linux/kernel/time
Frederic Weisbecker 99e5ada940 nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
When a task is scheduled in, it may have some properties
of its own that could make the CPU reconsider the need for
the tick: posix cpu timers, perf events, ...

So notify the full dynticks subsystem when a task gets
scheduled in and re-check the tick dependency at this
stage. This is done through a self IPI to avoid messing
up with any current lock scenario.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-22 20:29:07 +02:00
..
alarmtimer.c alarmtimer: Rename alarmtimer_remove to alarmtimer_dequeue 2012-09-24 12:38:03 -04:00
clockevents.c clockevents: export clockevents_config_and_register for module use 2013-01-14 10:12:37 -08:00
clocksource.c kernel-time: fix s/then/than/ spelling errors 2012-03-23 16:49:21 -07:00
jiffies.c time: Kill xtime_lock, replacing it with jiffies_lock 2012-11-13 14:08:23 -05:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'timers/nohz-posix-timers-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz 2013-04-21 11:05:47 +02:00
Makefile time: remove the timecompare code. 2012-11-01 11:41:35 -04:00
ntp.c Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-22 19:25:09 -08:00
posix-clock.c kernel: Fix files explicitly needing EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure 2011-10-31 19:30:05 -04:00
tick-broadcast.c nohz: Switch from "extended nohz" to "full nohz" based naming 2013-04-15 19:58:17 +02:00
tick-common.c nohz: Switch from "extended nohz" to "full nohz" based naming 2013-04-15 19:58:17 +02:00
tick-internal.h time: Kill xtime_lock, replacing it with jiffies_lock 2012-11-13 14:08:23 -05:00
tick-oneshot.c clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable 2011-09-08 11:10:56 +02:00
tick-sched.c nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch 2013-04-22 20:29:07 +02:00
timeconv.c
timekeeping.c arm-soc: cleanups 2013-02-21 14:58:40 -08:00
timer_list.c nohz: Rename ts->idle_tick to ts->last_tick 2012-06-11 20:07:17 +02:00
timer_stats.c locking, timer_stats: Annotate table_lock as raw 2011-09-13 11:12:00 +02:00