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Frederic Weisbecker committed 2ac0d98fd62
nohz: Make nohz API agnostic against idle ticks cputime accounting When the timer tick fires, it accounts the new jiffy as either part of system, user or idle time. This is how we record the cputime statistics. But when the tick is stopped from the idle task, we still need to record the number of jiffies spent tickless until we restart the tick and fall back to traditional tick-based cputime accounting. To do this, we take a snapshot of jiffies when the tick is stopped and compute the difference against the new value of jiffies when the tick is restarted. Then we account this whole difference to the idle cputime. However we are preparing to be able to stop the tick from other places than idle. So this idle time accounting needs to be performed from the callers of nohz APIs, not from the nohz APIs themselves because we now want them to be agnostic against places that stop/restart tick. Therefore, we pull the tickless idle time accounting out of generic nohz helpers up to idle entry/exit callers. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>