linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] nohz: Synchronize sleep time stats with seqlock

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Message-ID: <20130816160201.GA31682@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:02:01 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando_b1@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] nohz: Synchronize sleep time stats with seqlock

Thanks Frederic!

I'll try to read this series carefully later. Not that I think
I can help, you certainly understand this much better.

Just one question below,

On 08/16, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> @@ -499,12 +509,15 @@ u64 get_cpu_iowait_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
>  	if (last_update_time)
>  		*last_update_time = ktime_to_us(now);
>  
> -	if (ts->idle_active && nr_iowait_cpu(cpu) > 0) {
> -		ktime_t delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);
> -		iowait = ktime_add(ts->iowait_sleeptime, delta);
> -	} else {
> -		iowait = ts->iowait_sleeptime;
> -	}
> +	do {
> +		seq = read_seqcount_begin(&ts->sleeptime_seq);
> +		if (ts->idle_active && nr_iowait_cpu(cpu) > 0) {
> +			ktime_t delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);
> +			iowait = ktime_add(ts->iowait_sleeptime, delta);
> +		} else {
> +			iowait = ts->iowait_sleeptime;
> +		}
> +	} while (read_seqcount_retry(&ts->sleeptime_seq, seq));

Unless I missread this patch, this is still racy a bit.

Suppose it is called on CPU_0 and cpu == 1. Suppose that
ts->idle_active == T and nr_iowait_cpu(cpu) == 1.

So we return iowait_sleeptime + delta.

Suppose that we call get_cpu_iowait_time_us() again. By this time
the task which incremented ->nr_iowait can be woken up on another
CPU, and it can do atomic_dec(rq->nr_iowait). So the next time
we return iowait_sleeptime, and this is not monotonic again.

No?

Oleg.

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