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Add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller

From:  Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject:  [PATCH] Add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller
Date:  Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:13:35 +0530
Message-ID:  <20081023054335.GC3280@in.ibm.com>
Cc:  Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller

Currently, while charging the task's cputime to its accounting group,
the accounting group hierarchy isn't updated. This patch charges the cputime
of a task to its accounting group and all its parent accounting groups.

Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 kernel/sched.c |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -9131,10 +9131,15 @@ struct cpuacct {
 	struct cgroup_subsys_state css;
 	/* cpuusage holds pointer to a u64-type object on every cpu */
 	u64 *cpuusage;
+	struct cpuacct *parent;
 };
 
+static struct cpuacct init_cpuacct_group;
 struct cgroup_subsys cpuacct_subsys;
 
+#define for_each_cpuacct_group(ca) \
+		for (; ca; ca = ca->parent)
+
 /* return cpu accounting group corresponding to this container */
 static inline struct cpuacct *cgroup_ca(struct cgroup *cgrp)
 {
@@ -9153,17 +9158,28 @@ static inline struct cpuacct *task_ca(st
 static struct cgroup_subsys_state *cpuacct_create(
 	struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp)
 {
-	struct cpuacct *ca = kzalloc(sizeof(*ca), GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct cpuacct *ca;
 
-	if (!ca)
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	if (!cgrp->parent) {
+		/* This is early initialization for the top cgroup */
+		ca = &init_cpuacct_group;
+	} else {
+		ca = kzalloc(sizeof(*ca), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!ca)
+			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	}
 
 	ca->cpuusage = alloc_percpu(u64);
 	if (!ca->cpuusage) {
-		kfree(ca);
+		if (cgrp->parent)
+			kfree(ca);
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	}
 
+	if (cgrp->parent) {
+		ca->css.cgroup = cgrp;
+		ca->parent = cgroup_ca(cgrp->parent);
+	}
 	return &ca->css;
 }
 
@@ -9243,14 +9259,16 @@ static int cpuacct_populate(struct cgrou
 static void cpuacct_charge(struct task_struct *tsk, u64 cputime)
 {
 	struct cpuacct *ca;
+	int cpu;
 
 	if (!cpuacct_subsys.active)
 		return;
 
+	cpu = task_cpu(tsk);
 	ca = task_ca(tsk);
-	if (ca) {
-		u64 *cpuusage = percpu_ptr(ca->cpuusage, task_cpu(tsk));
 
+	for_each_cpuacct_group(ca) {
+		u64 *cpuusage = percpu_ptr(ca->cpuusage, cpu);
 		*cpuusage += cputime;
 	}
 }
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