linux-kernel - [RESEND PATCH v2] nohz: fix idle ticks in cpu summary line of /proc/stat

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Date:	Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:51:09 +0530
From:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	mhocko@...e.cz, mingo@...nel.org, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	deepthi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [RESEND PATCH v2] nohz: fix idle ticks in cpu summary line of
 /proc/stat

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>

Git commit 09a1d34f8535ecf9 "nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update
conditional" introduced a bug in regard to cpu hotplug. The effect is
that the number of idle ticks in the cpu summary line in /proc/stat is
still counting ticks for offline cpus.

Reproduction is easy, just start a workload that keeps all cpus busy,
switch off one or more cpus and then watch the idle field in top.
On a dual-core with one cpu 100% busy and one offline cpu you will get
something like this:

%Cpu(s): 48.7 us,  1.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 50.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,
%0.0 st

The problem is that an offline cpu still has ts->idle_active == 1.
To fix this we should make sure that the cpu is online when calling
get_cpu_idle_time_us and get_cpu_iowait_time_us.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reported-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
[Srivatsa: Rebased to current mainline]
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

This is a resend of the patch posted by Michal at [1]. Martin had explained
the importance of this patch for fixing the bug for x86 case in [2]. (The
s390 fix is already upstream, commit id cb85a6ed67e9).

[1]. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1265374/focus=1266457
[2]. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1265374/focus=1276336

 fs/proc/stat.c |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/stat.c b/fs/proc/stat.c
index 64c3b31..e296572 100644
--- a/fs/proc/stat.c
+++ b/fs/proc/stat.c
@@ -45,10 +45,13 @@ static cputime64_t get_iowait_time(int cpu)
 
 static u64 get_idle_time(int cpu)
 {
-	u64 idle, idle_time = get_cpu_idle_time_us(cpu, NULL);
+	u64 idle, idle_time = -1ULL;
+
+	if (cpu_online(cpu))
+		idle_time = get_cpu_idle_time_us(cpu, NULL);
 
 	if (idle_time == -1ULL)
-		/* !NO_HZ so we can rely on cpustat.idle */
+		/* !NO_HZ or cpu offline so we can rely on cpustat.idle */
 		idle = kcpustat_cpu(cpu).cpustat[CPUTIME_IDLE];
 	else
 		idle = usecs_to_cputime64(idle_time);
@@ -58,10 +61,13 @@ static u64 get_idle_time(int cpu)
 
 static u64 get_iowait_time(int cpu)
 {
-	u64 iowait, iowait_time = get_cpu_iowait_time_us(cpu, NULL);
+	u64 iowait, iowait_time = -1ULL;
+
+	if (cpu_online(cpu))
+		iowait_time = get_cpu_iowait_time_us(cpu, NULL);
 
 	if (iowait_time == -1ULL)
-		/* !NO_HZ so we can rely on cpustat.iowait */
+		/* !NO_HZ or cpu offline so we can rely on cpustat.iowait */
 		iowait = kcpustat_cpu(cpu).cpustat[CPUTIME_IOWAIT];
 	else
 		iowait = usecs_to_cputime64(iowait_time);

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