Re: [RFC][PATCH 09/10] taskstats: Fix exit CPU time accounting

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

Sorry, I didn't look at other patches, but this one looks strange
to me...

On 09/23, Michael Holzheu wrote:
>
> Currently there are code pathes (e.g. for kthreads) where the consumed
> CPU time is not accounted to the parents cumulative counters.

Could you explain more?

> +static void account_to_parent(struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> +	struct signal_struct *psig, *sig;
> +	struct task_struct *tsk_parent;
> +
> +	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);

No need to take tasklist, you can use rcu_read_lock() if you need
get_task_struct(). But this can't help, please see below.

> +	tsk_parent = p->real_parent;
> +	if (!tsk_parent) {
> +		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +	get_task_struct(tsk_parent);
> +	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> +
> +	// printk("XXX Fix accounting: pid=%d ppid=%d\n", p->pid, tsk_parent->pid);
> +	spin_lock_irq(&tsk_parent->sighand->siglock);

This is racy. ->real_parent can exit after we drop tasklist_lock,
->sighand can be NULL.

>  void release_task(struct task_struct * p)
>  {
>  	struct task_struct *leader;
>  	int zap_leader;
> +
> +	if (!p->exit_accounting_done)
> +		account_to_parent(p);
>  repeat:
>  	tracehook_prepare_release_task(p);
>  	/* don't need to get the RCU readlock here - the process is dead and
> @@ -1279,6 +1313,7 @@
>  			psig->cmaxrss = maxrss;
>  		task_io_accounting_add(&psig->ioac, &p->ioac);
>  		task_io_accounting_add(&psig->ioac, &sig->ioac);
> +		p->exit_accounting_done = 1;

Can't understand.

Suppose that a thread T exits and reaps itself (calls release_task).
Now we call account_to_parent() which accounts T->signal->XXX + T->XXX.
After that T calls __exit_signal and does T->signal->XXX += T->XXX.

If another thread exits it does the same and we account the already
exited thread T again?

When the last thread exits, wait_task_zombie() accounts T->signal
once again.

IOW, this looks like the over-accounting to me, no?

Oleg.