tick/powerclamp: Remove tick_nohz_idle abuse

commit 4dbd27711cd9 "tick: export nohz tick idle symbols for module
use" was merged via the thermal tree without an explicit ack from the
relevant maintainers.

The exports are abused by the intel powerclamp driver which implements
a fake idle state from a sched FIFO task. This causes all kinds of
wreckage in the NOHZ core code which rightfully assumes that
tick_nohz_idle_enter/exit() are only called from the idle task itself.

Recent changes in the NOHZ core lead to a failure of the powerclamp
driver and now people try to hack completely broken and backwards
workarounds into the NOHZ core code. This is completely unacceptable
and just papers over the real problem. There are way more subtle
issues lurking around the corner.

The real solution is to fix the powerclamp driver by rewriting it with
a sane concept, but that's beyond the scope of this.

So the only solution for now is to remove the calls into the core NOHZ
code from the powerclamp trainwreck along with the exports.

Fixes: d6d71ee4a14a "PM: Introduce Intel PowerClamp Driver"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Pan Jacob jun <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Cc: LKP <lkp@01.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412181110110.17382@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c b/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
index 95cb7fc20e1780582efededf6dc1d88fe95aad37..6cb78497076aaa63980ec8e80908c085d61dee25 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
@@ -435,7 +435,6 @@ static int clamp_thread(void *arg)
                 * allowed. thus jiffies are updated properly.
                 */
                preempt_disable();
-               tick_nohz_idle_enter();
                /* mwait until target jiffies is reached */
                while (time_before(jiffies, target_jiffies)) {
                        unsigned long ecx = 1;
@@ -451,7 +450,6 @@ static int clamp_thread(void *arg)
                        start_critical_timings();
                        atomic_inc(&idle_wakeup_counter);
                }
-               tick_nohz_idle_exit();
                preempt_enable();
        }
        del_timer_sync(&wakeup_timer);

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 1f4356037a7d5e1068c148640757870c1f3854d3..ff3ec34702e8d61d7d0f2ed044536a26de3e92ad 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -847,7 +847,6 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void)
 
        local_irq_enable();
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_idle_enter);
 
 /**
  * tick_nohz_irq_exit - update next tick event from interrupt exit
@@ -974,7 +973,6 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void)
 
        local_irq_enable();
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_idle_exit);
 
 static int tick_nohz_reprogram(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
 {