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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-05-15 22:16:32 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-05-31 11:31:50 +0200
commit45eacc692771bd2b1ea3d384e6345cab3da10861 (patch)
tree47b131fb39077451fe247a96c0fc98ab142b79fa /kernel/sched
parent67dd331c5d811b2e50c935a24c82f31b61c6dcd3 (diff)
vtime: Use consistent clocks among nohz accounting
While computing the cputime delta of dynticks CPUs, we are mixing up clocks of differents natures: * local_clock() which takes care of unstable clock sources and fix these if needed. * sched_clock() which is the weaker version of local_clock(). It doesn't compute any fixup in case of unstable source. If the clock source is stable, those two clocks are the same and we can safely compute the difference against two random points. Otherwise it results in random deltas as sched_clock() can randomly drift away, back or forward, from local_clock(). As a consequence, some strange behaviour with unstable tsc has been observed such as non progressing constant zero cputime. (The 'top' command showing no load). Fix this by only using local_clock(), or its irq safe/remote equivalent, in vtime code. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Suggested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/cputime.c6
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 58453b8272f..e1a27f91872 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4745,7 +4745,7 @@ void __cpuinit init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu)
*/
idle->sched_class = &idle_sched_class;
ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(idle, cpu);
- vtime_init_idle(idle);
+ vtime_init_idle(idle, cpu);
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
sprintf(idle->comm, "%s/%d", INIT_TASK_COMM, cpu);
#endif
diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index cc2dc3eea8a..b5ccba22603 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -747,17 +747,17 @@ void arch_vtime_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
write_seqlock(&current->vtime_seqlock);
current->vtime_snap_whence = VTIME_SYS;
- current->vtime_snap = sched_clock();
+ current->vtime_snap = sched_clock_cpu(smp_processor_id());
write_sequnlock(&current->vtime_seqlock);
}
-void vtime_init_idle(struct task_struct *t)
+void vtime_init_idle(struct task_struct *t, int cpu)
{
unsigned long flags;
write_seqlock_irqsave(&t->vtime_seqlock, flags);
t->vtime_snap_whence = VTIME_SYS;
- t->vtime_snap = sched_clock();
+ t->vtime_snap = sched_clock_cpu(cpu);
write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&t->vtime_seqlock, flags);
}