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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2012-12-16 14:00:34 -0500
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-01-27 14:35:47 -0500
commit6a61671bb2f3a1bd12cd17b8fca811a624782632 (patch)
tree0afc2915fb7e517472710a49a524510322dd5baa /include/linux/init_task.h
parentc11f11fcbdb5be790c565aed46411486a7586afc (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/init_task.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/init_task.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index 6d087c5f57f7..cc898b871cef 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
10#include <linux/pid_namespace.h> 10#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
11#include <linux/user_namespace.h> 11#include <linux/user_namespace.h>
12#include <linux/securebits.h> 12#include <linux/securebits.h>
13#include <linux/seqlock.h>
13#include <net/net_namespace.h> 14#include <net/net_namespace.h>
14 15
15#ifdef CONFIG_SMP 16#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
@@ -141,6 +142,15 @@ extern struct task_group root_task_group;
141# define INIT_PERF_EVENTS(tsk) 142# define INIT_PERF_EVENTS(tsk)
142#endif 143#endif
143 144
145#ifdef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
146# define INIT_VTIME(tsk) \
147 .vtime_seqlock = __SEQLOCK_UNLOCKED(tsk.vtime_seqlock), \
148 .vtime_snap = 0, \
149 .vtime_snap_whence = VTIME_SYS,
150#else
151# define INIT_VTIME(tsk)
152#endif
153
144#define INIT_TASK_COMM "swapper" 154#define INIT_TASK_COMM "swapper"
145 155
146/* 156/*
@@ -210,6 +220,7 @@ extern struct task_group root_task_group;
210 INIT_TRACE_RECURSION \ 220 INIT_TRACE_RECURSION \
211 INIT_TASK_RCU_PREEMPT(tsk) \ 221 INIT_TASK_RCU_PREEMPT(tsk) \
212 INIT_CPUSET_SEQ \ 222 INIT_CPUSET_SEQ \
223 INIT_VTIME(tsk) \
213} 224}
214 225
215 226