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author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2019-08-09 17:53:39 +0300 |
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committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2019-08-09 17:53:39 +0300 |
commit | 0e1c438c44dd9cde56effb44c5f1cfeda72e108d (patch) | |
tree | fa3492d4d7d8b7444e5d8ebe6c78210826333e4b /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpuacct.rst | |
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parent | cdb2d3ee0436d74fa9092f2df46aaa6f9e03c969 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD
KVM/arm fixes for 5.3
- A bunch of switch/case fall-through annotation, fixing one actual bug
- Fix PMU reset bug
- Add missing exception class debug strings
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpuacct.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpuacct.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d30ed81d2ad7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpuacct.rst @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +========================= +CPU Accounting Controller +========================= + +The CPU accounting controller is used to group tasks using cgroups and +account the CPU usage of these groups of tasks. + +The CPU accounting controller supports multi-hierarchy groups. An accounting +group accumulates the CPU usage of all of its child groups and the tasks +directly present in its group. + +Accounting groups can be created by first mounting the cgroup filesystem:: + + # mount -t cgroup -ocpuacct none /sys/fs/cgroup + +With the above step, the initial or the parent accounting group becomes +visible at /sys/fs/cgroup. At bootup, this group includes all the tasks in +the system. /sys/fs/cgroup/tasks lists the tasks in this cgroup. +/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct.usage gives the CPU time (in nanoseconds) obtained +by this group which is essentially the CPU time obtained by all the tasks +in the system. + +New accounting groups can be created under the parent group /sys/fs/cgroup:: + + # cd /sys/fs/cgroup + # mkdir g1 + # echo $$ > g1/tasks + +The above steps create a new group g1 and move the current shell +process (bash) into it. CPU time consumed by this bash and its children +can be obtained from g1/cpuacct.usage and the same is accumulated in +/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct.usage also. + +cpuacct.stat file lists a few statistics which further divide the +CPU time obtained by the cgroup into user and system times. Currently +the following statistics are supported: + +user: Time spent by tasks of the cgroup in user mode. +system: Time spent by tasks of the cgroup in kernel mode. + +user and system are in USER_HZ unit. + +cpuacct controller uses percpu_counter interface to collect user and +system times. This has two side effects: + +- It is theoretically possible to see wrong values for user and system times. + This is because percpu_counter_read() on 32bit systems isn't safe + against concurrent writes. +- It is possible to see slightly outdated values for user and system times + due to the batch processing nature of percpu_counter. |