linux/kernel/sched
Frederic Weisbecker 45eacc6927 vtime: Use consistent clocks among nohz accounting
While computing the cputime delta of dynticks CPUs,
we are mixing up clocks of differents natures:

* local_clock() which takes care of unstable clock
sources and fix these if needed.

* sched_clock() which is the weaker version of
local_clock(). It doesn't compute any fixup in case
of unstable source.

If the clock source is stable, those two clocks are the
same and we can safely compute the difference against
two random points.

Otherwise it results in random deltas as sched_clock()
can randomly drift away, back or forward, from local_clock().

As a consequence, some strange behaviour with unstable tsc
has been observed such as non progressing constant zero cputime.
(The 'top' command showing no load).

Fix this by only using local_clock(), or its irq safe/remote
equivalent, in vtime code.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Suggested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-31 11:31:50 +02:00
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auto_group.c sched: split out css_online/css_offline from tg creation/destruction 2013-01-24 12:05:18 -08:00
auto_group.h Revert "sched/autogroup: Fix crash on reboot when autogroup is disabled" 2012-12-11 10:23:45 +01:00
clock.c sched_clock: Prevent 64bit inatomicity on 32bit systems 2013-04-08 11:50:44 +02:00
core.c vtime: Use consistent clocks among nohz accounting 2013-05-31 11:31:50 +02:00
cpuacct.c sched/cpuacct/UML: Fix header file dependency bug on the UML build 2013-04-10 15:12:41 +02:00
cpuacct.h sched/cpuacct: Initialize root cpuacct earlier 2013-04-10 13:54:20 +02:00
cpupri.c sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file 2013-02-07 20:51:08 +01:00
cpupri.h
cputime.c vtime: Use consistent clocks among nohz accounting 2013-05-31 11:31:50 +02:00
debug.c Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-26 19:42:08 -08:00
fair.c Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz 2013-05-02 17:54:19 +02:00
features.h mutex: Move mutex spinning code from sched/core.c back to mutex.c 2013-04-19 09:33:34 +02:00
idle_task.c sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks 2013-05-04 08:32:02 +02:00
Makefile sched: Split cpuacct code out of core.c 2013-04-10 13:54:15 +02:00
rt.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-19 18:19:48 -08:00
sched.h sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks 2013-05-04 08:32:02 +02:00
stats.c fix a leak in /proc/schedstats 2013-04-29 15:41:45 -04:00
stats.h
stop_task.c sched: Fix migration thread runtime bogosity 2012-08-13 18:41:55 +02:00