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SubjectRe: [tip:timers/core] ARM: Kconfig: allow full nohz CPU accounting
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 06:58:03AM -0700, tip-bot for Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Commit-ID: 31c1fc8187158cb80ccd57c19e024c55af901797
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/31c1fc8187158cb80ccd57c19e024c55af901797
> Author: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:28:22 -0700
> Committer: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> CommitDate: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:37:05 +0200
>
> ARM: Kconfig: allow full nohz CPU accounting
>
> With the 64-bit requirement removed from VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN,
> allow ARM platforms to enable it. Since VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN is a
> dependency for full NO_HZ, this allows ARM platforms to enable full
> NO_HZ as well.

I realize that arm doesn't implement irq work raise. It hooks on the
timer to execute pending irq work. You'll need to implement arch_irq_work_raise()
and implement some sort of self IPI to trigger irq work. The full dynticks subsystem
relies on that to work correctly. It often use that to re-evaluate and possibly restart
the tick after scheduler, posix timer updates, etc...

That notwithstanding that if you have no tick, tick based irq work can't
work.

Thanks.

>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Arm Linux <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 1ad6fb6..323baf0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ config ARM
> select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
> select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
> select HAVE_UID16
> + select HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
> select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
> select KTIME_SCALAR
> select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL


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