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From 92f0d4f695198fcb935cf0360f93a15bf0a6af1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:43:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] sched/nohz: add debugfs control over
 sched_tick_max_deferment

Allow debugfs override of sched_tick_max_deferment in order to ease
finding/fixing the remaining issues with full nohz.

The value to be written is in jiffies, and -1 means the max deferment
is disabled (scheduler_tick_max_deferment() returns KTIME_MAX.)

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c |   16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index e8b3350..59c7367 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2753,6 +2753,8 @@ void scheduler_tick(void)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
+static u32 sched_tick_max_deferment = HZ;
+
 /**
  * scheduler_tick_max_deferment
  *
@@ -2769,13 +2771,25 @@ u64 scheduler_tick_max_deferment(void)
 	struct rq *rq = this_rq();
 	unsigned long next, now = ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies);
 
-	next = rq->last_sched_tick + HZ;
+	if (sched_tick_max_deferment == -1)
+		return KTIME_MAX;
+
+	next = rq->last_sched_tick + sched_tick_max_deferment;
 
 	if (time_before_eq(next, now))
 		return 0;
 
 	return jiffies_to_usecs(next - now) * NSEC_PER_USEC;
 }
+
+static __init int sched_nohz_full_init_debug(void)
+{
+	debugfs_create_u32("sched_tick_max_deferment", 0644, NULL,
+			   &sched_tick_max_deferment);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+late_initcall(sched_nohz_full_init_debug);
 #endif
 
 notrace unsigned long get_parent_ip(unsigned long addr)
-- 
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