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cpuidle : use percpu cpuidle in the core code

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Daniel Lezcano March 30, 2012, 10:48 a.m. UTC
The usual cpuidle initialization routines are to register the
driver, then register a cpuidle device per cpu.

With the device's state count default initialization with the
driver's state count, the code initialization remains mostly the
same in the different drivers.

We can then add a new function 'cpuidle_register' where we register
the driver and the devices. These devices can be defined in a global
static variable in cpuidle.c. We will be able to factor out and
remove a lot of duplicate lines of code.

As we still have some drivers, with different initialization routines,
we keep 'cpuidle_register_driver' and 'cpuidle_register_device' as low
level initialization routines to do some specific operations on the
cpuidle devices.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
---
 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/cpuidle.h   |    3 +++
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Comments

Srivatsa S. Bhat March 30, 2012, 11:25 a.m. UTC | #1
On 03/30/2012 04:18 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:

> The usual cpuidle initialization routines are to register the
> driver, then register a cpuidle device per cpu.
> 
> With the device's state count default initialization with the
> driver's state count, the code initialization remains mostly the
> same in the different drivers.
> 
> We can then add a new function 'cpuidle_register' where we register
> the driver and the devices. These devices can be defined in a global
> static variable in cpuidle.c. We will be able to factor out and
> remove a lot of duplicate lines of code.
> 
> As we still have some drivers, with different initialization routines,
> we keep 'cpuidle_register_driver' and 'cpuidle_register_device' as low
> level initialization routines to do some specific operations on the
> cpuidle devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/cpuidle.h   |    3 +++
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> index b8a1faf..2a174e8 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>  #include "cpuidle.h"
> 
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device *, cpuidle_devices);
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device, cpuidle_device);
> 
>  DEFINE_MUTEX(cpuidle_lock);
>  LIST_HEAD(cpuidle_detected_devices);
> @@ -391,6 +392,39 @@ int cpuidle_register_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
> 
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register_device);
> 
> +int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
> +{
> +	int ret, cpu;
> +	struct cpuidle_device *dev;
> +
> +	ret = cpuidle_register_driver(drv);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> +		dev = &per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
> +		dev->cpu = cpu;
> +
> +		ret = cpuidle_register_device(dev);
> +		if (ret)
> +			goto out_unregister;
> +	}
> +


Isn't this racy with respect to CPU hotplug?

> +out:
> +	return ret;
> +
> +out_unregister:
> +	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> +		dev = &per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
> +		cpuidle_unregister_device(dev);
> +	}
> +


This could be improved I guess.. What if the registration fails
for the first cpu itself? Then looping over entire online cpumask
would be a waste of time..

Here is a discussion on some very similar code:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/72
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/143

> +	cpuidle_unregister_driver(drv);
> +
> +	goto out;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register);
> +
>  /**
>   * cpuidle_unregister_device - unregisters a CPU's idle PM feature
>   * @dev: the cpu
> diff --git a/include/linux/cpuidle.h b/include/linux/cpuidle.h
> index f3ebbba..17e3d33 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cpuidle.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cpuidle.h
> @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ struct cpuidle_driver {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
>  extern void disable_cpuidle(void);
>  extern int cpuidle_idle_call(void);
> +extern int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
>  extern int cpuidle_register_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
>  struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_get_driver(void);
>  extern void cpuidle_unregister_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
> @@ -150,6 +151,8 @@ extern int cpuidle_wrap_enter(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>  #else
>  static inline void disable_cpuidle(void) { }
>  static inline int cpuidle_idle_call(void) { return -ENODEV; }
> +static inline int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
> +{return -ENODEV; }
>  static inline int cpuidle_register_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
>  {return -ENODEV; }
>  static inline struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_get_driver(void) {return NULL; }



Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat
Daniel Lezcano March 30, 2012, 11:45 a.m. UTC | #2
On 03/30/2012 01:25 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> On 03/30/2012 04:18 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>
>> The usual cpuidle initialization routines are to register the
>> driver, then register a cpuidle device per cpu.
>>
>> With the device's state count default initialization with the
>> driver's state count, the code initialization remains mostly the
>> same in the different drivers.
>>
>> We can then add a new function 'cpuidle_register' where we register
>> the driver and the devices. These devices can be defined in a global
>> static variable in cpuidle.c. We will be able to factor out and
>> remove a lot of duplicate lines of code.
>>
>> As we still have some drivers, with different initialization routines,
>> we keep 'cpuidle_register_driver' and 'cpuidle_register_device' as low
>> level initialization routines to do some specific operations on the
>> cpuidle devices.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano<daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>   drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   include/linux/cpuidle.h   |    3 +++
>>   2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>> index b8a1faf..2a174e8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>>   #include "cpuidle.h"
>>
>>   DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device *, cpuidle_devices);
>> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device, cpuidle_device);
>>
>>   DEFINE_MUTEX(cpuidle_lock);
>>   LIST_HEAD(cpuidle_detected_devices);
>> @@ -391,6 +392,39 @@ int cpuidle_register_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
>>
>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register_device);
>>
>> +int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
>> +{
>> +	int ret, cpu;
>> +	struct cpuidle_device *dev;
>> +
>> +	ret = cpuidle_register_driver(drv);
>> +	if (ret)
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>> +	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
>> +		dev =&per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
>> +		dev->cpu = cpu;
>> +
>> +		ret = cpuidle_register_device(dev);
>> +		if (ret)
>> +			goto out_unregister;
>> +	}
>> +
>
>
> Isn't this racy with respect to CPU hotplug?

No, I don't think so. Do you see a race ?

>> +out:
>> +	return ret;
>> +
>> +out_unregister:
>> +	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
>> +		dev =&per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
>> +		cpuidle_unregister_device(dev);
>> +	}
>> +
>
>
> This could be improved I guess.. What if the registration fails
> for the first cpu itself? Then looping over entire online cpumask
> would be a waste of time..

Certainly in a critical section that would make sense, but for 4,8 or 16 
cpus in an initialization path at boot time... Anyway, I can add what is 
proposed in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/143.

Thanks
   -- Daniel

> Here is a discussion on some very similar code:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/72
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/143
>
>> +	cpuidle_unregister_driver(drv);
>> +
>> +	goto out;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register);
>> +
>>   /**
>>    * cpuidle_unregister_device - unregisters a CPU's idle PM feature
>>    * @dev: the cpu
>> diff --git a/include/linux/cpuidle.h b/include/linux/cpuidle.h
>> index f3ebbba..17e3d33 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/cpuidle.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/cpuidle.h
>> @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ struct cpuidle_driver {
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
>>   extern void disable_cpuidle(void);
>>   extern int cpuidle_idle_call(void);
>> +extern int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
>>   extern int cpuidle_register_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
>>   struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_get_driver(void);
>>   extern void cpuidle_unregister_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
>> @@ -150,6 +151,8 @@ extern int cpuidle_wrap_enter(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>>   #else
>>   static inline void disable_cpuidle(void) { }
>>   static inline int cpuidle_idle_call(void) { return -ENODEV; }
>> +static inline int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
>> +{return -ENODEV; }
>>   static inline int cpuidle_register_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
>>   {return -ENODEV; }
>>   static inline struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_get_driver(void) {return NULL; }
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Srivatsa S. Bhat
>
Srivatsa S. Bhat March 30, 2012, 11:59 a.m. UTC | #3
On 03/30/2012 05:15 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:

