cpu_dm_data shrinks from 136 to 128 bytes and ahci_port_priv shrinks from 1032 to 968 bytes. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timer: add on-stack deferrable timer interfaces

2010-08-03T13:48:45Z

In some cases (for instance with kernel threads) it may be desireable to use on-stack deferrable timers to get their power saving benefits. Add interfaces to support this for the IPS driver. Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett

timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers

2010-04-06T19:50:02Z

While HR timers have had the concept of timer slack for quite some time now, the legacy timers lacked this concept, and had to make do with round_jiffies() and friends. Timer slack is important for power management; grouping timers reduces the number of wakeups which in turn reduces power consumption. This patch introduces timer slack to the legacy timers using the following pieces: * A slack field in the timer struct * An api (set_timer_slack) that callers can use to set explicit timer slack * A default slack of 0.4% of the requested delay for callers that do not set any explicit slack * Rounding code that is part of mod_timer() that tries to group timers around jiffies values every 'power of two' (so quick timers will group around every 2, but longer timers will group around every 4, 8, 16, 32 etc) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner