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nohz: Fix idle ticks in cpu summary line of /proc/stat 

Git commit 09a1d34f85 "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 we should make sure that the cpu is online when calling
get_cpu_idle_time_us and get_cpu_iowait_time_us.

[Srivatsa: Rebased to current mainline]

Reported-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121010061820.8999.57245.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com
Cc: deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Michal Hocko 2012-10-10 11:51:09 +05:30 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent f784e8a798
commit 7386cdbf2f
1 changed files with 10 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -45,10 +45,13 @@ static cputime64_t get_iowait_time(int cpu)
static u64 get_idle_time(int cpu)
{
u64 idle, idle_time = get_cpu_idle_time_us(cpu, NULL);
u64 idle, idle_time = -1ULL;
if (cpu_online(cpu))
idle_time = get_cpu_idle_time_us(cpu, NULL);
if (idle_time == -1ULL)
/* !NO_HZ so we can rely on cpustat.idle */
/* !NO_HZ or cpu offline so we can rely on cpustat.idle */
idle = kcpustat_cpu(cpu).cpustat[CPUTIME_IDLE];
else
idle = usecs_to_cputime64(idle_time);
@ -58,10 +61,13 @@ static u64 get_idle_time(int cpu)
static u64 get_iowait_time(int cpu)
{
u64 iowait, iowait_time = get_cpu_iowait_time_us(cpu, NULL);
u64 iowait, iowait_time = -1ULL;
if (cpu_online(cpu))
iowait_time = get_cpu_iowait_time_us(cpu, NULL);
if (iowait_time == -1ULL)
/* !NO_HZ so we can rely on cpustat.iowait */
/* !NO_HZ or cpu offline so we can rely on cpustat.iowait */
iowait = kcpustat_cpu(cpu).cpustat[CPUTIME_IOWAIT];
else
iowait = usecs_to_cputime64(iowait_time);