Commit:
d670ec1317 ("posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles")
started accounting thread group tasks pending runtime in thread_group_cputime().
Another commit:
6e998916df ("sched/cputime: Fix clock_nanosleep()/clock_gettime() inconsistency")
updated scheduler runtime statistics (call update_curr()) when reading task pending
runtime. Those changes cause bad performance of SYS_times() and
SYS_clock_gettimes(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID) syscalls, especially on
larger systems with many CPUs.
While we would like to have cpuclock monotonicity kept i.e. have
problems fixed by above commits stay fixed, we also would like to have
good performance.
However when we notice that change from commit d670ec1317 is not
longer needed to solve problem addressed by that commit, because of
change from the second commit 6e998916df, we can get room for
optimization. Since we update task while reading it's pending runtime
in task_sched_runtime(), clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID) will
see updated values and on testcase from d670ec1317 process cpuclock
will not be smaller than thread cpuclock.
I tested the patch on testcases from commits d670ec1317,
6e998916df and some other cpuclock/cputimers testcases and
did not found cpuclock monotonicity problems or other malfunction.
This patch has the drawback that we will not provide thread group cputime
up-to-date to the last moment. For example when arming cputime timer,
we will arm it with possibly a bit outdated values and that timer will
trigger earlier compared to behaviour without the patch. However that
was the behaviour before d670ec1317 commit (kernel v3.1) so it's
unlikely to affect applications.
Patch improves related syscall performance, as measured by Giovanni's
benchmarks described in commit:
6075620b05 ("sched/cputime: Mitigate performance regression in times()/clock_gettime()")
The benchmark results are:
SYS_clock_gettime():
threads 4.7-rc7 3.18-rc3 4.7-rc7 + prefetch 4.7-rc7 + patch
(pre-6e998916dfe3)
2 3.48 2.23 ( 35.68%) 3.06 ( 11.83%) 1.08 ( 68.81%)
5 3.33 2.83 ( 14.84%) 3.25 ( 2.40%) 0.71 ( 78.55%)
8 3.37 2.84 ( 15.80%) 3.26 ( 3.30%) 0.56 ( 83.49%)
12 3.32 3.09 ( 6.69%) 3.37 ( -1.60%) 0.42 ( 87.28%)
21 4.01 3.14 ( 21.70%) 3.90 ( 2.74%) 0.35 ( 91.35%)
30 3.63 3.28 ( 9.75%) 3.36 ( 7.41%) 0.28 ( 92.23%)
48 3.71 3.02 ( 18.69%) 3.11 ( 16.27%) 0.39 ( 89.39%)
79 3.75 2.88 ( 23.23%) 3.16 ( 15.74%) 0.46 ( 87.76%)
110 3.81 2.95 ( 22.62%) 3.25 ( 14.80%) 0.56 ( 85.41%)
128 3.88 3.05 ( 21.28%) 3.31 ( 14.76%) 0.62 ( 84.10%)
SYS_times():
threads 4.7-rc7 3.18-rc3 4.7-rc7 + prefetch 4.7-rc7 + patch
(pre-6e998916dfe3)
2 3.65 2.27 ( 37.94%) 3.25 ( 11.03%) 1.62 ( 55.71%)
5 3.45 2.78 ( 19.34%) 3.17 ( 7.92%) 2.33 ( 32.28%)
8 3.52 2.79 ( 20.66%) 3.22 ( 8.69%) 2.06 ( 41.44%)
12 3.29 3.02 ( 8.33%) 3.36 ( -2.04%) 2.00 ( 39.18%)
21 4.07 3.10 ( 23.86%) 3.92 ( 3.78%) 2.07 ( 49.18%)
30 3.87 3.33 ( 13.80%) 3.40 ( 12.17%) 1.89 ( 51.12%)
48 3.79 2.96 ( 21.94%) 3.16 ( 16.61%) 1.69 ( 55.46%)
79 3.88 2.88 ( 25.82%) 3.28 ( 15.42%) 1.60 ( 58.81%)
110 3.90 2.98 ( 23.73%) 3.38 ( 13.35%) 1.73 ( 55.61%)
128 4.00 3.10 ( 22.40%) 3.38 ( 15.45%) 1.66 ( 58.52%)
Reported-and-tested-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160817093043.GA25206@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit:
5743021831 ("sched/cputime: Count actually elapsed irq & softirq time")
... fixed a bug but also triggered a regression:
On an i5 laptop, 4 pCPUs, 4vCPUs for one full dynticks guest, there are four
CPU hog processes(for loop) running in the guest, I hot-unplug the pCPUs
on host one by one until there is only one left, then observe CPU utilization
via 'top' in the guest, it shows:
100% st for cpu0(housekeeping)
75% st for other CPUs (nohz full mode)
However, w/o this commit it shows the correct 75% for all four CPUs.
