posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model

Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify
posix cpu timers tick dependency, migrate the latter to the new mask.

In order to keep track of the running timers and expose the tick
dependency accordingly, we must probe the timers queuing and dequeuing
on threads and process lists.

Unfortunately it implies both task and signal level dependencies. We
should be able to further optimize this and merge all that on the task
level dependency, at the cost of a bit of complexity and may be overhead.

Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index f312c60c3ed2..e4f2916e66a9 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -204,11 +204,6 @@ static bool can_stop_full_tick(struct tick_sched *ts)
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	if (!posix_cpu_timers_can_stop_tick(current)) {
-		trace_tick_stop(0, TICK_DEP_MASK_POSIX_TIMER);
-		return false;
-	}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
 	/*
 	 * sched_clock_tick() needs us?
@@ -270,7 +265,7 @@ void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu)
  * Kick all full dynticks CPUs in order to force these to re-evaluate
  * their dependency on the tick and restart it if necessary.
  */
-void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void)
+static void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void)
 {
 	int cpu;