Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] sched/cpuacct: fix charge percpu cpuusage

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Feb 23 2022 - 04:11:58 EST


On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 08:01:51AM -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 01:14:24PM +0800, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> > The cpuacct_account_field() is always called by the current task
> > itself, so it's ok to use __this_cpu_add() to charge the tick time.
> >
> > But cpuacct_charge() maybe called by update_curr() in load_balance()
> > on a random CPU, different from the CPU on which the task is running.
> > So __this_cpu_add() will charge that cputime to a random incorrect CPU.
> >
> > Fixes: 73e6aafd9ea8 ("sched/cpuacct: Simplify the cpuacct code")
> > Reported-by: Minye Zhu <zhuminye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For all three patches,
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!