sched: Fix softirq time accounting

Peter Zijlstra found a bug in the way softirq time is accounted in
VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING on this thread:

   http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1009.2/01366.html

The problem is, softirq processing uses local_bh_disable internally. There
is no way, later in the flow, to differentiate between whether softirq is
being processed or is it just that bh has been disabled. So, a hardirq when bh
is disabled results in time being wrongly accounted as softirq.

Looking at the code a bit more, the problem exists in !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
as well. As account_system_time() in normal tick based accouting also uses
softirq_count, which will be set even when not in softirq with bh disabled.

Peter also suggested solution of using 2*SOFTIRQ_OFFSET as irq count
for local_bh_{disable,enable} and using just SOFTIRQ_OFFSET while softirq
processing. The patch below does that and adds API in_serving_softirq() which
returns whether we are currently processing softirq or not.

Also changes one of the usages of softirq_count in net/sched/cls_cgroup.c
to in_serving_softirq.

Looks like many usages of in_softirq really want in_serving_softirq. Those
changes can be made individually on a case by case basis.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Venkatesh Pallipadi 2010-10-04 17:03:16 -07:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
commit 75e1056f5c
5 changed files with 44 additions and 22 deletions

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@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static int cls_cgroup_classify(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tcf_proto *tp,
* calls by looking at the number of nested bh disable calls because
* softirqs always disables bh.
*/
if (softirq_count() != SOFTIRQ_OFFSET) {
if (in_serving_softirq()) {
/* If there is an sk_classid we'll use that. */
if (!skb->sk)
return -1;