Kick the full dynticks CPUs when a posix cpu timer is enqueued by
way of a standard call to posix_cpu_timer_set() or set_process_cpu_timer().

This way they can re-evaluate the state of (and possibly restart) their
tick against the new expiry modification.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <ge...@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gi...@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanak...@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khil...@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zh...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
---
 kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 3b73ae8..a9053ad7 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
 #include <trace/events/timer.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
 /*
  * Called after updating RLIMIT_CPU to run cpu timer and update
@@ -636,6 +638,26 @@ static int cpu_timer_sample_group(const clockid_t 
which_clock,
        return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
+static void nohz_kick_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+       tick_nohz_full_kick_all();
+}
+
+static DECLARE_WORK(nohz_kick_work, nohz_kick_work_fn);
+
+/*
+ * We need the IPIs to be sent from sane process context.
+ * The posix cpu timers are always set with irqs disabled.
+ */
+static void posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz(void)
+{
+       schedule_work(&nohz_kick_work);
+}
+#else
+static inline void posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz(void) { }
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Guts of sys_timer_settime for CPU timers.
  * This is called with the timer locked and interrupts disabled.
@@ -794,6 +816,8 @@ static int posix_cpu_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timer, int 
flags,
                sample_to_timespec(timer->it_clock,
                                   old_incr, &old->it_interval);
        }
+       if (!ret)
+               posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz();
        return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1369,7 +1393,7 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_struct *tsk, 
unsigned int clock_idx,
                }
 
                if (!*newval)
-                       return;
+                       goto out;
                *newval += now.cpu;
        }
 
@@ -1387,6 +1411,8 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_struct *tsk, 
unsigned int clock_idx,
                        tsk->signal->cputime_expires.virt_exp = *newval;
                break;
        }
+out:
+       posix_cpu_timer_kick_nohz();
 }
 
 static int do_cpu_nanosleep(const clockid_t which_clock, int flags,
-- 
1.7.5.4

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