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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-07-12 21:05:14 +0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-08-13 02:40:44 +0400
commit5b206d48e58204e84d249c4eb18651a1ff7a1274 (patch)
treec97a8158df0ff854d1d6389ddde5cc1fa53bae92
parent2d854e5738cded368a0759f85b1197f5c044513d (diff)
downloadlinux-5b206d48e58204e84d249c4eb18651a1ff7a1274.tar.xz
vtime: Update a few comments
Update a stale comment from the old vtime era and document some locking that might be non obvious. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/context_tracking.h10
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/cputime.c7
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/context_tracking.h b/include/linux/context_tracking.h
index 5984f2556d13..d883ff0dd8fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/context_tracking.h
+++ b/include/linux/context_tracking.h
@@ -72,8 +72,9 @@ extern void guest_exit(void);
static inline void guest_enter(void)
{
/*
- * This is running in ioctl context so we can avoid
- * the call to vtime_account() with its unnecessary idle check.
+ * This is running in ioctl context so its safe
+ * to assume that it's the stime pending cputime
+ * to flush.
*/
vtime_account_system(current);
current->flags |= PF_VCPU;
@@ -81,10 +82,7 @@ static inline void guest_enter(void)
static inline void guest_exit(void)
{
- /*
- * This is running in ioctl context so we can avoid
- * the call to vtime_account() with its unnecessary idle check.
- */
+ /* Flush the guest cputime we spent on the guest */
vtime_account_system(current);
current->flags &= ~PF_VCPU;
}
diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index a7959e05a9d5..223a35efa0a6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -712,6 +712,13 @@ void vtime_user_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
void vtime_guest_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
+ /*
+ * The flags must be updated under the lock with
+ * the vtime_snap flush and update.
+ * That enforces a right ordering and update sequence
+ * synchronization against the reader (task_gtime())
+ * that can thus safely catch up with a tickless delta.
+ */
write_seqlock(&tsk->vtime_seqlock);
__vtime_account_system(tsk);
current->flags |= PF_VCPU;