linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.5 017/238] sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process

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Message-Id: <20160410183457.251837875@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:33:14 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...driver.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.5 017/238] sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process_tick() to always return jiffies

4.5-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Chris Friesen <cbf123@...l.usask.ca>

commit f9c904b7613b8b4c85b10cd6b33ad41b2843fa9d upstream.

The callers of steal_account_process_tick() expect it to return
whether a jiffy should be considered stolen or not.

Currently the return value of steal_account_process_tick() is in
units of cputime, which vary between either jiffies or nsecs
depending on CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN.

If cputime has nsecs granularity and there is a tiny amount of
stolen time (a few nsecs, say) then we will consider the entire
tick stolen and will not account the tick on user/system/idle,
causing /proc/stats to show invalid data.

The fix is to change steal_account_process_tick() to accumulate
the stolen time and only account it once it's worth a jiffy.

(Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for suggestions to fix a bug in my
first version of the patch.)

Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...driver.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56DBBDB8.40305@mail.usask.ca
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/sched/cputime.c |   14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -262,21 +262,21 @@ static __always_inline bool steal_accoun
 #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
 	if (static_key_false(&paravirt_steal_enabled)) {
 		u64 steal;
-		cputime_t steal_ct;
+		unsigned long steal_jiffies;
 
 		steal = paravirt_steal_clock(smp_processor_id());
 		steal -= this_rq()->prev_steal_time;
 
 		/*
-		 * cputime_t may be less precise than nsecs (eg: if it's
-		 * based on jiffies). Lets cast the result to cputime
+		 * steal is in nsecs but our caller is expecting steal
+		 * time in jiffies. Lets cast the result to jiffies
 		 * granularity and account the rest on the next rounds.
 		 */
-		steal_ct = nsecs_to_cputime(steal);
-		this_rq()->prev_steal_time += cputime_to_nsecs(steal_ct);
+		steal_jiffies = nsecs_to_jiffies(steal);
+		this_rq()->prev_steal_time += jiffies_to_nsecs(steal_jiffies);
 
-		account_steal_time(steal_ct);
-		return steal_ct;
+		account_steal_time(jiffies_to_cputime(steal_jiffies));
+		return steal_jiffies;
 	}
 #endif
 	return false;