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Reading idle/IO sleep time (eg: from /proc/stat) can race with idle exit updates because the state machine handling the stats is not atomic and requires a coherent read batch. As a result reading the sleep time may report irrelevant or backward values. Fix this with protecting the simple state machine within a seqcount. This is expected to be cheap enough not to add measurable performance impact on the idle path. Note this only fixes reader VS writer condition partitially. A race remains that involves remote updates of the CPU iowait task counter. It can hardly be fixed. Reported-by: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230222144649.624380-4-frederic@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.