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authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>2010-10-04 17:03:20 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-10-18 20:52:25 +0200
commite82b8e4ea4f3dffe6e7939f90e78da675fcc450e (patch)
tree116e54691f87d2cb0f2f5df36d1e114624c225d0
parentb52bfee445d315549d41eacf2fa7c156e7d153d5 (diff)
downloadlinux-e82b8e4ea4f3dffe6e7939f90e78da675fcc450e.tar.bz2
x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
This patch adds IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING option on x86 and runtime enables it when TSC is enabled. This change just enables fine grained irq time accounting, isn't used yet. Following patches use it for different purposes. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-6-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt4
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig11
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c8
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 8dd7248508a9..ed05a4a0d242 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2435,6 +2435,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
disables clocksource verification at runtime.
Used to enable high-resolution timer mode on older
hardware, and in virtualized environment.
+ [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
+ Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
+ platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
+ can add overhead.
turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
TurboGraFX parallel port interface
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index cea0cd9a316f..f4c70c246ffe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -795,6 +795,17 @@ config SCHED_MC
making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly
increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
+config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
+ bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
+ accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
+ transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
+ small performance impact.
+
+ If in doubt, say N here.
+
source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
config X86_UP_APIC
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 26a863a9c2a8..a1c2cd768538 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -104,10 +104,14 @@ int __init notsc_setup(char *str)
__setup("notsc", notsc_setup);
+static int no_sched_irq_time;
+
static int __init tsc_setup(char *str)
{
if (!strcmp(str, "reliable"))
tsc_clocksource_reliable = 1;
+ if (!strncmp(str, "noirqtime", 9))
+ no_sched_irq_time = 1;
return 1;
}
@@ -801,6 +805,7 @@ void mark_tsc_unstable(char *reason)
if (!tsc_unstable) {
tsc_unstable = 1;
sched_clock_stable = 0;
+ disable_sched_clock_irqtime();
printk(KERN_INFO "Marking TSC unstable due to %s\n", reason);
/* Change only the rating, when not registered */
if (clocksource_tsc.mult)
@@ -987,6 +992,9 @@ void __init tsc_init(void)
/* now allow native_sched_clock() to use rdtsc */
tsc_disabled = 0;
+ if (!no_sched_irq_time)
+ enable_sched_clock_irqtime();
+
lpj = ((u64)tsc_khz * 1000);
do_div(lpj, HZ);
lpj_fine = lpj;