cpuidle: Return nohz hint from cpuidle_select()

Add a new pointer argument to cpuidle_select() and to the ->select
cpuidle governor callback to allow a boolean value indicating
whether or not the tick should be stopped before entering the
selected state to be returned from there.

Make the ladder governor ignore that pointer (to preserve its
current behavior) and make the menu governor return 'false" through
it if:
 (1) the idle exit latency is constrained at 0, or
 (2) the selected state is a polling one, or
 (3) the expected idle period duration is within the tick period
     range.

In addition to that, the correction factor computations in the menu
governor need to take the possibility that the tick may not be
stopped into account to avoid artificially small correction factor
values.  To that end, add a mechanism to record tick wakeups, as
suggested by Peter Zijlstra, and use it to modify the menu_update()
behavior when tick wakeup occurs.  Namely, if the CPU is woken up by
the tick and the return value of tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() is not
within the tick boundary, the predicted idle duration is likely too
short, so make menu_update() try to compensate for that by updating
the governor statistics as though the CPU was idle for a long time.

Since the value returned through the new argument pointer of
cpuidle_select() is not used by its caller yet, this change by
itself is not expected to alter the functionality of the code.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index f5d37788ea85..69fe113cfc7f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -967,6 +967,20 @@ void tick_nohz_irq_exit(void)
 }
 
 /**
+ * tick_nohz_idle_got_tick - Check whether or not the tick handler has run
+ */
+bool tick_nohz_idle_got_tick(void)
+{
+	struct tick_sched *ts = this_cpu_ptr(&tick_cpu_sched);
+
+	if (ts->inidle > 1) {
+		ts->inidle = 1;
+		return true;
+	}
+	return false;
+}
+
+/**
  * tick_nohz_get_sleep_length - return the length of the current sleep
  *
  * Called from power state control code with interrupts disabled
@@ -1077,6 +1091,9 @@ static void tick_nohz_handler(struct clock_event_device *dev)
 	struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
 	ktime_t now = ktime_get();
 
+	if (ts->inidle)
+		ts->inidle = 2;
+
 	dev->next_event = KTIME_MAX;
 
 	tick_sched_do_timer(now);
@@ -1174,6 +1191,9 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
 	struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
 	ktime_t now = ktime_get();
 
+	if (ts->inidle)
+		ts->inidle = 2;
+
 	tick_sched_do_timer(now);
 
 	/*