Re: [BUG nohz]: wrong user and system time accounting

Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-29T13:24:02Z

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On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:14:32 -0400
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:

> > I failed to reproduce with your config. I'm still getting 99%
> > userspace
> > cputime. So I'm wondering if the hogging style plays a role.
> >
> > I run pure user loops:
> >
> >     int main(int argc, char **argv)
> >     {
> >         for (;;);
> >         return 0
> >     }
> >
> > Does your user program perform syscalls or IOs of some sort?
>
> Luiz's program makes a syscall every millisecond,
> if started with the arguments he gave as his
> reproducer.

There are various reproducers actually. I started off with the simple
loop above, then wrote the attach program and then wrote the one
you're mentioning:

http://people.redhat.com/~lcapitul/real-time/acct-bug.c

All of them reproduce the issue 100% of the time for me.

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#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

static int move_to_cpu(int cpu)
{
cpu_set_t set;

CPU_ZERO(&set);
CPU_SET(cpu, &set);
return sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(set), &set);
}

static void loop(void)
{
for (;;) ;
}

static int fork_hog(int cpu)
{
int pid;

pid = (int) fork();
if (pid == 0) {
move_to_cpu(cpu);
loop();
exit(0);
}

return pid;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int i, pid, cpu, nr_procs;

if (argc != 3) {
printf("usage: hog < nr-procs > < CPU >\n");
exit(1);
}

cpu = atoi(argv[2]);
nr_procs = atoi(argv[1]);

for (i = 0; i < nr_procs; i++) {
pid = fork_hog(cpu);
fprintf(stderr, "created hog%d pid=%d\n", i, pid);
}

fprintf(stderr, "pausing...\n");
pause();

return 0;
}