linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/7] cputime: Correctly handle task guest time on housekeepers

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Message-Id: <1447948054-28668-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:47:31 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] cputime: Correctly handle task guest time on housekeepers

When a task runs on a housekeeper (a CPU running with the periodic tick
with neighbours running tickless), it doesn't account cputime using vtime
but relies on the tick. Such a task has its vtime_snap_whence value set
to VTIME_INACTIVE.

Readers won't handle that correctly though. As long as vtime is running
on some CPU, readers incorretly assume that vtime runs on all CPUs and
always compute the tickless cputime delta, which is only junk on
housekeepers.

So lets fix this with checking that the target runs on a vtime CPU through
the appropriate state check before computing the tickless delta.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
---
 kernel/sched/cputime.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index 4a18a6e..5cf24e7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ cputime_t task_gtime(struct task_struct *t)
 		seq = read_seqbegin(&t->vtime_seqlock);
 
 		gtime = t->gtime;
-		if (t->flags & PF_VCPU)
+		if (t->vtime_snap_whence == VTIME_SYS && t->flags & PF_VCPU)
 			gtime += vtime_delta(t);
 
 	} while (read_seqretry(&t->vtime_seqlock, seq));
-- 
2.5.3

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