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    sched: restore deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc · fa13a5a1
    Paul Mackerras authored
    
    
    Since powerpc started using CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, the
    deterministic CPU accounting (CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING) has been
    broken on powerpc, because we end up counting user time twice: once in
    timer_interrupt() and once in update_process_times().
    
    This fixes the problem by pulling the code in update_process_times
    that updates utime and stime into a separate function called
    account_process_tick.  If CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined,
    there is a version of account_process_tick in kernel/timer.c that
    simply accounts a whole tick to either utime or stime as before.  If
    CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is defined, then arch code gets to
    implement account_process_tick.
    
    This also lets us simplify the s390 code a bit; it means that the s390
    timer interrupt can now call update_process_times even when
    CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is turned on, and can just implement a
    suitable account_process_tick().
    
    account_process_tick() now takes the task_struct * as an argument.
    Tested both with and without CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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