Re: [PATCH v2] sched/cputime: make scale_stime() more precise

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:33:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So I'd much rather see it as a weak function defined in
> lib/math/div64.c, and then architectures don't even need to override
> it at all. Just let them define their own (inline or not) function,
> and we have this as a weak fallback.

My compiler doesn't like overriding a __weak with a static inline. It
complains about redefinitions.

It works with extern inline though; but that is fairly rare in the
kernel. Still it compiles and generates the right code.

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/div64.h | 13 +++++++++++--
 include/linux/math64.h       |  2 ++
 kernel/sched/cputime.c       | 46 +-------------------------------------------
 lib/math/div64.c             | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/div64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/div64.h
index 9b8cb50768c2..320508d797de 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/div64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/div64.h
@@ -74,16 +74,25 @@ static inline u64 mul_u32_u32(u32 a, u32 b)
 #else
 # include <asm-generic/div64.h>
 
-static inline u64 mul_u64_u32_div(u64 a, u32 mul, u32 div)
+/*
+ * Will generate an #DE when the result doesn't fit u64, could fix with an
+ * __ex_table[] entry when it becomes an issue.
+ */
+extern __always_inline u64 mul_u64_u64_div_u64(u64 a, u64 mul, u64 div)
 {
 	u64 q;
 
 	asm ("mulq %2; divq %3" : "=a" (q)
-				: "a" (a), "rm" ((u64)mul), "rm" ((u64)div)
+				: "a" (a), "rm" (mul), "rm" (div)
 				: "rdx");
 
 	return q;
 }
+
+static inline u64 mul_u64_u32_div(u64 a, u32 mul, u32 div)
+{
+	return mul_u64_u64_div_u64(a, mul, div);
+}
 #define mul_u64_u32_div	mul_u64_u32_div
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
diff --git a/include/linux/math64.h b/include/linux/math64.h
index 11a267413e8e..d097119419e6 100644
--- a/include/linux/math64.h
+++ b/include/linux/math64.h
@@ -263,6 +263,8 @@ static inline u64 mul_u64_u32_div(u64 a, u32 mul, u32 divisor)
 }
 #endif /* mul_u64_u32_div */
 
+u64 mul_u64_u64_div_u64(u64 a, u64 mul, u64 div);
+
 #define DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP(ll, d)	\
 	({ u64 _tmp = (d); div64_u64((ll) + _tmp - 1, _tmp); })
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index ff9435dee1df..5a55d2300452 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -519,50 +519,6 @@ void account_idle_ticks(unsigned long ticks)
 	account_idle_time(cputime);
 }
 
-/*
- * Perform (stime * rtime) / total, but avoid multiplication overflow by
- * losing precision when the numbers are big.
- */
-static u64 scale_stime(u64 stime, u64 rtime, u64 total)
-{
-	u64 scaled;
-
-	for (;;) {
-		/* Make sure "rtime" is the bigger of stime/rtime */
-		if (stime > rtime)
-			swap(rtime, stime);
-
-		/* Make sure 'total' fits in 32 bits */
-		if (total >> 32)
-			goto drop_precision;
-
-		/* Does rtime (and thus stime) fit in 32 bits? */
-		if (!(rtime >> 32))
-			break;
-
-		/* Can we just balance rtime/stime rather than dropping bits? */
-		if (stime >> 31)
-			goto drop_precision;
-
-		/* We can grow stime and shrink rtime and try to make them both fit */
-		stime <<= 1;
-		rtime >>= 1;
-		continue;
-
-drop_precision:
-		/* We drop from rtime, it has more bits than stime */
-		rtime >>= 1;
-		total >>= 1;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Make sure gcc understands that this is a 32x32->64 multiply,
-	 * followed by a 64/32->64 divide.
-	 */
-	scaled = div_u64((u64) (u32) stime * (u64) (u32) rtime, (u32)total);
-	return scaled;
-}
-
 /*
  * Adjust tick based cputime random precision against scheduler runtime
  * accounting.
@@ -622,7 +578,7 @@ void cputime_adjust(struct task_cputime *curr, struct prev_cputime *prev,
 		goto update;
 	}
 
-	stime = scale_stime(stime, rtime, stime + utime);
+	stime = mul_u64_u64_div_u64(stime, rtime, stime + utime);
 
 update:
 	/*
diff --git a/lib/math/div64.c b/lib/math/div64.c
index 368ca7fd0d82..200a151e1be9 100644
--- a/lib/math/div64.c
+++ b/lib/math/div64.c
@@ -190,3 +190,42 @@ u32 iter_div_u64_rem(u64 dividend, u32 divisor, u64 *remainder)
 	return __iter_div_u64_rem(dividend, divisor, remainder);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(iter_div_u64_rem);
+
+__weak u64 mul_u64_u64_div_u64(u64 a, u64 b, u64 c)
+{
+	u64 res = 0, div, rem;
+	int shift;
+
+	/* can a * b overflow ? */
+	if (ilog2(a) + ilog2(b) > 62) {
+		/*
+		 * (b * a) / c is equal to
+		 *
+		 *	(b / c) * a +
+		 *	(b % c) * a / c
+		 *
+		 * if nothing overflows. Can the 1st multiplication
+		 * overflow? Yes, but we do not care: this can only
+		 * happen if the end result can't fit in u64 anyway.
+		 *
+		 * So the code below does
+		 *
+		 *	res = (b / c) * a;
+		 *	b = b % c;
+		 */
+		div = div64_u64_rem(b, c, &rem);
+		res = div * a;
+		b = rem;
+
+		shift = ilog2(a) + ilog2(b) - 62;
+		if (shift > 0) {
+			/* drop precision */
+			b >>= shift;
+			c >>= shift;
+			if (!c)
+				return res;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return res + div64_u64(a * b, c);
+}