On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 01:29:42PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > @@ -218,10 +216,36 @@ static bool psi_update_stats(struct psi_group *group) > for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { > struct psi_group_cpu *groupc = per_cpu_ptr(group->cpus, cpu); > unsigned long nonidle; > + struct rq_flags rf; > + struct rq *rq; > + u64 now; > > - if (!groupc->nonidle_time) > + if (!groupc->nonidle_time && !groupc->nonidle) > continue; > > + /* > + * We come here for two things: 1) periodic per-cpu > + * bucket flushing and averaging and 2) when the user > + * wants to read a pressure file. For flushing and > + * averaging, which is relatively infrequent, we can > + * be lazy and tolerate some raciness with concurrent > + * updates to the per-cpu counters. However, if a user > + * polls the pressure state, we want to give them the > + * most uptodate information we have, including any > + * currently active state which hasn't been timed yet, > + * because in case of an iowait or a reclaim run, that > + * can be significant. > + */ > + if (ondemand) { > + rq = cpu_rq(cpu); > + rq_lock_irq(rq, &rf); That's a DoS right there..