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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2012-12-16 20:00:34 +0100
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-01-27 20:35:47 +0100
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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/hardirq.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hardirq.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/hardirq.h b/include/linux/hardirq.h
index 624ef3f45c8e..7105d5cbb762 100644
--- a/include/linux/hardirq.h
+++ b/include/linux/hardirq.h
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ extern void rcu_nmi_exit(void);
*/
#define __irq_enter() \
do { \
- vtime_account_irq_enter(current); \
+ account_irq_enter_time(current); \
add_preempt_count(HARDIRQ_OFFSET); \
trace_hardirq_enter(); \
} while (0)
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ extern void irq_enter(void);
#define __irq_exit() \
do { \
trace_hardirq_exit(); \
- vtime_account_irq_exit(current); \
+ account_irq_exit_time(current); \
sub_preempt_count(HARDIRQ_OFFSET); \
} while (0)