From: Long Li <lon...@microsoft.com>
The number of context switches on a CPU is useful to determine how busy this
CPU is on processing IRQs. Export this information so it can be used by device
drivers.
Signed-off-by: Long Li <lon...@microsoft.com>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
kernel/sched/core.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 9b35aff09f70..575f1ef7b159 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1500,6 +1500,7 @@ current_restore_flags(unsigned long orig_flags, unsigned
long flags)
extern int cpuset_cpumask_can_shrink(const struct cpumask *cur, const struct
cpumask *trial);
extern int task_can_attach(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask
*cs_cpus_allowed);
+extern u64 get_cpu_rq_switches(int cpu);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
extern void do_set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask
*new_mask);
extern int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask
*new_mask);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 4a8e7207cafa..1a76f0e97c2d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1143,6 +1143,12 @@ int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const
struct cpumask *new_mask)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_cpus_allowed_ptr);
+u64 get_cpu_rq_switches(int cpu)
+{
+ return cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_switches;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_cpu_rq_switches);
+
void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int new_cpu)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
--
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