linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/6] rcu,nohz: run vtime_user_enter/exit only when state == IN

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Message-Id: <1423579310-24555-5-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:41:48 -0500
From:	riel@...hat.com
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	will.deacon@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Catalin.Marinas@....com, fweisbec@...il.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	mtosatti@...hat.com, borntraeger@...ibm.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	oleg@...hat.com, lcapitulino@...hat.com, pbonzini@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] rcu,nohz: run vtime_user_enter/exit only when state == IN_USER

From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

Only run vtime_user_enter, vtime_user_exit, and the user enter & exit
trace points when we are entering or exiting user state, respectively.

The KVM code in guest_enter and guest_exit already take care of calling
vtime_guest_enter and vtime_guest_exit, respectively.

The RCU code only distinguishes between "idle" and "not idle or kernel".
There should be no need to add an additional (unused) state there.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/context_tracking.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/context_tracking.c b/kernel/context_tracking.c
index 38e38aeac8b9..0e4e318d5ea4 100644
--- a/kernel/context_tracking.c
+++ b/kernel/context_tracking.c
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ void context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state)
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	if ( __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != state) {
 		if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
-			trace_user_enter(0);
 			/*
 			 * At this stage, only low level arch entry code remains and
 			 * then we'll run in userspace. We can assume there won't be
@@ -85,7 +84,10 @@ void context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state)
 			 * user_exit() or rcu_irq_enter(). Let's remove RCU's dependency
 			 * on the tick.
 			 */
-			vtime_user_enter(current);
+			if (state == IN_USER) {
+				trace_user_enter(0);
+				vtime_user_enter(current);
+			}
 			rcu_user_enter();
 		}
 		/*
@@ -143,8 +145,10 @@ void context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state)
 			 * RCU core about that (ie: we may need the tick again).
 			 */
 			rcu_user_exit();
-			vtime_user_exit(current);
-			trace_user_exit(0);
+			if (state == IN_USER) {
+				vtime_user_exit(current);
+				trace_user_exit(0);
+			}
 		}
 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, IN_KERNEL);
 	}
-- 
1.9.3

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