[tip:sched/core] sched/cputime: Correctly handle task guest time on housekeepers

tip-bot for Frederic Weisbecker
2015-12-04T11:56:42Z

Commit-ID: cab245d68c38afff1a4c4d018ab7e1d316982f5d
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/cab245d68c38afff1a4c4d018ab7e1d316982f5d
Author: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:47:31 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:34:44 +0100

sched/cputime: Correctly handle task guest time on housekeepers

When a task runs on a housekeeper (a CPU running with the periodic tick
with neighbours running tickless), it doesn't account cputime using vtime
but relies on the tick. Such a task has its vtime_snap_whence value set
to VTIME_INACTIVE.

Readers won't handle that correctly though. As long as vtime is running
on some CPU, readers incorretly assume that vtime runs on all CPUs and
always compute the tickless cputime delta, which is only junk on
housekeepers.

So lets fix this with checking that the target runs on a vtime CPU through
the appropriate state check before computing the tickless delta.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447948054-28668-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
kernel/sched/cputime.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index 4a18a6e..5cf24e7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ cputime_t task_gtime(struct task_struct *t)
seq = read_seqbegin(&t->vtime_seqlock);

gtime = t->gtime;
- if (t->flags & PF_VCPU)
+ if (t->vtime_snap_whence == VTIME_SYS && t->flags & PF_VCPU)
gtime += vtime_delta(t);

} while (read_seqretry(&t->vtime_seqlock, seq));