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 <mi...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.l...@hp.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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