linux/arch/powerpc
Frederic Weisbecker abf917cd91 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>
2013-01-27 19:23:27 +01:00
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boot Merge remote-tracking branch 'agust/next' into next 2012-12-18 10:22:27 +11:00
configs cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting 2013-01-27 19:23:27 +01:00
include cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting 2013-01-27 19:23:27 +01:00
kernel cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting 2013-01-27 19:23:27 +01:00
kvm KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix compilation without CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV 2013-01-06 14:02:00 +01:00
lib powerpc: Fix VMX fix for memcpy case 2012-10-04 18:02:43 +10:00
math-emu powerpc/math_emu/efp: Look for errata handler when type mismatches 2011-10-06 23:36:47 -05:00
mm POWERPC: drivers: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:04 -08:00
net PPC: net: bpf_jit_comp: add VLAN instructions for BPF JIT 2012-11-17 22:12:47 -05:00
oprofile mm: use mm->exe_file instead of first VM_EXECUTABLE vma->vm_file 2012-10-09 16:22:18 +09:00
perf powerpc/perf: Add missing L2 constraint handling in Power7 PMU 2012-11-15 13:00:36 +11:00
platforms cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting 2013-01-27 19:23:27 +01:00
sysdev POWERPC: drivers: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:04 -08:00
xmon powerpc/xmon: Fallback to printk() in xmon_printf() if udbg is not setup 2012-11-15 13:00:02 +11:00
Kconfig Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series 2012-12-19 18:07:38 -05:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: IOMMU fault injection 2012-07-10 19:18:59 +10:00
Makefile powerpc: dtc is required to build dtb files 2012-11-15 12:59:21 +11:00
relocs_check.pl powerpc: Process dynamic relocations for kernel 2011-12-20 10:21:08 -05:00