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authorChris Friesen <cbf123@mail.usask.ca>2016-03-05 23:18:48 -0600
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-03-08 12:24:56 +0100
commitf9c904b7613b8b4c85b10cd6b33ad41b2843fa9d (patch)
tree96f16153b74572cf26a98c8028ffe315f5cbafe7 /Documentation/sysctl
parent72f9f3fdc928dc3ecd223e801b32d930b662b6ed (diff)
sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process_tick() to always return jiffies
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@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56DBBDB8.40305@mail.usask.ca Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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