linux-kernel - [PATCH -tip 3/4] sched: Avoid prev->stime underflow

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Date:	Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:35:06 +0200
From:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, hpa@...or.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH -tip 3/4] sched: Avoid prev->stime underflow

Dave Hansen reported strange utime/stime values on his system:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/4/435

This happens because prev->stime value is bigger than rtime value.
Root of the problem are non-monotonic rtime values (i.e. current rtime
is smaller than previous rtime) and that should be debugged and fixed.

But since problem did not manifest itself before commit
62188451f0d63add7ad0cd2a1ae269d600c1663d "cputime: Avoid multiplication
overflow on utime scaling", it should be threated as regression, which
we can easily fixed on cputime_adjust() function.

For now, let's apply this fix, but further work is needed to fix root of
the problem.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 3.9+
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/sched/cputime.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index 3f192bf..cc2dc3e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ static void cputime_adjust(struct task_cputime *curr,
 			   struct cputime *prev,
 			   cputime_t *ut, cputime_t *st)
 {
-	cputime_t rtime, stime, total;
+	cputime_t rtime, stime, utime, total;
 
 	if (vtime_accounting_enabled()) {
 		*ut = curr->utime;
@@ -589,13 +589,13 @@ static void cputime_adjust(struct task_cputime *curr,
 	if (prev->stime + prev->utime >= rtime)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (!rtime) {
-		stime = 0;
-	} else if (!total) {
-		stime = rtime;
-	} else {
+	if (total) {
 		stime = scale_stime((__force u64)stime,
 				    (__force u64)rtime, (__force u64)total);
+		utime = rtime - stime;
+	} else {
+		stime = rtime;
+		utime = 0;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ static void cputime_adjust(struct task_cputime *curr,
 	 * Let's enforce monotonicity.
 	 */
 	prev->stime = max(prev->stime, stime);
-	prev->utime = max(prev->utime, rtime - prev->stime);
+	prev->utime = max(prev->utime, utime);
 
 out:
 	*ut = prev->utime;
-- 
1.7.11.7

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