[PATCH 2/2] cputime: Use local_clock() for full dynticks cputime accounting

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Sat Feb 23 2013 - 11:29:06 EST


Running the full dynticks cputime accounting with preemptible
kernel debugging trigger the following warning:

[ 4.488303] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: init/1
[ 4.490971] caller is native_sched_clock+0x22/0x80
[ 4.493663] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 3.8.0+ #13
[ 4.496376] Call Trace:
[ 4.498996] [<ffffffff813410eb>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xdb/0xf0
[ 4.501716] [<ffffffff8101e642>] native_sched_clock+0x22/0x80
[ 4.504434] [<ffffffff8101db99>] sched_clock+0x9/0x10
[ 4.507185] [<ffffffff81096ccd>] fetch_task_cputime+0xad/0x120
[ 4.509916] [<ffffffff81096dd5>] task_cputime+0x35/0x60
[ 4.512622] [<ffffffff810f146e>] acct_update_integrals+0x1e/0x40
[ 4.515372] [<ffffffff8117d2cf>] do_execve_common+0x4ff/0x5c0
[ 4.518117] [<ffffffff8117cf14>] ? do_execve_common+0x144/0x5c0
[ 4.520844] [<ffffffff81867a10>] ? rest_init+0x160/0x160
[ 4.523554] [<ffffffff8117d457>] do_execve+0x37/0x40
[ 4.526276] [<ffffffff810021a3>] run_init_process+0x23/0x30
[ 4.528953] [<ffffffff81867aac>] kernel_init+0x9c/0xf0
[ 4.531608] [<ffffffff8188356c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

We use sched_clock() to perform and fixup the cputime accounting.
However we are calling it with preemption enabled from the read side,
which trigger the bug above.

To fix this up, use local_clock() instead. It takes care of preemption
and also provide a more reliable clock source. This is welcome for
this kind of statistic that is widely relied on in userspace.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/cputime.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index 9857329..ed12cbb 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ static unsigned long long vtime_delta(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
unsigned long long clock;

- clock = sched_clock();
+ clock = local_clock();
if (clock < tsk->vtime_snap)
return 0;

--
1.7.5.4

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