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<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tick/broadcast: Make tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot() static</title>
<updated>2017-06-12T16:56:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-08T06:36:03+00:00</published>
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This function isn't used outside of tick-broadcast.c, so let's
mark it static.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170608063603.13276-1-sboyd@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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This function isn't used outside of tick-broadcast.c, so let's
mark it static.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170608063603.13276-1-sboyd@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible</title>
<updated>2016-07-07T08:35:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-04T09:50:36+00:00</published>
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The wheel clock is stale when a CPU goes into a long idle sleep. This has the
side effect that timers which are queued end up in the outer wheel levels.
That results in coarser granularity.

To solve this, we keep track of the idle state and forward the wheel clock
whenever possible.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: George Spelvin &lt;linux@sciencehorizons.net&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704094342.512039360@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The wheel clock is stale when a CPU goes into a long idle sleep. This has the
side effect that timers which are queued end up in the outer wheel levels.
That results in coarser granularity.

To solve this, we keep track of the idle state and forward the wheel clock
whenever possible.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: George Spelvin &lt;linux@sciencehorizons.net&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704094342.512039360@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timer: Minimize nohz off overhead</title>
<updated>2015-06-19T13:18:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-26T22:50:35+00:00</published>
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If nohz is disabled on the kernel command line the [hr]timer code
still calls wake_up_nohz_cpu() and tick_nohz_full_cpu(), a pretty
pointless exercise. Cache nohz_active in [hr]timer per cpu bases and
avoid the overhead.

Before:
  48.10%  hog       [.] main
  15.25%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   9.76%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   6.50%  [kernel]  [k] mod_timer
   6.44%  [kernel]  [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
   3.87%  [kernel]  [k] detach_if_pending
   3.80%  [kernel]  [k] del_timer
   2.67%  [kernel]  [k] internal_add_timer
   1.33%  [kernel]  [k] __internal_add_timer
   0.73%  [kernel]  [k] timerfn
   0.54%  [kernel]  [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu

After:
  48.73%  hog       [.] main
  15.36%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   9.77%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   6.61%  [kernel]  [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
   6.42%  [kernel]  [k] mod_timer
   3.90%  [kernel]  [k] detach_if_pending
   3.76%  [kernel]  [k] del_timer
   2.41%  [kernel]  [k] internal_add_timer
   1.39%  [kernel]  [k] __internal_add_timer
   0.76%  [kernel]  [k] timerfn

We probably should have a cached value for nohz full in the per cpu
bases as well to avoid the cpumask check. The base cache line is hot
already, the cpumask not necessarily.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Joonwoo Park &lt;joonwoop@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Wenbo Wang &lt;wenbo.wang@memblaze.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.207378134@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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If nohz is disabled on the kernel command line the [hr]timer code
still calls wake_up_nohz_cpu() and tick_nohz_full_cpu(), a pretty
pointless exercise. Cache nohz_active in [hr]timer per cpu bases and
avoid the overhead.

Before:
  48.10%  hog       [.] main
  15.25%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   9.76%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   6.50%  [kernel]  [k] mod_timer
   6.44%  [kernel]  [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
   3.87%  [kernel]  [k] detach_if_pending
   3.80%  [kernel]  [k] del_timer
   2.67%  [kernel]  [k] internal_add_timer
   1.33%  [kernel]  [k] __internal_add_timer
   0.73%  [kernel]  [k] timerfn
   0.54%  [kernel]  [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu

After:
  48.73%  hog       [.] main
  15.36%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   9.77%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   6.61%  [kernel]  [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
   6.42%  [kernel]  [k] mod_timer
   3.90%  [kernel]  [k] detach_if_pending
   3.76%  [kernel]  [k] del_timer
   2.41%  [kernel]  [k] internal_add_timer
   1.39%  [kernel]  [k] __internal_add_timer
   0.76%  [kernel]  [k] timerfn

We probably should have a cached value for nohz full in the per cpu
bases as well to avoid the cpumask check. The base cache line is hot
already, the cpumask not necessarily.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Joonwoo Park &lt;joonwoop@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Wenbo Wang &lt;wenbo.wang@memblaze.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.207378134@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled</title>
<updated>2015-06-19T13:18:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-26T22:50:33+00:00</published>
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Eric reported that the timer_migration sysctl is not really nice
performance wise as it needs to check at every timer insertion whether
the feature is enabled or not. Further the check does not live in the
timer code, so we have an extra function call which checks an extra
cache line to figure out that it is disabled.

