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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nohz: use delayed iowait accounting to avoid race on idle time stats
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:09:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140417100906.GP13658@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140417100519.GF11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:05:19PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> +static inline void iowait_start(struct rq *rq)
> +{
> +	raw_spin_lock(&rq->iowait_lock);
> +	rq->nr_iowait++;
> +	raw_spin_unlock(&rq->iowait_lock);
> +	current->in_iowait = 1;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void iowait_stop(struct rq *rq)
> +{
> +	current->in_iowait = 0;
> +	raw_spin_lock(&rq->iowait_lock);
> +	rq->nr_iowait--;
> +	if (!rq->nr_iowait && rq != this_rq())
> +		rq->last_iowait = ktime_get();
> +	raw_spin_unlock(&rq->iowait_lock);
> +}

We could actually use lockref here...

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-17 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-10  9:07 [PATCH v3 0/2] nohz: fix idle accounting in NO_HZ kernels Hidetoshi Seto
2014-04-10  9:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] nohz: stop updating sleep stats from get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us() Hidetoshi Seto
2014-04-15  8:48   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-15  8:49     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-10  9:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] nohz: use delayed iowait accounting to avoid race on idle time stats Hidetoshi Seto
2014-04-15 10:04   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-16  6:30     ` Hidetoshi Seto
2014-04-15 10:19   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-16  6:33     ` Hidetoshi Seto
2014-04-16  9:36       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-17  0:42         ` Hidetoshi Seto
2014-04-17 10:05       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-17 10:09         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-04-18  5:52         ` Hidetoshi Seto
2014-04-18  8:44           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-15  3:11 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] nohz: fix idle accounting in NO_HZ kernels Hidetoshi Seto

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