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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/base.c | 67 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 843b045b4069..7f5607a089b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Table of Contents 3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children 3.8 /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file 3.9 /proc/<pid>/map_files - Information about memory mapped files + 3.10 /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns - Task timerslack value 4 Configuring procfs 4.1 Mount options @@ -1862,6 +1863,23 @@ time one can open(2) mappings from the listings of two processes and comparing their inode numbers to figure out which anonymous memory areas are actually shared. +3.10 /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns - Task timerslack value +--------------------------------------------------------- +This file provides the value of the task's timerslack value in nanoseconds. +This value specifies a amount of time that normal timers may be deferred +in order to coalesce timers and avoid unnecessary wakeups. + +This allows a task's interactivity vs power consumption trade off to be +adjusted. + +Writing 0 to the file will set the tasks timerslack to the default value. + +Valid values are from 0 - ULLONG_MAX + +An application setting the value must have PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS level +permissions on the task specified to change its timerslack_ns value. + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Configuring procfs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 4f764c2ac1a5..35f583ad7dbe 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2257,6 +2257,72 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_timers_operations = { .release = seq_release_private, }; +static ssize_t timerslack_ns_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, + size_t count, loff_t *offset) +{ + struct inode *inode = file_inode(file); + struct task_struct *p; + u64 slack_ns; + int err; + + err = kstrtoull_from_user(buf, count, 10, &slack_ns); + if (err < 0) + return err; + + p = get_proc_task(inode); + if (!p) + return -ESRCH; + + if (ptrace_may_access(p, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS)) { + task_lock(p); + if (slack_ns == 0) + p->timer_slack_ns = p->default_timer_slack_ns; + else + p->timer_slack_ns = slack_ns; + task_unlock(p); + } else + count = -EPERM; + + put_task_struct(p); + + return count; +} + +static int timerslack_ns_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) +{ + struct inode *inode = m->private; + struct task_struct *p; + int err = 0; + + p = get_proc_task(inode); + if (!p) + return -ESRCH; + + if (ptrace_may_access(p, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS)) { + task_lock(p); + seq_printf(m, "%llu\n", p->timer_slack_ns); + task_unlock(p); + } else + err = -EPERM; + + put_task_struct(p); + + return err; +} + +static int timerslack_ns_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) +{ + return single_open(filp, timerslack_ns_show, inode); +} + +static const struct file_operations proc_pid_set_timerslack_ns_operations = { + .open = timerslack_ns_open, + .read = seq_read, + .write = timerslack_ns_write, + .llseek = seq_lseek, + .release = single_release, +}; + static int proc_pident_instantiate(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct task_struct *task, const void *ptr) { @@ -2831,6 +2897,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tgid_base_stuff[] = { #ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE REG("timers", S_IRUGO, proc_timers_operations), #endif + REG("timerslack_ns", S_IRUGO|S_IWUGO, proc_pid_set_timerslack_ns_operations), }; static int proc_tgid_base_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx) |