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<entry>
<title>sched/cputime: Fix NO_HZ_FULL getrusage() monotonicity regression</title>
<updated>2016-09-07T06:32:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-15T16:38:42+00:00</published>
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commit 173be9a14f7b2e901cf77c18b1aafd4d672e9d9e upstream.

Mike reports:

 Roughly 10% of the time, ltp testcase getrusage04 fails:
 getrusage04    0  TINFO  :  Expected timers granularity is 4000 us
 getrusage04    0  TINFO  :  Using 1 as multiply factor for max [us]time increment (1000+4000us)!
 getrusage04    0  TINFO  :  utime:           0us; stime:         179us
 getrusage04    0  TINFO  :  utime:        3751us; stime:           0us
 getrusage04    1  TFAIL  :  getrusage04.c:133: stime increased &gt; 5000us:

And tracked it down to the case where the task simply doesn't get
_any_ [us]time ticks.

Update the code to assume all rtime is utime when we lack information,
thus ensuring a task that elides the tick gets time accounted.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Fredrik Markstrom &lt;fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Radim &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 9d7fb0427648 ("sched/cputime: Guarantee stime + utime == rtime")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 173be9a14f7b2e901cf77c18b1aafd4d672e9d9e upstream.

Mike reports:

 Roughly 10% of the time, ltp testcase getrusage04 fails:
 getrusage04    0  TINFO  :  Expected timers granularity is 4000 us
 getrusage04    0  TINFO  :  Using 1 as multiply factor for max [us]time increment (1000+4000us)!
 getrusage04    0  TINFO  :  utime:           0us; stime:         179us
 getrusage04    0  TINFO  :  utime:        3751us; stime:           0us
 getrusage04    1  TFAIL  :  getrusage04.c:133: stime increased &gt; 5000us:

And tracked it down to the case where the task simply doesn't get
_any_ [us]time ticks.

Update the code to assume all rtime is utime when we lack information,
thus ensuring a task that elides the tick gets time accounted.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Fredrik Markstrom &lt;fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Radim &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 9d7fb0427648 ("sched/cputime: Guarantee stime + utime == rtime")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process_tick() to always return jiffies</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T16:08:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Friesen</name>
<email>cbf123@mail.usask.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-06T05:18:48+00:00</published>
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commit f9c904b7613b8b4c85b10cd6b33ad41b2843fa9d upstream.

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 &lt;chris.friesen@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56DBBDB8.40305@mail.usask.ca
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f9c904b7613b8b4c85b10cd6b33ad41b2843fa9d upstream.

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 &lt;chris.friesen@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56DBBDB8.40305@mail.usask.ca
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/cputime: Fix invalid gtime in proc</title>
<updated>2015-12-04T09:18:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hiroshi Shimamoto</name>
<email>h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-19T15:47:28+00:00</published>
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/proc/stats shows invalid gtime when the thread is running in guest.
When vtime accounting is not enabled, we cannot get a valid delta.
The delta is calculated with now - tsk-&gt;vtime_snap, but tsk-&gt;vtime_snap
is only updated when vtime accounting is runtime enabled.

This patch makes task_gtime() just return gtime without computing the
buggy non-existing tickless delta when vtime accounting is not enabled.

Use context_tracking_is_enabled() to check if vtime is accounting on
some cpu, in which case only we need to check the tickless delta. This
way we fix the gtime value regression on machines not running nohz full.

The kernel config contains CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN=y and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=n and boot without nohz_full.

I ran and stop a busy loop in VM and see the gtime in host.
Dump the 43rd field which shows the gtime in every second:

	 # while :; do awk '{print $3" "$43}' /proc/3955/task/4014/stat; sleep 1; done
	S 4348
	R 7064566
	R 7064766
	R 7064967
	R 7065168
	S 4759
	S 4759

During running busy loop, it returns large value.

After applying this patch, we can see right gtime.

	 # while :; do awk '{print $3" "$43}' /proc/10913/task/10956/stat; sleep 1; done
	S 5338
	R 5365
	R 5465
	R 5566
	R 5666
	S 5726
	S 5726

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto &lt;h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Paul E . McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447948054-28668-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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/proc/stats shows invalid gtime when the thread is running in guest.
When vtime accounting is not enabled, we cannot get a valid delta.
The delta is calculated with now - tsk-&gt;vtime_snap, but tsk-&gt;vtime_snap
is only updated when vtime accounting is runtime enabled.

This patch makes task_gtime() just return gtime without computing the
buggy non-existing tickless delta when vtime accounting is not enabled.

Use context_tracking_is_enabled() to check if vtime is accounting on
some cpu, in which case only we need to check the tickless delta. This
way we fix the gtime value regression on machines not running nohz full.

The kernel config contains CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN=y and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=n and boot without nohz_full.

