linux-kernel - [RESEND] [PATCH v3 -tip] sched: Clean unused fields from struct rq

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Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:10:02 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <henrix@...o.pt>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RESEND] [PATCH v3 -tip] sched: Clean unused fields from struct rq

Since they are used on in statistics and are always set to zero, the following
fields from struct rq have been removed: yld_exp_empty, yld_act_empty and
yld_both_empty.

Both Sched Debug and SCHEDSTAT_VERSION versions has also been incremented since
ABIs have been changed.

schedtop tool has been updated to properly handle new version of schedstat.
(URL: http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Schedtop_utility)

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@...o.pt>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
---
 kernel/sched.c       |    3 ---
 kernel/sched_debug.c |    5 +----
 kernel/sched_stats.h |    7 +++----
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 8a579e2..4469034 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -646,9 +646,6 @@ struct rq {
 	/* could above be rq->cfs_rq.exec_clock + rq->rt_rq.rt_runtime ? */
 
 	/* sys_sched_yield() stats */
-	unsigned int yld_exp_empty;
-	unsigned int yld_act_empty;
-	unsigned int yld_both_empty;
 	unsigned int yld_count;
 
 	/* schedule() stats */
diff --git a/kernel/sched_debug.c b/kernel/sched_debug.c
index 4daebff..467ca72 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_debug.c
@@ -286,9 +286,6 @@ static void print_cpu(struct seq_file *m, int cpu)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
 #define P(n) SEQ_printf(m, "  .%-30s: %d\n", #n, rq->n);
 
-	P(yld_exp_empty);
-	P(yld_act_empty);
-	P(yld_both_empty);
 	P(yld_count);
 
 	P(sched_switch);
@@ -313,7 +310,7 @@ static int sched_debug_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 	u64 now = ktime_to_ns(ktime_get());
 	int cpu;
 
-	SEQ_printf(m, "Sched Debug Version: v0.08, %s %.*s\n",
+	SEQ_printf(m, "Sched Debug Version: v0.09, %s %.*s\n",
 		init_utsname()->release,
 		(int)strcspn(init_utsname()->version, " "),
 		init_utsname()->version);
diff --git a/kernel/sched_stats.h b/kernel/sched_stats.h
index a8f93dd..32d2bd4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_stats.h
+++ b/kernel/sched_stats.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * bump this up when changing the output format or the meaning of an existing
  * format, so that tools can adapt (or abort)
  */
-#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 14
+#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 15
 
 static int show_schedstat(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 {
@@ -26,9 +26,8 @@ static int show_schedstat(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 
 		/* runqueue-specific stats */
 		seq_printf(seq,
-		    "cpu%d %u %u %u %u %u %u %u %u %u %llu %llu %lu",
-		    cpu, rq->yld_both_empty,
-		    rq->yld_act_empty, rq->yld_exp_empty, rq->yld_count,
+		    "cpu%d %u %u %u %u %u %u %llu %llu %lu",
+		    cpu, rq->yld_count,
 		    rq->sched_switch, rq->sched_count, rq->sched_goidle,
 		    rq->ttwu_count, rq->ttwu_local,
 		    rq->rq_cpu_time,
-- 
1.6.2

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