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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: [27/36] xen: drop xen_sched_clock in favour of using plain wallclock time
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:20:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100806192116.876317276@clark.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100806192649.GA1614@kroah.com>

2.6.34-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

commit 8a22b9996b001c88f2bfb54c6de6a05fc39e177a upstream.

xen_sched_clock only counts unstolen time.  In principle this should
be useful to the Linux scheduler so that it knows how much time a process
actually consumed.  But in practice this doesn't work very well as the
scheduler expects the sched_clock time to be synchronized between
cpus.  It also uses sched_clock to measure the time a task spends
sleeping, in which case "unstolen time" isn't meaningful.

So just use plain xen_clocksource_read to return wallclock nanoseconds
for sched_clock.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c |    2 +-
 arch/x86/xen/time.c      |   39 ---------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 40 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ static const struct pv_init_ops xen_init
 };
 
 static const struct pv_time_ops xen_time_ops __initdata = {
-	.sched_clock = xen_sched_clock,
+	.sched_clock = xen_clocksource_read,
 };
 
 static const struct pv_cpu_ops xen_cpu_ops __initdata = {
--- a/arch/x86/xen/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/time.c
@@ -155,45 +155,6 @@ static void do_stolen_accounting(void)
 	account_idle_ticks(ticks);
 }
 
-/*
- * Xen sched_clock implementation.  Returns the number of unstolen
- * nanoseconds, which is nanoseconds the VCPU spent in RUNNING+BLOCKED
- * states.
- */
-unsigned long long xen_sched_clock(void)
-{
-	struct vcpu_runstate_info state;
-	cycle_t now;
-	u64 ret;
-	s64 offset;
-
-	/*
-	 * Ideally sched_clock should be called on a per-cpu basis
-	 * anyway, so preempt should already be disabled, but that's
-	 * not current practice at the moment.
-	 */
-	preempt_disable();
-
-	now = xen_clocksource_read();
-
-	get_runstate_snapshot(&state);
-
-	WARN_ON(state.state != RUNSTATE_running);
-
-	offset = now - state.state_entry_time;
-	if (offset < 0)
-		offset = 0;
-
-	ret = state.time[RUNSTATE_blocked] +
-		state.time[RUNSTATE_running] +
-		offset;
-
-	preempt_enable();
-
-	return ret;
-}
-
-
 /* Get the TSC speed from Xen */
 unsigned long xen_tsc_khz(void)
 {



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-06 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-06 19:26 [00/36] 2.6.34.3-stable review Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [01/36] mm: fix ia64 crash when gcore reads gate area Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [02/36] NFS: kswapd must not block in nfs_release_page Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [03/36] NFS: Fix a typo in include/linux/nfs_fs.h Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [04/36] comedi: Uncripple 8255-based DIO subdevices Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [05/36] PARISC: led.c - fix potential stack overflow in led_proc_write() Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [06/36] arm/imx/gpio: add spinlock protection Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [07/36] parisc: pass through \t to early (iodc) console Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [08/36] amd64_edac: Fix DCT base address selector Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [09/36] amd64_edac: Correct scrub rate setting Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [10/36] amd64_edac: Fix operator precendence error Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [11/36] e1000e: dont inadvertently re-set INTX_DISABLE Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [12/36] e1000e: 82577/82578 PHY register access issues Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [13/36] 9p: strlen() doesnt count the terminator Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [14/36] igb: Use only a single Tx queue in SR-IOV mode Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [15/36] ath9k: enable serialize_regmode for non-PCIE AR9160 Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [16/36] ath9k: fix a potential buffer leak in the STA teardown path Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [17/36] ath9k_hw: fix an off-by-one error in the PDADC boundaries calculation Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:19 ` [18/36] ath9k: fix TSF after reset on AR913x Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [19/36] ath9k: fix yet another buffer leak in the tx aggregation code Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [20/36] iwlwifi: fix scan abort Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [21/36] cfg80211: ignore spurious deauth Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [22/36] cfg80211: dont get expired BSSes Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [23/36] mac80211: avoid scheduling while atomic in mesh_rx_plink_frame Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [24/36] SCSI: enclosure: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR() on error Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [25/36] GFS2: rename causes kernel Oops Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [26/36] KVM: MMU: flush remote tlbs when overwriting spte with different pfn Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [28/36] drm/radeon/kms/igp: sideport is AMD only Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [29/36] drm/radeon: add new pci ids Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [30/36] drm/radeon/kms/r7xx: add workaround for hw issue with HDP flush Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [31/36] drm/i915: Check overlay stride errata for i830 and i845 Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [32/36] Revert "ssb: Handle Netbook devices where the SPROM address is changed" Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [33/36] ssb: do not read SPROM if it does not exist Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [34/36] ssb: Look for SPROM at different offset on higher rev CC Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [35/36] ssb: fix NULL ptr deref when pcihost_wrapper is used Greg KH
2010-08-06 19:20 ` [36/36] ssb: Handle alternate SSPROM location Greg KH

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