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perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:58:34 +0000 (15:58 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:59:39 +0000 (19:59 +0200)
commit026249ef100b5384b6c74c360db46728e98354da
tree7584442e88944643f10975956afd5ab151908908
parent12351ef8f9f2226636b00324d841d9c5069d80bc
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick

Provide a new helper that help full dynticks CPUs to prevent
from stopping their tick in case there are events in the local
rotation list.

This way we make sure that perf_event_task_tick() is serviced
on demand.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/core.c