[PATCH v6] docs: real-time: mention the hrtimer sleeper HARD path
Liang Hao <[email protected]>
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The Timers section documents the PREEMPT_RT softirq default and HRTIMER_MODE_HARD, but not the sleeper helper used by userspace sleeps. Describe that path, and rename "ktimersd" to "ktimers" to match ksoftirqd naming in this document. No code or behaviour change. Signed-off-by: Liang Hao <[email protected]> --- v5 -> v6: - clarify soft delivery for non-RT sleepers (softirq context, not HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT) Documentation/core-api/real-time/differences.rst | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/real-time/differences.rst b/Documentation/core-api/real-time/differences.rst index a129570dab5a..6f5be9f0da2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/real-time/differences.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/real-time/differences.rst @@ -119,12 +119,20 @@ timers initialized with the HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT flag, which are executed in softirq context. On a PREEMPT_RT kernel, this behavior is reversed: hrtimers are executed in -softirq context by default, typically within the ktimersd thread. This thread +softirq context by default, typically within the ktimers thread. This thread runs at the lowest real-time priority, ensuring it executes before any SCHED_OTHER tasks but does not interfere with higher-priority real-time threads. To explicitly request execution in hard interrupt context on PREEMPT_RT, the timer must be marked with the HRTIMER_MODE_HARD flag. +Userland sleepers usually deploy a hrtimer to guarantee a precise wakeup +time. The timer is initialized with hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack(), which +distinguishes between real-time and regular tasks. The hrtimer of a task +without a real-time priority is handled in soft interrupt context, but for +real-time priorities HRTIMER_MODE_HARD is used. This ensures that real-time +tasks are woken up as soon as possible while ordinary tasks cannot block the +CPU with a thundering herd of wakeups. + Memory allocation ----------------- -- 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)