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 --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h index 483733bd06d4..607559ab271f 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * - * If we have CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING, we measure cpu time in + * If we have CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE, we measure cpu time in * the same units as the timebase. Otherwise we measure cpu time * in jiffies using the generic definitions. */ @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ #ifndef __POWERPC_CPUTIME_H #define __POWERPC_CPUTIME_H -#ifndef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING +#ifndef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE #include #ifdef __KERNEL__ static inline void setup_cputime_one_jiffy(void) { } @@ -231,5 +231,5 @@ static inline cputime_t clock_t_to_cputime(const unsigned long clk) static inline void arch_vtime_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk) { } #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ -#endif /* CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING */ +#endif /* CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE */ #endif /* __POWERPC_CPUTIME_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3