linux/kernel/sched
Rik van Riel eb1b4af0a6 sched, time: Atomically increment stime & utime
The functions task_cputime_adjusted and thread_group_cputime_adjusted()
can be called locklessly, as well as concurrently on many different CPUs.

This can occasionally lead to the utime and stime reported by times(), and
other syscalls like it, going backward. The cause for this appears to be
multiple threads racing in cputime_adjust(), both with values for utime or
stime that is larger than the original, but each with a different value.

Sometimes the larger value gets saved first, only to be immediately
overwritten with a smaller value by another thread.

Using atomic exchange prevents that problem, and ensures time
progresses monotonically.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: srao@redhat.com
Cc: lwoodman@redhat.com
Cc: atheurer@redhat.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1408133138-22048-4-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-09-08 08:17:02 +02:00
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auto_group.c sched: Change autogroup_move_group() to use for_each_thread() 2014-08-20 09:47:18 +02:00
auto_group.h Revert "sched/autogroup: Fix crash on reboot when autogroup is disabled" 2012-12-11 10:23:45 +01:00
clock.c kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
completion.c sched: Move completion code from core.c to completion.c 2013-11-06 07:49:19 +01:00
core.c Linux 3.17-rc4 2014-09-08 08:11:34 +02:00
cpuacct.c cgroup: rename cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes to ->legacy_cftypes 2014-07-15 11:05:09 -04:00
cpuacct.h sched/cpuacct: Initialize root cpuacct earlier 2013-04-10 13:54:20 +02:00
cpudeadline.c sched/deadline: Replace NR_CPUS arrays 2014-05-22 10:21:28 +02:00
cpudeadline.h sched/deadline: Replace NR_CPUS arrays 2014-05-22 10:21:28 +02:00
cpupri.c Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error 2014-06-12 13:46:37 +02:00
cpupri.h sched/cpupri: Replace NR_CPUS arrays 2014-05-22 10:21:29 +02:00
cputime.c sched, time: Atomically increment stime & utime 2014-09-08 08:17:02 +02:00
deadline.c sched/deadline: Fix a precision problem in the microseconds range 2014-09-07 11:09:59 +02:00
debug.c sched: s/do_each_thread/for_each_process_thread/ in debug.c 2014-08-20 09:47:17 +02:00
fair.c sched/deadline: Fix a precision problem in the microseconds range 2014-09-07 11:09:59 +02:00
features.h sched: Rename capacity related flags 2014-06-05 11:52:32 +02:00
idle_task.c sched: Transform resched_task() into resched_curr() 2014-07-16 13:38:19 +02:00
idle.c ACPI and power management updates for 3.17-rc1 2014-08-06 20:34:19 -07:00
Makefile sched/idle: Move cpu/idle.c to sched/idle.c 2014-02-11 09:58:30 +01:00
proc.c cpuidle: menu: Lookup CPU runqueues less 2014-08-06 21:17:45 +02:00
rt.c sched: Add wrapper for checking task_struct::on_rq 2014-08-20 14:52:59 +02:00
sched.h sched: Teach scheduler to understand TASK_ON_RQ_MIGRATING state 2014-08-20 14:53:00 +02:00
stats.c kernel: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code 2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
stats.h sched: Micro-optimize by dropping unnecessary task_rq() calls 2013-09-25 13:51:06 +02:00
stop_task.c sched: Add wrapper for checking task_struct::on_rq 2014-08-20 14:52:59 +02:00
wait.c sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout 2014-07-16 15:10:41 +02:00