We can do better and store that information in the per cpu (hr)timer
bases. I pondered to use a static key, but that's a nightmare to
update from the nohz code and the timer base cache line is hot anyway
when we select a timer base.

The old logic enabled the timer migration unconditionally if
CONFIG_NO_HZ was set even if nohz was disabled on the kernel command
line.

With this modification, we start off with migration disabled. The user
visible sysctl is still set to enabled. If the kernel switches to NOHZ
migration is enabled, if the user did not disable it via the sysctl
prior to the switch. If nohz=off is on the kernel command line,
migration stays disabled no matter what.

Before:
  47.76%  hog       [.] main
  14.84%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   9.55%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   6.71%  [kernel]  [k] mod_timer
   6.24%  [kernel]  [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
   3.76%  [kernel]  [k] detach_if_pending
   3.71%  [kernel]  [k] del_timer
   2.50%  [kernel]  [k] internal_add_timer
   1.51%  [kernel]  [k] get_nohz_timer_target
   1.28%  [kernel]  [k] __internal_add_timer
   0.78%  [kernel]  [k] timerfn
   0.48%  [kernel]  [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu

After:
  48.10%  hog       [.] main
  15.25%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   9.76%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   6.50%  [kernel]  [k] mod_timer
   6.44%  [kernel]  [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
   3.87%  [kernel]  [k] detach_if_pending
   3.80%  [kernel]  [k] del_timer
   2.67%  [kernel]  [k] internal_add_timer
   1.33%  [kernel]  [k] __internal_add_timer
   0.73%  [kernel]  [k] timerfn
   0.54%  [kernel]  [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu


Reported-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Joonwoo Park &lt;joonwoop@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Wenbo Wang &lt;wenbo.wang@memblaze.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.127050787@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Eric reported that the timer_migration sysctl is not really nice
performance wise as it needs to check at every timer insertion whether
the feature is enabled or not. Further the check does not live in the
timer code, so we have an extra function call which checks an extra
cache line to figure out that it is disabled.

We can do better and store that information in the per cpu (hr)timer
bases. I pondered to use a static key, but that's a nightmare to
update from the nohz code and the timer base cache line is hot anyway
when we select a timer base.

The old logic enabled the timer migration unconditionally if
CONFIG_NO_HZ was set even if nohz was disabled on the kernel command
line.

With this modification, we start off with migration disabled. The user
visible sysctl is still set to enabled. If the kernel switches to NOHZ
migration is enabled, if the user did not disable it via the sysctl
prior to the switch. If nohz=off is on the kernel command line,
migration stays disabled no matter what.

Before:
  47.76%  hog       [.] main
  14.84%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   9.55%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   6.71%  [kernel]  [k] mod_timer
   6.24%  [kernel]  [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
   3.76%  [kernel]  [k] detach_if_pending
   3.71%  [kernel]  [k] del_timer
   2.50%  [kernel]  [k] internal_add_timer
   1.51%  [kernel]  [k] get_nohz_timer_target
   1.28%  [kernel]  [k] __internal_add_timer
   0.78%  [kernel]  [k] timerfn
   0.48%  [kernel]  [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu

After:
  48.10%  hog       [.] main
  15.25%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   9.76%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   6.50%  [kernel]  [k] mod_timer
   6.44%  [kernel]  [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
   3.87%  [kernel]  [k] detach_if_pending
   3.80%  [kernel]  [k] del_timer
   2.67%  [kernel]  [k] internal_add_timer
   1.33%  [kernel]  [k] __internal_add_timer
   0.73%  [kernel]  [k] timerfn
   0.54%  [kernel]  [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu


