releases/2.6.32.18/xen-drop-xen_sched_clock-in-favour-of-using-plain-wallclock-time.patch

From 8a22b9996b001c88f2bfb54c6de6a05fc39e177a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:49:59 -0700
Subject: xen: drop xen_sched_clock in favour of using plain wallclock time

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@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@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@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
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ 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
@@ -154,45 +154,6 @@ 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)
 {