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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched/fair: add protection for delta of wait time
On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 13:31, Jiang Biao <benbjiang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@tencent.com>
>
> delta in update_stats_wait_end() might be negative, which would
> make following statistics go wrong.

Could you describe the use case that generates a negative delta ?

rq_clock is always increasing so this should not lead to a negative
value even if update_stats_wait_end/start are not called in the right
order,
This situation could happen after a migration if we forgot to call
update_stats_wait_start

>
> Add protection for delta of wait time, like what have been done in
> update_stats_enqueue_sleeper() for deltas of sleep/block time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@tencent.com>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index c0374c1152e0..ac950ac950bc 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -917,6 +917,9 @@ update_stats_wait_end(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
>
> delta = rq_clock(rq_of(cfs_rq)) - schedstat_val(se->statistics.wait_start);
>
> + if ((s64)delta < 0)
> + delta = 0;
> +
> if (entity_is_task(se)) {
> p = task_of(se);
> if (task_on_rq_migrating(p)) {
> --
> 2.21.0
>

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