Reported-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Joonwoo Park &lt;joonwoop@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Wenbo Wang &lt;wenbo.wang@memblaze.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.127050787@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>clockevents: Rename state to state_use_accessors</title>
<updated>2015-06-02T14:56:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-02T12:30:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=be3ef76e9d9b97962c70bd6351787d29071ae481'/>
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The only sensible way to make abuse of core internal fields obvious
and easy to grep for.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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The only sensible way to make abuse of core internal fields obvious
and easy to grep for.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>clockevents: Provide functions to set and get the state</title>
<updated>2015-06-02T12:40:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-02T12:08:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d7eb231c71420bc34ac3d35403115600f920cfc2'/>
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We want to rename dev-&gt;state, so provide proper get and set
functions. Rename clockevents_set_state() to
clockevents_switch_state() to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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We want to rename dev-&gt;state, so provide proper get and set
functions. Rename clockevents_set_state() to
clockevents_switch_state() to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tick: Nohz: Rework next timer evaluation</title>
<updated>2015-04-22T15:06:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-14T21:08:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c1ad348b452aacd784fb97403d03d71723c72ee1'/>
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The evaluation of the next timer in the nohz code is based on jiffies
while all the tick internals are nano seconds based. We have also to
convert hrtimer nanoseconds to jiffies in the !highres case. That's
just wrong and introduces interesting corner cases.

Turn it around and convert the next timer wheel timer expiry and the
rcu event to clock monotonic and base all calculations on
nanoseconds. That identifies the case where no timer is pending
clearly with an absolute expiry value of KTIME_MAX.

Makes the code more readable and gets rid of the jiffies magic in the
nohz code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.184198593@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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The evaluation of the next timer in the nohz code is based on jiffies
while all the tick internals are nano seconds based. We have also to
convert hrtimer nanoseconds to jiffies in the !highres case. That's
just wrong and introduces interesting corner cases.

Turn it around and convert the next timer wheel timer expiry and the
rcu event to clock monotonic and base all calculations on
nanoseconds. That identifies the case where no timer is pending
clearly with an absolute expiry value of KTIME_MAX.

Makes the code more readable and gets rid of the jiffies magic in the
nohz code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.184198593@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>clockevents: Cleanup dead cpu explicitely</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T06:44:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-03T00:38:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a49b116dcb1265f238f3169507424257b0519069'/>
<id>a49b116dcb1265f238f3169507424257b0519069</id>
<content type='text'>
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit
calls instead of this monstrosity.

Split out the cleanup function for a dead cpu and invoke it
directly from the cpu down code. Make it conditional on
CPU_HOTPLUG as well.

Temporary change, will be refined in the future.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
[ Rebased, added clockevents_notify() removal ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1735025.raBZdQHM3m@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit
calls instead of this monstrosity.

Split out the cleanup function for a dead cpu and invoke it
directly from the cpu down code. Make it conditional on
CPU_HOTPLUG as well.

Temporary change, will be refined in the future.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
[ Rebased, added clockevents_notify() removal ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1735025.raBZdQHM3m@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>clockevents: Make tick handover explicit</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T06:44:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-03T00:37:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=52c063d1adbc16c76e70fffa20727fcd4e9343b3'/>
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<content type='text'>
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit
calls instead of this monstrosity.

Split out the tick_handover call and invoke it explicitely from
the hotplug code. Temporary solution will be cleaned up in later
patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
[ Rebase ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1658173.RkEEILFiQZ@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the
clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism,
it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit
calls instead of this monstrosity.

Split out the tick_handover call and invoke it explicitely from
the hotplug code. Temporary solution will be cleaned up in later
patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
[ Rebase ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1658173.RkEEILFiQZ@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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