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    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities · e8abccb7
      Peter Zijlstra authored 
      David reported:

  Attached below is a watered-down version of rt/tst-cpuclock2.c from
  GLIBC.  Just build it with "gcc -o test test.c -lpthread -lrt" or
  similar.

  Run it several times, and you will see cases where the main thread
  will measure a process clock difference before and after the nanosleep
  which is smaller than the cpu-burner thread's individual thread clock
  difference.  This doesn't make any sense since the cpu-burner thread
  is part of the top-level process's thread group.

  I've reproduced this on both x86-64 and sparc64 (using both 32-bit and
  64-bit binaries).

  For example:

  [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ ./test
  process: before(0.001221967) after(0.498624371) diff(497402404)
  thread:  before(0.000081692) after(0.498316431) diff(498234739)
  self:    before(0.001223521) after(0.001240219) diff(16698)
  [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$

  The diff of 'process' should always be >= the diff of 'thread'.

  I make sure to wrap the 'thread' clock measurements the most tightly
  around the nanosleep() call, and that the 'process' clock measurements
  are the outer-most ones.

  ---
  #include <unistd.h>
  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>
  #include <time.h>
  #include <fcntl.h>
  #include <string.h>
  #include <errno.h>
  #include <pthread.h>

  static pthread_barrier_t barrier;

  static void *chew_cpu(void *arg)
  {
	  pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);
	  while (1)
		  __asm__ __volatile__("" : : : "memory");
	  return NULL;
  }

  int main(void)
  {
	  clockid_t process_clock, my_thread_clock, th_clock;
	  struct timespec process_before, process_after;
	  struct timespec me_before, me_after;
	  struct timespec th_before, th_after;
	  struct timespec sleeptime;
	  unsigned long diff;
	  pthread_t th;
	  int err;

	  err = clock_getcpuclockid(0, &process_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = pthread_getcpuclockid(pthread_self(), &my_thread_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2);
	  err = pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = pthread_getcpuclockid(th, &th_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);

	  err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  sleeptime.tv_sec = 0;
	  sleeptime.tv_nsec = 500000000;
	  nanosleep(&sleeptime, NULL);

	  err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  diff = process_after.tv_nsec - process_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("process: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 process_before.tv_sec, process_before.tv_nsec,
		 process_after.tv_sec, process_after.tv_nsec, diff);
	  diff = th_after.tv_nsec - th_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("thread:  before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 th_before.tv_sec, th_before.tv_nsec,
		 th_after.tv_sec, th_after.tv_nsec, diff);
	  diff = me_after.tv_nsec - me_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("self:    before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 me_before.tv_sec, me_before.tv_nsec,
		 me_after.tv_sec, me_after.tv_nsec, diff);

	  return 0;
  }

This is due to us using p->se.sum_exec_runtime in
thread_group_cputime() where we iterate the thread group and sum all
data. This does not take time since the last schedule operation (tick
or otherwise) into account. We can cure this by using
task_sched_runtime() at the cost of having to take locks.

This also means we can (and must) do away with
thread_group_sched_runtime() since the modified thread_group_cputime()
is now more accurate and would deadlock when called from
thread_group_sched_runtime().
Reported-by: default avatarDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314874459.7945.22.camel@twins
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      e8abccb7
    • Martin Schwidefsky's avatar
      s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device · 4f37a68c
      Martin Schwidefsky authored 
      The clock comparator on s390 uses the same format as the TOD clock.
If the value in the clock comparator is smaller than the current TOD
value an interrupt is pending. Use the CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME feature
to get the unmodified ktime of the next clockevent expiration and
use it to program the clock comparator without querying the TOD clock.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133143.153017933@de.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      4f37a68c
    • Martin Schwidefsky's avatar
      clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function · 65516f8a
      Martin Schwidefsky authored 
      There is at least one architecture (s390) with a sane clockevent device
that can be programmed with the equivalent of a ktime. No need to create
a delta against the current time, the ktime can be used directly.

A new clock device function 'set_next_ktime' is introduced that is called
with the unmodified ktime for the timer if the clock event device has the 
CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME bit set.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.815350967@de.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      65516f8a
    • Martin Schwidefsky's avatar
      clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable · d1748302
      Martin Schwidefsky authored 
      The automatic increase of the min_delta_ns of a clockevents device
should be done in the clockevents code as the minimum delay is an
attribute of the clockevents device.

In addition not all architectures want the automatic adjustment, on a
massively virtualized system it can happen that the programming of a
clock event fails several times in a row because the virtual cpu has
been rescheduled quickly enough. In that case the minimum delay will
erroneously be increased with no way back. The new config symbol
GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST is used to enable the automatic
adjustment. The config option is selected only for x86.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.494157493@de.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      d1748302
    • Heiko Carstens's avatar
      nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messages · 29c158e8
      Heiko Carstens authored 
      When performing cpu hotplug tests the kernel printk log buffer gets flooded
with pointless "Switched to NOHz mode..." messages. Especially when afterwards
analyzing a dump this might have removed more interesting stuff out of the
buffer.
Assuming that switching to NOHz mode simply works just remove the printk.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823112046.GB2540@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      29c158e8
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times · a25cac51
      Michal Hocko authored 
      show_stat handler of the /proc/stat file relies on kstat_cpu(cpu)
statistics when priting information about idle and iowait times.
This is OK if we are not using tickless kernel (CONFIG_NO_HZ) because
counters are updated periodically.
With NO_HZ things got more tricky because we are not doing idle/iowait
accounting while we are tickless so the value might get outdated.
Users of /proc/stat will notice that by unchanged idle/iowait values
which is then interpreted as 0% idle/iowait time. From the user space
POV this is an unexpected behavior and a change of the interface.

Let's fix this by using get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us which accounts the
total idle/iowait time since boot and it doesn't rely on sampling or any
other periodic activity. Fall back to the previous behavior if NO_HZ is
disabled or not configured.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/39181366adac1b39cb6aa3cd53ff0f7c78d32676.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      a25cac51
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional · 09a1d34f
      Michal Hocko authored 
      get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us update idle/iowait counters
unconditionally if the given CPU is in the idle loop.

This doesn't work well outside of CPU governors which are singletons
so nobody (except for IRQ) can race with them.

We will need to use both functions from /proc/stat handler to properly
handle nohz idle/iowait times.

Make the update depend on a non NULL last_update_time argument.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/11f23179472635ce52e78921d47a20216b872f23.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      09a1d34f
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting · 6beea0cd
      Michal Hocko authored 
      update_ts_time_stat currently updates idle time even if we are in
iowait loop at the moment. The only real users of the idle counter
(via get_cpu_idle_time_us) are CPU governors and they expect to get
cumulative time for both idle and iowait times.
The value (idle_sleeptime) is also printed to userspace by print_cpu
but it prints both idle and iowait times so the idle part is misleading.

Let's clean this up and fix update_ts_time_stat to account both counters
properly and update consumers of idle to consider iowait time as well.
If we do this we might use get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us from other
contexts as well and we will get expected values.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9c909c221a8da402c4da07e4cd968c3218f8eb1.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      6beea0cd
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      cputime: Clean up cputime_to_usecs and usecs_to_cputime macros · ef0e0f5e
      Michal Hocko authored 
      Get rid of semicolon so that those expressions can be used also
somewhere else than just in an assignment.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7565417ce30d7e6b1ddc169843af0777dbf66e75.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      ef0e0f5e
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