When a guest is interrupted for a longer amount of time, missed clock ticks
are not redelivered later. Because of that, we should not limit the amount
of steal time accounted to the amount of time that the calling functions
think have passed.
However, the interval returned by account_other_time() is NOT rounded down
to the nearest jiffy, while the base interval in get_vtime_delta() it is
subtracted from is, so the max cputime limit is required to avoid underflow.
This patch fixes the regression by limiting the account_other_time() from
get_vtime_delta() to avoid underflow, and lets the other three call sites
(in account_other_time() and steal_account_process_time()) account however
much steal time the host told us elapsed.
Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471399546-4069-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
[ Improved the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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 > 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 <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Fredrik Markstrom <fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.3+
Fixes: 9d7fb04276 ("sched/cputime: Guarantee stime + utime == rtime")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
"Features and fixes for 4.8-rc0:
- ACPI support for guests on ARM platforms.
- Generic steal time support for arm and x86.
- Support cases where kernel cpu is not Xen VCPU number (e.g., if
in-guest kexec is used).
- Use the system workqueue instead of a custom workqueue in various
places"
* tag 'for-linus-4.8-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (47 commits)
xen: add static initialization of steal_clock op to xen_time_ops
xen/pvhvm: run xen_vcpu_setup() for the boot CPU
xen/evtchn: use xen_vcpu_id mapping
xen/events: fifo: use xen_vcpu_id mapping
xen/events: use xen_vcpu_id mapping in events_base
x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping when pointing vcpu_info to shared_info
x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping for HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op
xen: introduce xen_vcpu_id mapping
x86/acpi: store ACPI ids from MADT for future usage
x86/xen: update cpuid.h from Xen-4.7
xen/evtchn: add IOCTL_EVTCHN_RESTRICT
xen-blkback: really don't leak mode property
xen-blkback: constify instance of "struct attribute_group"
xen-blkfront: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
xen-blkback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
xen: support runqueue steal time on xen
arm/xen: add support for vm_assist hypercall
xen: update xen headers
xen-pciback: drop superfluous variables
xen-pciback: short-circuit read path used for merging write values
...
Vtime generic irqtime accounting has been removed but there are a few
remnants to clean up:
* The vtime_accounting_cpu_enabled() check in irq entry was only used
by CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN. We can safely remove it.
* Without the vtime_accounting_cpu_enabled(), we no longer need to
have a vtime_common_account_irq_enter() indirect function.
* Move vtime_account_irq_enter() implementation under
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE which is the last user.
* The vtime_account_user() call was only used on irq entry for
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN. We can remove that too.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468421405-20056-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN irq time tracking code does not
appear to currently work right.
On CPUs without nohz_full=, only tick based irq time sampling is
done, which breaks down when dealing with a nohz_idle CPU.
On firewalls and similar systems, no ticks may happen on a CPU for a
while, and the irq time spent may never get accounted properly. This
can cause issues with capacity planning and power saving, which use
the CPU statistics as inputs in decision making.
Remove the VTIME_GEN vtime irq time code, and replace it with the
IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code, when selected as a config option by the user.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468421405-20056-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently, if there was any irq or softirq time during 'ticks'
jiffies, the entire period will be accounted as irq or softirq
time.
This is inaccurate if only a subset of the time was actually spent
handling irqs, and could conceivably mis-count all of the ticks during
a period as irq time, when there was some irq and some softirq time.
This can actually happen when irqtime_account_process_tick is called
from account_idle_ticks, which can pass a larger number of ticks down
all at once.
Fix this by changing irqtime_account_hi_update(), irqtime_account_si_update(),
and steal_account_process_ticks() to work with cputime_t time units, and
return the amount of time spent in each mode.
Rename steal_account_process_ticks() to steal_account_process_time(), to
reflect that time is now accounted in cputime_t, instead of ticks.
Additionally, have irqtime_account_process_tick() take into account how
much time was spent in each of steal, irq, and softirq time.
The latter could help improve the accuracy of cputime
accounting when returning from idle on a NO_HZ_IDLE CPU.
