cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting

If we want to stop the tick further idle, we need to be
able to account the cputime without using the tick.

Virtual based cputime accounting solves that problem by
hooking into kernel/user boundaries.

However implementing CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING require
low level hooks and involves more overhead. But we already
have a generic context tracking subsystem that is required
for RCU needs by archs which plan to shut down the tick
outside idle.

This patch implements a generic virtual based cputime
accounting that relies on these generic kernel/user hooks.

There are some upsides of doing this:

- This requires no arch code to implement CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
if context tracking is already built (already necessary for RCU in full
tickless mode).

- We can rely on the generic context tracking subsystem to dynamically
(de)activate the hooks, so that we can switch anytime between virtual
and tick based accounting. This way we don't have the overhead
of the virtual accounting when the tick is running periodically.

And one downside:

- There is probably more overhead than a native virtual based cputime
accounting. But this relies on hooks that are already set anyway.

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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h
index 483733bd06d4..607559ab271f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
  * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  *
- * If we have CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING, we measure cpu time in
+ * If we have CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE, we measure cpu time in
  * the same units as the timebase.  Otherwise we measure cpu time
  * in jiffies using the generic definitions.
  */
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #ifndef __POWERPC_CPUTIME_H
 #define __POWERPC_CPUTIME_H
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
+#ifndef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
 #include <asm-generic/cputime.h>
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 static inline void setup_cputime_one_jiffy(void) { }
@@ -231,5 +231,5 @@ static inline cputime_t clock_t_to_cputime(const unsigned long clk)
 static inline void arch_vtime_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
-#endif /* CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING */
+#endif /* CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE */
 #endif /* __POWERPC_CPUTIME_H */