tree 053bb79af301c58cd05c9e346d85f66918048d61
parent f7dce82d532e911c41933776426785373fe13967
author Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1362568715 +0000
committer Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1363171179 +0100

tick: Avoid programming the local cpu timer if broadcast pending

If the local cpu timer stops in deep idle, we arm the broadcast device
and get woken by an IPI. Now when we return from deep idle we reenable
the local cpu timer unconditionally before handling the IPI. But
that's a pointless exercise: the timer is already expired and the IPI
is on the way. And it's an expensive exercise as we use the forced
reprogramming mode so that we do not lose a timer event. This forced
reprogramming will loop at least once in the retry.

To avoid this reprogramming, we mark the cpu in a pending bit mask
before we send the IPI. Now when the IPI target cpu wakes up, it will
see the pending bit set and skip the reprogramming. The reprogramming
of the cpu local timer will happen in the IPI handler which runs the
cpu local timer interrupt function.

Reported-by: Jason Liu <liu.h.jason@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130306111537.431082074@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>