Forbids the cputimer to drift ahead of its process clock by blocking its update when a tick occurs while a autoreaping task is currently in do_exit() between the call to release_task() and its final call to schedule().
Any task stats update after having called release_task() will be lost because they are added to the global process stats located in the signal struct from release_task(). Signed-off-by: Olivier Langlois <oliv...@trillion01.com> --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 7a33e59..52d7b10 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -708,7 +708,15 @@ static void update_curr(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq) trace_sched_stat_runtime(curtask, delta_exec, curr->vruntime); cpuacct_charge(curtask, delta_exec); - account_group_exec_runtime(curtask, delta_exec); + /* + * Do not update the cputimer if the task is already released by + * release_task(). + * + * it would preferable to defer the autoreap release_task + * after the last context switch but harder to do. + */ + if (likely(curtask->sighand)) + account_group_exec_runtime(curtask, delta_exec); } account_cfs_rq_runtime(cfs_rq, delta_exec); -- 1.8.2.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/