linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/x86
Martin Schwidefsky 79741dd357 [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>
2008-12-31 15:11:46 +01:00
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boot Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core 2008-12-23 16:27:23 +01:00
configs x86: revert CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y defconfig change 2008-12-18 20:57:29 +01:00
crypto crypto: crc32c-intel - Switch to shash 2008-12-25 11:01:37 +11:00
ia32 Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-12-28 12:07:57 -08:00
include/asm Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-12-30 16:20:19 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-12-30 16:20:19 -08:00
kvm KVM: MMU: avoid creation of unreachable pages in the shadow 2008-11-26 12:34:27 +02:00
lguest lguest: move the initial guest page table creation code to the host 2008-12-30 09:26:11 +10:30
lib Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into core/locking 2008-10-28 16:54:49 +01:00
mach-default Merge branches 'x86/prototypes', 'x86/x2apic' and 'x86/debug' into x86/core 2008-08-14 14:58:22 +02:00
mach-generic x86: fix wakeup_cpu with numaq/es7000 v2 - call ->update_genapic() 2008-11-20 10:45:17 +01:00
mach-rdc321x removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s 2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
mach-voyager x86, voyager: fix smp generic helper voyager breakage 2008-11-11 12:08:53 +01:00
math-emu x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/math-emu/reg_constant 2008-06-18 15:00:13 +02:00
mm Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-12-30 16:10:19 -08:00
oprofile Merge branch 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-12-30 17:31:25 -08:00
pci Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core 2008-12-23 16:27:23 +01:00
power x86, hibernate: fix breakage on x86_32 with CONFIG_NUMA set 2008-11-12 23:28:51 +01:00
scripts allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL 2008-12-19 22:47:10 +01:00
vdso Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 2008-12-28 12:33:21 -08:00
video
xen [PATCH] idle cputime accounting 2008-12-31 15:11:46 +01:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-12-30 16:20:19 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS" 2008-12-24 21:08:37 +01:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-12-28 12:21:10 -08:00
Makefile x86, um: ... and asm-x86 move 2008-10-22 22:55:20 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu x86: merge winchip-2 and winchip-2a cpu choices 2008-10-13 10:22:48 +02:00