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>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dtl.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dtl.c
index a7648543c59..0cc0ac07a55 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dtl.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dtl.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static u8 dtl_event_mask = 0x7;
  */
 static int dtl_buf_entries = N_DISPATCH_LOG;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
+#ifdef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
 struct dtl_ring {
 	u64	write_index;
 	struct dtl_entry *write_ptr;
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static u64 dtl_current_index(struct dtl *dtl)
 	return per_cpu(dtl_rings, dtl->cpu).write_index;
 }
 
-#else /* CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING */
+#else /* CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE */
 
 static int dtl_start(struct dtl *dtl)
 {
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static u64 dtl_current_index(struct dtl *dtl)
 {
 	return lppaca_of(dtl->cpu).dtl_idx;
 }
-#endif /* CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING */
+#endif /* CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE */
 
 static int dtl_enable(struct dtl *dtl)
 {
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
index ca55882465d..527e12c9573 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static struct notifier_block pci_dn_reconfig_nb = {
 
 struct kmem_cache *dtl_cache;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
+#ifdef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
 /*
  * Allocate space for the dispatch trace log for all possible cpus
  * and register the buffers with the hypervisor.  This is used for
@@ -332,12 +332,12 @@ static int alloc_dispatch_logs(void)
 
 	return 0;
 }
-#else /* !CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING */
+#else /* !CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE */
 static inline int alloc_dispatch_logs(void)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
-#endif /* CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING */
+#endif /* CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE */
 
 static int alloc_dispatch_log_kmem_cache(void)
 {