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From: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	LinuxPPC-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@telenet.be>,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH v2] Fix hardware IRQ time accounting problem.
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:51:44 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071204055144.GR24243@bakeyournoodle.com> (raw)

The commit fa13a5a1f25f671d084d8884be96fc48d9b68275 (sched: restore
deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc), unconditionally calls
update_process_tick() in system context.  In the deterministic accounting case
this is the correct thing to do.  However, in the non-deterministic accounting
case we need to not do this, and results in the time accounted as hardware irq
time being artificially elevated.

Also this patch collapses 2 consecutive '#ifdef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING'
checks in time.h into one for neatness.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
---
The problem was seen and reported by Johannes Berg  and Frederik Himpe.
Paul, I think this is good for 2.6.24.

Changes since v1:
 - I noticed that the #define was explictly using "current" rather than
   the task passed in.  Using tsk is the right thing to do.
 - The whiteapce changes dirty-up the patch and are un-needed with the
   change above.

 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c |    2 +-
 include/asm-powerpc/time.h    |    8 ++------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 41e13f4..b9d8837 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 
 	account_system_vtime(current);
-	account_process_tick(current, 0);
+	account_process_vtime(current);
 	calculate_steal_time();
 
 	last = _switch(old_thread, new_thread);
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/time.h b/include/asm-powerpc/time.h
index 780f826..a7281e0 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/time.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/time.h
@@ -237,18 +237,14 @@ struct cpu_usage {
 
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct cpu_usage, cpu_usage_array);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
-extern void account_process_vtime(struct task_struct *tsk);
-#else
-#define account_process_vtime(tsk)		do { } while (0)
-#endif
-
 #if defined(CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING)
 extern void calculate_steal_time(void);
 extern void snapshot_timebases(void);
+#define account_process_vtime(tsk)		account_process_tick(tsk, 0);
 #else
 #define calculate_steal_time()			do { } while (0)
 #define snapshot_timebases()			do { } while (0)
+#define account_process_vtime(tsk)		do { } while (0)
 #endif
 
 extern void secondary_cpu_time_init(void);
-- 
1.5.3.6


             reply	other threads:[~2007-12-04  5:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-04  5:51 Tony Breeds [this message]
2007-12-04 16:44 ` [PATCH v2] Fix hardware IRQ time accounting problem Johannes Berg
2007-12-05 11:39 ` Frederik Himpe

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