Re: [PATCH -tip] cpuacct: per-cgroup utime/stime statistics - v4

From: Bharata B Rao
Date: Mon Mar 23 2009 - 12:21:26 EST


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 04:21:23AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:05:38 +0530 Bharata B Rao <bharata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > +static int cpuacct_stats_show(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
> > + struct cgroup_map_cb *cb)
> > +{
> > + struct cpuacct *ca = cgroup_ca(cgrp);
> > + int i;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < CPUACCT_STAT_NSTATS; i++) {
> > + s64 val = percpu_counter_read(&ca->cpustat[i]);
> > + val = cputime_to_clock_t(val);
> > + cb->fill(cb, cpuacct_stat_desc[i], val);
> > + }
> > + return 0;
> > +}
>
> I'd have expected `val' to have type clock_t. But clock_t is 32-bit on
> 32-bit x86.
>
> Is it correct to pass a 64-bit value to a function which takes a 32-bit
> value and to then copy the 32-bit return value into a 64-bit variable?

Yes, doesn't look neat. Since the accumulated stat(val here) is of 64bit type,
I could use cputime64_to_clock_t(val) in the above code. Storing the resulting
32bit clock_t in a 64 bit variable(which will be used by cb->fill) should be
fine I believe. Let me know if I got this right.

Regards,
Bharata.
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