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From: Greg KH on 6 Aug 2010 15:30
2.6.34-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge(a)citrix.com>

commit 8a22b9996b001c88f2bfb54c6de6a05fc39e177a upstream.

xen_sched_clock only counts unstolen time. In principle this should
be useful to the Linux scheduler so that it knows how much time a process
actually consumed. But in practice this doesn't work very well as the
scheduler expects the sched_clock time to be synchronized between
cpus. It also uses sched_clock to measure the time a task spends
sleeping, in which case "unstolen time" isn't meaningful.

So just use plain xen_clocksource_read to return wallclock nanoseconds
for sched_clock.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge(a)citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)suse.de>

---
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/xen/time.c | 39 ---------------------------------------
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 40 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ static const struct pv_init_ops xen_init
};

static const struct pv_time_ops xen_time_ops __initdata = {
- .sched_clock = xen_sched_clock,
+ .sched_clock = xen_clocksource_read,
};

static const struct pv_cpu_ops xen_cpu_ops __initdata = {
--- a/arch/x86/xen/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/time.c
@@ -155,45 +155,6 @@ static void do_stolen_accounting(void)
account_idle_ticks(ticks);
}

-/*
- * Xen sched_clock implementation. Returns the number of unstolen
- * nanoseconds, which is nanoseconds the VCPU spent in RUNNING+BLOCKED
- * states.
- */
-unsigned long long xen_sched_clock(void)
-{
- struct vcpu_runstate_info state;
- cycle_t now;
- u64 ret;
- s64 offset;
-
- /*
- * Ideally sched_clock should be called on a per-cpu basis
- * anyway, so preempt should already be disabled, but that's
- * not current practice at the moment.
- */
- preempt_disable();
-
- now = xen_clocksource_read();
-
- get_runstate_snapshot(&state);
-
- WARN_ON(state.state != RUNSTATE_running);
-
- offset = now - state.state_entry_time;
- if (offset < 0)
- offset = 0;
-
- ret = state.time[RUNSTATE_blocked] +
- state.time[RUNSTATE_running] +
- offset;
-
- preempt_enable();
-
- return ret;
-}
-
-
/* Get the TSC speed from Xen */
unsigned long xen_tsc_khz(void)
{


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