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    cgroup: Implement cgroup2 basic CPU usage accounting · 041cd640
    Tejun Heo authored
    
    
    In cgroup1, while cpuacct isn't actually controlling any resources, it
    is a separate controller due to combination of two factors -
    1. enabling cpu controller has significant side effects, and 2. we
    have to pick one of the hierarchies to account CPU usages on.  cpuacct
    controller is effectively used to designate a hierarchy to track CPU
    usages on.
    
    cgroup2's unified hierarchy removes the second reason and we can
    account basic CPU usages by default.  While we can use cpuacct for
    this purpose, both its interface and implementation leave a lot to be
    desired - it collects and exposes two sources of truth which don't
    agree with each other and some of the exposed statistics don't make
    much sense.  Also, it propagates all the way up the hierarchy on each
    accounting event which is unnecessary.
    
    This patch adds basic resource accounting mechanism to cgroup2's
    unified hierarchy and accounts CPU usages using it.
    
    * All accountings are done per-cpu and don't propagate immediately.
      It just bumps the per-cgroup per-cpu counters and links to the
      parent's updated list if not already on it.
    
    * On a read, the per-cpu counters are collected into the global ones
      and then propagated upwards.  Only the per-cpu counters which have
      changed since the last read are propagated.
    
    * CPU usage stats are collected and shown in "cgroup.stat" with "cpu."
      prefix.  Total usage is collected from scheduling events.  User/sys
      breakdown is sourced from tick sampling and adjusted to the usage
      using cputime_adjust().
    
    This keeps the accounting side hot path O(1) and per-cpu and the read
    side O(nr_updated_since_last_read).
    
    v2: Minor changes and documentation updates as suggested by Waiman and
        Roman.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
    Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
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