xen/time: remove blocked time accounting from xen "clockchip"
authorLaszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:42:59 +0000 (22:42 +0200)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:11:39 +0000 (12:11 -0400)
commit0b0c002c340e78173789f8afaa508070d838cf3d
treeb1c81cd6ed7a3da85075ace0f525e3010825d2c6
parent283c0972d53769ee44750cad4c27e3f5fa26ec1f
xen/time: remove blocked time accounting from xen "clockchip"

... because the "clock_event_device framework" already accounts for idle
time through the "event_handler" function pointer in
xen_timer_interrupt().

The patch is intended as the completion of [1]. It should fix the double
idle times seen in PV guests' /proc/stat [2]. It should be orthogonal to
stolen time accounting (the removed code seems to be isolated).

The approach may be completely misguided.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/10
[2] http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg01068.html

John took the time to retest this patch on top of v3.10 and reported:
"idle time is correctly incremented for pv and hvm for the normal
case, nohz=off and nohz=idle." so lets put this patch in.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Haxby <john.haxby@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
arch/x86/xen/time.c