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Commit 3ad6eb06 authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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tick: Start centralizing tick related CPU hotplug operations


During the CPU offlining process, the various timer tick features are
shut down from scattered places, sometimes from teardown callbacks on
stop machine, sometimes through explicit calls, sometimes from the
control CPU after the CPU died. The reason why these shutdown operations
are spread around is not always clear and it makes the tick lifecycle
hard to follow.

The tick should be shut down in order from highest to lowest level:

On stop machine from the dying CPU (high-level):

 1) Hand-over the timekeeping duty (tick_handover_do_timer())
 2) Cancel the tick implementation called by the clockevent callback
    (tick_cancel_sched_timer())
 3) Shutdown broadcasting (tick_offline_cpu() / tick_broadcast_offline())

On stop machine from the dying CPU (low-level):

 4) Shutdown clockevents drivers (CPUHP_AP_*_TIMER_STARTING states)

From the control CPU after the CPU died (low-level):

 5) Shutdown/unregister/cleanup clockevents for the dead CPU
    (tick_cleanup_dead_cpu())

Instead the current order is 2, 4 (both from CPU hotplug states), then
1 and 3 through direct calls. This layout and order don't make much
sense. The operations 1, 2, 3 should be gathered together and in order.

Sort this situation with creating a new TICK shut-down CPU hotplug state
and start with introducing the timekeeping duty hand-over there. The
state must precede hrtimers migration because the tick hrtimer will be
stopped from it in a further patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-8-frederic@kernel.org
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