[PATCH 12/14] powerpc/64s: cpuidle no memory barrier after break from idle

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 9 01:51:11 AEST 2017


A memory barrier is not required after the task wakes up,
only if we clear the polling flag before waking. The case
where we have work to do is the important one, so optimise
for it.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c | 11 +++++++++--
 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
index f0247652d91f..c53a8bb40471 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
@@ -59,14 +59,21 @@ static int snooze_loop(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 	ppc64_runlatch_off();
 	HMT_very_low();
 	while (!need_resched()) {
-		if (likely(snooze_timeout_en) && get_tb() > snooze_exit_time)
+		if (likely(snooze_timeout_en) && get_tb() > snooze_exit_time) {
+			/*
+			 * Task has not woken up but we are exiting the polling
+			 * loop anyway. Require a barrier after polling is
+			 * cleared to order subsequent test of need_resched().
+			 */
+			clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+			smp_mb();
 			break;
+		}
 	}
 
 	HMT_medium();
 	ppc64_runlatch_on();
 	clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
-	smp_mb();
 
 	return index;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c
index a404f352d284..e9b3853d93ea 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c
@@ -71,13 +71,20 @@ static int snooze_loop(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 	while (!need_resched()) {
 		HMT_low();
 		HMT_very_low();
-		if (snooze_timeout_en && get_tb() > snooze_exit_time)
+		if (likely(snooze_timeout_en) && get_tb() > snooze_exit_time) {
+			/*
+			 * Task has not woken up but we are exiting the polling
+			 * loop anyway. Require a barrier after polling is
+			 * cleared to order subsequent test of need_resched().
+			 */
+			clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+			smp_mb();
 			break;
+		}
 	}
 
 	HMT_medium();
 	clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
-	smp_mb();
 
 	idle_loop_epilog(in_purr);
 
-- 
2.11.0



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