From: Chris Friesen <cbf123@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit f9c904b7613b8b4c85b10cd6b33ad41b2843fa9d ] The callers of steal_account_process_tick() expect it to return whether a jiffy should be considered stolen or not. Currently the return value of steal_account_process_tick() is in units of cputime, which vary between either jiffies or nsecs depending on CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN. If cputime has nsecs granularity and there is a tiny amount of stolen time (a few nsecs, say) then we will consider the entire tick stolen and will not account the tick on user/system/idle, causing /proc/stats to show invalid data. The fix is to change steal_account_process_tick() to accumulate the stolen time and only account it once it's worth a jiffy. (Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for suggestions to fix a bug in my first version of the patch.) Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56DBBDB8.40305@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/cputime.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c index 8394b1e..87b8576 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c +++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c @@ -259,21 +259,21 @@ static __always_inline bool steal_account_process_tick(void) #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT if (static_key_false(¶virt_steal_enabled)) { u64 steal; - cputime_t steal_ct; + unsigned long steal_jiffies; steal = paravirt_steal_clock(smp_processor_id()); steal -= this_rq()->prev_steal_time; /* - * cputime_t may be less precise than nsecs (eg: if it's - * based on jiffies). Lets cast the result to cputime + * steal is in nsecs but our caller is expecting steal + * time in jiffies. Lets cast the result to jiffies * granularity and account the rest on the next rounds. */ - steal_ct = nsecs_to_cputime(steal); - this_rq()->prev_steal_time += cputime_to_nsecs(steal_ct); + steal_jiffies = nsecs_to_jiffies(steal); + this_rq()->prev_steal_time += jiffies_to_nsecs(steal_jiffies); - account_steal_time(steal_ct); - return steal_ct; + account_steal_time(jiffies_to_cputime(steal_jiffies)); + return steal_jiffies; } #endif return false; -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html