[patch 56/58] sched: account system time properly

Greg KH
2009-05-06T22:18:59Z

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2.6.29-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

commit f5f293a4e3d0a0c52cec31de6762c95050156516 upstream.

Andrew Gallatin reported that IRQ and SOFTIRQ times were
sometime not reported correctly on recent kernels, and even
bisected to commit 457533a7d3402d1d91fbc125c8bd1bd16dcd3cd4
([PATCH] fix scaled & unscaled cputime accounting) as the first
bad commit.

Further analysis pointed that commit
79741dd35713ff4f6fd0eafd59fa94e8a4ba922d ([PATCH] idle cputime
accounting) was the real cause of the problem.

account_process_tick() was not taking into account timer IRQ
interrupting the idle task servicing a hard or soft irq.

On mostly idle cpu, irqs were thus not accounted and top or
mpstat could tell user/admin that cpu was 100 % idle, 0.00 %
irq, 0.00 % softirq, while it was not.

[ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect CPU statistics in top/mpstat ]

Reported-by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Re-reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: rick.jones2@hp.com
Cc: brice@myri.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
LKML-Reference: <49F84BC1.7080602@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
kernel/sched.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4347,7 +4347,7 @@ void account_process_tick(struct task_st

if (user_tick)
account_user_time(p, one_jiffy, one_jiffy_scaled);
- else if (p != rq->idle)
+ else if ((p != rq->idle) || (irq_count() != HARDIRQ_OFFSET))
account_system_time(p, HARDIRQ_OFFSET, one_jiffy,
one_jiffy_scaled);
else