[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process_tick() to always return jiffies" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process_tick() to always return jiffies

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt27.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From d72b873409607fa8fd6592f1f64b4fcc908cd83a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Friesen <cbf123 at mail.usask.ca>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 23:18:48 -0600
Subject: sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process_tick() to always return
 jiffies

commit f9c904b7613b8b4c85b10cd6b33ad41b2843fa9d upstream.

The callers of steal_account_process_tick() expect it to return
whether a jiffy should be considered stolen or not.

Currently the return value of steal_account_process_tick() is in
units of cputime, which vary between either jiffies or nsecs
depending on CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN.

If cputime has nsecs granularity and there is a tiny amount of
stolen time (a few nsecs, say) then we will consider the entire
tick stolen and will not account the tick on user/system/idle,
causing /proc/stats to show invalid data.

The fix is to change steal_account_process_tick() to accumulate
the stolen time and only account it once it's worth a jiffy.

(Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for suggestions to fix a bug in my
first version of the patch.)

Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen at windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56DBBDB8.40305@mail.usask.ca
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/sched/cputime.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index 72fdf06ef865..349ada9a7fa5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -259,21 +259,21 @@ static __always_inline bool steal_account_process_tick(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
 	if (static_key_false(&paravirt_steal_enabled)) {
 		u64 steal;
-		cputime_t steal_ct;
+		unsigned long steal_jiffies;

 		steal = paravirt_steal_clock(smp_processor_id());
 		steal -= this_rq()->prev_steal_time;

 		/*
-		 * cputime_t may be less precise than nsecs (eg: if it's
-		 * based on jiffies). Lets cast the result to cputime
+		 * steal is in nsecs but our caller is expecting steal
+		 * time in jiffies. Lets cast the result to jiffies
 		 * granularity and account the rest on the next rounds.
 		 */
-		steal_ct = nsecs_to_cputime(steal);
-		this_rq()->prev_steal_time += cputime_to_nsecs(steal_ct);
+		steal_jiffies = nsecs_to_jiffies(steal);
+		this_rq()->prev_steal_time += jiffies_to_nsecs(steal_jiffies);

-		account_steal_time(steal_ct);
-		return steal_ct;
+		account_steal_time(jiffies_to_cputime(steal_jiffies));
+		return steal_jiffies;
 	}
 #endif
 	return false;