Properly accounting how much time was spent in hardirq and
softirq time will also allow the NO_HZ_FULL code to re-use
these same functions for hardirq and softirq accounting.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
[ Make nsecs_to_cputime64() actually return cputime64_t. ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468421405-20056-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The pv_time_ops structure contains a function pointer for the
"steal_clock" functionality used only by KVM and Xen on ARM. Xen on x86
uses its own mechanism to account for the "stolen" time a thread wasn't
able to run due to hypervisor scheduling.
Add support in Xen arch independent time handling for this feature by
moving it out of the arm arch into drivers/xen and remove the x86 Xen
hack.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
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>
When profiling syscall overhead on nohz-full kernels,
after removing __acct_update_integrals() from the profile,
native_sched_clock() remains as the top CPU user. This can be
reduced by moving VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN to jiffy granularity.
This will reduce timing accuracy on nohz_full CPUs to jiffy
based sampling, just like on normal CPUs. It results in
totally removing native_sched_clock from the profile, and
significantly speeding up the syscall entry and exit path,
as well as irq entry and exit, and KVM guest entry & exit.
Additionally, only call the more expensive functions (and
advance the seqlock) when jiffies actually changed.
This code relies on another CPU advancing jiffies when the
system is busy. On a nohz_full system, this is done by a
housekeeping CPU.
A microbenchmark calling an invalid syscall number 10 million
times in a row speeds up an additional 30% over the numbers
with just the previous patches, for a total speedup of about
40% over 4.4 and 4.5-rc1.
Run times for the microbenchmark:
4.4 3.8 seconds
4.5-rc1 3.7 seconds
4.5-rc1 + first patch 3.3 seconds
4.5-rc1 + first 3 patches 3.1 seconds
4.5-rc1 + all patches 2.3 seconds
A non-NOHZ_FULL cpu (not the housekeeping CPU):
all kernels 1.86 seconds
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: clark@redhat.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: luto@amacapital.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455152907-18495-5-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
"Xen features and fixes for 4.5-rc0:
- Stolen ticks and PV wallclock support for arm/arm64
- Add grant copy ioctl to gntdev device"
* tag 'for-linus-4.5-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/gntdev: add ioctl for grant copy
x86/xen: don't reset vcpu_info on a cancelled suspend
xen/gntdev: constify mmu_notifier_ops structures
xen/grant-table: constify gnttab_ops structure
xen/time: use READ_ONCE
xen/x86: convert remaining timespec to timespec64 in xen_pvclock_gtod_notify
xen/x86: support XENPF_settime64
xen/arm: set the system time in Xen via the XENPF_settime64 hypercall
xen/arm: introduce xen_read_wallclock
arm: extend pvclock_wall_clock with sec_hi
xen: introduce XENPF_settime64
xen/arm: introduce HYPERVISOR_platform_op on arm and arm64
xen: rename dom0_op to platform_op
xen/arm: account for stolen ticks
arm64: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
arm: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
missing include asm/paravirt.h in cputime.c
xen: move xen_setup_runstate_info and get_runstate_snapshot to drivers/xen/time.c
Add include asm/paravirt.h to cputime.c, as steal_account_process_tick
calls paravirt_steal_clock, which is defined in asm/paravirt.h.
The ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT is necessary because not all archs have an
asm/paravirt.h to include.
The reason why currently cputime.c compiles, even though include
<asm/paravirt.h> is missing, is that on x86 asm/paravirt.h is included
by one of the other headers included in kernel/sched/cputime.c:
On arm and arm64, where I am about to introduce asm/paravirt.h and
stolen time support, without #include <asm/paravirt.h> in cputime.c, I
would get an error.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
/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->vtime_snap, but tsk->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 <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447948054-28668-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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 <asmetanin@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Russell reported, that irqtime_account_idle_ticks() takes ages due to:
for (i = 0; i < ticks; i++)
irqtime_account_process_tick(current, 0, rq);
It's sad, that this code was written way _AFTER_ the NOHZ idle
functionality was available. I charge myself guitly for not paying
attention when that crap got merged with commit abb74cefa ("sched:
Export ns irqtimes through /proc/stat")
So instead of looping nr_ticks times just apply the whole thing at
once.
As a side note: The whole cputime_t vs. u64 business in that context
wants to be cleaned up as well. There is no point in having all these
back and forth conversions. Lets standardise on u64 nsec for all
kernel internal accounting and be done with it. Everything else does
not make sense at all for fine grained accounting. Frederic, can you
please take care of that?
