RE: [PATCH] sched/cpuacct: Check for NULL when using task_pt_regs()

[Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Srikar Dronamraju [mailto:srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 9:27 PM
> To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>; Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/cpuacct: Check for NULL when using task_pt_reg=
s()
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> * Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> [2016-04-06 21:59:50]:
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> > Looks good, and the patch below does fix the oops for me.
> >
> > Anton
> > --
> >
> > task_pt_regs() can return NULL for kernel threads, so add a check.
> > This fixes an oops at boot on ppc64.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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> Works for me too.
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> Reported-and-Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Thanks, all

I tested it in the vm(can not boot before fix):

[single cpu]
# for f in cpuacct.*; do echo "$f: "; cat $f; done
cpuacct.stat:
user 260
system 451
cpuacct.usage:
6923456654
cpuacct.usage_percpu:
6963446178
cpuacct.usage_percpu_sys:
2610934362
cpuacct.usage_percpu_user:
4451667140
cpuacct.usage_sys:
2612684054
cpuacct.usage_user:
4540275322
#

[2 cpu wih 8 maxcpus]
# for f in cpuacct.*; do echo "$f: "; cat $f; done
cpuacct.stat:
user 205
system 536
cpuacct.usage:
7293688020
cpuacct.usage_percpu:
3785674990 3551323200 0 0 0 0 0 0
cpuacct.usage_percpu_sys:
2227281124 1635060584 0 0 0 0 0 0
cpuacct.usage_percpu_user:
1567487176 1992278818 0 0 0 0 0 0
cpuacct.usage_sys:
3863445982
cpuacct.usage_user:
3643874038
#

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu             : POWER7 (raw), altivec supported
clock           : 1000.000000MHz
revision        : 2.3 (pvr 003f 0203)

processor       : 1
cpu             : POWER7 (raw), altivec supported
clock           : 1000.000000MHz
revision        : 2.3 (pvr 003f 0203)

timebase        : 512000000
platform        : pSeries
model           : IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)
machine         : CHRP IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)
#

Thanks
Zhaolei

> --
> Thanks and Regards
> Srikar Dronamraju
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