> On 03/30/2012 01:25 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> On 03/30/2012 04:18 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>
>>> The usual cpuidle initialization routines are to register the
>>> driver, then register a cpuidle device per cpu.
>>>
>>> With the device's state count default initialization with the
>>> driver's state count, the code initialization remains mostly the
>>> same in the different drivers.
>>>
>>> We can then add a new function 'cpuidle_register' where we register
>>> the driver and the devices. These devices can be defined in a global
>>> static variable in cpuidle.c. We will be able to factor out and
>>> remove a lot of duplicate lines of code.
>>>
>>> As we still have some drivers, with different initialization routines,
>>> we keep 'cpuidle_register_driver' and 'cpuidle_register_device' as low
>>> level initialization routines to do some specific operations on the
>>> cpuidle devices.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano<daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   include/linux/cpuidle.h   |    3 +++
>>>   2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>>> index b8a1faf..2a174e8 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>>> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>>>   #include "cpuidle.h"
>>>
>>>   DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device *, cpuidle_devices);
>>> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device, cpuidle_device);
>>>
>>>   DEFINE_MUTEX(cpuidle_lock);
>>>   LIST_HEAD(cpuidle_detected_devices);
>>> @@ -391,6 +392,39 @@ int cpuidle_register_device(struct
>>> cpuidle_device *dev)
>>>
>>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register_device);
>>>
>>> +int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
>>> +{
>>> +    int ret, cpu;
>>> +    struct cpuidle_device *dev;
>>> +
>>> +    ret = cpuidle_register_driver(drv);
>>> +    if (ret)
>>> +        return ret;
>>> +
>>> +    for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
>>> +        dev =&per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
>>> +        dev->cpu = cpu;
>>> +
>>> +        ret = cpuidle_register_device(dev);
>>> +        if (ret)
>>> +            goto out_unregister;
>>> +    }
>>> +
>>
>>
>> Isn't this racy with respect to CPU hotplug?
> 
> No, I don't think so. Do you see a race ?


Well, that depends on when/where this function gets called.
This patch introduces the function. Where is the caller?

As of now, if you are calling this in boot-up code, its not racy.
However, there have been attempts to speed up boot times by trying
to online cpus in parallel with the rest of the kernel initialization[1].
In that case, unless your call is an early init call, it can race
with CPU hotplug.

[1]. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/30/647

> 
>>> +out:
>>> +    return ret;
>>> +
>>> +out_unregister:
>>> +    for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
>>> +        dev =&per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
>>> +        cpuidle_unregister_device(dev);
>>> +    }
>>> +
>>
>>
>> This could be improved I guess.. What if the registration fails
>> for the first cpu itself? Then looping over entire online cpumask
>> would be a waste of time..
> 
> Certainly in a critical section that would make sense, but for 4,8 or 16
> cpus in an initialization path at boot time... Anyway, I can add what is
> proposed in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/143.
> 


What about servers with a lot more CPUs, like say 128 or even more? :-)

Moreover I don't see any downsides to the optimization. So should be good
to add it in any case...
 
Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

> 
>> Here is a discussion on some very similar code:
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/72
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/143
>>
>>> +    cpuidle_unregister_driver(drv);
>>> +
>>> +    goto out;
>>> +}
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register);
>>> +
>>>   /**
>>>    * cpuidle_unregister_device - unregisters a CPU's idle PM feature
>>>    * @dev: the cpu
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/cpuidle.h b/include/linux/cpuidle.h
>>> index f3ebbba..17e3d33 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/cpuidle.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/cpuidle.h
>>> @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ struct cpuidle_driver {
>>>   #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
>>>   extern void disable_cpuidle(void);
>>>   extern int cpuidle_idle_call(void);
>>> +extern int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
>>>   extern int cpuidle_register_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
>>>   struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_get_driver(void);
>>>   extern void cpuidle_unregister_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
>>> @@ -150,6 +151,8 @@ extern int cpuidle_wrap_enter(struct
>>> cpuidle_device *dev,
>>>   #else
>>>   static inline void disable_cpuidle(void) { }
>>>   static inline int cpuidle_idle_call(void) { return -ENODEV; }
>>> +static inline int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
>>> +{return -ENODEV; }
>>>   static inline int cpuidle_register_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
>>>   {return -ENODEV; }
>>>   static inline struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_get_driver(void)
>>> {return NULL; }
>>
>>
Daniel Lezcano March 30, 2012, 4:18 p.m. UTC | #4
On 03/30/2012 01:59 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> On 03/30/2012 05:15 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>
>> On 03/30/2012 01:25 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>>> On 03/30/2012 04:18 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>
>>>> The usual cpuidle initialization routines are to register the
>>>> driver, then register a cpuidle device per cpu.
>>>>
>>>> With the device's state count default initialization with the
>>>> driver's state count, the code initialization remains mostly the
>>>> same in the different drivers.
>>>>
>>>> We can then add a new function 'cpuidle_register' where we register
>>>> the driver and the devices. These devices can be defined in a global
>>>> static variable in cpuidle.c. We will be able to factor out and
>>>> remove a lot of duplicate lines of code.
>>>>
>>>> As we still have some drivers, with different initialization routines,
>>>> we keep 'cpuidle_register_driver' and 'cpuidle_register_device' as low
>>>> level initialization routines to do some specific operations on the
>>>> cpuidle devices.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano<daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>    include/linux/cpuidle.h   |    3 +++
>>>>    2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>>>> index b8a1faf..2a174e8 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>>>> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>>>>    #include "cpuidle.h"
>>>>
>>>>    DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device *, cpuidle_devices);
>>>> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device, cpuidle_device);
>>>>
>>>>    DEFINE_MUTEX(cpuidle_lock);
>>>>    LIST_HEAD(cpuidle_detected_devices);
>>>> @@ -391,6 +392,39 @@ int cpuidle_register_device(struct
>>>> cpuidle_device *dev)
>>>>
>>>>    EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register_device);
>>>>
>>>> +int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    int ret, cpu;
>>>> +    struct cpuidle_device *dev;
>>>> +
>>>> +    ret = cpuidle_register_driver(drv);
>>>> +    if (ret)
>>>> +        return ret;
>>>> +
>>>> +    for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
>>>> +        dev =&per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
>>>> +        dev->cpu = cpu;
>>>> +
>>>> +        ret = cpuidle_register_device(dev);
>>>> +        if (ret)
>>>> +            goto out_unregister;
>>>> +    }
>>>> +
>>>
>>>
>>> Isn't this racy with respect to CPU hotplug?
>>
>> No, I don't think so. Do you see a race ?
>
>
> Well, that depends on when/where this function gets called.
> This patch introduces the function. Where is the caller?

There is no caller for the moment because they are in the different arch 
specific code in the different trees.

But the callers will be in the init calls at boot up.

> As of now, if you are calling this in boot-up code, its not racy.

Most of the caller are in the boot-up code, in device_init or 
module_init. The other ones are doing some specific initialization on 
the cpuidle_device (cpuinit, like acpi) and can't use the 
cpuidle_register function.

> However, there have been attempts to speed up boot times by trying
> to online cpus in parallel with the rest of the kernel initialization[1].
> In that case, unless your call is an early init call, it can race
> with CPU hotplug.
>
> [1]. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/30/647

Aha ! Now I understand the race you were talking about. Thanks for the 
pointer. It is very interesting.

I realize if the cpus boot up in parallel, that will break a lot of 
things and, for my concern, that will break most of the cpuidle drivers.

So far the cpu bootup parallelization is not there, so from my POV, my 
patch is correct as we will factor out in a single place some code which 
will be potentially broken by this parallelization in the future. It 
will be easier to fix that in a single place rather in multiple drivers.

Thanks for spotting this potential problem. This is something I will 
keep in mind for the future.

