hrtimer: Make hrtimer_cpu_base.next_timer handling unconditional

hrtimer_cpu_base.next_timer stores the pointer to the next expiring timer
in a CPU base.

This pointer cannot be dereferenced and is solely used to check whether a
hrtimer which is removed is the hrtimer which is the first to expire in the
CPU base. If this is the case, then the timer hardware needs to be
reprogrammed to avoid an extra interrupt for nothing.

Again, this is conditional functionality, but there is no compelling reason
to make this conditional. As a preparation, hrtimer_cpu_base.next_timer
needs to be available unconditonally.

Aside of that the upcoming support for softirq based hrtimers requires access
to this pointer unconditionally as well, so our motivation is not entirely
simplicity based.

Make the update of hrtimer_cpu_base.next_timer unconditional and remove the
#ifdef cruft. The impact on CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n && CONFIG_NOHZ=n is
marginal as it's just a store on an already dirtied cacheline.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: keescook@chromium.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171221104205.7269-17-anna-maria@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
index a9ab67f3e5d5..26abaa7b0419 100644
--- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
@@ -459,21 +459,13 @@ __next_base(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *cpu_base, unsigned int *active)
 	while ((base = __next_base((cpu_base), &(active))))
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON) || defined(CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS)
-static inline void hrtimer_update_next_timer(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *cpu_base,
-					     struct hrtimer *timer)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
-	cpu_base->next_timer = timer;
-#endif
-}
-
 static ktime_t __hrtimer_get_next_event(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *cpu_base)
 {
 	struct hrtimer_clock_base *base;
 	unsigned int active = cpu_base->active_bases;
 	ktime_t expires, expires_next = KTIME_MAX;
 
-	hrtimer_update_next_timer(cpu_base, NULL);
+	cpu_base->next_timer = NULL;
 	for_each_active_base(base, cpu_base, active) {
 		struct timerqueue_node *next;
 		struct hrtimer *timer;
@@ -483,7 +475,7 @@ static ktime_t __hrtimer_get_next_event(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *cpu_base)
 		expires = ktime_sub(hrtimer_get_expires(timer), base->offset);
 		if (expires < expires_next) {
 			expires_next = expires;
-			hrtimer_update_next_timer(cpu_base, timer);
+			cpu_base->next_timer = timer;
 		}
 	}
 	/*