Re: [patch 2/2] sched: allow cpuacct stats to be reset

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Fri Mar 07 2008 - 00:02:50 EST


* Dhaval Giani <dhaval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-02-29 10:02:44]:

> Currently the schedstats implementation does not allow the statistics
> to be reset. This patch aims to allow that.
>
> echo 0 > cpuacct.usage
>
> resets the usage. Any other value is not allowed and returns -EINVAL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> kernel/sched.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c 2008-02-28 20:05:27.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c 2008-02-28 20:05:30.000000000 +0530
> @@ -8243,10 +8243,34 @@ static u64 cpuusage_read(struct cgroup *
> return totalcpuusage;
> }
>
> +static int cpuusage_write(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cftype,
> + u64 reset)
> +{
> + struct cpuacct *ca = cgroup_ca(cgrp);
> + int err = 0;
> + int i;
> +
> + if (reset) {
> + err = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +

Why not use

if (reset)
return -EINVAL;


> + for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> + u64 *cpuusage = percpu_ptr(ca->cpuusage, i);
> +
> + spin_lock_irq(&cpu_rq(i)->lock);
> + *cpuusage = 0;
> + spin_unlock_irq(&cpu_rq(i)->lock);
> + }
> +out:
> + return err;
> +}
> +
> static struct cftype files[] = {
> {
> .name = "usage",
> .read_uint = cpuusage_read,
> + .write_uint = cpuusage_write,
> },
> };
>
>

Looks good

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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