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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>2011-12-08 14:34:32 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-12-09 07:50:29 -0800
commit2a95ea6c0d129b4568fb64e1deda16ceb20e6636 (patch)
tree0648fbd539e00fcfc4a394acaabd3e54b4bf8658 /fs/proc
parent1368edf0647ac112d8cfa6ce47257dc950c50f5c (diff)
downloadlinux-2a95ea6c0d129b4568fb64e1deda16ceb20e6636.tar.gz
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/proc')
-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;
 }