tree 2ea7c519d5aed16f33c9aaffb275711159f3ceda
parent ae5c461cb99272449e9ce915bea9844c1cf0bc45
author Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> 1349850069 +0530
committer chrmhoffmann <chrmhoffmann@gmail.com> 1586074595 +0200

nohz: Fix idle ticks in cpu summary line of /proc/stat

commit 7386cdbf2f57ea8cff3c9fde93f206e58b9fe13f upstream.

Git commit 09a1d34f8535ecf9 "nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update
conditional" introduced a bug in regard to cpu hotplug. The effect is
that the number of idle ticks in the cpu summary line in /proc/stat is
still counting ticks for offline cpus.

Reproduction is easy, just start a workload that keeps all cpus busy,
switch off one or more cpus and then watch the idle field in top.
On a dual-core with one cpu 100% busy and one offline cpu you will get
something like this:

%Cpu(s): 48.7 us,  1.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 50.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,
%0.0 st

The problem is that an offline cpu still has ts->idle_active == 1.
To fix this we should make sure that the cpu is online when calling
get_cpu_idle_time_us and get_cpu_iowait_time_us.

[Srivatsa: Rebased to current mainline]

Reported-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121010061820.8999.57245.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com
Cc: deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>