sched/core: Introduce the vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) interface

This patch is the first step to add support to improve lock holder
preemption beaviour.

vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) does the obvious thing: it tells us whether a
vCPU is preempted or not.

Defaults to false on architectures that don't support it.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
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Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index dc37cbe2b13c..37261afbf16a 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -3510,6 +3510,18 @@ static inline void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu)
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 
+/*
+ * In order to reduce various lock holder preemption latencies provide an
+ * interface to see if a vCPU is currently running or not.
+ *
+ * This allows us to terminate optimistic spin loops and block, analogous to
+ * the native optimistic spin heuristic of testing if the lock owner task is
+ * running or not.
+ */
+#ifndef vcpu_is_preempted
+# define vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)	false
+#endif
+
 extern long sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, const struct cpumask *new_mask);
 extern long sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, struct cpumask *mask);