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* [PATCH v5 1/3] KVM: fix steal clock warp during guest cpu hotplug
@ 2016-06-08  3:05 Wanpeng Li
  2016-06-08  3:05 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] sched/cputime: Fix prev steal time accouting during " Wanpeng Li
  2016-06-08  3:05 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] sched/cputime: Add steal time support to full dynticks CPU time accounting Wanpeng Li
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Wanpeng Li @ 2016-06-08  3:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, kvm
  Cc: Wanpeng Li, Paolo Bonzini, Radim Krčmář,
	Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra (Intel),
	Rik van Riel, Thomas Gleixner, Frederic Weisbecker, John Stultz

From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>

Sometimes, after CPU hotplug you can observe a spike in stolen time
(100%) followed by the CPU being marked as 100% idle when it's actually
busy with a CPU hog task.  The trace looks like the following:

cpuhp/1-12    [001] d.h1   167.461657: account_process_tick: steal = 1291385514, prev_steal_time = 0
cpuhp/1-12    [001] d.h1   167.461659: account_process_tick: steal_jiffies = 1291
<idle>-0     [001] d.h1   167.462663: account_process_tick: steal = 18732255, prev_steal_time = 1291000000
<idle>-0     [001] d.h1   167.462664: account_process_tick: steal_jiffies = 18446744072437

The sudden decrease of "steal" causes steal_jiffies to underflow.
The root cause is kvm_steal_time being reset to 0 after hot-plugging
back in a CPU.  Instead, the preexisting value can be used, which is
what the core scheduler code expects.

John Stultz also reported a similar issue after guest S3.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
---
v4 -> v5:
 * improve commit message
v2 -> v3:
 * fix the root cause
v1 -> v2:
 * update patch subject, description and comments
 * deal with the case where steal time suddenly increases by a ludicrous amount

 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index eea2a6f..1ef5e48 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -301,8 +301,6 @@ static void kvm_register_steal_time(void)
 	if (!has_steal_clock)
 		return;
 
-	memset(st, 0, sizeof(*st));
-
 	wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME, (slow_virt_to_phys(st) | KVM_MSR_ENABLED));
 	pr_info("kvm-stealtime: cpu %d, msr %llx\n",
 		cpu, (unsigned long long) slow_virt_to_phys(st));
-- 
1.9.1

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2016-06-08  3:05 [PATCH v5 1/3] KVM: fix steal clock warp during guest cpu hotplug Wanpeng Li
2016-06-08  3:05 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] sched/cputime: Fix prev steal time accouting during " Wanpeng Li
2016-06-08 10:01   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-08 10:59     ` Wanpeng Li
2016-06-08  3:05 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] sched/cputime: Add steal time support to full dynticks CPU time accounting Wanpeng Li
2016-06-08  7:22   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-06-08  7:27     ` Wanpeng Li
2016-06-08  7:52       ` Ingo Molnar
2016-06-08  8:04         ` Wanpeng Li
2016-06-08  8:12           ` Wanpeng Li
2016-06-08 10:14   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-08 11:11     ` Wanpeng Li
2016-06-13  3:38     ` Wanpeng Li
2016-06-13  7:55       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-13  8:09         ` Wanpeng Li
2016-06-08 19:05   ` Rik van Riel
2016-06-08 23:57     ` Wanpeng Li
2016-06-09  1:20       ` Rik van Riel

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