Re: [BUG nohz]: wrong user and system time accounting

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:14:32 -0400
Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I failed to reproduce with your config. I'm still getting 99%
> > userspace
> > cputime. So I'm wondering if the hogging style plays a role.
> > 
> > I run pure user loops:
> > 
> > ÂÂÂÂint main(int argc, char **argv)
> > ÂÂÂÂ{
> > ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂfor (;;);
> > ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂreturn 0
> > ÂÂÂÂ}
> > 
> > Does your user program perform syscalls or IOs of some sort?  
> 
> Luiz's program makes a syscall every millisecond,
> if started with the arguments he gave as his
> reproducer.

There are various reproducers actually. I started off with the simple
loop above, then wrote the attach program and then wrote the one
you're mentioning:

 http://people.redhat.com/~lcapitul/real-time/acct-bug.c

All of them reproduce the issue 100% of the time for me.
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

static int move_to_cpu(int cpu)
{
        cpu_set_t set;

        CPU_ZERO(&set);
        CPU_SET(cpu, &set);
        return sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(set), &set);
}

static void loop(void)
{
        for (;;) ;
}

static int fork_hog(int cpu)
{
        int pid;

        pid = (int) fork();
        if (pid == 0) {
                move_to_cpu(cpu);
                loop();
                exit(0);
        }

        return pid;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        int i, pid, cpu, nr_procs;

		if (argc != 3) {
			printf("usage: hog < nr-procs > < CPU >\n");
			exit(1);
		}

		cpu = atoi(argv[2]);
		nr_procs = atoi(argv[1]);

        for (i = 0; i < nr_procs; i++) {
                pid = fork_hog(cpu);
                fprintf(stderr, "created hog%d pid=%d\n", i, pid);
        }

        fprintf(stderr, "pausing...\n");
        pause();

        return 0;
}