>>>> +out:
>>>> +    return ret;
>>>> +
>>>> +out_unregister:
>>>> +    for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
>>>> +        dev =&per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
>>>> +        cpuidle_unregister_device(dev);
>>>> +    }
>>>> +
>>>
>>>
>>> This could be improved I guess.. What if the registration fails
>>> for the first cpu itself? Then looping over entire online cpumask
>>> would be a waste of time..
>>
>> Certainly in a critical section that would make sense, but for 4,8 or 16
>> cpus in an initialization path at boot time... Anyway, I can add what is
>> proposed in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/143.
>>
>
>
> What about servers with a lot more CPUs, like say 128 or even more? :-)
>
> Moreover I don't see any downsides to the optimization. So should be good
> to add it in any case...

Yes, no problem. I will add it.


Thanks !
   -- Daniel
Srivatsa S. Bhat March 31, 2012, 7:45 a.m. UTC | #5
On 03/30/2012 09:48 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:

> On 03/30/2012 01:59 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> On 03/30/2012 05:15 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/30/2012 01:25 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>>>> On 03/30/2012 04:18 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The usual cpuidle initialization routines are to register the
>>>>> driver, then register a cpuidle device per cpu.
>>>>>
>>>>> With the device's state count default initialization with the
>>>>> driver's state count, the code initialization remains mostly the
>>>>> same in the different drivers.
>>>>>
>>>>> We can then add a new function 'cpuidle_register' where we register
>>>>> the driver and the devices. These devices can be defined in a global
>>>>> static variable in cpuidle.c. We will be able to factor out and
>>>>> remove a lot of duplicate lines of code.
>>>>>
>>>>> As we still have some drivers, with different initialization routines,
>>>>> we keep 'cpuidle_register_driver' and 'cpuidle_register_device' as low
>>>>> level initialization routines to do some specific operations on the
>>>>> cpuidle devices.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano<daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>    drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>    include/linux/cpuidle.h   |    3 +++
>>>>>    2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>>>>> index b8a1faf..2a174e8 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>>>>> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>>>>>    #include "cpuidle.h"
>>>>>
>>>>>    DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device *, cpuidle_devices);
>>>>> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device, cpuidle_device);
>>>>>
>>>>>    DEFINE_MUTEX(cpuidle_lock);
>>>>>    LIST_HEAD(cpuidle_detected_devices);
>>>>> @@ -391,6 +392,39 @@ int cpuidle_register_device(struct
>>>>> cpuidle_device *dev)
>>>>>
>>>>>    EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register_device);
>>>>>
>>>>> +int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +    int ret, cpu;
>>>>> +    struct cpuidle_device *dev;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +    ret = cpuidle_register_driver(drv);
>>>>> +    if (ret)
>>>>> +        return ret;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +    for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
>>>>> +        dev =&per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
>>>>> +        dev->cpu = cpu;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +        ret = cpuidle_register_device(dev);
>>>>> +        if (ret)
>>>>> +            goto out_unregister;
>>>>> +    }
>>>>> +
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Isn't this racy with respect to CPU hotplug?
>>>
>>> No, I don't think so. Do you see a race ?
>>
>>
>> Well, that depends on when/where this function gets called.
>> This patch introduces the function. Where is the caller?
> 
> There is no caller for the moment because they are in the different arch
> specific code in the different trees.
> 
> But the callers will be in the init calls at boot up.
> 
>> As of now, if you are calling this in boot-up code, its not racy.
> 
> Most of the caller are in the boot-up code, in device_init or
> module_init. The other ones are doing some specific initialization on
> the cpuidle_device (cpuinit, like acpi) and can't use the
> cpuidle_register function.
> 
>> However, there have been attempts to speed up boot times by trying
>> to online cpus in parallel with the rest of the kernel initialization[1].
>> In that case, unless your call is an early init call, it can race
>> with CPU hotplug.
>>
>> [1]. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/30/647
> 
> Aha ! Now I understand the race you were talking about. Thanks for the
> pointer. It is very interesting.
> 
> I realize if the cpus boot up in parallel, that will break a lot of
> things and, for my concern, that will break most of the cpuidle drivers.
> 


Exactly!

