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Balbir Singh
7e40f2ab0a Taskstats fix the structure members alignment issue
We broke the the alignment of members of taskstats to the 8 byte boundary
with the CSA patches.  In the current kernel, the taskstats structure is
not suitable for use by 32 bit applications in a 64 bit kernel.

On x86_64

Offsets of taskstats' members (64 bit kernel, 64 bit application)

@taskstats'offsetof[@taskstats'indices] = (
        0,      # version
        4,      # ac_exitcode
        8,      # ac_flag
        9,      # ac_nice
        16,     # cpu_count
        24,     # cpu_delay_total
        32,     # blkio_count
        40,     # blkio_delay_total
        48,     # swapin_count
        56,     # swapin_delay_total
        64,     # cpu_run_real_total
        72,     # cpu_run_virtual_total
        80,     # ac_comm
        112,    # ac_sched
        113,    # ac_pad
        116,    # ac_uid
        120,    # ac_gid
        124,    # ac_pid
        128,    # ac_ppid
        132,    # ac_btime
        136,    # ac_etime
        144,    # ac_utime
        152,    # ac_stime
        160,    # ac_minflt
        168,    # ac_majflt
        176,    # coremem
        184,    # virtmem
        192,    # hiwater_rss
        200,    # hiwater_vm
        208,    # read_char
        216,    # write_char
        224,    # read_syscalls
        232,    # write_syscalls
        240,    # read_bytes
        248,    # write_bytes
        256,    # cancelled_write_bytes
    );

Offsets of taskstats' members (64 bit kernel, 32 bit application)

@taskstats'offsetof[@taskstats'indices] = (
        0,      # version
        4,      # ac_exitcode
        8,      # ac_flag
        9,      # ac_nice
        12,     # cpu_count
        20,     # cpu_delay_total
        28,     # blkio_count
        36,     # blkio_delay_total
        44,     # swapin_count
        52,     # swapin_delay_total
        60,     # cpu_run_real_total
        68,     # cpu_run_virtual_total
        76,     # ac_comm
        108,    # ac_sched
        109,    # ac_pad
        112,    # ac_uid
        116,    # ac_gid
        120,    # ac_pid
        124,    # ac_ppid
        128,    # ac_btime
        132,    # ac_etime
        140,    # ac_utime
        148,    # ac_stime
        156,    # ac_minflt
        164,    # ac_majflt
        172,    # coremem
        180,    # virtmem
        188,    # hiwater_rss
        196,    # hiwater_vm
        204,    # read_char
        212,    # write_char
        220,    # read_syscalls
        228,    # write_syscalls
        236,    # read_bytes
        244,    # write_bytes
        252,    # cancelled_write_bytes
    );

This is one way to solve the problem without re-arranging structure members
is to pack the structure.  The patch adds an __attribute__((aligned(8))) to
the taskstats structure members so that 32 bit applications using taskstats
can work with a 64 bit kernel.

Using __attribute__((packed)) would break the 64 bit alignment of members.

The fix was tested on x86_64. After the fix, we got

Offsets of taskstats' members (64 bit kernel, 64 bit application)

@taskstats'offsetof[@taskstats'indices] = (
        0,      # version
        4,      # ac_exitcode
        8,      # ac_flag
        9,      # ac_nice
        16,     # cpu_count
        24,     # cpu_delay_total
        32,     # blkio_count
        40,     # blkio_delay_total
        48,     # swapin_count
        56,     # swapin_delay_total
        64,     # cpu_run_real_total
        72,     # cpu_run_virtual_total
        80,     # ac_comm
        112,    # ac_sched
        113,    # ac_pad
        120,    # ac_uid
        124,    # ac_gid
        128,    # ac_pid
        132,    # ac_ppid
        136,    # ac_btime
        144,    # ac_etime
        152,    # ac_utime
        160,    # ac_stime
        168,    # ac_minflt
        176,    # ac_majflt
        184,    # coremem
        192,    # virtmem
        200,    # hiwater_rss
        208,    # hiwater_vm
        216,    # read_char
        224,    # write_char
        232,    # read_syscalls
        240,    # write_syscalls
        248,    # read_bytes
        256,    # write_bytes
        264,    # cancelled_write_bytes
    );

Offsets of taskstats' members (64 bit kernel, 32 bit application)

@taskstats'offsetof[@taskstats'indices] = (
        0,      # version
        4,      # ac_exitcode
        8,      # ac_flag
        9,      # ac_nice
        16,     # cpu_count
        24,     # cpu_delay_total
        32,     # blkio_count
        40,     # blkio_delay_total
        48,     # swapin_count
        56,     # swapin_delay_total
        64,     # cpu_run_real_total
        72,     # cpu_run_virtual_total
        80,     # ac_comm
        112,    # ac_sched
        113,    # ac_pad
        120,    # ac_uid
        124,    # ac_gid
        128,    # ac_pid
        132,    # ac_ppid
        136,    # ac_btime
        144,    # ac_etime
        152,    # ac_utime
        160,    # ac_stime
        168,    # ac_minflt
        176,    # ac_majflt
        184,    # coremem
        192,    # virtmem
        200,    # hiwater_rss
        208,    # hiwater_vm
        216,    # read_char
        224,    # write_char
        232,    # read_syscalls
        240,    # write_syscalls
        248,    # read_bytes
        256,    # write_bytes
        264,    # cancelled_write_bytes
    );

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-24 08:23:08 -07:00
Andrew Morton
4a7864ca63 [PATCH] io-accounting: via taskstats
Deliver IO accounting via taskstats.

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 09:55:41 -08:00
Andrew Morton
f2f1f8a3b8 [PATCH] cleanup taskstats.h
Fix weird whitespace mangling in taskstats.h

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 09:55:41 -08:00
Jay Lan
db5fed26b2 [PATCH] csa accounting taskstats update
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 00:39:29 -07:00
Jay Lan
9acc185351 [PATCH] csa: Extended system accounting over taskstats
Add extended system accounting handling over taskstats interface.  A
CONFIG_TASK_XACCT flag is created to enable the extended accounting code.

Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
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 00:39:29 -07:00
Jay Lan
f3cef7a994 [PATCH] csa: basic accounting over taskstats
Add some basic accounting fields to the taskstats struct, add a new
kernel/tsacct.c to handle basic accounting data handling upon exit.  A handle
is added to taskstats.c to invoke the basic accounting data handling.

Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
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>
Cc: "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:29 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar
f9fd8914c1 [PATCH] per-task delay accounting taskstats interface: control exit data through cpumasks
On systems with a large number of cpus, with even a modest rate of tasks
exiting per cpu, the volume of taskstats data sent on thread exit can
overflow a userspace listener's buffers.

One approach to avoiding overflow is to allow listeners to get data for a
limited and specific set of cpus.  By scaling the number of listeners
and/or the cpus they monitor, userspace can handle the statistical data
overload more gracefully.

In this patch, each listener registers to listen to a specific set of cpus
by specifying a cpumask.  The interest is recorded per-cpu.  When a task
exits on a cpu, its taskstats data is unicast to each listener interested
in that cpu.

Thanks to Andrew Morton for pointing out the various scalability and
general concerns of previous attempts and for suggesting this design.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:57 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar
6f44993fe1 [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: delay accounting usage of taskstats interface
Usage of taskstats interface by delay accounting.

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>
2006-07-14 21:53:56 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar
c757249af1 [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: taskstats interface
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>
2006-07-14 21:53:56 -07:00