Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/cputime: Refactor the cputime_adjust() code

Frederic Weisbecker
2017-06-30T15:46:08Z

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 04:41:50PM +0200, Frans Klaver wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 06:10 -0700, tip-bot for Gustavo A. R. Silva
> > wrote:
> >
> >> +++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
> >> @@ -615,19 +615,13 @@ static void cputime_adjust(struct task_cputime
> >> *curr,
> >> * userspace. Once a task gets some ticks, the monotonicy
> >> code at
> >> * 'update' will ensure things converge to the observed
> >> ratio.
> >> */
> >> - if (stime == 0) {
> >> - utime = rtime;
> >> - goto update;
> >> + if (stime != 0) {
> >> + if (utime == 0)
> >> + stime = rtime;
> >> + else
> >> + stime = scale_stime(stime, rtime, stime +
> >> utime);
> >> }
> >>
> >> - if (utime == 0) {
> >> - stime = rtime;
> >> - goto update;
> >> - }
> >> -
> >> - stime = scale_stime(stime, rtime, stime + utime);
> >> -
> >> -update:
> >
> > Wait, what?
> >
> > This get rid of the utime = rtime assignment, when
> > stime == 0. That could be a correctness issue.
>
> The first time utime is used after that assignment, it is overwritten
> with rtime - stime. The utime = rtime assignment is then pointless.

Right, I also got confused first but after starring at the code, the patch looks right.

Thanks.