cpuacct has 2 different ways of accounting and showing user
and system times.
The first one uses cpuacct_account_field() to account times
and cpuacct.stat file to expose them. And this one seems to work ok.
The second one is uses cpuacct_charge() function for accounting and
set of cpuacct.usage* files to show times. Despite some attempts to
fix it in the past it still doesn't work. Sometimes while running KVM
guest the cpuacct_charge() accounts most of the guest time as
system time. This doesn't match with user&system times shown in
cpuacct.stat or proc/<pid>/stat.
Demonstration:
# git clone https://github.com/aryabinin/kvmsample
# make
# mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct/test
# echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct/test/tasks
# ./kvmsample &
# for i in {1..5}; do cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct/test/cpuacct.usage_sys; sleep 1; done
1976535645
2979839428
3979832704
4983603153
5983604157
Use cpustats accounted in cpuacct_account_field() as the source
of user/sys times for cpuacct.usage* files. Make cpuacct_charge()
to account only summary execution time.
Fixes: d740037fac ("sched/cpuacct: Split usage accounting into user_usage and sys_usage")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <arbn@yandex-team.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211115164607.23784-3-arbn@yandex-team.com