[PATCH] cputime: introduce cputime
This patch introduces the concept of (virtual) cputime. Each architecture can define its method to measure cputime. The main idea is to define a cputime_t type and a set of operations on it (see asm-generic/cputime.h). Then use the type for utime, stime, cutime, cstime, it_virt_value, it_virt_incr, it_prof_value and it_prof_incr and use the cputime operations for each access to these variables. The default implementation is jiffies based and the effect of this patch for architectures which use the default implementation should be neglectible. There is a second type cputime64_t which is necessary for the kernel_stat cpu statistics. The default cputime_t is 32 bit and based on HZ, this will overflow after 49.7 days. This is not enough for kernel_stat (ihmo not enough for a processes too), so it is necessary to have a 64 bit type. The third thing that gets introduced by this patch is an additional field for the /proc/stat interface: cpu steal time. An architecture can account cpu steal time by calls to the account_stealtime function. The cpu which backs a virtual processor doesn't spent all of its time for the virtual cpu. To get meaningful cpu usage numbers this involuntary wait time needs to be accounted and exported to user space. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> The p->signal check in account_system_time is insufficient. If the timer interrupt hits near the end of exit_notify, after EXIT_ZOMBIE has been set, another cpu may release_task (NULLifying p->signal) in between account_system_time's check and check_rlimit's dereference. Nor should account_it_prof risk send_sig. But surely account_user_time is safe? Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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include/asm-alpha/cputime.h
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include/asm-arm/cputime.h
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include/asm-arm26/cputime.h
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include/asm-cris/cputime.h
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include/asm-h8300/cputime.h
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include/asm-i386/cputime.h
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include/asm-ia64/cputime.h
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include/asm-m32r/cputime.h
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include/asm-m68k/cputime.h
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include/asm-mips/cputime.h
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include/asm-parisc/cputime.h
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include/asm-ppc/cputime.h
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include/asm-ppc64/cputime.h
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include/asm-s390/cputime.h
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include/asm-sh/cputime.h
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include/asm-sh64/cputime.h
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include/asm-sparc/cputime.h
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include/asm-um/cputime.h
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include/asm-v850/cputime.h
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include/asm-x86_64/cputime.h
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