timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers

Change the process wide cpu timers/clocks so that we:

 1) don't mess up the kernel with too many threads,
 2) don't have a per-cpu allocation for each process,
 3) have no impact when not used.

In order to accomplish this we're going to split it into two parts:

 - clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run
           from user context -- ie. sys_clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID)

 - timers; which need constant time sampling but since they're
           explicity used, the user can pay the overhead.

The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, while the
timers will run of a global 'clock' that only runs when needed, so only
programs that make use of the facility pay the price.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched_stats.h b/kernel/sched_stats.h
index 8ab0cef8ecab..a8f93dd374e1 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_stats.h
+++ b/kernel/sched_stats.h
@@ -296,19 +296,21 @@ sched_info_switch(struct task_struct *prev, struct task_struct *next)
 static inline void account_group_user_time(struct task_struct *tsk,
                                            cputime_t cputime)
 {
-        struct task_cputime *times;
-        struct signal_struct *sig;
+        struct thread_group_cputimer *cputimer;
 
         /* tsk == current, ensure it is safe to use ->signal */
         if (unlikely(tsk->exit_state))
                 return;
 
-        sig = tsk->signal;
-        times = &sig->cputime.totals;
+        cputimer = &tsk->signal->cputimer;
 
-        spin_lock(&times->lock);
-        times->utime = cputime_add(times->utime, cputime);
-        spin_unlock(&times->lock);
+        if (!cputimer->running)
+                return;
+
+        spin_lock(&cputimer->lock);
+        cputimer->cputime.utime =
+                cputime_add(cputimer->cputime.utime, cputime);
+        spin_unlock(&cputimer->lock);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -324,19 +326,21 @@ static inline void account_group_user_time(struct task_struct *tsk,
 static inline void account_group_system_time(struct task_struct *tsk,
                                              cputime_t cputime)
 {
-        struct task_cputime *times;
-        struct signal_struct *sig;
+        struct thread_group_cputimer *cputimer;
 
         /* tsk == current, ensure it is safe to use ->signal */
         if (unlikely(tsk->exit_state))
                 return;
 
-        sig = tsk->signal;
-        times = &sig->cputime.totals;
+        cputimer = &tsk->signal->cputimer;
+
+        if (!cputimer->running)
+                return;
 
-        spin_lock(&times->lock);
-        times->stime = cputime_add(times->stime, cputime);
-        spin_unlock(&times->lock);
+        spin_lock(&cputimer->lock);
+        cputimer->cputime.stime =
+                cputime_add(cputimer->cputime.stime, cputime);
+        spin_unlock(&cputimer->lock);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -352,7 +356,7 @@ static inline void account_group_system_time(struct task_struct *tsk,
 static inline void account_group_exec_runtime(struct task_struct *tsk,
                                               unsigned long long ns)
 {
-        struct task_cputime *times;
+        struct thread_group_cputimer *cputimer;
         struct signal_struct *sig;
 
         sig = tsk->signal;
@@ -361,9 +365,12 @@ static inline void account_group_exec_runtime(struct task_struct *tsk,
         if (unlikely(!sig))
                 return;
 
-        times = &sig->cputime.totals;
+        cputimer = &sig->cputimer;
+
+        if (!cputimer->running)
+                return;
 
-        spin_lock(&times->lock);
-        times->sum_exec_runtime += ns;
-        spin_unlock(&times->lock);
+        spin_lock(&cputimer->lock);
+        cputimer->cputime.sum_exec_runtime += ns;
+        spin_unlock(&cputimer->lock);
 }