From 49c6f4a2ba104ce198c61445edbff78ce1508a65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Venkatesh Pallipadi Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:23:26 +0100 Subject: sched: Fix softirq time accounting Commit: 75e1056f5c57050415b64cb761a3acc35d91f013 upstream Peter Zijlstra found a bug in the way softirq time is accounted in VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING on this thread: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1009.2/01366.html The problem is, softirq processing uses local_bh_disable internally. There is no way, later in the flow, to differentiate between whether softirq is being processed or is it just that bh has been disabled. So, a hardirq when bh is disabled results in time being wrongly accounted as softirq. Looking at the code a bit more, the problem exists in !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING as well. As account_system_time() in normal tick based accouting also uses softirq_count, which will be set even when not in softirq with bh disabled. Peter also suggested solution of using 2*SOFTIRQ_OFFSET as irq count for local_bh_{disable,enable} and using just SOFTIRQ_OFFSET while softirq processing. The patch below does that and adds API in_serving_softirq() which returns whether we are currently processing softirq or not. Also changes one of the usages of softirq_count in net/sched/cls_cgroup.c to in_serving_softirq. Looks like many usages of in_softirq really want in_serving_softirq. Those changes can be made individually on a case by case basis. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/sched.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 7619287a44f7..fc1840961145 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -5178,7 +5178,7 @@ void account_system_time(struct task_struct *p, int hardirq_offset, tmp = cputime_to_cputime64(cputime); if (hardirq_count() - hardirq_offset) cpustat->irq = cputime64_add(cpustat->irq, tmp); - else if (softirq_count()) + else if (in_serving_softirq()) cpustat->softirq = cputime64_add(cpustat->softirq, tmp); else cpustat->system = cputime64_add(cpustat->system, tmp); -- cgit v1.2.3