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commit dd02d4234c9a2214a81c57a16484304a1a51872a upstream. 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: d740037fac70 ("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 [OP: adjusted context for v5.10] Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@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.