Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix display of forceidle time at root

[Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/15/23 17:40, Josh Don wrote:
> We need to reset forceidle_sum to 0 when reading from root, since the
> bstat we accumulate into is stack allocated.
>
> To make this more robust, just replace the existing cputime reset with a
> memset of the overall bstat.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   kernel/cgroup/rstat.c | 4 +---
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c b/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
> index 831f1f472bb8..0a2b4967e333 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
> @@ -457,9 +457,7 @@ static void root_cgroup_cputime(struct cgroup_base_stat *bstat)
>   	struct task_cputime *cputime = &bstat->cputime;
>   	int i;
>   
> -	cputime->stime = 0;
> -	cputime->utime = 0;
> -	cputime->sum_exec_runtime = 0;
> +	memset(bstat, 0, sizeof(*bstat));
>   	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
>   		struct kernel_cpustat kcpustat;
>   		u64 *cpustat = kcpustat.cpustat;

How about adding the following fixes tag?

Fixes: 1fcf54deb767 ("sched/core: add forced idle accounting for cgroups")

Cheers,
Longman