From d6a3b247627a3bc0551504eb305d624cc6fb5453 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:53:03 -0300 Subject: docs: scheduler: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst In order to prepare to add them to the Kernel API book, convert the files to ReST format. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.rst | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.rst (limited to 'Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0eaec669790a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.rst @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +================================================================= +CPU Scheduler implementation hints for architecture specific code +================================================================= + + Nick Piggin, 2005 + +Context switch +============== +1. Runqueue locking +By default, the switch_to arch function is called with the runqueue +locked. This is usually not a problem unless switch_to may need to +take the runqueue lock. This is usually due to a wake up operation in +the context switch. See arch/ia64/include/asm/switch_to.h for an example. + +To request the scheduler call switch_to with the runqueue unlocked, +you must `#define __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW` in a header file +(typically the one where switch_to is defined). + +Unlocked context switches introduce only a very minor performance +penalty to the core scheduler implementation in the CONFIG_SMP case. + +CPU idle +======== +Your cpu_idle routines need to obey the following rules: + +1. Preempt should now disabled over idle routines. Should only + be enabled to call schedule() then disabled again. + +2. need_resched/TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only ever set, and will never + be cleared until the running task has called schedule(). Idle + threads need only ever query need_resched, and may never set or + clear it. + +3. When cpu_idle finds (need_resched() == 'true'), it should call + schedule(). It should not call schedule() otherwise. + +4. The only time interrupts need to be disabled when checking + need_resched is if we are about to sleep the processor until + the next interrupt (this doesn't provide any protection of + need_resched, it prevents losing an interrupt): + + 4a. Common problem with this type of sleep appears to be:: + + local_irq_disable(); + if (!need_resched()) { + local_irq_enable(); + *** resched interrupt arrives here *** + __asm__("sleep until next interrupt"); + } + +5. TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG can be set by idle routines that do not + need an interrupt to wake them up when need_resched goes high. + In other words, they must be periodically polling need_resched, + although it may be reasonable to do some background work or enter + a low CPU priority. + + - 5a. If TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is set, and we do decide to enter + an interrupt sleep, it needs to be cleared then a memory + barrier issued (followed by a test of need_resched with + interrupts disabled, as explained in 3). + +arch/x86/kernel/process.c has examples of both polling and +sleeping idle functions. + + +Possible arch/ problems +======================= + +Possible arch problems I found (and either tried to fix or didn't): + +ia64 - is safe_halt call racy vs interrupts? (does it sleep?) (See #4a) + +sh64 - Is sleeping racy vs interrupts? (See #4a) + +sparc - IRQs on at this point(?), change local_irq_save to _disable. + - TODO: needs secondary CPUs to disable preempt (See #1) -- cgit v1.2.3