linux-kernel - [patch 0/4] taskstats: Improve cumulative time accounting

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Message-Id: <20101119201108.269346583@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:11:08 +0100
From:	Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Shailabh Nagar <nagar1234@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	John stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 0/4] taskstats: Improve cumulative time accounting

Due to POSIX POSIX.1-2001, the CPU time of processes is not accounted
to the cumulative time of the parents, if the parents ignore SIGCHLD
or have set SA_NOCLDWAIT. This behaviour has the major drawback that
it is not possible to calculate all consumed CPU time of a system by
looking at the current tasks. CPU time can be lost.

To solve this problem, this patch set duplicates the cumulative accounting
data in the signal_struct. In the second set (cdata_acct) the complete
cumulative resource counters are stored. The new cumulative CPU time (utime
and stime) is then exported via the taskstats interface.

PATCH SET OVERVIEW
------------------
Patches apply on:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

[1] Introduce "struct cdata"
[2] Introduce __account_cdata() function
[3] Introduce cdata_acct for complete cumulative accounting
[4] Export "cdata_acct" with taskstats
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