linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched/cputime: Fix ksoftirqd cputime accounting regression

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:10:48 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/cputime: Fix ksoftirqd cputime accounting regression

irq_time_read() returns the irqtime minus the ksoftirqd time. This
is necessary because irq_time_read() is used to substract the IRQ time
from the sum_exec_runtime of a task. If we were to include the softirq
time of ksoftirqd, this task would substract its own CPU time everytime
it updates ksoftirqd->sum_exec_runtime which would therefore never
progress.

But this behaviour got broken by commit a499a5a14db:
	("sched/cputime: Increment kcpustat directly on irqtime account")
which now includes ksoftirqd softirq time in the time returned by
irq_time_read().

This has resulted in wrong ksotfirqd cputime reported to userspace
through /proc/stat and thus "top" not showing ksoftirqd when it should
after intense networking load.

ksoftirqd->stime happens to be correct but it gets scaled down by
sum_exec_runtime through task_cputime_adjusted().

To fix this, just account the strict IRQ time in a separate counter and
use it to report the IRQ time.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
---
 kernel/sched/cputime.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
 kernel/sched/sched.h   |  9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index f3778e2b..aea3135 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -34,6 +34,18 @@ void disable_sched_clock_irqtime(void)
 	sched_clock_irqtime = 0;
 }
 
+static void irqtime_account_delta(struct irqtime *irqtime, u64 delta,
+				  enum cpu_usage_stat idx)
+{
+	u64 *cpustat = kcpustat_this_cpu->cpustat;
+
+	u64_stats_update_begin(&irqtime->sync);
+	cpustat[idx] += delta;
+	irqtime->total += delta;
+	irqtime->tick_delta += delta;
+	u64_stats_update_end(&irqtime->sync);
+}
+
 /*
  * Called before incrementing preempt_count on {soft,}irq_enter
  * and before decrementing preempt_count on {soft,}irq_exit.
@@ -41,7 +53,6 @@ void disable_sched_clock_irqtime(void)
 void irqtime_account_irq(struct task_struct *curr)
 {
 	struct irqtime *irqtime = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_irqtime);
-	u64 *cpustat = kcpustat_this_cpu->cpustat;
 	s64 delta;
 	int cpu;
 
@@ -52,22 +63,16 @@ void irqtime_account_irq(struct task_struct *curr)
 	delta = sched_clock_cpu(cpu) - irqtime->irq_start_time;
 	irqtime->irq_start_time += delta;
 
-	u64_stats_update_begin(&irqtime->sync);
 	/*
 	 * We do not account for softirq time from ksoftirqd here.
 	 * We want to continue accounting softirq time to ksoftirqd thread
 	 * in that case, so as not to confuse scheduler with a special task
 	 * that do not consume any time, but still wants to run.
 	 */
-	if (hardirq_count()) {
-		cpustat[CPUTIME_IRQ] += delta;
-		irqtime->tick_delta += delta;
-	} else if (in_serving_softirq() && curr != this_cpu_ksoftirqd()) {
-		cpustat[CPUTIME_SOFTIRQ] += delta;
-		irqtime->tick_delta += delta;
-	}
-
-	u64_stats_update_end(&irqtime->sync);
+	if (hardirq_count())
+		irqtime_account_delta(irqtime, delta, CPUTIME_IRQ);
+	else if (in_serving_softirq() && curr != this_cpu_ksoftirqd())
+		irqtime_account_delta(irqtime, delta, CPUTIME_SOFTIRQ);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irqtime_account_irq);
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 5cbf922..767aab3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1869,6 +1869,7 @@ static inline void nohz_balance_exit_idle(unsigned int cpu) { }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
 struct irqtime {
+	u64			total;
 	u64			tick_delta;
 	u64			irq_start_time;
 	struct u64_stats_sync	sync;
@@ -1876,16 +1877,20 @@ struct irqtime {
 
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct irqtime, cpu_irqtime);
 
+/*
+ * Returns the irqtime minus the softirq time computed by ksoftirqd.
+ * Otherwise ksoftirqd's sum_exec_runtime is substracted its own runtime
+ * and never move forward.
+ */
 static inline u64 irq_time_read(int cpu)
 {
 	struct irqtime *irqtime = &per_cpu(cpu_irqtime, cpu);
-	u64 *cpustat = kcpustat_cpu(cpu).cpustat;
 	unsigned int seq;
 	u64 total;
 
 	do {
 		seq = __u64_stats_fetch_begin(&irqtime->sync);
-		total = cpustat[CPUTIME_SOFTIRQ] + cpustat[CPUTIME_IRQ];
+		total = irqtime->total;
 	} while (__u64_stats_fetch_retry(&irqtime->sync, seq));
 
 	return total;
-- 
2.7.4