[PATCH 08/15] tick/sched: Remove nohz disabled special case in cputime fetch

Frederic Weisbecker frederic at kernel.org
Sat Jan 17 01:52:01 AEDT 2026


Even when nohz is not runtime enabled, the dynticks idle cputime
accounting can run and the common idle cputime accessors are still
relevant.

Remove the nohz disabled special case accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic at kernel.org>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 74c97ad75856..f0b79e876997 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ static u64 get_cpu_sleep_time_us(int cpu, enum cpu_usage_stat idx,
 	ktime_t now, idle;
 	unsigned int seq;
 
-	if (!tick_nohz_active || vtime_generic_enabled_cpu(cpu))
+	if (vtime_generic_enabled_cpu(cpu))
 		return -1;
 
 	now = ktime_get();
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ static u64 get_cpu_sleep_time_us(int cpu, enum cpu_usage_stat idx,
  * This time is measured via accounting rather than sampling,
  * and is as accurate as ktime_get() is.
  *
- * Return: -1 if NOHZ is not enabled, else total idle time of the @cpu
+ * Return: -1 if generic vtime is enabled, else total idle time of the @cpu
  */
 u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
 {
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_cpu_idle_time_us);
  * This time is measured via accounting rather than sampling,
  * and is as accurate as ktime_get() is.
  *
- * Return: -1 if NOHZ is not enabled, else total iowait time of @cpu
+ * Return: -1 if generic vtime is enabled, else total iowait time of @cpu
  */
 u64 get_cpu_iowait_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
 {
-- 
2.51.1



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