tree fc75a894485c19225186369d63e0ad00a828a3f9
parent ced8cb0230d070274cd26bec818dd7c67514d586
author Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> 1572257007 +0100
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1573041980 +0100

s390/idle: fix cpu idle time calculation

commit 3d7efa4edd07be5c5c3ffa95ba63e97e070e1f3f upstream.

The idle time reported in /proc/stat sometimes incorrectly contains
huge values on s390. This is caused by a bug in arch_cpu_idle_time().

The kernel tries to figure out when a different cpu entered idle by
accessing its per-cpu data structure. There is an ordering problem: if
the remote cpu has an idle_enter value which is not zero, and an
idle_exit value which is zero, it is assumed it is idle since
"now". The "now" timestamp however is taken before the idle_enter
value is read.

Which in turn means that "now" can be smaller than idle_enter of the
remote cpu. Unconditionally subtracting idle_enter from "now" can thus
lead to a negative value (aka large unsigned value).

Fix this by moving the get_tod_clock() invocation out of the
loop. While at it also make the code a bit more readable.

A similar bug also exists for show_idle_time(). Fix this is as well.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>