linux-stable.git/kernel/sched/idle.c, branch linux-5.10.y

sched: idle: Consolidate the handling of two special cases

2026-04-18T08:31:02+00:00

[ Upstream commit f4c31b07b136839e0fb3026f8a5b6543e3b14d2f ]

There are two special cases in the idle loop that are handled
inconsistently even though they are analogous.

The first one is when a cpuidle driver is absent and the default CPU
idle time power management implemented by the architecture code is used.
In that case, the scheduler tick is stopped every time before invoking
default_idle_call().

The second one is when a cpuidle driver is present, but there is only
one idle state in its table.  In that case, the scheduler tick is never
stopped at all.

Since each of these approaches has its drawbacks, reconcile them with
the help of one simple heuristic.  Namely, stop the tick if the CPU has
been woken up by it in the previous iteration of the idle loop, or let
it tick otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle 
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef 
Reviewed-by: Aboorva Devarajan 
Fixes: ed98c3491998 ("sched: idle: Do not stop the tick before cpuidle_idle_call()")
[ rjw: Added Fixes tag, changelog edits ]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/4741364.LvFx2qVVIh@rafael.j.wysocki
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched: idle: Make skipping governor callbacks more consistent

2026-04-18T08:30:54+00:00

[ Upstream commit d557640e4ce589a24dca5ca7ce3b9680f471325f ]

If the cpuidle governor .select() callback is skipped because there
is only one idle state in the cpuidle driver, the .reflect() callback
should be skipped as well, at least for consistency (if not for
correctness), so do it.

Fixes: e5c9ffc6ae1b ("cpuidle: Skip governor when only one idle state is available")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle 
Reviewed-by: Aboorva Devarajan 
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/12857700.O9o76ZdvQC@rafael.j.wysocki
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/fair: Trigger the update of blocked load on newly idle cpu

2024-12-14T18:48:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit c6f886546cb8a38617cdbe755fe50d3acd2463e4 ]

Instead of waking up a random and already idle CPU, we can take advantage
of this_cpu being about to enter idle to run the ILB and update the
blocked load.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210224133007.28644-7-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Stable-dep-of: ff47a0acfcce ("sched/fair: Check idle_cpu() before need_resched() to detect ilb CPU turning busy")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/idle: Make the idle timer expire in hard interrupt context

2021-09-26T12:09:02+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9848417926353daa59d2b05eb26e185063dbac6e ]

The intel powerclamp driver will setup a per-CPU worker with RT
priority. The worker will then invoke play_idle() in which it remains in
the idle poll loop until it is stopped by the timer it started earlier.

That timer needs to expire in hard interrupt context on PREEMPT_RT.
Otherwise the timer will expire in ksoftirqd as a SOFT timer but that task
won't be scheduled on the CPU because its priority is lower than the
priority of the worker which is in the idle loop.

Always expire the idle timer in hard interrupt context.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210906113034.jgfxrjdvxnjqgtmc@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

rcu/nocb: Perform deferred wake up before last idle's need_resched() check

2021-03-04T10:38:35+00:00

commit 43789ef3f7d61aa7bed0cb2764e588fc990c30ef upstream.

Entering RCU idle mode may cause a deferred wake up of an RCU NOCB_GP
kthread (rcuog) to be serviced.

Usually a local wake up happening while running the idle task is handled
in one of the need_resched() checks carefully placed within the idle
loop that can break to the scheduler.

Unfortunately the call to rcu_idle_enter() is already beyond the last
generic need_resched() check and we may halt the CPU with a resched
request unhandled, leaving the task hanging.

Fix this with splitting the rcuog wakeup handling from rcu_idle_enter()
and place it before the last generic need_resched() check in the idle
loop. It is then assumed that no call to call_rcu() will be performed
after that in the idle loop until the CPU is put in low power mode.

Fixes: 96d3fd0d315a (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf)
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-3-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/idle: Fix arch_cpu_idle() vs tracing

2020-11-24T15:47:35+00:00

We call arch_cpu_idle() with RCU disabled, but then use
local_irq_{en,dis}able(), which invokes tracing, which relies on RCU.

Switch all arch_cpu_idle() implementations to use
raw_local_irq_{en,dis}able() and carefully manage the
lockdep,rcu,tracing state like we do in entry.

(XXX: we really should change arch_cpu_idle() to not return with
interrupts enabled)

Reported-by: Sven Schnelle 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland 
Tested-by: Mark Rutland 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120114925.594122626@infradead.org

treewide: Convert macro and uses of section(foo) to section("foo")

2020-10-25T21:51:49+00:00

Use a more generic form for __section that requires quotes to avoid
complications with clang and gcc differences.

Remove the quote operator # from compiler_attributes.h __section macro.

Convert all unquoted __section(foo) uses to quoted __section("foo").
Also convert __attribute__((section("foo"))) uses to __section("foo")
even if the __attribute__ has multiple list entry forms.

Conversion done using the script at:

    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/75393e5ddc272dc7403de74d645e6c6e0f4e70eb.camel@perches.com/2-convert_section.pl

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers 
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cpuidle: Move trace_cpu_idle() into generic code

2020-08-26T10:41:54+00:00

Remove trace_cpu_idle() from the arch_cpu_idle() implementations and
put it in the generic code, right before disabling RCU. Gets rid of
more trace_*_rcuidle() users.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Tested-by: Marco Elver 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200821085348.428433395@infradead.org

sched,idle,rcu: Push rcu_idle deeper into the idle path

2020-08-26T10:41:53+00:00

Lots of things take locks, due to a wee bug, rcu_lockdep didn't notice
that the locking tracepoints were using RCU.

Push rcu_idle_{enter,exit}() as deep as possible into the idle paths,
this also resolves a lot of _rcuidle()/RCU_NONIDLE() usage.

Specifically, sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event() will use ktime which
will use seqlocks which will tickle lockdep, and
stop_critical_timings() uses lock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Tested-by: Marco Elver 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200821085348.310943801@infradead.org

Merge branch 'sched/urgent'

2020-07-08T09:38:59+00:00