Re: [PATCH 1/7] posix-cpu-timers: don't account cpu timer afterstopped thread runtime accounting

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon May 06 2013 - 19:47:30 EST


On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 12:47:42AM -0400, kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When tsk->signal->cputimer->running is 1, signal->cputimer and
> tsk->sum_sched_runtime increase at the same pace because update_curr()
> increases both accounting.
>
> However, there is one exception. When thread exiting, __exit_signal() turns
> over task's sum_shced_runtime to sig->sum_sched_runtime, but it doesn't stop
> signal->cputimer accounting.
>
> This inconsistency makes POSIX timer wake up too early. This patch fixes it.
>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Langlois <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/stats.h | 7 +++++++
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/stats.h b/kernel/sched/stats.h
> index 2ef90a5..5a0cfc4 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/stats.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/stats.h
> @@ -225,6 +225,13 @@ static inline void account_group_exec_runtime(struct task_struct *tsk,
> if (!cputimer->running)
> return;
>
> + /*
> + * After turning over se.sum_exec_runtime to sig->sum_sched_runtime
> + * in __exit_signal(), we must not account exec_runtime for consistency.
> + */
> + if (unlikely(!tsk->sighand))
> + return;

Ok, if we want the clock and timer to be consistent, do we also want the same check in
account_group_user_time() and account_group_system_time()? The task can still account
a tick after autoreaping itself between release_task() and the final schedule().

> +
> raw_spin_lock(&cputimer->lock);
> cputimer->cputime.sum_exec_runtime += ns;
> raw_spin_unlock(&cputimer->lock);
> --
> 1.7.1
>
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