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>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/vtime.h b/include/linux/vtime.h
index ae30ab58431..21ef703d1b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/vtime.h
+++ b/include/linux/vtime.h
@@ -14,9 +14,25 @@ extern void vtime_account(struct task_struct *tsk);
 static inline void vtime_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev) { }
 static inline void vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
 static inline void vtime_account_system_irqsafe(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
+static inline void vtime_account_user(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
 static inline void vtime_account(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
+static inline void arch_vtime_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
+static inline void vtime_user_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	vtime_account_system(tsk);
+}
+static inline void vtime_user_exit(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	vtime_account_user(tsk);
+}
+#else
+static inline void vtime_user_enter(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
+static inline void vtime_user_exit(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
 extern void irqtime_account_irq(struct task_struct *tsk);
 #else