Re: [RFD 3/9] Display /proc/stat information per cgroup

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Sep 27 2011 - 17:52:58 EST


On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 19:20 -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
> + root_task_group.cpustat = alloc_percpu(struct kernel_stat);
> + /* Failing that early an allocation means we're screwed anyway */
> + BUG_ON(!root_task_group.cpustat);
> + for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> + kstat = per_cpu_ptr(root_task_group.cpustat, i);
> + kstat->cpustat[IDLE] = 0;
> + kstat->cpustat[IDLE_BASE] = 0;
> + kstat->cpustat[IOWAIT_BASE] = 0;
> + kstat->cpustat[IOWAIT] = 0;

so alloc_percpu() will actually zero your memory for you, which you rely
on for all other fields as well, so why reset these ones?

> + }


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