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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-06-12 20:53:03 +0300 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-06-14 23:32:18 +0300 |
commit | d6a3b247627a3bc0551504eb305d624cc6fb5453 (patch) | |
tree | d2605772889c71e02d4aeda5a616567153d68b6a /Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.txt | |
parent | d223884089734cc637c4e5458870d69f6ded9f89 (diff) | |
download | linux-d6a3b247627a3bc0551504eb305d624cc6fb5453.tar.xz |
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 <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a2f27bbf2cba..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,74 +0,0 @@ - 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) - |