sched, timer: Provide an atomic 'struct task_cputime' data structure
authorJason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:00:23 +0000 (13:00 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 8 May 2015 10:17:45 +0000 (12:17 +0200)
commit971e8a985482c76487edb5a49811e99b96e846e1
treedba385137ba4be1c571ff7f9ea90d676d62b5460
parent1018016c706f7ff9f56fde3a649789c47085a293
sched, timer: Provide an atomic 'struct task_cputime' data structure

This patch adds an atomic variant of the 'struct task_cputime' data structure,
which can be used to store and update task_cputime statistics without
needing to do locking.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-5-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/sched.h