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* [PATCH 0/2] cpustat: use atomic operations to read/update stats
@ 2013-02-22  5:56 Kevin Hilman
  2013-02-22  5:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] cpustat: use accessor functions for get/set/add Kevin Hilman
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From: Kevin Hilman @ 2013-02-22  5:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

On 64-bit platforms, reads/writes of the various cpustat fields are
atomic due to native 64-bit loads/stores.  However, on non 64-bit
platforms, reads/writes of the cpustat fields are not atomic and could
lead to inconsistent statistics.

This problem was originally reported by Frederic Weisbecker as a
64-bit limitation with the nsec granularity cputime accounting for
full dynticks, but then we realized that it's a problem that's been
around for awhile and not specific to the new cputime accounting.

This series fixes this by first converting all access to the cputime
fields to use accessor functions, and then converting the accessor
functions to use the atomic64 functions.

Implemented based on idea proposed by Frederic Weisbecker.

Kevin Hilman (2):
  cpustat: use accessor functions for get/set/add
  cpustat: convert to atomic operations

 arch/s390/appldata/appldata_os.c   | 16 +++++++--------
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c | 18 ++++++++---------
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c |  2 +-
 drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c     |  6 +++---
 fs/proc/stat.c                     | 40 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 fs/proc/uptime.c                   |  2 +-
 include/linux/kernel_stat.h        | 11 ++++++++++-
 kernel/sched/core.c                | 12 +++++-------
 kernel/sched/cputime.c             | 29 +++++++++++++--------------
 9 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

-- 
1.8.1.2

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2013-02-22  5:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] cpustat: use accessor functions for get/set/add Kevin Hilman
2013-02-22  6:21   ` Viresh Kumar
2013-02-22  7:17     ` Amit Kucheria
2013-02-22  7:50       ` Viresh Kumar
2013-02-22 12:34       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-02-22 15:14     ` Kevin Hilman
2013-02-22 13:38   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-02-22 13:58     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-22 14:03       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-02-22  5:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] cpustat: convert to atomic operations Kevin Hilman
2013-02-22  8:46 ` [PATCH 0/2] cpustat: use atomic operations to read/update stats Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-22 12:50   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-02-22 13:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-22 13:54       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-22 14:04         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-22 14:16           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-22 14:25             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-22 14:05     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-22 14:15       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-02-22 14:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-22 14:18       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-22 14:21       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-22 14:23         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-02-22 19:01           ` Kevin Hilman

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