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authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2008-12-31 15:11:38 +0100
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2008-12-31 15:11:46 +0100
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[PATCH] idle cputime accounting
The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time. The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time instead of just testing for the idle process. To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu. In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process. This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle time. This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kernel_stat.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernel_stat.h7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel_stat.h b/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
index c78a459662a6..570d20413119 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ static inline unsigned int kstat_irqs(unsigned int irq)
extern unsigned long long task_delta_exec(struct task_struct *);
extern void account_user_time(struct task_struct *, cputime_t, cputime_t);
extern void account_system_time(struct task_struct *, int, cputime_t, cputime_t);
-extern void account_steal_time(struct task_struct *, cputime_t);
+extern void account_steal_time(cputime_t);
+extern void account_idle_time(cputime_t);
+
+extern void account_process_tick(struct task_struct *, int user);
+extern void account_steal_ticks(unsigned long ticks);
+extern void account_idle_ticks(unsigned long ticks);
#endif /* _LINUX_KERNEL_STAT_H */