linux-kernel - [PATCH v8 3/6] sched: Add helper nr_context_switches

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Message-ID: <20221119092508.1766-4-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Date:   Sat, 19 Nov 2022 17:25:05 +0800
From:   Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
To:     "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>,
        "Josh Triplett" <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>, <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>,
        Robert Elliott <elliott@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 3/6] sched: Add helper nr_context_switches_cpu()

Returns the number of context switches on the specified CPU, which can be
used to diagnose rcu stall.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
---
 include/linux/kernel_stat.h | 1 +
 kernel/sched/core.c         | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel_stat.h b/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
index 898076e173a928a..9935f7ecbfb9e31 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct kernel_cpustat, kernel_cpustat);
 #define kstat_cpu(cpu) per_cpu(kstat, cpu)
 #define kcpustat_cpu(cpu) per_cpu(kernel_cpustat, cpu)
 
+extern unsigned long long nr_context_switches_cpu(int cpu);
 extern unsigned long long nr_context_switches(void);
 
 extern unsigned int kstat_irqs_cpu(unsigned int irq, int cpu);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 5800b0623ff3068..a0d19f67f2046d9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5229,6 +5229,11 @@ bool single_task_running(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(single_task_running);
 
+unsigned long long nr_context_switches_cpu(int cpu)
+{
+	return cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_switches;
+}
+
 unsigned long long nr_context_switches(void)
 {
 	int i;
-- 
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