sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time

s390/powerpc/ia64 have support for CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING which does
the fine granularity accounting of user, system, hardirq, softirq times.
Adding that option on archs like x86 will be challenging however, given the
state of TSC reliability on various platforms and also the overhead it will
add in syscall entry exit.

Instead, add a lighter variant that only does finer accounting of
hardirq and softirq times, providing precise irq times (instead of timer tick
based samples). This accounting is added with a new config option
CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING so that there won't be any overhead for users not
interested in paying the perf penalty.

This accounting is based on sched_clock, with the code being generic.
So, other archs may find it useful as well.

This patch just adds the core logic and does not enable this logic yet.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-5-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index aca0ce675939..2cca9a92f5e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1826,6 +1826,19 @@ extern void sched_clock_idle_sleep_event(void);
 extern void sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event(u64 delta_ns);
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
+/*
+ * An i/f to runtime opt-in for irq time accounting based off of sched_clock.
+ * The reason for this explicit opt-in is not to have perf penalty with
+ * slow sched_clocks.
+ */
+extern void enable_sched_clock_irqtime(void);
+extern void disable_sched_clock_irqtime(void);
+#else
+static inline void enable_sched_clock_irqtime(void) {}
+static inline void disable_sched_clock_irqtime(void) {}
+#endif
+
 extern unsigned long long
 task_sched_runtime(struct task_struct *task);
 extern unsigned long long thread_group_sched_runtime(struct task_struct *task);