Reported-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1405022307000.6261@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main purpose is to fix a full dynticks bug related to
virtualization, where steal time accounting appears to be zero in
/proc/stat even after a few seconds of competing guests running busy
loops in a same host CPU. It's not a regression though as it was
there since the beginning.
The other commits are preparatory work to fix the bug and various
cleanups"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
arch: Remove stub cputime.h headers
sched: Remove needless round trip nsecs <-> tick conversion of steal time
cputime: Fix jiffies based cputime assumption on steal accounting
cputime: Bring cputime -> nsecs conversion
cputime: Default implementation of nsecs -> cputime conversion
cputime: Fix nsecs_to_cputime() return type cast
The steal guest time accounting code assumes that cputime_t is based on
jiffies. So when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, which implies that cputime_t
is based on nsecs, steal_account_process_tick() passes the delta in
jiffies to account_steal_time() which then accounts it as if it's a
value in nsecs.
As a result, accounting 1 second of steal time (with HZ=100 that would
be 100 jiffies) is spuriously accounted as 100 nsecs.
As such /proc/stat may report 0 values of steal time even when two
guests have run concurrently for a few seconds on the same host and
same CPU.
In order to fix this, lets convert the nsecs based steal delta to
cputime instead of jiffies by using the right conversion API.
Given that the steal time is stored in cputime_t and this type can have
a smaller granularity than nsecs, we only account the rounded converted
value and leave the remaining nsecs for the next deltas.
Reported-by: Huiqingding <huding@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Pull cputime fix from Ingo Molnar:
"This fixes a longer-standing cputime accounting bug that Stanislaw
Gruszka finally managed to track down"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/cputime: Do not scale when utime == 0
Pull timers/nohz changes from Ingo Molnar:
"It mostly contains fixes and full dynticks off-case optimizations, by
Frederic Weisbecker"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
nohz: Include local CPU in full dynticks global kick
nohz: Optimize full dynticks's sched hooks with static keys
nohz: Optimize full dynticks state checks with static keys
nohz: Rename a few state variables
vtime: Always debug check snapshot source _before_ updating it
vtime: Always scale generic vtime accounting results
vtime: Optimize full dynticks accounting off case with static keys
vtime: Describe overriden functions in dedicated arch headers
m68k: hardirq_count() only need preempt_mask.h
hardirq: Split preempt count mask definitions
context_tracking: Split low level state headers
vtime: Fix racy cputime delta update
vtime: Remove a few unneeded generic vtime state checks
context_tracking: User/kernel broundary cross trace events
context_tracking: Optimize context switch off case with static keys
context_tracking: Optimize guest APIs off case with static key
context_tracking: Optimize main APIs off case with static key
context_tracking: Ground setup for static key use
context_tracking: Remove full dynticks' hacky dependency on wide context tracking
nohz: Only enable context tracking on full dynticks CPUs
...
scale_stime() silently assumes that stime < rtime, otherwise
when stime == rtime and both values are big enough (operations
on them do not fit in 32 bits), the resulting scaling stime can
be bigger than rtime. In consequence utime = rtime - stime
results in negative value.
User space visible symptoms of the bug are overflowed TIME
values on ps/top, for example:
$ ps aux | grep rcu
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 0:00 [rcuc/0]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 0:00 [rcub/0]
root 10 62422329 0.0 0 0 ? R 12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt]
root 11 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 0:02 [rcuop/0]
root 12 62422329 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 21114581:35 [rcuop/1]
root 10 62422329 0.0 0 0 ? R 12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt]
or overflowed utime values read directly from /proc/$PID/stat
Reference:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/20/259
Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130904131602.GC2564@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The vtime delta update performed by get_vtime_delta() always check
that the source of the snapshot is valid.
Meanhile the snapshot updaters that rely on get_vtime_delta() also
set the new snapshot origin. But some of them do this right before
the call to get_vtime_delta(), making its debug check useless.
This is easily fixable by moving the snapshot origin update after
the call to get_vtime_delta(). The order doesn't matter there.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
get_vtime_delta() must be called under the task vtime_seqlock
with the code that does the cputime accounting flush.
Otherwise the cputime reader can be fooled and run into
a race where it sees the snapshot update but misses the
cputime flush. As a result it can report a cputime that is
way too short.
Fix vtime_account_user() that wasn't complying to that rule.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
