linux-kernel - [patch 13/44] posix-cpu-timers: Sample directly in timer check

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Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:31:54 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Subject: [patch 13/44] posix-cpu-timers: Sample directly in timer check

The thread group accounting is active, otherwise the expiry function would
not be running. Sample the thread group time directly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -914,16 +914,17 @@ static void check_process_timers(struct
 	if (!READ_ONCE(tsk->signal->cputimer.running))
 		return;
 
-        /*
+       /*
 	 * Signify that a thread is checking for process timers.
 	 * Write access to this field is protected by the sighand lock.
 	 */
 	sig->cputimer.checking_timer = true;
 
 	/*
-	 * Collect the current process totals.
+	 * Collect the current process totals. Group accounting is active
+	 * so the sample can be taken directly.
 	 */
-	thread_group_cputimer(tsk, &cputime);
+	sample_cputime_atomic(&cputime, &sig->cputimer.cputime_atomic);
 	utime = cputime.utime;
 	ptime = utime + cputime.stime;
 	sum_sched_runtime = cputime.sum_exec_runtime;