linux-kernel - Re: scheduler bug: process running since 5124095h

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Date:	Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:34:34 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	Török Edwin <edwintorok@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: scheduler bug: process running since 5124095h

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 11:12 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 11:01 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:22 +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
> > > 
> > > [kernel/sched_debug.c]
> > > void proc_sched_set_task(struct task_struct *p)
> > > {
> > >  :
> > >         p->se.sum_exec_runtime                  = 0;
> > >         p->se.prev_sum_exec_runtime             = 0;
> > >         p->nvcsw                                = 0;
> > >         p->nivcsw                               = 0;
> > > } 
> > 
> > Urgh, that code should really die, bugger that latencytop relies on that
> > though. Arjan anything you can do to cure latencytop of this madness?
> 
> I killed those 4 fields without _seeming_ to upset it.

OK, if Arjan doesn't complain I'll take it ;-)
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