sched: account system time properly
authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:44:49 +0000 (14:44 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:02:28 +0000 (15:02 +0200)
commitf5f293a4e3d0a0c52cec31de6762c95050156516
treeb9dad5f4b1e834e414e825345b32fadd1ed6c01a
parent56a50adda49b2020156616c4eb15353e0f9ad7de
sched: account system time properly

Andrew Gallatin reported that IRQ and SOFTIRQ times were
sometime not reported correctly on recent kernels, and even
bisected to commit 457533a7d3402d1d91fbc125c8bd1bd16dcd3cd4
([PATCH] fix scaled & unscaled cputime accounting) as the first
bad commit.

Further analysis pointed that commit
79741dd35713ff4f6fd0eafd59fa94e8a4ba922d ([PATCH] idle cputime
accounting) was the real cause of the problem.

account_process_tick() was not taking into account timer IRQ
interrupting the idle task servicing a hard or soft irq.

On mostly idle cpu, irqs were thus not accounted and top or
mpstat could tell user/admin that cpu was 100 % idle, 0.00 %
irq, 0.00 % softirq, while it was not.

[ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect CPU statistics in top/mpstat ]

Reported-by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Re-reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: rick.jones2@hp.com
Cc: brice@myri.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
LKML-Reference: <49F84BC1.7080602@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sched.c