A machine check can interrupt the i/o and external interrupt handler
anytime. If the machine check occurs while the interrupt handler is
waking up from idle vtime_start_cpu can get executed a second time
and the int_clock / async_enter_timer values in the lowcore get
clobbered. This can confuse the cpu time accounting.
To fix this problem two changes are needed. First the machine check
handler has to use its own copies of int_clock and async_enter_timer,
named mcck_clock and mcck_enter_timer. Second the nested execution
of vtime_start_cpu has to be prevented. This is done in s390_idle_check
by checking the wait bit in the program status word.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timers, init: Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootup messages
posix-cpu-timers: optimize and document timer_create callback
clockevents: Add missing include to pacify sparse
x86: vmiclock: Fix printk format
x86: Fix printk format due to variable type change
sparc: fix printk for change of variable type
clocksource/events: Fix fallout of generic code changes
nohz: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds
nohz: Track last do_timer() cpu
nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle
nohz: Type cast printk argument
mips: Use generic mult/shift factor calculation for clocks
clocksource: Provide a generic mult/shift factor calculation
clockevents: Use u32 for mult and shift factors
nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu
nohz: Reuse ktime in sub-functions of tick_check_idle.
time: Remove xtime_cache
time: Implement logarithmic time accumulation
Allow the architecture to request a normal jiffy tick when the system
goes idle and tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick is called . On s390 the hook is
used to prevent the system going fully idle if there has been an
interrupt other than a clock comparator interrupt since the last wakeup.
On s390 the HiperSockets response time for 1 connection ping-pong goes
down from 42 to 34 microseconds. The CPU cost decreases by 27%.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.402715150@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
For powerpc with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
jiffies_to_cputime(1) is not compile time constant and run time
calculations are quite expensive. To optimize we use
precomputed value. For all other architectures is is
preprocessor definition.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
LKML-Reference: <1248862529-6063-5-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Replace the spinlock used in the idle time accounting with a sequence
counter mechanism analog to seqlock.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
All definition in cpu.h have to do with cputime accounting. Move
them to cputime.h and remove the header file.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The cpu idle field in the output of /proc/stat is too small for cpus
that have been idle for more than a tick. Add the architecture hook
arch_idle_time that allows to add the not accounted idle time of a
sleeping cpu without waking the cpu.
The s390 implementation of arch_idle_time uses the already existing
s390_idle_data per_cpu variable to find the sleep time of a neighboring
idle cpu.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
commit aa5e97ce4b
[PATCH] improve precision of process accounting.
Introduced a timing regression:
-bash-3.2# time ls
real 0m0.006s
user 0m1.754s
sys 0m1.094s
The problem was introduced by an error in cputime_to_timeval.
Cputime is now 1/4096 microsecond, therefore, we have to divide
the remainder with 4096 to get the microseconds.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The unit of the cputime accouting values that are stored per process is
currently a microsecond. The CPU timer has a maximum granularity of
2**-12 microseconds. There is no benefit in storing the per process values
in the lesser precision and there is the disadvantage that the backend
has to do the rounding to microseconds. The better solution is to use
the maximum granularity of the CPU timer as cputime unit.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
