linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched, time: fix build error with 64 bit cputime

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:06:13 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	umgwanakikbuti@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	srao@...hat.com, lwoodman@...hat.com, atheurer@...hat.com,
	oleg@...hat.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched, time: fix build error with 64 bit cputime_t on 32
 bit systems

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 01:40:11PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:56:37 +0200
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> 
> > A recent change to update the stime/utime members of task_struct
> > using atomic cmpxchg broke configurations on 32-bit machines with
> > CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN set, because that uses 64-bit
> > nanoseconds, leading to a link-time error:
> > 
> > kernel/built-in.o: In function `cputime_adjust':
> > :(.text+0x25234): undefined reference to `__bad_cmpxchg'
> 
> Arnd, this should fix your problem, while still ensuring that
> the cpu time counters only ever go forward.
> 
> I do not have cross compiling toolchains set up here, but I assume
> this fixes your bug.
> 
> Ingo & Peter, if this patch fixes the bug for Arnd, could you please
> merge it into -tip?
> 
> Linus, the changeset causing the problem is only in -tip right now,
> and this patch will not apply to your tree.
> 
> ---8<---
> 
> Subject: sched,time: fix build error with 64 bit cputime_t on 32 bit systems
> 
> On 32 bit systems cmpxchg cannot handle 64 bit values, and
> cmpxchg64 needs to be used when full dynticks CPU accounting
> is enabled, since that turns cputime_t into a u64.
> 
> With jiffies based CPU accounting, cputime_t is an unsigned
> long. On 64 bit systems, cputime_t is always the size of a
> long.
> 
> Luckily the compiler can figure out whether we need to call
> cmpxchg or cmpxchg64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/cputime.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
> index 64492df..db239c9 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
> @@ -555,6 +555,29 @@ static cputime_t scale_stime(u64 stime, u64 rtime, u64 total)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> + * Atomically advance counter to the new value. Interrupts, vcpu
> + * scheduling, and scaling inaccuracies can cause cputime_advance
> + * to be occasionally called with a new value smaller than counter.
> + * Let's enforce atomicity.
> + *
> + * Normally a caller will only go through this loop once, or not
> + * at all in case a previous caller updated counter the same jiffy.
> + */
> +static void cputime_advance(cputime_t *counter, cputime_t new)
> +{
> +	cputime_t old;
> +
> +	while (new > (old = ACCESS_ONCE(*counter))) {
> +		/* The compiler will optimize away this branch.  */
> +		if (sizeof(cputime_t) == sizeof(long))
> +			cmpxchg(counter, old, new);
> +		else
> +			/* 64 bit cputime_t on a 32 bit system... */
> +			cmpxchg64(counter, old, new);

Maybe cmpxchg() should itself be a wrapper that does this build time choice
between cmpxchg32() and cmpxchg64().

And if it looks too dangerous to convert all users, this could be cmpxchg_t().

> +	}
> +}
> +
> +/*
>   * Adjust tick based cputime random precision against scheduler
>   * runtime accounting.
>   */
> @@ -599,16 +622,8 @@ static void cputime_adjust(struct task_cputime *curr,
>  		utime = rtime - stime;
>  	}
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * If the tick based count grows faster than the scheduler one,
> -	 * the result of the scaling may go backward.
> -	 * Let's enforce monotonicity.
> -	 * Atomic exchange protects against concurrent cputime_adjust().
> -	 */
> -	while (stime > (rtime = ACCESS_ONCE(prev->stime)))
> -		cmpxchg(&prev->stime, rtime, stime);
> -	while (utime > (rtime = ACCESS_ONCE(prev->utime)))
> -		cmpxchg(&prev->utime, rtime, utime);
> +	cputime_advance(&prev->stime, stime);
> +	cputime_advance(&prev->utime, utime);
>  
>  out:
>  	*ut = prev->utime;
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