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taskstats: add context-switch counters

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Make available to the user the following task and process performance
statistics:

	* Involuntary Context Switches (task_struct->nivcsw)
	* Voluntary Context Switches (task_struct->nvcsw)

Statistics information is available from:
	1. taskstats interface (Documentation/accounting/)
	2. /proc/PID/status (task only).

This data is useful for detecting hyperactivity patterns between processes.

[[email protected]: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <[email protected]>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <[email protected]>
Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Jay Lan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Lim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Maxim Uvarov authored and Linus Torvalds committed 2007-07-16 09:05:46 -07:00
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@@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ static int fill_pid(pid_t pid, struct task_struct *tsk,
/* fill in basic acct fields */
stats->version = TASKSTATS_VERSION;
stats->nvcsw = tsk->nvcsw;
stats->nivcsw = tsk->nivcsw;
bacct_add_tsk(stats, tsk);
/* fill in extended acct fields */
@@ -242,6 +244,8 @@ static int fill_tgid(pid_t tgid, struct task_struct *first,
*/
delayacct_add_tsk(stats, tsk);
stats->nvcsw += tsk->nvcsw;
stats->nivcsw += tsk->nivcsw;
} while_each_thread(first, tsk);
unlock_task_sighand(first, &flags);