From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de>
On PREEMPT_RT not all hrtimers can be expired in hard interrupt context
even if that is perfectly fine on a PREEMPT_RT=n kernel, e.g. because they
take regular spinlocks. Also for latency reasons PREEMPT_RT tries to defer
most hrtimers' expiry into soft interrupt context.
But there are hrtimers which must be expired in hard interrupt context even
when PREEMPT_RT is enabled:
- hrtimers which must expiry in hard interrupt context, e.g. scheduler,
perf, watchdog related hrtimers
- latency critical hrtimers, e.g. nanosleep, ..., kvm lapic timer
Add a new mode flag HRTIMER_MODE_HARD which allows to mark these timers so
PREEMPT_RT will not move them into softirq expiry mode.
[ tglx: Split out of a larger combo patch. Added changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
---
include/linux/hrtimer.h | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/hrtimer.h
+++ b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ enum hrtimer_mode {
HRTIMER_MODE_REL = 0x01,
HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED = 0x02,
HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT = 0x04,
+ HRTIMER_MODE_HARD = 0x08,
HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED = HRTIMER_MODE_ABS | HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED,
HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED = HRTIMER_MODE_REL | HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED,
@@ -48,6 +49,11 @@ enum hrtimer_mode {
HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_SOFT = HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED |
HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT,
HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED_SOFT = HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED |
HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT,
+ HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_HARD = HRTIMER_MODE_ABS | HRTIMER_MODE_HARD,
+ HRTIMER_MODE_REL_HARD = HRTIMER_MODE_REL | HRTIMER_MODE_HARD,
+
+ HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_HARD = HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED |
HRTIMER_MODE_HARD,
+ HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED_HARD = HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED |
HRTIMER_MODE_HARD,
};
/*
