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2010-12-23taskstats: pad taskstats netlink response for aligment issues on ia64Jeff Mahoney
The taskstats structure is internally aligned on 8 byte boundaries but the layout of the aggregrate reply, with two NLA headers and the pid (each 4 bytes), actually force the entire structure to be unaligned. This causes the kernel to issue unaligned access warnings on some architectures like ia64. Unfortunately, some software out there doesn't properly unroll the NLA packet and assumes that the start of the taskstats structure will always be 20 bytes from the start of the netlink payload. Aligning the start of the taskstats structure breaks this software, which we don't want. So, for now the alignment only happens on architectures that require it and those users will have to update to fixed versions of those packages. Space is reserved in the packet only when needed. This ifdef should be removed in several years e.g. 2012 once we can be confident that fixed versions are installed on most systems. We add the padding before the aggregate since the aggregate is already a defined type. Commit 85893120 ("delayacct: align to 8 byte boundary on 64-bit systems") previously addressed the alignment issues by padding out the pid field. This was supposed to be a compatible change but the circumstances described above mean that it wasn't. This patch backs out that change, since it was a hack, and introduces a new NULL attribute type to provide the padding. Padding the response with 4 bytes avoids allocating an aligned taskstats structure and copying it back. Since the structure weighs in at 328 bytes, it's too big to do it on the stack. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Reported-by: Brian Rogers <brian@xyzw.org> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-28delay-accounting: reimplement -c for getdelays.c to report information on a ↵Mel Gorman
target command Task delay-accounting was identified as one means of determining how long a process spends in congestion_wait() without adding new statistics. For example, if the workload should not be doing IO, delay-accounting could reveal how long it was spending in unexpected IO or delays. Unfortunately, on closer examination it was clear that getdelays does not act as documented. Commit a3baf649 ("per-task-delay-accounting: documentation") added Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c with a -c switch that was documented to fork/exec a child and report statistics on it but for reasons that are unclear to me, commit 9e06d3f9 deleted support for this switch but did not update the documentation. It might be an oversight or it might be because the control flow of the program meant that accounting information would be printed once early in the lifetime of the program making it of limited use. This patch reimplements -c for getdelays.c to act as documented. Unlike the original version, it waits until the command completes before printing any information on it. An example of it being used looks like $ ./getdelays -d -c find /home/mel -name mel print delayacct stats ON /home/mel /home/mel/.notes-wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/mel /home/mel/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/mel /home/mel/git-configs/dot.kde/share/apps/konqueror/home/mel PID 5923 CPU count real total virtual total delay total 42779 5051232096 5164722692 564207988 IO count delay total 41727 97804147758 SWAP count delay total 0 0 RECLAIM count delay total 0 0 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGSLadinu Chandrasinghe
Fix up -Wmissing-prototypes in compileable userspace code, mainly under Documentation/. Signed-off-by: Ladinu Chandrasinghe <ladinu.pub@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Trevor Keith <tsrk@tsrk.net> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-17Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c intialize the variable before using itJaswinder Singh Rajput
Fix compilation warning: Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function `main': Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:249: warning: `cmd_type' may be used uninitialized in this function This is in fact a false positive. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-16Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: fix endless loopMarcus Meissner
When no option is passed to getdelays it just hangs, waiting for a reply which will never come. This patch prints usage() when no output marker is specified. Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30.gitignore updatesAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12docsrc: fix getdelays printk formatsRandy Dunlap
Fix printf format type warnings (seen on alpha & ia64): Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:206: warning: format '%15llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:206: warning: format '%15llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 7 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:206: warning: format '%15llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 8 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:206: warning: format '%15llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 9 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:206: warning: format '%15llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 12 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:206: warning: format '%15llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 13 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:206: warning: format '%15llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 16 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:206: warning: format '%15llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 17 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:214: warning: format '%15llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:214: warning: format '%15llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:221: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:221: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:221: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:221: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:221: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:236: warning: 'cmd_type' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12docsrc: build Documentation/ sourcesRandy Dunlap
