linux-kernel - [PATCH] tick-sched: fix idle and iowait sleeptime accounting vs CPU hotplug

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Message-Id: <20240115163555.1004144-1-hca@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:35:55 +0100
From: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tick-sched: fix idle and iowait sleeptime accounting vs CPU hotplug

When offlining and onlining CPUs the overall reported idle and iowait
times as reported by /proc/stat jump backward and forward:

> cat /proc/stat
cpu  132 0 176 225249 47 6 6 21 0 0
cpu0 80 0 115 112575 33 3 4 18 0 0
cpu1 52 0 60 112673 13 3 1 2 0 0

> chcpu -d 1
> cat /proc/stat
cpu  133 0 177 226681 47 6 6 21 0 0
cpu0 80 0 116 113387 33 3 4 18 0 0

> chcpu -e 1
> cat /proc/stat
cpu  133 0 178 114431 33 6 6 21 0 0 <---- jump backward
cpu0 80 0 116 114247 33 3 4 18 0 0
cpu1 52 0 61 183 0 3 1 2 0 0        <---- idle + iowait start with 0

> chcpu -d 1
> cat /proc/stat
cpu  133 0 178 228956 47 6 6 21 0 0 <---- jump forward
cpu0 81 0 117 114929 33 3 4 18 0 0

Reason for this is that get_idle_time() in fs/proc/stat.c has different
sources for both values depending on if a CPU is online or offline:

- if a CPU is online the values may be taken from its per cpu
  tick_cpu_sched structure

- if a CPU is offline the values are taken from its per cpu cpustat
  structure

The problem is that the per cpu tick_cpu_sched structure is set to zero on
CPU offline. See tick_cancel_sched_timer() in kernel/time/tick-sched.c.

Therefore when a CPU is brought offline and online afterwards both its idle
and iowait sleeptime will be zero, causing a jump backward in total system
idle and iowait sleeptime. In a similar way if a CPU is then brought
offline again the total idle and iowait sleeptimes will jump forward.

It looks like this behavior was introduced with commit 4b0c0f294f60
("tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down").

This was only noticed now on s390, since we switched to generic idle time
reporting with commit be76ea614460 ("s390/idle: remove arch_cpu_idle_time()
and corresponding code").

Fix this by preserving the values of idle_sleeptime and iowait_sleeptime
members of the per-cpu tick_sched structure on CPU hotplug.

Fixes: 4b0c0f294f60 ("tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down")
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index a17d26002831..d2501673028d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -1576,13 +1576,18 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
 void tick_cancel_sched_timer(int cpu)
 {
 	struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
+	ktime_t idle_sleeptime, iowait_sleeptime;

 # ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
 	if (ts->sched_timer.base)
 		hrtimer_cancel(&ts->sched_timer);
 # endif

+	idle_sleeptime = ts->idle_sleeptime;
+	iowait_sleeptime = ts->iowait_sleeptime;
 	memset(ts, 0, sizeof(*ts));
+	ts->idle_sleeptime = idle_sleeptime;
+	ts->iowait_sleeptime = iowait_sleeptime;
 }
 #endif

-- 
2.40.1