linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 4/5] sched, timer: Provide an atomic task

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Message-Id: <1430251224-5764-5-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:00:23 -0700
From:	Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@...com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@...com>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/5] sched, timer: Provide an atomic task_cputime data structure

This patch adds an atomic variant of the task_cputime data structure,
which can be used to store and update task_cputime statistics without
needing to do locking.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index c736a47..7092192 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -575,6 +575,23 @@ struct task_cputime {
 		.sum_exec_runtime = 0,				\
 	}
 
+/*
+ * This is the atomic variant of task_cputime, which can be used for
+ * storing and updating task_cputime statistics without locking.
+ */
+struct task_cputime_atomic {
+	atomic64_t utime;
+	atomic64_t stime;
+	atomic64_t sum_exec_runtime;
+};
+
+#define INIT_CPUTIME_ATOMIC \
+	(struct task_cputime_atomic) {				\
+		.utime = ATOMIC64_INIT(0),			\
+		.stime = ATOMIC64_INIT(0),			\
+		.sum_exec_runtime = ATOMIC64_INIT(0),		\
+	}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT
 #define PREEMPT_DISABLED	(1 + PREEMPT_ENABLED)
 #else
-- 
1.7.2.5

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