cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs

While remotely reading the cputime of a task running in a
full dynticks CPU, the values stored in utime/stime fields
of struct task_struct may be stale. Its values may be those
of the last kernel <-> user transition time snapshot and
we need to add the tickless time spent since this snapshot.

To fix this, flush the cputime of the dynticks CPUs on
kernel <-> user transition and record the time / context
where we did this. Then on top of this snapshot and the current
time, perform the fixup on the reader side from task_times()
accessors.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[fixed kvm module related build errors]
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Frederic Weisbecker
2012-12-16 20:00:34 +01:00
parent c11f11fcbd
commit 6a61671bb2
11 changed files with 292 additions and 54 deletions

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@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ void vtime_account_user(struct task_struct *tsk)
* Update process times based on virtual cpu times stored by entry.S
* to the lowcore fields user_timer, system_timer & steal_clock.
*/
void vtime_account(struct task_struct *tsk)
void vtime_account_irq_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
struct thread_info *ti = task_thread_info(tsk);
u64 timer, system;
@@ -145,10 +145,10 @@ void vtime_account(struct task_struct *tsk)
virt_timer_forward(system);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vtime_account);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vtime_account_irq_enter);
void vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
__attribute__((alias("vtime_account")));
__attribute__((alias("vtime_account_irq_enter")));
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vtime_account_system);
void __kprobes vtime_stop_cpu(void)