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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2010-08-26 23:56:43 +0400
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-09-02 08:07:31 +0400
commitcf9efce0ce3136fa076f53e53154e98455229514 (patch)
tree0e110018b160aff4813b81e0e8c3a43a364edd48 /arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h
parent93c22703efa72c7527dbd586d1951c1f4a85fd70 (diff)
downloadlinux-cf9efce0ce3136fa076f53e53154e98455229514.tar.xz
powerpc: Account time using timebase rather than PURR
Currently, when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is enabled, we use the PURR register for measuring the user and system time used by processes, as well as other related times such as hardirq and softirq times. This turns out to be quite confusing for users because it means that a program will often be measured as taking less time when run on a multi-threaded processor (SMT2 or SMT4 mode) than it does when run on a single-threaded processor (ST mode), even though the program takes longer to finish. The discrepancy is accounted for as stolen time, which is also confusing, particularly when there are no other partitions running. This changes the accounting to use the timebase instead, meaning that the reported user and system times are the actual number of real-time seconds that the program was executing on the processor thread, regardless of which SMT mode the processor is in. Thus a program will generally show greater user and system times when run on a multi-threaded processor than on a single-threaded processor. On pSeries systems on POWER5 or later processors, we measure the stolen time (time when this partition wasn't running) using the hypervisor dispatch trace log. We check for new entries in the log on every entry from user mode and on every transition from kernel process context to soft or hard IRQ context (i.e. when account_system_vtime() gets called). So that we can correctly distinguish time stolen from user time and time stolen from system time, without having to check the log on every exit to user mode, we store separate timestamps for exit to user mode and entry from user mode. On systems that have a SPURR (POWER6 and POWER7), we read the SPURR in account_system_vtime() (as before), and then apportion the SPURR ticks since the last time we read it between scaled user time and scaled system time according to the relative proportions of user time and system time over the same interval. This avoids having to read the SPURR on every kernel entry and exit. On systems that have PURR but not SPURR (i.e., POWER5), we do the same using the PURR rather than the SPURR. This disables the DTL user interface in /sys/debug/kernel/powerpc/dtl for now since it conflicts with the use of the dispatch trace log by the time accounting code. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h
index 6d02624b622c..cfb85ec85750 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h
@@ -172,6 +172,25 @@ struct slb_shadow {
extern struct slb_shadow slb_shadow[];
+/*
+ * Layout of entries in the hypervisor's dispatch trace log buffer.
+ */
+struct dtl_entry {
+ u8 dispatch_reason;
+ u8 preempt_reason;
+ u16 processor_id;
+ u32 enqueue_to_dispatch_time;
+ u32 ready_to_enqueue_time;
+ u32 waiting_to_ready_time;
+ u64 timebase;
+ u64 fault_addr;
+ u64 srr0;
+ u64 srr1;
+};
+
+#define DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES 4096 /* bytes per cpu */
+#define N_DISPATCH_LOG (DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES / sizeof(struct dtl_entry))
+
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S */
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_LPPACA_H */