Merge branch 'nohz/guest' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz
Pull full dynticks support for virt guests from Frederic Weisbecker:
"Some measurements showed that disabling the tick on the host while the
guest is running can be interesting on some workloads. Indeed the
host tick is irrelevant while a vcpu runs, it consumes CPU time and cache
footprint for no good reasons.
Full dynticks already works in every context, but RCU prevents it to
be effective outside userspace, because the CPU needs to take part of
RCU grace period completion as long as RCU may be used on it, which is
the case in kernel context.
However guest is similar to userspace and idle in that we know RCU is
unused on such context. Therefore a CPU in guest/userspace/idle context
can let other CPUs report its own RCU quiescent state on its behalf
and shut down the tick safely, provided it isn't needed for other
reasons than RCU. This is called RCU extended quiescent state.
This was already implemented for idle and userspace. This patchset now
brings it for guest contexts through the following steps:
- Generalize the context tracking APIs to also track guest state
- Rename/sanitize a few CPP symbols accordingly
- Report guest entry/exit to RCU and define this context area as an RCU
extended quiescent state."
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
