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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] sched, timer: Use atomics for thread_group_cputimer stats
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:25:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150123092508.GJ2896@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421983913.4432.22.camel@j-VirtualBox>

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 07:31:53PM -0800, Jason Low wrote:
> +static void update_gt_cputime(struct thread_group_cputimer *a, struct task_cputime *b)
>  {
> +	if (b->utime > atomic64_read(&a->utime))
> +		atomic64_set(&a->utime, b->utime);
>  
> +	if (b->stime > atomic64_read(&a->stime))
> +		atomic64_set(&a->stime, b->stime);
>  
> +	if (b->sum_exec_runtime > atomic64_read(&a->sum_exec_runtime))
> +		atomic64_set(&a->sum_exec_runtime, b->sum_exec_runtime);
>  }

See something like this is not safe against concurrent adds.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-23  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-23  3:31 [RFC PATCH] sched, timer: Use atomics for thread_group_cputimer stats Jason Low
2015-01-23  8:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-23  9:25 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-01-23 19:23   ` Jason Low
2015-01-23 20:08     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-23 23:39       ` Jason Low
2015-01-23 23:45       ` Jason Low
2015-01-26 17:12         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-23  9:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-23 18:07   ` Jason Low
2015-01-23 20:11     ` Peter Zijlstra

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