Currently source files in the Documentation/ sub-dir can easily bit-rot since they are not generally buildable, either because they are hidden in text files or because there are no Makefile rules for them. This needs to be fixed so that the source files remain usable and good examples of code instead of bad examples. Add the ability to build source files that are in the Documentation/ dir. Add to Kconfig as "BUILD_DOCSRC" config symbol. Use "CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ..." to build objects from the Documentation/ sources. Or enable BUILD_DOCSRC in the *config system. However, this symbol depends on HEADERS_CHECK since the header files need to be installed (for userspace builds). Built (using cross-tools) for x86-64, i386, alpha, ia64, sparc32, sparc64, powerpc, sh, m68k, & mips. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar ↵Matt LaPlante
corrections. Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25per-task-delay-accounting: update document and getdelays.c for memory reclaimKeika Kobayashi
Update document and make getdelays.c show delay accounting for memory reclaim. For making a distinction between "swapping in pages" and "memory reclaim" in getdelays.c, MEM is changed to SWAP. Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25per-task-delay-accounting: update taskstats for memory reclaim delayKeika Kobayashi
Add members for memory reclaim delay to taskstats, and accumulate them in __delayacct_add_tsk() . Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04Update taskstats-struct document for scaled time accountingHiroshi Shimamoto
Update Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt for TASKSTATS_VERSION 6, adding scaled time accounting. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08getdelays: fix gcc warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix gcc warnings in getdelays.c: Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'task_context_switch_counts': Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:214: warning: format '%15lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:214: warning: format '%15lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type '__u64' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'main': Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:402: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 2 has type 'long unsigned int' Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'get_family_id': Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:171: warning: 'id' may be used uninitialized in this function One warning is not a problem and can be dismissed: Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'main': Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:236: warning: 'cmd_type' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-15make getdelays cgroupstats awareBalbir Singh
Update the getdelays utility to become cgroupstats aware. A new -C option has been added. It takes in a control group path and prints out a summary of the states of tasks in the control group Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19Add cgroupstatsBalbir Singh
This patch is inspired by the discussion at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/187 and implements per cgroup statistics as suggested by Andrew Morton in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/263. The patch is on top of 2.6.21-mm1 with Paul's cgroups v9 patches (forward ported) This patch implements per cgroup statistics infrastructure and re-uses code from the taskstats interface. A new set of cgroup operations are registered with commands and attributes. It should be very easy to *extend* per cgroup statistics, by adding members to the cgroupstats structure. The current model for cgroupstats is a pull, a push model (to post statistics on interesting events), should be very easy to add. Currently user space requests for statistics by passing the cgroup file descriptor. Statistics about the state of all the tasks in the cgroup is returned to user space. TODO's/NOTE: This patch provides an infrastructure for implementing cgroup statistics. Based on the needs of each controller, we can incrementally add more statistics, event based support for notification of statistics, accumulation of taskstats into cgroup statistics in the future. Sample output # ./cgroupstats -C /cgroup/a sleeping 2, blocked 0, running 1, stopped 0, uninterruptible 0 # ./cgroupstats -C /cgroup/ sleeping 154, blocked 0, running 0, stopped 0, uninterruptible 0 If the approach looks good, I'll enhance and post the user space utility for the same Feedback, comments, test results are always welcome! [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Clean up duplicate includes in Documentation/Jesper Juhl
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in Documentation/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-23Documentation: fix getdelays.c printf bugMichael Neuling
Commit b663a79c191508f27cd885224b592a878c0ba0f6 ("taskstats: add context-switch counters") incorrectly removed a comma from a printf statement. This causes corruption in the output printing or a seg fault. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16taskstats: add context-switch countersMaxim Uvarov
Make available to the user the following task and process performance statistics: * Involuntary Context Switches (task_struct->nivcsw) * Voluntary Context Switches (task_struct->nvcsw) Statistics information is available from: 1. taskstats interface (Documentation/accounting/) 2. /proc/PID/status (task only). This data is useful for detecting hyperactivity patterns between processes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08getdelays.c: fix overrunScott Wiersdorf
A patch for getdelays.c that fixes a buffer overrun when you set -w. Cc: <matt@bluehost.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08Taskstats: fix getdelays usage informationRandy Dunlap
Add usage to getdelays.c. This patch was originally posted by Randy Dunlap http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/168 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] io-accounting: add to getdelaysAndrew Morton
