linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] sched/cpuacct: Fix charge cpuacct.usage

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Message-Id: <20200420070453.76815-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:04:53 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
To:     mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org, juri.lelli@...hat.com,
        vincent.guittot@...aro.org, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, bsegall@...gle.com, mgorman@...e.de,
        mingo@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] sched/cpuacct: Fix charge cpuacct.usage_sys incorrently.

The user_mode(task_pt_regs(tsk)) always return true for
user thread, and false for kernel thread. So it means that
the cpuacct.usage_sys is the time that kernel thread uses
not the time that thread uses in the kernel mode. We can
try get_irq_regs() first, if it is NULL, then we can fall
back to task_pt_regs().

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
---
Changes in v2:
    1. we use get_irq_regs() first, if it's NULL, fall back to task_pt_regs()

 kernel/sched/cpuacct.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpuacct.c b/kernel/sched/cpuacct.c
index 6448b0438ffb2..941c28cf97384 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpuacct.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpuacct.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  * Based on the work by Paul Menage (menage@...gle.com) and Balbir Singh
  * (balbir@...ibm.com).
  */
+#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
 #include "sched.h"
 
 /* Time spent by the tasks of the CPU accounting group executing in ... */
@@ -339,7 +340,7 @@ void cpuacct_charge(struct task_struct *tsk, u64 cputime)
 {
 	struct cpuacct *ca;
 	int index = CPUACCT_STAT_SYSTEM;
-	struct pt_regs *regs = task_pt_regs(tsk);
+	struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs() ? : task_pt_regs(tsk);
 
 	if (regs && user_mode(regs))
 		index = CPUACCT_STAT_USER;
-- 
2.11.0