I ran and stop a busy loop in VM and see the gtime in host.
Dump the 43rd field which shows the gtime in every second:

	 # while :; do awk '{print $3" "$43}' /proc/3955/task/4014/stat; sleep 1; done
	S 4348
	R 7064566
	R 7064766
	R 7064967
	R 7065168
	S 4759
	S 4759

During running busy loop, it returns large value.

After applying this patch, we can see right gtime.

	 # while :; do awk '{print $3" "$43}' /proc/10913/task/10956/stat; sleep 1; done
	S 5338
	R 5365
	R 5465
	R 5566
	R 5666
	S 5726
	S 5726

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto &lt;h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Paul E . McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447948054-28668-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm/x86: Hyper-V HV_X64_MSR_VP_RUNTIME support</title>
<updated>2015-10-01T13:06:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Smetanin</name>
<email>asmetanin@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-16T09:29:50+00:00</published>
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HV_X64_MSR_VP_RUNTIME msr used by guest to get
"the time the virtual processor consumes running guest code,
and the time the associated logical processor spends running
hypervisor code on behalf of that guest."

Calculation of this time is performed by task_cputime_adjusted()
for vcpu task.

Necessary to support loading of winhv.sys in guest, which in turn is
required to support Windows VMBus.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin &lt;asmetanin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan &lt;rkagan@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
CC: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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HV_X64_MSR_VP_RUNTIME msr used by guest to get
"the time the virtual processor consumes running guest code,
and the time the associated logical processor spends running
hypervisor code on behalf of that guest."

Calculation of this time is performed by task_cputime_adjusted()
for vcpu task.

Necessary to support loading of winhv.sys in guest, which in turn is
required to support Windows VMBus.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin &lt;asmetanin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan &lt;rkagan@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
CC: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/cputime: Guarantee stime + utime == rtime</title>
<updated>2015-08-03T10:21:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-30T09:30:54+00:00</published>
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While the current code guarantees monotonicity for stime and utime
independently of one another, it does not guarantee that the sum of
both is equal to the total time we started out with.

This confuses things (and peoples) who look at this sum, like top, and
will report &gt;100% usage followed by a matching period of 0%.

Rework the code to provide both individual monotonicity and a coherent
sum.

Suggested-by: Fredrik Markstrom &lt;fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Fredrik Markstrom &lt;fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Fredrik Markstrom &lt;fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: jason.low2@hp.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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While the current code guarantees monotonicity for stime and utime
independently of one another, it does not guarantee that the sum of
both is equal to the total time we started out with.

This confuses things (and peoples) who look at this sum, like top, and
will report &gt;100% usage followed by a matching period of 0%.

Rework the code to provide both individual monotonicity and a coherent
sum.

Suggested-by: Fredrik Markstrom &lt;fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Fredrik Markstrom &lt;fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Fredrik Markstrom &lt;fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: jason.low2@hp.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched, timer: Convert usages of ACCESS_ONCE() in the scheduler to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE()</title>
<updated>2015-05-08T10:11:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Low</name>
<email>jason.low2@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-28T20:00:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=316c1608d15c736439d4065ed12f306db554b3da'/>
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ACCESS_ONCE doesn't work reliably on non-scalar types. This patch removes
the rest of the existing usages of ACCESS_ONCE() in the scheduler, and use
the new READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() APIs as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low &lt;jason.low2@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran &lt;aswin@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Scott J Norton &lt;scott.norton@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-2-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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ACCESS_ONCE doesn't work reliably on non-scalar types. This patch removes
the rest of the existing usages of ACCESS_ONCE() in the scheduler, and use
the new READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() APIs as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low &lt;jason.low2@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran &lt;aswin@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Scott J Norton &lt;scott.norton@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-2-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched, time: Fix build error with 64 bit cputime_t on 32 bit systems</title>
<updated>2014-10-03T03:46:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rik van Riel</name>
<email>riel@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-30T19:59:47+00:00</published>
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On 32 bit systems cmpxchg cannot handle 64 bit values, so
some additional magic is required to allow a 32 bit system
with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN=y enabled to build.

Make sure the correct cmpxchg function is used when doing
an atomic swap of a cputime_t.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: srao@redhat.com
Cc: lwoodman@redhat.com
Cc: atheurer@redhat.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140930155947.070cdb1f@annuminas.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
On 32 bit systems cmpxchg cannot handle 64 bit values, so
some additional magic is required to allow a 32 bit system
with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN=y enabled to build.

Make sure the correct cmpxchg function is used when doing
an atomic swap of a cputime_t.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: srao@redhat.com
Cc: lwoodman@redhat.com
Cc: atheurer@redhat.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140930155947.070cdb1f@annuminas.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched, time: Fix lock inversion in thread_group_cputime()</title>
<updated>2014-09-19T10:35:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rik van Riel</name>
<email>riel@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-12T13:12:15+00:00</published>
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The sig-&gt;stats_lock nests inside the tasklist_lock and the
sighand-&gt;siglock in __exit_signal and wait_task_zombie.

