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authorJay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>2006-10-01 02:29:00 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-01 03:39:29 -0400
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[PATCH] csa accounting taskstats update
ChangeLog: Feedbacks from Andrew Morton: - define TS_COMM_LEN to 32 - change acct_stimexpd field of task_struct to be of cputime_t, which is to be used to save the tsk->stime of last timer interrupt update. - a new Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt to describe fields of taskstats struct. Feedback from Balbir Singh: - keep the stime of a task to be zero when both stime and utime are zero as recoreded in task_struct. Misc: - convert accumulated RSS/VM from platform dependent pages-ticks to MBytes-usecs in the kernel Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com> Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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1The struct taskstats
2--------------------
3
4This document contains an explanation of the struct taskstats fields.
5
6There are three different groups of fields in the struct taskstats:
7
81) Common and basic accounting fields
9 If CONFIG_TASKSTATS is set, the taskstats inteface is enabled and
10 the common fields and basic accounting fields are collected for
11 delivery at do_exit() of a task.
122) Delay accounting fields
13 These fields are placed between
14 /* Delay accounting fields start */
15 and
16 /* Delay accounting fields end */
17 Their values are collected if CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT is set.
183) Extended accounting fields
19 These fields are placed between
20 /* Extended accounting fields start */
21 and
22 /* Extended accounting fields end */
23 Their values are collected if CONFIG_TASK_XACCT is set.
24
25Future extension should add fields to the end of the taskstats struct, and
26should not change the relative position of each field within the struct.
27
28
29struct taskstats {
30
311) Common and basic accounting fields:
32 /* The version number of this struct. This field is always set to
33 * TAKSTATS_VERSION, which is defined in <linux/taskstats.h>.
34 * Each time the struct is changed, the value should be incremented.
35 */
36 __u16 version;
37
38 /* The exit code of a task. */
39 __u32 ac_exitcode; /* Exit status */
40
41 /* The accounting flags of a task as defined in <linux/acct.h>
42 * Defined values are AFORK, ASU, ACOMPAT, ACORE, and AXSIG.
43 */
44 __u8 ac_flag; /* Record flags */
45
46 /* The value of task_nice() of a task. */
47 __u8 ac_nice; /* task_nice */
48
49 /* The name of the command that started this task. */
50 char ac_comm[TS_COMM_LEN]; /* Command name */
51
52 /* The scheduling discipline as set in task->policy field. */
53 __u8 ac_sched; /* Scheduling discipline */
54
55 __u8 ac_pad[3];
56 __u32 ac_uid; /* User ID */
57 __u32 ac_gid; /* Group ID */
58 __u32 ac_pid; /* Process ID */
59 __u32 ac_ppid; /* Parent process ID */
60
61 /* The time when a task begins, in [secs] since 1970. */
62 __u32 ac_btime; /* Begin time [sec since 1970] */
63
64 /* The elapsed time of a task, in [usec]. */
65 __u64 ac_etime; /* Elapsed time [usec] */
66
67 /* The user CPU time of a task, in [usec]. */
68 __u64 ac_utime; /* User CPU time [usec] */
69
70 /* The system CPU time of a task, in [usec]. */
71 __u64 ac_stime; /* System CPU time [usec] */
72
73 /* The minor page fault count of a task, as set in task->min_flt. */
74 __u64 ac_minflt; /* Minor Page Fault Count */
75
76 /* The major page fault count of a task, as set in task->maj_flt. */
77 __u64 ac_majflt; /* Major Page Fault Count */
78
79
802) Delay accounting fields:
81 /* Delay accounting fields start
82 *
83 * All values, until the comment "Delay accounting fields end" are
84 * available only if delay accounting is enabled, even though the last
85 * few fields are not delays
86 *
87 * xxx_count is the number of delay values recorded
88 * xxx_delay_total is the corresponding cumulative delay in nanoseconds
89 *
90 * xxx_delay_total wraps around to zero on overflow
91 * xxx_count incremented regardless of overflow
92 */
93
94 /* Delay waiting for cpu, while runnable
95 * count, delay_total NOT updated atomically
96 */
97 __u64 cpu_count;
98 __u64 cpu_delay_total;
99
100 /* Following four fields atomically updated using task->delays->lock */
101
102 /* Delay waiting for synchronous block I/O to complete
103 * does not account for delays in I/O submission
104 */
105 __u64 blkio_count;
106 __u64 blkio_delay_total;
107
108 /* Delay waiting for page fault I/O (swap in only) */
109 __u64 swapin_count;
110 __u64 swapin_delay_total;
111
112 /* cpu "wall-clock" running time
113 * On some architectures, value will adjust for cpu time stolen
114 * from the kernel in involuntary waits due to virtualization.
115 * Value is cumulative, in nanoseconds, without a corresponding count
116 * and wraps around to zero silently on overflow
117 */
118 __u64 cpu_run_real_total;
119
120 /* cpu "virtual" running time
121 * Uses time intervals seen by the kernel i.e. no adjustment
122 * for kernel's involuntary waits due to virtualization.
123 * Value is cumulative, in nanoseconds, without a corresponding count
124 * and wraps around to zero silently on overflow
125 */
126 __u64 cpu_run_virtual_total;
127 /* Delay accounting fields end */
128 /* version 1 ends here */
129
130
1313) Extended accounting fields
132 /* Extended accounting fields start */
133
134 /* Accumulated RSS usage in duration of a task, in MBytes-usecs.
135 * The current rss usage is added to this counter every time
136 * a tick is charged to a task's system time. So, at the end we
137 * will have memory usage multiplied by system time. Thus an
138 * average usage per system time unit can be calculated.
139 */
140 __u64 coremem; /* accumulated RSS usage in MB-usec */
141
142 /* Accumulated virtual memory usage in duration of a task.
143 * Same as acct_rss_mem1 above except that we keep track of VM usage.
144 */
145 __u64 virtmem; /* accumulated VM usage in MB-usec */
146
147 /* High watermark of RSS usage in duration of a task, in KBytes. */
148 __u64 hiwater_rss; /* High-watermark of RSS usage */
149
150 /* High watermark of VM usage in duration of a task, in KBytes. */
151 __u64 hiwater_vm; /* High-water virtual memory usage */
152
153 /* The following four fields are I/O statistics of a task. */
154 __u64 read_char; /* bytes read */
155 __u64 write_char; /* bytes written */
156 __u64 read_syscalls; /* read syscalls */
157 __u64 write_syscalls; /* write syscalls */
158
159 /* Extended accounting fields end */
160
161}