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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>2011-12-08 23:34:32 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-12-09 16:50:29 +0100
commit2a95ea6c0d129b4568fb64e1deda16ceb20e6636 (patch)
tree0648fbd539e00fcfc4a394acaabd3e54b4bf8658 /fs
parentmm: vmalloc: check for page allocation failure before vmlist insertion (diff)
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procfs: do not overflow get_{idle,iowait}_time for nohz
Since commit a25cac5198d4 ("proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times") we are reporting idle/io_wait time also while a CPU is tickless. We rely on get_{idle,iowait}_time functions to retrieve proper data. These functions, however, use usecs_to_cputime to translate micro seconds time to cputime64_t. This is just an alias to usecs_to_jiffies which reduces the data type from u64 to unsigned int and also checks whether the given parameter overflows jiffies_to_usecs(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET) and returns MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET in that case. When we overflow depends on CONFIG_HZ but especially for CONFIG_HZ_300 it is quite low (1431649781) so we are getting MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET for >3000s! until we overflow unsigned int. Just for reference CONFIG_HZ_100 has an overflow window around 20s, CONFIG_HZ_250 ~8s and CONFIG_HZ_1000 ~2s. This results in a bug when people saw [h]top going mad reporting 100% CPU usage even though there was basically no CPU load. The reason was simply that /proc/stat stopped reporting idle/io_wait changes (and reported MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET) and so the only change happening was for user system time. Let's use nsecs_to_jiffies64 instead which doesn't reduce the precision to 32b type and it is much more appropriate for cumulative time values (unlike usecs_to_jiffies which intended for timeout calculations). Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Tested-by: Artem S. Tashkinov <t.artem@mailcity.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/stat.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/stat.c b/fs/proc/stat.c
index 42b274da92c3..2a30d67dd6b8 100644
--- a/fs/proc/stat.c
+++ b/fs/proc/stat.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static cputime64_t get_idle_time(int cpu)
idle = kstat_cpu(cpu).cpustat.idle;
idle = cputime64_add(idle, arch_idle_time(cpu));
} else
- idle = usecs_to_cputime(idle_time);
+ idle = nsecs_to_jiffies64(1000 * idle_time);
return idle;
}
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static cputime64_t get_iowait_time(int cpu)
/* !NO_HZ so we can rely on cpustat.iowait */
iowait = kstat_cpu(cpu).cpustat.iowait;
else
- iowait = usecs_to_cputime(iowait_time);
+ iowait = nsecs_to_jiffies64(1000 * iowait_time);
return iowait;
}