[PATCH] nohz: fix idle ticks in cpu summary line of /proc/stat

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Mar 12 2012 - 08:11:38 EST


Git commit 09a1d34f8535ecf9 "nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional"
introduced a bug in regard to cpu hotplug. The effect is that the number
of idle ticks in the cpu summary line in /proc/stat is still counting
ticks for offline cpus.

Reproduction is easy, just start a workload that keeps all cpus busy,
switch off one or more cpus and then watch the idle field in top.
On a dual-core with one cpu 100% busy and one offline cpu you will get
something like this:

%Cpu(s): 48.7 us, 1.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 50.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st

The problem is that an offline cpu still has ts->idle_active == 1.
To fix this get_cpu_idle_time_us and get_cpu_iowait_time_us
should check for offline cpus.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 7656642..dec767f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
update_ts_time_stats(cpu, ts, now, last_update_time);
idle = ts->idle_sleeptime;
} else {
- if (ts->idle_active && !nr_iowait_cpu(cpu)) {
+ if (cpu_online(cpu) && ts->idle_active && !nr_iowait_cpu(cpu)) {
ktime_t delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);

idle = ktime_add(ts->idle_sleeptime, delta);
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ u64 get_cpu_iowait_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
update_ts_time_stats(cpu, ts, now, last_update_time);
iowait = ts->iowait_sleeptime;
} else {
- if (ts->idle_active && nr_iowait_cpu(cpu) > 0) {
+ if (cpu_online(cpu) && ts->idle_active && nr_iowait_cpu(cpu) > 0) {
ktime_t delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);

iowait = ktime_add(ts->iowait_sleeptime, delta);
--
1.7.9.1


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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
Lihovarska 1060/12
190 00 Praha 9
Czech Republic
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