Wire up the IO accounting into getdelays.c. Usage: To display I/O stats for each exitting task: vmm:/home/akpm> ./getdelays -m0,1,2,3 -i -l cpumask 0 maskset 1 printing IO accounting listen forever rm: read=8192, write=0, cancelled_write=0 cvs: read=733184, write=4255744, cancelled_write=4096 make: read=217088, write=0, cancelled_write=0 cc1: read=4263936, write=12288, cancelled_write=0 as: read=811008, write=8192, cancelled_write=0 gcc: read=323584, write=0, cancelled_write=12288 cc1: read=0, write=8192, cancelled_write=0 as: read=4096, write=4096, cancelled_write=0 gcc: read=16384, write=0, cancelled_write=4096 as: read=4096, write=4096, cancelled_write=0 gcc: read=16384, write=0, cancelled_write=8192 ld: read=1011712, write=16384, cancelled_write=0 collect2: read=626688, write=0, cancelled_write=0 gcc: read=204800, write=0, cancelled_write=0 cc1: read=0, write=8192, cancelled_write=0 as: read=4096, write=4096, cancelled_write=0 gcc: read=16384, write=0, cancelled_write=8192 ld: read=8192, write=16384, cancelled_write=0 collect2: read=49152, write=0, cancelled_write=0 gcc: read=0, write=0, cancelled_write=0 cc1: read=0, write=4096, cancelled_write=0 ld: read=4096, write=12288, cancelled_write=0 collect2: read=49152, write=0, cancelled_write=0 gcc: read=0, write=0, cancelled_write=0 To display I/O stats for a particular presently-running task: vmm:/home/akpm> ./getdelays -i -p $(pidof crond) printing IO accounting crond: read=61440, write=0, cancelled_write=0 Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com> Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Cc: David Wright <daw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] getdelays: various fixesAndrew Morton
- Various cleanups - Report errors to stderr, not stdout - A printf was missing a \n and was hiding from me. Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com> Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Cc: David Wright <daw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-30Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letters 'U-Z'. Looks like I made it through the alphabet...just in time to start over again +too! Maybe I can fit more profound fixes into the next round...? Time will +tell. :) Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T''Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letter 'T'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-03[PATCH] fix Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c buf sizeOleg Nesterov
getdelays reports a "fatal reply error, errno 258". We don't have enough room for multi-threaded exit (PID + TGID). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01[PATCH] csa accounting taskstats updateJay Lan
ChangeLog: Feedbacks from Andrew Morton: - define TS_COMM_LEN to 32 - change acct_stimexpd field of task_struct to be of cputime_t, which is to be used to save the tsk->stime of last timer interrupt update. - a new Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt to describe fields of taskstats struct. Feedback from Balbir Singh: - keep the stime of a task to be zero when both stime and utime are zero as recoreded in task_struct. Misc: - convert accumulated RSS/VM from platform dependent pages-ticks to MBytes-usecs in the kernel Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com> Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01[PATCH] Fix getdelays.c - cpumask length and error reportingBalbir Singh
Fix the length passed while (un)registering cpumask. We were passing sizeof the array, make it strlen(). Error value printed in fatal errors should be derived from the message. The message contains an nlmsgerr embedded with an error value. We must report that value to the user. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi <hadi@cyberus.ca> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] delay accounting: temporarily enable by defaultShailabh Nagar
Enable delay accounting by default so that feature gets coverage testing without requiring special measures. Earlier, it was off by default and had to be enabled via a boot time param. This patch reverses the default behaviour to improve coverage testing. It can be removed late in the kernel development cycle if its believed users shouldn't have to incur any cost if they don't want delay accounting. Or it can be retained forever if the utility of the stats is deemed common enough to warrant keeping the feature on. Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-15[PATCH] per task delay accounting taskstats interface: documentation fixShailabh Nagar
Change documentation and example program to reflect the flow control issues being addressed by the cpumask changes. Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-15[PATCH] delay accounting taskstats interface send tgid onceShailabh Nagar
Send per-tgid data only once during exit of a thread group instead of once with each member thread exit. Currently, when a thread exits, besides its per-tid data, the per-tgid data of its thread group is also sent out, if its thread group is non-empty. The per-tgid data sent consists of the sum of per-tid stats for all *remaining* threads of the thread group. This patch modifies this sending in two ways: - the per-tgid data is sent only when the last thread of a thread group exits. This cuts down heavily on the overhead of sending/receiving per-tgid data, especially when other exploiters of the taskstats interface aren't interested in per-tgid stats - the semantics of the per-tgid data sent are changed. Instead of being the sum of per-tid data for remaining threads, the value now sent is the true total accumalated statistics for all threads that are/were part of the thread group. The patch also addresses a minor issue where failure of one accounting subsystem to fill in the taskstats structure was causing the send of taskstats to not be sent at all. The patch has been tested for stability and run cerberus for over 4 hours on an SMP. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfixes] Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-15[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: documentationShailabh Nagar
Some documentation for delay accounting. Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de> Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-15[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: taskstats interfaceShailabh Nagar
Create a "taskstats" interface based on generic netlink (NETLINK_GENERIC family), for getting statistics of tasks and thread groups during their lifetime and when they exit. The interface is intended for use by multiple accounting packages though it is being created in the context of delay accounting. This patch creates the interface without populating the fields of the data that is sent to the user in response to a command or upon the exit of a task. Each accounting package interested in using taskstats has to provide an additional patch to add its stats to the common structure. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, Kconfig fix] Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de> Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>