> So far the cpu bootup parallelization is not there, so from my POV, my
> patch is correct as we will factor out in a single place some code which
> will be potentially broken by this parallelization in the future. It
> will be easier to fix that in a single place rather in multiple drivers.
> 
> Thanks for spotting this potential problem. This is something I will
> keep in mind for the future.
>


Sure, that would be great! 

>>>>> +out:
>>>>> +    return ret;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +out_unregister:
>>>>> +    for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
>>>>> +        dev =&per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
>>>>> +        cpuidle_unregister_device(dev);
>>>>> +    }
>>>>> +
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This could be improved I guess.. What if the registration fails
>>>> for the first cpu itself? Then looping over entire online cpumask
>>>> would be a waste of time..
>>>
>>> Certainly in a critical section that would make sense, but for 4,8 or 16
>>> cpus in an initialization path at boot time... Anyway, I can add what is
>>> proposed in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/143.
>>>
>>
>>
>> What about servers with a lot more CPUs, like say 128 or even more? :-)
>>
>> Moreover I don't see any downsides to the optimization. So should be good
>> to add it in any case...
> 
> Yes, no problem. I will add it.
> 


Thanks!

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat
IBM Linux Technology Center
Rob May 30, 2012, 9:45 p.m. UTC | #6
Hey Daniel,

Sorry for the late review/response but perhaps this will still be
useful as your cpuidle work is ongoing.

> Most of the caller are in the boot-up code, in device_init or module_init.
> The other ones are doing some specific initialization on the cpuidle_device
> (cpuinit, like acpi) and can't use the cpuidle_register function.
>

What about adding a callback pointer parameter to the cpuidle_register
function that allows platform specific device initialization to occur
before the cpuidle_device_register call is made?  For reference, see
my old cpuidle common init code that does this at
git://git.linaro.org/people/rob_lee/linux.git cpuidle_init.

With this callback, acpi and the other platforms that need to modify
the cpuidle_device data can use this interface also.  The necessary
acpi cpuidle changes can also be found at the above git URL (although
they haven't been reviewed so they are possibly flawed).

Rob

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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
index b8a1faf..2a174e8 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ 
 #include "cpuidle.h"
 
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device *, cpuidle_devices);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuidle_device, cpuidle_device);
 
 DEFINE_MUTEX(cpuidle_lock);
 LIST_HEAD(cpuidle_detected_devices);
@@ -391,6 +392,39 @@  int cpuidle_register_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register_device);
 
+int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
+{
+	int ret, cpu;
+	struct cpuidle_device *dev;
+
+	ret = cpuidle_register_driver(drv);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		dev = &per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
+		dev->cpu = cpu;
+
+		ret = cpuidle_register_device(dev);
+		if (ret)
+			goto out_unregister;
+	}
+
+out:
+	return ret;
+
+out_unregister:
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		dev = &per_cpu(cpuidle_device, cpu);
+		cpuidle_unregister_device(dev);
+	}
+
+	cpuidle_unregister_driver(drv);
+
+	goto out;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register);
+
 /**
  * cpuidle_unregister_device - unregisters a CPU's idle PM feature
  * @dev: the cpu
diff --git a/include/linux/cpuidle.h b/include/linux/cpuidle.h
index f3ebbba..17e3d33 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpuidle.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuidle.h
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@  struct cpuidle_driver {
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
 extern void disable_cpuidle(void);
 extern int cpuidle_idle_call(void);
+extern int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
 extern int cpuidle_register_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
 struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_get_driver(void);
 extern void cpuidle_unregister_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
@@ -150,6 +151,8 @@  extern int cpuidle_wrap_enter(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 #else
 static inline void disable_cpuidle(void) { }
 static inline int cpuidle_idle_call(void) { return -ENODEV; }
+static inline int cpuidle_register(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
+{return -ENODEV; }
 static inline int cpuidle_register_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
 {return -ENODEV; }
 static inline struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_get_driver(void) {return NULL; }