Re: [PATCH 6/6] cputime: Make finegrained irqtime accountinggenerally available

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon Sep 10 2012 - 15:53:37 EST


On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:43:13PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> There is no known reason for this option to be unavailable on other
> archs than x86. They just need to call enable_sched_clock_irqtime()
> if they have a sufficiently finegrained clock to make it working.
>
> Move it to the general option and let the user choose between
> it and pure tick based or virtual cputime accounting.
>
> Note that virtual cputime accounting already performs a finegrained
> irqtime accounting. CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING is a kind of middle ground
> between tick and virtual based accounting. So CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
> and CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING are mutually exclusive choices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 12 +-----------
> init/Kconfig | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> index f78de57..101c31a 100644
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -284,4 +284,10 @@ config SECCOMP_FILTER
> config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
> bool
>
> +config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
> + bool
> + help
> + Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
> + support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
> +
> source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 8ec3a1a..b86833a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ config X86
> select KTIME_SCALAR if X86_32
> select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER
> select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER
> + select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
>
> config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
> def_bool (KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS || UPROBES)
> @@ -796,17 +797,6 @@ config SCHED_MC
> making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly
> increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
>
> -config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
> - bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
> - default n
> - ---help---
> - Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
> - accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
> - transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
> - small performance impact.
> -
> - If in doubt, say N here.
> -
> source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
>
> config X86_UP_APIC
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 2c5aa34..054114e 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -326,10 +326,25 @@ source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
>
> menu "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
>
> +choice
> + prompt "Cputime accounting"
> + default TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING if !PPC64
> + default VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING if PPC64
> +
> +# Kind of a stub config for the pure tick based cputime accounting
> +config TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING
> + bool "Simple tick based cputime accounting"
> + depends on !S390
> + help
> + This is the basic tick based cputime accounting that maintains
> + statistics about user, system and idle time spent on per jiffies
> + granularity.
> +
> + If unsure, say Y.
> +
> config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
> bool "Deterministic task and CPU time accounting"
> depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
> - default y if PPC64
> help
> Select this option to enable more accurate task and CPU time
> accounting. This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
> @@ -339,6 +354,19 @@ config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
> this also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
> systems.
>
> +config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
> + bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
> + depends on !S390 && HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING

As Russell King pointed me, I don't need the !S390 here because it doesn't
select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNT anyway. I'll fix this. Just waiting for more
reviews before sending a v2.

Thanks.


> + help
> + Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
> + accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
> + transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
> + small performance impact.
> +
> + If in doubt, say N here.
> +
> +endchoice
> +
> config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
> bool "BSD Process Accounting"
> help
> --
> 1.7.5.4
>
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