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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
commit6a61671bb2f3a1bd12cd17b8fca811a624782632 (patch)
tree0afc2915fb7e517472710a49a524510322dd5baa /arch/s390
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 'arch/s390')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c b/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c
index e84b8b68444a..ce9cc5aa2033 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ void vtime_account_user(struct task_struct *tsk)
* Update process times based on virtual cpu times stored by entry.S
* to the lowcore fields user_timer, system_timer & steal_clock.
*/
-void vtime_account(struct task_struct *tsk)
+void vtime_account_irq_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
struct thread_info *ti = task_thread_info(tsk);
u64 timer, system;
@@ -145,10 +145,10 @@ void vtime_account(struct task_struct *tsk)
virt_timer_forward(system);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vtime_account);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vtime_account_irq_enter);
void vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
-__attribute__((alias("vtime_account")));
+__attribute__((alias("vtime_account_irq_enter")));
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vtime_account_system);
void __kprobes vtime_stop_cpu(void)