This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched/cpuacct: Fix charge percpu cpuusage
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sched-cpuacct-fix-charge-percpu-cpuusage.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 42b47adc5d1c7f3bd9823dd12eaaffaee25cef90
Author: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Sep 29 16:14:16 2023 +0300
sched/cpuacct: Fix charge percpu cpuusage
commit 248cc9993d1cc12b8e9ed716cc3fc09f6c3517dd upstream.
The cpuacct_account_field() is always called by the current task
itself, so it's ok to use __this_cpu_add() to charge the tick time.
But cpuacct_charge() maybe called by update_curr() in load_balance()
on a random CPU, different from the CPU on which the task is running.
So __this_cpu_add() will charge that cputime to a random incorrect CPU.
Fixes: 73e6aafd9ea8 ("sched/cpuacct: Simplify the cpuacct code")
Reported-by: Minye Zhu <zhuminye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220220051426.5274-1-zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpuacct.c b/kernel/sched/cpuacct.c
index 8a260115a137b..3c59c541dd314 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpuacct.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpuacct.c
@@ -328,12 +328,13 @@ static struct cftype files[] = {
*/
void cpuacct_charge(struct task_struct *tsk, u64 cputime)
{
+ unsigned int cpu = task_cpu(tsk);
struct cpuacct *ca;
rcu_read_lock();
for (ca = task_ca(tsk); ca; ca = parent_ca(ca))
- __this_cpu_add(*ca->cpuusage, cputime);
+ *per_cpu_ptr(ca->cpuusage, cpu) += cputime;
rcu_read_unlock();
}
