timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers

Change the process wide cpu timers/clocks so that we:

 1) don't mess up the kernel with too many threads,
 2) don't have a per-cpu allocation for each process,
 3) have no impact when not used.

In order to accomplish this we're going to split it into two parts:

 - clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run
           from user context -- ie. sys_clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID)

 - timers; which need constant time sampling but since they're
           explicity used, the user can pay the overhead.

The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, while the
timers will run of a global 'clock' that only runs when needed, so only
programs that make use of the facility pay the price.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index ea0ea1a..e752d97 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -48,12 +48,11 @@ extern struct fs_struct init_fs;
 	.posix_timers	 = LIST_HEAD_INIT(sig.posix_timers),		\
 	.cpu_timers	= INIT_CPU_TIMERS(sig.cpu_timers),		\
 	.rlim		= INIT_RLIMITS,					\
-	.cputime	= { .totals = {					\
-		.utime = cputime_zero,					\
-		.stime = cputime_zero,					\
-		.sum_exec_runtime = 0,					\
-		.lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(sig.cputime.totals.lock),	\
-	}, },								\
+	.cputimer	= { 						\
+		.cputime = INIT_CPUTIME,				\
+		.running = 0,						\
+		.lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(sig.cputimer.lock),	\
+	},								\
 }
 
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