From: Venkatesh Pallipadi Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 00:03:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: sched: Fix softirq time accounting X-Git-Tag: v2.6.37-rc1~213^2~8 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=75e1056f5c57050415b64cb761a3acc35d91f013;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed