The callers of steal_account_process_tick() expect it to return
whether a jiffy should be considered stolen or not.
Currently the return value of steal_account_process_tick() is in
units of cputime, which vary between either jiffies or nsecs
depending on CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN.
If cputime has nsecs granularity and there is a tiny amount of
stolen time (a few nsecs, say) then we will consider the entire
tick stolen and will not account the tick on user/system/idle,
causing /proc/stats to show invalid data.
The fix is to change steal_account_process_tick() to accumulate
the stolen time and only account it once it's worth a jiffy.
(Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for suggestions to fix a bug in my
first version of the patch.)
Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56DBBDB8.40305@mail.usask.ca
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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