nohz_full: Allow the boot CPU to be nohz_full

Allow the boot CPU/CPU0 to be nohz_full. Have the boot CPU take the
do_timer duty during boot until a housekeeping CPU can take over.

This is supported when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_SMP is not configured, or when
it is configured and the arch allows suspend on non-zero CPUs.

nohz_full has been trialed at a large supercomputer site and found to
significantly reduce jitter. In order to deploy it in production, they
need CPU0 to be nohz_full because their job control system requires
the application CPUs to start from 0, and the housekeeping CPUs are
placed higher. An equivalent job scheduling that uses CPU0 for
housekeeping could be achieved by modifying their system, but it is
preferable if nohz_full can support their environment without
modification.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190411033448.20842-6-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 6fa52cd6df0b..4aa917acbe1c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -121,10 +121,16 @@ static void tick_sched_do_timer(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
 	 * into a long sleep. If two CPUs happen to assign themselves to
 	 * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by
 	 * jiffies_lock.
+	 *
+	 * If nohz_full is enabled, this should not happen because the
+	 * tick_do_timer_cpu never relinquishes.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE)
-	    && !tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu))
+	if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE)) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
+		WARN_ON(tick_nohz_full_running);
+#endif
 		tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu;
+	}
 #endif
 
 	/* Check, if the jiffies need an update */
@@ -395,8 +401,8 @@ void __init tick_nohz_full_setup(cpumask_var_t cpumask)
 static int tick_nohz_cpu_down(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	/*
-	 * The boot CPU handles housekeeping duty (unbound timers,
-	 * workqueues, timekeeping, ...) on behalf of full dynticks
+	 * The tick_do_timer_cpu CPU handles housekeeping duty (unbound
+	 * timers, workqueues, timekeeping, ...) on behalf of full dynticks
 	 * CPUs. It must remain online when nohz full is enabled.
 	 */
 	if (tick_nohz_full_running && tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu)
@@ -423,12 +429,15 @@ void __init tick_nohz_init(void)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	cpu = smp_processor_id();
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_SMP) &&
+			!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_SMP_NONZERO_CPU)) {
+		cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
-	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, tick_nohz_full_mask)) {
-		pr_warn("NO_HZ: Clearing %d from nohz_full range for timekeeping\n",
-			cpu);
-		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, tick_nohz_full_mask);
+		if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, tick_nohz_full_mask)) {
+			pr_warn("NO_HZ: Clearing %d from nohz_full range "
+				"for timekeeping\n", cpu);
+			cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, tick_nohz_full_mask);
+		}
 	}
 
 	for_each_cpu(cpu, tick_nohz_full_mask)
@@ -904,8 +913,13 @@ static bool can_stop_idle_tick(int cpu, struct tick_sched *ts)
 		/*
 		 * Boot safety: make sure the timekeeping duty has been
 		 * assigned before entering dyntick-idle mode,
+		 * tick_do_timer_cpu is TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT
 		 */
-		if (tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE)
+		if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT))
+			return false;
+
+		/* Should not happen for nohz-full */
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE))
 			return false;
 	}