Re: [PATCH 2/4] nohz: Synchronize sleep time stats with seqlock

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 06:02:01PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Thanks Frederic!
> 
> I'll try to read this series carefully later. Not that I think
> I can help, you certainly understand this much better.
> 
> Just one question below,
> 
> On 08/16, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >
> > @@ -499,12 +509,15 @@ u64 get_cpu_iowait_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
> >  	if (last_update_time)
> >  		*last_update_time = ktime_to_us(now);
> >  
> > -	if (ts->idle_active && nr_iowait_cpu(cpu) > 0) {
> > -		ktime_t delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);
> > -		iowait = ktime_add(ts->iowait_sleeptime, delta);
> > -	} else {
> > -		iowait = ts->iowait_sleeptime;
> > -	}
> > +	do {
> > +		seq = read_seqcount_begin(&ts->sleeptime_seq);
> > +		if (ts->idle_active && nr_iowait_cpu(cpu) > 0) {
> > +			ktime_t delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);
> > +			iowait = ktime_add(ts->iowait_sleeptime, delta);
> > +		} else {
> > +			iowait = ts->iowait_sleeptime;
> > +		}
> > +	} while (read_seqcount_retry(&ts->sleeptime_seq, seq));
> 
> Unless I missread this patch, this is still racy a bit.
> 
> Suppose it is called on CPU_0 and cpu == 1. Suppose that
> ts->idle_active == T and nr_iowait_cpu(cpu) == 1.
> 
> So we return iowait_sleeptime + delta.
> 
> Suppose that we call get_cpu_iowait_time_us() again. By this time
> the task which incremented ->nr_iowait can be woken up on another
> CPU, and it can do atomic_dec(rq->nr_iowait). So the next time
> we return iowait_sleeptime, and this is not monotonic again.

Hmm, by the time it decrements nr_iowait, it returned from schedule() and
so idle had flushed the pending iowait sleeptime.

May be you have some scenario in mind that I'm missing?

> 
> No?
> 
> Oleg.
> 
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