sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time

s390/powerpc/ia64 have support for CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING which does
the fine granularity accounting of user, system, hardirq, softirq times.
Adding that option on archs like x86 will be challenging however, given the
state of TSC reliability on various platforms and also the overhead it will
add in syscall entry exit.

Instead, add a lighter variant that only does finer accounting of
hardirq and softirq times, providing precise irq times (instead of timer tick
based samples). This accounting is added with a new config option
CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING so that there won't be any overhead for users not
interested in paying the perf penalty.

This accounting is based on sched_clock, with the code being generic.
So, other archs may find it useful as well.

This patch just adds the core logic and does not enable this logic yet.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-5-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 089be8adb07..9b302e35579 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -1908,6 +1908,55 @@ static void deactivate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 	dec_nr_running(rq);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
+
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, cpu_hardirq_time);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, cpu_softirq_time);
+
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, irq_start_time);
+static int sched_clock_irqtime;
+
+void enable_sched_clock_irqtime(void)
+{
+	sched_clock_irqtime = 1;
+}
+
+void disable_sched_clock_irqtime(void)
+{
+	sched_clock_irqtime = 0;
+}
+
+void account_system_vtime(struct task_struct *curr)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int cpu;
+	u64 now, delta;
+
+	if (!sched_clock_irqtime)
+		return;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+
+	now = sched_clock();
+	cpu = smp_processor_id();
+	delta = now - per_cpu(irq_start_time, cpu);
+	per_cpu(irq_start_time, cpu) = now;
+	/*
+	 * We do not account for softirq time from ksoftirqd here.
+	 * We want to continue accounting softirq time to ksoftirqd thread
+	 * in that case, so as not to confuse scheduler with a special task
+	 * that do not consume any time, but still wants to run.
+	 */
+	if (hardirq_count())
+		per_cpu(cpu_hardirq_time, cpu) += delta;
+	else if (in_serving_softirq() && !(curr->flags & PF_KSOFTIRQD))
+		per_cpu(cpu_softirq_time, cpu) += delta;
+
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
+#endif
+
 #include "sched_idletask.c"
 #include "sched_fair.c"
 #include "sched_rt.c"