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@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56DBBDB8.40305@mail.usask.ca
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When profiling syscall overhead on nohz-full kernels,
after removing __acct_update_integrals() from the profile,
native_sched_clock() remains as the top CPU user. This can be
reduced by moving VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN to jiffy granularity.
This will reduce timing accuracy on nohz_full CPUs to jiffy
based sampling, just like on normal CPUs. It results in
totally removing native_sched_clock from the profile, and
significantly speeding up the syscall entry and exit path,
as well as irq entry and exit, and KVM guest entry & exit.
Additionally, only call the more expensive functions (and
advance the seqlock) when jiffies actually changed.
This code relies on another CPU advancing jiffies when the
system is busy. On a nohz_full system, this is done by a
housekeeping CPU.
A microbenchmark calling an invalid syscall number 10 million
times in a row speeds up an additional 30% over the numbers
with just the previous patches, for a total speedup of about
40% over 4.4 and 4.5-rc1.
Run times for the microbenchmark:
4.4 3.8 seconds
4.5-rc1 3.7 seconds
4.5-rc1 + first patch 3.3 seconds
4.5-rc1 + first 3 patches 3.1 seconds
4.5-rc1 + all patches 2.3 seconds
A non-NOHZ_FULL cpu (not the housekeeping CPU):
all kernels 1.86 seconds
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: clark@redhat.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: luto@amacapital.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455152907-18495-5-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
"Xen features and fixes for 4.5-rc0:
- Stolen ticks and PV wallclock support for arm/arm64
- Add grant copy ioctl to gntdev device"
* tag 'for-linus-4.5-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/gntdev: add ioctl for grant copy
x86/xen: don't reset vcpu_info on a cancelled suspend
xen/gntdev: constify mmu_notifier_ops structures
xen/grant-table: constify gnttab_ops structure
xen/time: use READ_ONCE
xen/x86: convert remaining timespec to timespec64 in xen_pvclock_gtod_notify
xen/x86: support XENPF_settime64
xen/arm: set the system time in Xen via the XENPF_settime64 hypercall
xen/arm: introduce xen_read_wallclock
arm: extend pvclock_wall_clock with sec_hi
xen: introduce XENPF_settime64
xen/arm: introduce HYPERVISOR_platform_op on arm and arm64
xen: rename dom0_op to platform_op
xen/arm: account for stolen ticks
arm64: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
arm: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
missing include asm/paravirt.h in cputime.c
xen: move xen_setup_runstate_info and get_runstate_snapshot to drivers/xen/time.c
Add include asm/paravirt.h to cputime.c, as steal_account_process_tick
calls paravirt_steal_clock, which is defined in asm/paravirt.h.
The ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT is necessary because not all archs have an
asm/paravirt.h to include.
The reason why currently cputime.c compiles, even though include
<asm/paravirt.h> is missing, is that on x86 asm/paravirt.h is included
by one of the other headers included in kernel/sched/cputime.c:
On arm and arm64, where I am about to introduce asm/paravirt.h and
stolen time support, without #include <asm/paravirt.h> in cputime.c, I
would get an error.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
/proc/stats shows invalid gtime when the thread is running in guest.
When vtime accounting is not enabled, we cannot get a valid delta.
The delta is calculated with now - tsk->vtime_snap, but tsk->vtime_snap
is only updated when vtime accounting is runtime enabled.
This patch makes task_gtime() just return gtime without computing the
buggy non-existing tickless delta when vtime accounting is not enabled.
Use context_tracking_is_enabled() to check if vtime is accounting on
some cpu, in which case only we need to check the tickless delta. This
way we fix the gtime value regression on machines not running nohz full.
The kernel config contains CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN=y and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=n and boot without nohz_full.
I ran and stop a busy loop in VM and see the gtime in host.
Dump the 43rd field which shows the gtime in every second:
# while :; do awk '{print $3" "$43}' /proc/3955/task/4014/stat; sleep 1; done
S 4348
R 7064566
R 7064766
R 7064967
R 7065168
S 4759
S 4759
During running busy loop, it returns large value.
After applying this patch, we can see right gtime.
# while :; do awk '{print $3" "$43}' /proc/10913/task/10956/stat; sleep 1; done
S 5338
R 5365
R 5465
R 5566
R 5666
S 5726
S 5726
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447948054-28668-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
HV_X64_MSR_VP_RUNTIME msr used by guest to get
"the time the virtual processor consumes running guest code,
and the time the associated logical processor spends running
hypervisor code on behalf of that guest."
Calculation of this time is performed by task_cputime_adjusted()
for vcpu task.
Necessary to support loading of winhv.sys in guest, which in turn is
required to support Windows VMBus.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin <asmetanin@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Russell reported, that irqtime_account_idle_ticks() takes ages due to:
for (i = 0; i < ticks; i++)
irqtime_account_process_tick(current, 0, rq);
It's sad, that this code was written way _AFTER_ the NOHZ idle
functionality was available. I charge myself guitly for not paying
attention when that crap got merged with commit abb74cefa ("sched:
Export ns irqtimes through /proc/stat")
So instead of looping nr_ticks times just apply the whole thing at
once.
As a side note: The whole cputime_t vs. u64 business in that context
wants to be cleaned up as well. There is no point in having all these
back and forth conversions. Lets standardise on u64 nsec for all
kernel internal accounting and be done with it. Everything else does
not make sense at all for fine grained accounting. Frederic, can you
please take care of that?
Reported-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1405022307000.6261@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main purpose is to fix a full dynticks bug related to
virtualization, where steal time accounting appears to be zero in
/proc/stat even after a few seconds of competing guests running busy
loops in a same host CPU. It's not a regression though as it was
there since the beginning.
The other commits are preparatory work to fix the bug and various
cleanups"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
arch: Remove stub cputime.h headers
sched: Remove needless round trip nsecs <-> tick conversion of steal time
cputime: Fix jiffies based cputime assumption on steal accounting
cputime: Bring cputime -> nsecs conversion
cputime: Default implementation of nsecs -> cputime conversion
cputime: Fix nsecs_to_cputime() return type cast
The steal guest time accounting code assumes that cputime_t is based on
jiffies. So when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, which implies that cputime_t
is based on nsecs, steal_account_process_tick() passes the delta in
jiffies to account_steal_time() which then accounts it as if it's a
value in nsecs.
As a result, accounting 1 second of steal time (with HZ=100 that would
be 100 jiffies) is spuriously accounted as 100 nsecs.
As such /proc/stat may report 0 values of steal time even when two
guests have run concurrently for a few seconds on the same host and
same CPU.
In order to fix this, lets convert the nsecs based steal delta to
cputime instead of jiffies by using the right conversion API.
Given that the steal time is stored in cputime_t and this type can have
a smaller granularity than nsecs, we only account the rounded converted
value and leave the remaining nsecs for the next deltas.
Reported-by: Huiqingding <huding@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Pull cputime fix from Ingo Molnar:
"This fixes a longer-standing cputime accounting bug that Stanislaw
Gruszka finally managed to track down"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/cputime: Do not scale when utime == 0
Pull timers/nohz changes from Ingo Molnar:
"It mostly contains fixes and full dynticks off-case optimizations, by
Frederic Weisbecker"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
nohz: Include local CPU in full dynticks global kick
nohz: Optimize full dynticks's sched hooks with static keys
nohz: Optimize full dynticks state checks with static keys
nohz: Rename a few state variables
vtime: Always debug check snapshot source _before_ updating it
vtime: Always scale generic vtime accounting results
vtime: Optimize full dynticks accounting off case with static keys
vtime: Describe overriden functions in dedicated arch headers
m68k: hardirq_count() only need preempt_mask.h
hardirq: Split preempt count mask definitions
context_tracking: Split low level state headers
vtime: Fix racy cputime delta update
vtime: Remove a few unneeded generic vtime state checks
context_tracking: User/kernel broundary cross trace events
context_tracking: Optimize context switch off case with static keys
context_tracking: Optimize guest APIs off case with static key
context_tracking: Optimize main APIs off case with static key
context_tracking: Ground setup for static key use
context_tracking: Remove full dynticks' hacky dependency on wide context tracking
nohz: Only enable context tracking on full dynticks CPUs
...
Chris Friesen
Rik van Riel
Linus Torvalds
Stefano Stabellini
Frederic Weisbecker
Hiroshi Shimamoto
Andrey Smetanin
Peter Zijlstra
Jason Low
Oleg Nesterov
Thomas Gleixner
Dongsheng Yang