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Commit 8d495477 authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/cputime: Spare a seqcount lock/unlock cycle on context switch


On context switch we are locking the vtime seqcount of the scheduling-out
task twice:

 * On vtime_task_switch_common(), when we flush the pending vtime through
   vtime_account_system()

 * On arch_vtime_task_switch() to reset the vtime state.

This is pointless as these actions can be performed without the need
to unlock/lock in the middle. The reason these steps are separated is to
consolidate a very small amount of common code between
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN and CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE.

Performance in this fast path is definitely a priority over artificial
code factorization so split the task switch code between GEN and
NATIVE and mutualize the parts than can run under a single seqcount
locked block.

As a side effect, vtime_account_idle() becomes included in the seqcount
protection. This happens to be a welcome preparation in order to
properly support kcpustat under vtime in the future and fetch
CPUTIME_IDLE without race.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Cc: Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191003161745.28464-3-frederic@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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