From abf917cd91cbb73952758f9741e2fa65002a48ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:56:04 +0200 Subject: cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting If we want to stop the tick further idle, we need to be able to account the cputime without using the tick. Virtual based cputime accounting solves that problem by hooking into kernel/user boundaries. However implementing CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING require low level hooks and involves more overhead. But we already have a generic context tracking subsystem that is required for RCU needs by archs which plan to shut down the tick outside idle. This patch implements a generic virtual based cputime accounting that relies on these generic kernel/user hooks. There are some upsides of doing this: - This requires no arch code to implement CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING if context tracking is already built (already necessary for RCU in full tickless mode). - We can rely on the generic context tracking subsystem to dynamically (de)activate the hooks, so that we can switch anytime between virtual and tick based accounting. This way we don't have the overhead of the virtual accounting when the tick is running periodically. And one downside: - There is probably more overhead than a native virtual based cputime accounting. But this relies on hooks that are already set anyway. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Li Zhong Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/vtime.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/vtime.h') diff --git a/include/linux/vtime.h b/include/linux/vtime.h index ae30ab58431a..21ef703d1b25 100644 --- a/include/linux/vtime.h +++ b/include/linux/vtime.h @@ -14,9 +14,25 @@ extern void vtime_account(struct task_struct *tsk); static inline void vtime_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev) { } static inline void vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk) { } static inline void vtime_account_system_irqsafe(struct task_struct *tsk) { } +static inline void vtime_account_user(struct task_struct *tsk) { } static inline void vtime_account(struct task_struct *tsk) { } #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN +static inline void arch_vtime_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk) { } +static inline void vtime_user_enter(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ + vtime_account_system(tsk); +} +static inline void vtime_user_exit(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ + vtime_account_user(tsk); +} +#else +static inline void vtime_user_enter(struct task_struct *tsk) { } +static inline void vtime_user_exit(struct task_struct *tsk) { } +#endif + #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING extern void irqtime_account_irq(struct task_struct *tsk); #else -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b