However, both of those locks can be taken from irq context,
which means we need to use the interrupt safe variant of
read_seqbegin_or_lock. This blocks interrupts when the "lock"
branch is taken (seq is odd), preventing the lock inversion.

On the first (lockless) pass through the loop, irqs are not
blocked.

Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527535-9814-3-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The sig-&gt;stats_lock nests inside the tasklist_lock and the
sighand-&gt;siglock in __exit_signal and wait_task_zombie.

However, both of those locks can be taken from irq context,
which means we need to use the interrupt safe variant of
read_seqbegin_or_lock. This blocks interrupts when the "lock"
branch is taken (seq is odd), preventing the lock inversion.

On the first (lockless) pass through the loop, irqs are not
blocked.

Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527535-9814-3-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched, time: Atomically increment stime &amp; utime</title>
<updated>2014-09-08T06:17:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rik van Riel</name>
<email>riel@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-15T20:05:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=eb1b4af0a64ac7bb0ee36f579c1c7cefcbc3ac2c'/>
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The functions task_cputime_adjusted and thread_group_cputime_adjusted()
can be called locklessly, as well as concurrently on many different CPUs.

This can occasionally lead to the utime and stime reported by times(), and
other syscalls like it, going backward. The cause for this appears to be
multiple threads racing in cputime_adjust(), both with values for utime or
stime that is larger than the original, but each with a different value.

Sometimes the larger value gets saved first, only to be immediately
overwritten with a smaller value by another thread.

Using atomic exchange prevents that problem, and ensures time
progresses monotonically.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: srao@redhat.com
Cc: lwoodman@redhat.com
Cc: atheurer@redhat.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1408133138-22048-4-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The functions task_cputime_adjusted and thread_group_cputime_adjusted()
can be called locklessly, as well as concurrently on many different CPUs.

This can occasionally lead to the utime and stime reported by times(), and
other syscalls like it, going backward. The cause for this appears to be
multiple threads racing in cputime_adjust(), both with values for utime or
stime that is larger than the original, but each with a different value.

Sometimes the larger value gets saved first, only to be immediately
overwritten with a smaller value by another thread.

Using atomic exchange prevents that problem, and ensures time
progresses monotonically.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: srao@redhat.com
Cc: lwoodman@redhat.com
Cc: atheurer@redhat.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1408133138-22048-4-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>time, signal: Protect resource use statistics with seqlock</title>
<updated>2014-09-08T06:17:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rik van Riel</name>
<email>riel@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-16T17:40:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e78c3496790ee8a36522a838b59b388e8a709e65'/>
<id>e78c3496790ee8a36522a838b59b388e8a709e65</id>
<content type='text'>
Both times() and clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID) have scalability
issues on large systems, due to both functions being serialized with a
lock.

The lock protects against reporting a wrong value, due to a thread in the
task group exiting, its statistics reporting up to the signal struct, and
that exited task's statistics being counted twice (or not at all).

Protecting that with a lock results in times() and clock_gettime() being
completely serialized on large systems.

This can be fixed by using a seqlock around the events that gather and
propagate statistics. As an additional benefit, the protection code can
be moved into thread_group_cputime(), slightly simplifying the calling
functions.

In the case of posix_cpu_clock_get_task() things can be simplified a
lot, because the calling function already ensures that the task sticks
around, and the rest is now taken care of in thread_group_cputime().

This way the statistics reporting code can run lockless.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Daeseok Youn &lt;daeseok.youn@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dongsheng Yang &lt;yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guillaume Morin &lt;guillaume@morinfr.org&gt;
Cc: Ionut Alexa &lt;ionut.m.alexa@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Michal Schmidt &lt;mschmidt@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: srao@redhat.com
Cc: lwoodman@redhat.com
Cc: atheurer@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140816134010.26a9b572@annuminas.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Both times() and clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID) have scalability
issues on large systems, due to both functions being serialized with a
lock.

The lock protects against reporting a wrong value, due to a thread in the
task group exiting, its statistics reporting up to the signal struct, and
that exited task's statistics being counted twice (or not at all).

Protecting that with a lock results in times() and clock_gettime() being
completely serialized on large systems.

This can be fixed by using a seqlock around the events that gather and
propagate statistics. As an additional benefit, the protection code can
be moved into thread_group_cputime(), slightly simplifying the calling
functions.

In the case of posix_cpu_clock_get_task() things can be simplified a
lot, because the calling function already ensures that the task sticks
around, and the rest is now taken care of in thread_group_cputime().

This way the statistics reporting code can run lockless.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Daeseok Youn &lt;daeseok.youn@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dongsheng Yang &lt;yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guillaume Morin &lt;guillaume@morinfr.org&gt;
Cc: Ionut Alexa &lt;ionut.m.alexa@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Michal Schmidt &lt;mschmidt@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: srao@redhat.com
Cc: lwoodman@redhat.com
Cc: atheurer@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140816134010.26a9b572@annuminas.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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