Re: weird /proc/stat output with newer (4.1, 4.2) kernels in kvm guest on 3.10 host?

[Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com>]

On 03/02/2016 11:12 AM, Chris Friesen wrote:
> I'm running a 3.10-based host with libvirt 1.2.12 and qemu 2.2.
>
> Running a Fedora23 cloud image as a guest, the "cpu" lines in /proc/stat seem to
> be hardly changing:
>
> [fedora@fedora23 boot]$ uptime
>   17:01:50 up 44 min,  1 user,  load average: 3.00, 2.99, 2.79
> [fedora@fedora23 boot]$ grep cpu /proc/stat
> cpu  13 0 124 65880 165 0 0 23088 0 0
> cpu0 1 0 4 21967 67 0 0 21866 0 0
> cpu1 8 0 52 21877 66 0 0 623 0 0
> cpu2 4 0 67 22034 30 0 0 598 0 0
>
>
> Running an Ubuntu 15.10 cloud image as a guest, everything looks fine:
>
> ubuntu@ubuntu1510:/boot$ uptime
>   17:02:28 up 28 min,  1 user,  load average: 3.00, 2.98, 2.42
> ubuntu@ubuntu1510:/boot$ grep cpu /proc/stat
> cpu  3932 130 443061 46116 257 0 5 12974 0 0
> cpu0 1296 130 139886 14960 195 0 1 12343 0 0
> cpu1 1330 0 151580 15570 35 0 0 315 0 0
> cpu2 1305 0 151595 15586 26 0 4 316 0 0
>
>
> In both cases the current_clocksource is kvm-clock.


Quick update (sorry it's not threaded, I'm not subscribed to the list).

The problem seems to be related to VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING being enabled in the 
guest.  If I switch to TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING or IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING then the 
problem goes away.

I'm digging into the code now.  Anyone have any tips on debugging why
VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is misbehaving in the guest?

Thanks,
Chris