Q: timer_stats_account_xtimer() should reset ->start_site?

Q: timer_stats_account_xtimer() should reset ->start_site?

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 02/18, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> +__mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires, bool pending_only)
>  {
>  	struct tvec_base *base, *new_base;
>  	unsigned long flags;
> -	int ret = 0;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = 0;
>
>  	timer_stats_timer_set_start_info(timer);
>  	BUG_ON(!timer->function);
> @@ -603,6 +606,9 @@ int __mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires)
>  	if (timer_pending(timer)) {
>  		detach_timer(timer, 0);
>  		ret = 1;
> +	} else {
> +		if (pending_only)
> +			goto out_unlock;

At first glance, I thought this is not exactly right wrt timer stats when
__mod_timer(pending_only => true) fails.

But it turns out, I just can't understand the behaviour of /proc/timer_stats.

The first task which does __mod_timer() fills ->start_site/etc, this info
is cleared by del_timer(). This looks correct.

But when __run_hrtimer/__run_timers report this timer to /proc/timer_stats
we don't clear this info. If the timer expires, and then another task uses
the same timer, timer_stats will report the same ->start_site/pid twice.

Is it correct? Perhaps timer_stats_account_timer() should reset start_site?

Or we can kill the "if (timer->start_site)" in _set_start_info().

Or I missed something. Hmm... and del_timer_sync() doesn't clear start_site.

Confused, please help.

Oleg.