[1/3] sched: Add new API wake_up_if_idle() to wake up the idle cpu

Commit Message

Chuansheng Liu Aug. 15, 2014, 7:01 a.m. UTC

Implementing one new API wake_up_if_idle(), which is used to
wake up the idle CPU.

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <[e-mail]>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |    1 +
 kernel/sched/core.c   |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 857ba40..3f89ac1 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1024,6 +1024,7 @@  struct sched_domain_topology_level {
 extern struct sched_domain_topology_level *sched_domain_topology;
 
 extern void set_sched_topology(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl);
+extern void wake_up_if_idle(int cpu);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
 # define SD_INIT_NAME(type)		.name = #type
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 1211575..adf104f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1620,6 +1620,22 @@  static void ttwu_queue_remote(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
 	}
 }
 
+void wake_up_if_idle(int cpu)
+{
+	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	if (set_nr_if_polling(rq->idle)) {
+		trace_sched_wake_idle_without_ipi(cpu);
+	} else {
+		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rq->lock, flags);
+		if (rq->curr == rq->idle)
+			smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
+		/* Else cpu is not in idle, do nothing here */
+		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
+	}
+}
+
 bool cpus_share_cache(int this_cpu, int that_cpu)
 {
 	return per_cpu(sd_llc_id, this_cpu) == per_cpu(sd_llc_id, that_cpu);